An Astronaut poster

This was the final day of learning about living and working in outer space. Tater and Jr Bug had so much un learning and working on the space theme this week. We have gained a new appreciation for those brave men and women who work for NASA. 

Today, we ended our lessons by making our own astronauts. We used black paper as the background since space is black due to the lack of air. We also learned why astronauts had space suits (to keep them warm and to help them breathe). Then we made our own space suits using tinfoil, glitter, glue and white crayons. We also added celestial bodies by using craft materials. The kids had so much fun. 

Afterwards, Tater shared what she thought being an astronaut and being in space would be like for her. These are her thoughts: "I think it would be like living on the moon and you would have to stand up and sleep. I feel like if I were an astronaut it would be fun to be in outer space. I think you could do what you want to do. And it would be really cool to cook with bags in outer space."

She has learned alot from this weeks experiments and from our gathering knowledge from our books and video time. I am excited to see that she enjoyed the cooking food experiment. Well I don't know how much more I will be posting as we are still technically on our summer slow down school schedule. But stay tuned because school starts in 6 weeks for us.