We have been continuing our space theme this week with rockets. The children have watched rockets taking off, and astronauts walking on the moon which seems to have inspired many of them to become the astronauts of the future. We have been blasting off in our own rockets and practising count downs all week. We have had a real astronaut read us our story from the international space station, and our tuff tray has been filled with moon sand and moon rocks; the children have used large tongs to fill rockets with the moon rocks requiring good hand-eye coordination and strengthening hand muscles.
Our rhyme time extension has been launching rockets with our breath through straws, explaining that the force of our breath through the sealed straw made the rockets take off. The children were able to identify that it was fire that pushed the real rockets into the air.
If your child has a real interest in space, Jodrell Bank is close by and makes for a good day out and now the dark nights are here, there should be plenty of opportunities to look at the stars and the moon.
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