Montessori Inspired Space Themed Learning Activities

This week, we are shifting our focus as Vito’s interest is increasingly directed toward his body and senses. In the past few weeks, we have been exploring topics related to the moon, planets, and space. Below is a summary of our activities related to the solar system and space, presented in no particular order.

PLANETS COLOR MATCHING

We love doing this together!!! I got this idea from one of my favourite IG account Momducator.  We used our Montessori Color Set 3 and our homemade printed planets.  A great activity for visual sense.

LEARNING ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT

This activity demonstrates the concept of day and night. We use a small torch and a medium-sized globe. Vito loves his Lego Space Shuttle , and he often incorporates it into our discussions about the Earth and its rotation into space during the day, as well as how we perceive the Earth at night. It is best to conduct this activity at night, just before bedtime.

STAR CONSTELLATIONS

I've been sharing numerous pictures of our constellation activities on Instagram. It took Vito days to recover from this! To learn more about our enjoyable activity of pin poking  and constellation matching, check out the article here (Hands-on Learning of Constellations for Preschoolers).

PLANETS AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Another favorite! Vito has been fascinated by the concepts of "hot planets," "cold planets," and "livable planets." He kept asking what each planet is like and what it would be like to live there! To learn more about them (after reading books like the Atlas of Space), we tried to identify each one using a three-part lesson with The Solar System and Space 3 part cards. Each time we identified a planet, I would also describe it while reading along with the booklet.

PLANETARIUM

This Discovery Planetarium was given to Mavi by a family friend and and Vito loves this to bits! We use it at night to look for the constellations that we have learned from our previous activities.

SPACE THEMED TEN FRAMES FOR COUNTING AND WRITING NUMBERS

Adding math to our themed activities has always been my practice as Vito loves to count.  This is our Space Themed Ten Frames, and we use our black gem nuggets as counters.  He had fun counting the images in the picture and writing the numbers!

MOON PHASES

Before the blue moon few days ago, we had a talk about the moon phases.  Read about the activity here (Phases of the Moon Activity with the Learning Pack).

PLAYDOUGH SPACE

Non stop play with this playdough space we made at home.  It is so easy to make! Just put an ample amount of glitters in your black (or homemade) playdough and that’s it!  We used it in a lot of ways, but Vito specifically loves to form it like this.  Planet figures we used here are from Safari Toobs (Safari Ltd Safariology The Solar System).


He even worked extra hard during the weekend to make another set and matched them to our cards.

SPACE FLOOR PUZZLE

Finally, our floor puzzles has also been a favorite.  He usually works on this at night when Mavi is doing homework.  I have featured this so many times in our IG stories, and you can see it in my IG newsfeed too.  So we were working on this puzzle for awhile now and it helps in the visualization of how our space looks like.  This puzzle is so beautiful!  We love it!


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