2-9-12

During Free Choice, children worked on creating a crayon-resist Space picture.

The first step was to draw/color a Space picture with crayons.  The key is to press really hard with the crayons when drawing/coloring the picture.  When finished, the children painted over their crayon drawing with diluted black paint to make it look more like Outer Space.

 Our Space lesson today included reading a book about day and night.  Through a song (with a familiar tune), children acted out and learned how the Earth rotates; the Earth travels around the sun; and the Moon travels around the Earth.