shooting stars

We made coffee can shooting stars today! I cut a piece of black construction paper in 1/2 and placed it in the coffee can. I dropped 3 marbles in a cup of white paint and then dumped the marbles in the can.

I would have liked to have put the lid on the coffee can but since I used it for another activity, I didn't have a lid. So, I put a Ziploc bag over the top to keep the marbles from coming out. Then the students shook, shook, shook! While we clapped, clapped, clapped!

After they dried, the students added some star stickers to create the shooting star effect.

Planet Earth

We created our planet today. The students had previously cut blue and green squares during cutting practice this week. The first layer was blue, water.

The second layer was green, land.

And the final layer was cotton, clouds.

what Planet do you live on?

Yesterday, we created our very own planets made from coffee filters. They even have moons!
First, we colored our coffee filters with markers.

Then I sprayed them with water and set them outside to dry.

Each student told me how many moons their planet had...

We also finished up our space web. We learned all about the solar system! This web consisted of what the students already knew about space. Smarties!

Alien Invasion!

Even though only one teacher won, my neighbor teacher/princess/bff, we were all good sports and dressed up as aliens to celebrate our final day of the Scholastic Book Fair. Check us out!

We had two teachers that could not participate today :(. Can you tell I had a bit of fun doing my makeup??? :D

rotating classrooms II

Here are some pictures from our class in Ms. Kaley's room learning all about space!