Sun and moon activities for first grade

Sun Facts

Characteristics of sun, Earth, and moon

The Sun - Bubble Map of facts about the sun.

First of all, TGIF!!!! This week we started our space unit, and we focused on the Sun and Moon. We have read several nonfiction books about...

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Hey sweet friends! Well, we went to the museum yesterday. It was a lot of fun and the kids really enjoyed it. The dinosaurs were the cooles...

Week 2 of thematic learning is in the books! Want to know what motivated me to change how/why I'm teaching this way...find it here. This week's focus was all about things in the sky: Sun/Moon/Clouds. Below are the books that formed my instruction this week. I like to kick off the week reading non-fiction. It never fails to draw them in and get them excited! We read Gail Gibbons book, The Moon Book. We reviewed what it meant to be curious and how good readers ask questions before/during/after…

Explore this engaging sun, moon, and stars lesson plan! Use games and hands-on activities to teach apparent motion to your students.

For the next two weeks we will be doing a fun space unit. Today we kicked off our study by learning lots of interesting facts about the sun. We began by reading these great books that were filled with fantastic pictures and facts. We made a sun art project by painting a paper plate this morning and then during center time we wrote three reasons we need the sun. We also made a book about why the sun is important and glued sentence strips to each page about the main idea