Earth and sky preschool activities

I made these with my pre-school class in June to top off a great lesson on the water cycle. The kids loved them.

Students will learn about wind and weather with this hands-on clouds and rain weather windsock craft. Early learning science fun.

8 Planets - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This rhyming poem calls out each of the eight planets in our solar system in order from the sun, providing a brief identifying fact about each planet - Mercury is the closest to the sun, Venus shines bright, Earth is home to humans, Mars is red and ready to explore, Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings of dust and ice, Uranus is tilted, and Neptune has a large dark spot.

Here is just one way to bring weather concepts to life in your classroom! In our morning greeting, the weather helper informed us that today's weather was definitely going to be cold and rainy. It was a perfect day to explore raindrops and clouds at our rain making station.

Want to teach the kids all about our solar system? How the Earth Rotates Craft for Kids #craft #solarsystem

Sun, Earth, and Moon model for outer space, solar system, or astronomy theme unit for kids. Great science AND art project for preschool or elementary age.

Our theme this week was "Up in the Sky"! The kids are loving summer camp! We have so much free time that we can extend play if needed/wanted, have longer discussions and go completely off task if we want! During summer camp, we always have Yoga day where the school does a child centered yoga workout. The video we've been using is great because most of the poses are named after animals, like a turtle... hello! (This turtle was rescued from the middle of the road by one of our teachers, and…