Cardboard Tube Rocket Ship!

Day 1 of the week - The theme this week is Outer Space. The letters of the week are 0, P, p the number of the week is 13.

Project - Cardboard Tube Rocket Ship- I always save my paper towel cardboard tubes, just in case I need one for a craft. I knew that we could make a really cool rocket out of a tube, but I wanted to find easy to follow, kid-friendly directions. I found the perfect step-by-step directions on www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/astronomy.shtml The directions are very easy to follow, and they even give step-by-step diagrams - not that you really need them, since this project is very easy. Connor and I constructed this rocket ship in less than 10 minutes. He added stickers for decorations and started playing with his rocket ship immediately! Materials Needed - cardboard tube, construction paper, tape, scissors, stickers, markers

Learning Activities:

Today's Activities:

Numbers - 13, number review, writing, counting one-to-one matching

Reading Readiness - bottom, low, high

Beginning Sounds - Consonant Review

Colors -blue
Writing Letters - lowercase o

Name Rocket Ship!

Day 2 of the week - The theme this week is Outer Space. The letters of the week are J, j, O the number of the week is 12. Project - Name Rocket Ship- I saw this craft on the website http://www.prekinders.com/ under the Space theme. Before making the rocket ship, Connor, Lauren and I counted backward from 10 and blasted off like a rocket ship -they thought this was hilarious!

Directions: Connor and Lauren cut out 6 squares each (one square for each letter in their name). Then they glued the squares onto a piece of white paper. They glued a larger paper triangle on the top of the squares and two smaller triangles underneath the squares. Next, they wrote their names on the squares - 1 letter to each square. As a finishing touch they used gray and orange marker to add smoke and fire to the bottom of their rocket ships. Materials Needed - 1 large piece of white paper, colored construction paper (for the squares and triangles), glue stick, black, orange and gray markers

Learning Activities: Today's Activities:
Handwriting - tracing lines
Numbers - 12, and one to one matching, number matching, and counting
Reading Readiness - on top
Colors -yellow, coloring, writing, recognition
Writing Letters - Lowercase j