Songs and Poems

The Solar System Song
[Tune: A Tisket, a Tasket]

The planets, the planets, I can name the planets.
This brain of mine, it knows all nine.
Listen while I name them.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars and Jupiter,
Saturn and Uranus,
Neptune and then Pluto.
The planets, the planets, I just named the planets.
This brain of mine, it knows all nine,
All in the right order!

Moon Chant

A-B-CDE
Learn about the moon with me
F-G-HIJ
It's out in space so far away.
K-L-MNO
No air or water so nothing will grow.
P-Q-RST
Reflects sunlight so brightly
U-V-WXY
Appears to change shape in the sky.

Z-Z-ZZZ
Full of craters and rocky.

Books, Books, Books

Literacy Activities

Math Activities

Science and Social Studies Connections

Just For Fun

Balloon Powered Rockets
Have children decorate a lunch sack to look like a rocket. Then give each student a long balloon to blow up and hold the end. Do not tie. Place the balloon inside the rocket and let the balloon go.

Decorating Ideas

I purchased a very large piece of black fabric that stretched across one side of the room. I snipped small holes in it all over the place and put white christmas lights through the holes (on the back side). I had to secure them with small pieces of duct tape. It made it look like the night sky.

Links

Nasa for kids

Sea and Sky Site