Getting to Know the Night

Good day everyone, or as we said at Lauren's Little Learners Preschool, good night!!!!! This week, since we were learning about space and night time, we wore pajamas. We began with playtime. We played with dolls, a lot of stuffed animals, and Planet Heroes.
After everyone arrived, we did Circle Time. This week our letter was N, so in our bag there were lots of things that started with the letter N, like a napkin, a nail, a number nine, and a nose (pencil sharpener). We also had Show and Tell. Then we played our first game! After talking about constellations we searched for them, on the ceiling, with flashlights. When someone found it they would keep their light on it until everyone found the constellation. Next we made our own constellations!!! We took a Space Scope, glued stars and planets on them, and poked holes in the black paper covering one end, so when you looked through it you could see stars. Before we did our next activity, we ate snack. We talked about how in space there is no gravity, so things will float. We ate doughnuts like we would in space. Everyone loved eating a "floating" snack. Once we had eaten, we got to meet an astronaut!!! The children took turns shaking his hand, and we took a class picture with him!!! We played a moon rock game with him. We learned that on the moon things weigh less than they do on Earth. We took paper, crinkled it up, and made moon rocks. We threw it into a container the astronaut was holding. We also had a moon rock fight. We divided into 2 teams and threw rocks at the other team. Everyone LOVED this game!

Our last activity was making Dream Catchers. The children loved stringing the beads and were excited to hang their dream catchers in their rooms. We had a wonderful "night" at preschool!