Space and Dots

Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  The Oak Room children continue to become more curious about and excited about space so we enjoyed a space themed day today.  Several children wanted to paint rocket ships or draw rocket ships or make rockets out of magnatiles and were asking to see pictures of rockets for inspiration.  In response we watched a few short videos of NASA rocket launches as well as an animation of one of the Mars rovers landing for some inspiration.

Yesterday many children created large colorful dots during capers so in the afternoon we read the story The Dot again and had a lively discussion about what kind of art we could make with dots.  Yesterday the children decided that we needed to get our dot markers out again for this morning's work to explore some of their newly inspired dot art ideas.  It was a very creative Friday!


























Hope your weekend is out of this world! ;)

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