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When I first started to create this unit, I said to myself” I really need to start studying all over again and take some good books so I can have my information fresh to make a great product.” Not just simple a Space Unit, but one with clear, brief, intense and easy to understand by little children unit. Last but not least, to be attractive and choose the best images I could. I started to make a research and purchased beautiful images to add it to my unit. So exciting!
I would like to bring you through my unit and I hope you like it as much as I loved to put it together.
Let’s start an adventure through the Solar System and beyond and discover what Space is all about! Every page of this pack is packed with amazing information, beautifully made posters, games, life cycles, moon phase, Solar System info cards, space projects, language activities, fun math games, sensory activity stickers, art and science activities, an astronaut photo keepsake craft, a process art project and so much more!
I’d like to show some of the highlights of this unit, the ones I love more, and give some activity ideas on how to use the printables.
A very interesting, Montessori inspired activity to do with children is the Cosmic Address. It will give children an idea about where they are in the Universe. I loved to use real pictures to give them a real sens of the world around them. You can use the empty cards to add your own pictures or to ask your child to draw them. I created an example to make it easier to understand how to use the cards.
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I have a FREE printable to offer with this unit, the Watercolor Painting Space Book.
My children loved to do this activity as a calming activity. Every evening we were painting 2-3 space objects and hang them out on our art space.
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The second favorite in this unit is the huge Solar System Poster (84 x 59 cm) and the Solar System planets and Sun! This is our home decor right now and we made it to celebrate the International Space Week (4 – 10th of October). The great thing about the poster is that comes in 3 types: the poster with the planets, the poster without the planets and without the planets but the names only on a separate sheet with the planets only to cutout and stick to the main poster with velcro dots. This is what I used here in this picture. If you don’t want to print it so big, I have the same layout with planet stickers in A4 format.
Another favorite is the Solar System Model. You simply need to print, laminate, cut and stick them together with a pin. It is such a favorite with my kids and such a fun and easy way to learn the planets and you have 2 facts on the handle: “distance from the Sun” and Length of the Day! What can be more fun?
A favorite art project included in the unit is Marbled Planets Art. You can find all the steps and the tools you need to do this inside the unit or in my blog post.
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In the picture here below you can see some of the STEAM activities included in the Space Unit:
– Simple projects that require objects you have around your home
– Gluing activities “create your own space craft”
– Marbled Planets Artwork
– Astronaut keepsake
– Solar System Model
– Coloring Pages
– Watercolor Painting Space Book – you can have this for FREE
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In the unit there are included 3-part cards of the Space, Phonics and Alphabet Cards and Info Cards. Everything you need to teach your child from naming and recognizing the planets to reading and matching activities and learning fun and interesting facts about our space and beyond.
To make it more fun, I added some black beans to a tray and add language cards and safari ltd Space toobs and planets to match the cards. My 3 years old was very excited and interested in matching and naming every object she found on the tray. Plus I added some rocks covered in aluminium foil so she can discover the mystery. I explained her these are asteroids orbiting the Sun, creating a belt. You can do the same sensory activity and use the opportunity to read to your elder children as he/she holds a planet or any other object in their hands. Take one card and read the information. It would be a fun way to learn.
We love to use our materials on our shelf. Here are some ideas that may inspire you for your next Space theme learning.
Upper shelf
🚀 Solar System Poster
🌔 moon lunar cycle
🧑🚀 be an astronaut craft
💫 Solar System cards with matching Montessori color tablets
🌎 Counting and color sorting planets
🪨 Asteroids building blocks
🪐 Solar System 3-part cards and Solar System planets to match
🌠 Solar System Planet Riddles (these are so fun)
Middle shelf
✨️ Space rhyming Cards
🛰 Space Decoding Game
🛸 Space Phonics Cards matching @safariltd Space Toobs
☀️ Middle Soynd Sorting Game with Astronauts
🌐 My Cosmic Address Montessori Cards
🌌 Verb, Noun, Adjective Sorting Moons and Astronauts
Lower shelf
🌎 Solar system Magnets from @learningresources with Space Info Cards – my printables
🌌 My Solar System Project – my printables
🌔 Moon Phases
🪐 Space Puzzle @tooky_toy
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Some of my 6yo daughter’s favorite activities are the “planet riddles”, the “cvc words decoding game”, painting and gluing, the “cosmic address” and the “solar system model’ we have created together.
Below you can check some of these activities and some more pictures I took from the whole unit.
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Have a blessed day!
xoxo Raluca