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I looooove teaching space. If I could teach nothing but space all year I probably would. So when I saw this book sticking out of the big book stack I knew I had to read it.

This book is perfect to start talking about rhyming words. My firsties immediately picked up that words were rhyming. 

After we were done I showed a rap from YouTube on the different planets and then we looked at different space books from the library. 

Extension Activities:

• Draw pictures of the night sky. We also read a chapter from this Stars book that talked about how stars are different colors. Kids can paint or color a night sky with different colored stars.
• Simulate gravity by getting a mini trampoline and having kids jump on it while you talk about how the moon has less gravity. I saw that idea on this blog but I wasn't able to do it. She has a ton of other amazing ideas for a space unit. Go check it out. I want to be one of her students.