5-4-3-2-1 BLAST OFF!

In line with the science theme for the summer, we did OUTER SPACE!  Of course, this is one of my favorite topics and, of course, we didn’t have very many good storytime space books.  I made do with what we had.

BOOKS:

I Want to Be an Astronaut by Byron Barton and Sheep Blast Off! by Nancy Shaw.

I Want to Be an Astronaut  was a little slow.  There wasn’t enough action and excitement for the kids.  I needed a Three Ninja Pigs but with space.  Maybe I’ll have to write one myself. Sheep Blast Off! on the other hand was good.  I asked the kids a lot of questions about what was going on and they knew.

SONG:

We listened to Rocketship Run by Laurie Berkner and shook shook shook our shakers!  I did miss a storytime this week (of course, the one with 30 kids in attendance) so I’m not sure how that storytime was, but the Tuesday storytime was a little reluctant to dance.  I got up and shook my fanny, but they weren’t interested.

CRAFT:

Brace yourself for this awesome craft.  We made………JET PACKS!  My first plan was to go with astronaut helmets made out of paper plates and blue cellophane, but I couldn’t find any blue cellophane, so we went with jet packs instead.  They were awesome!  The kids ran around, flames blowing in the wind behind their backs.