Re-Visiting Space

I decided to repeat my space storytime from two years ago.  Here's how it went:

I told the story of Eight Spinning Planets with the Storytime apron.  This is a great rhyming story to flannalize:

 

 

Then I read the book, Here in Space by Milgrim  It's helpful to point out to the children that the boy in this adventure story picks something up from each place he visits.  See?  What did he pick up on this page? 

 

 

Time for a stretch after the book:

Zoom!  Zoom! Zoom!

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom.  (Hand in prayer position and push up three times)

We’re going to the moon.  (Point up to the sky)

If you want to take a trip,

Climb aboard my rocket ship.  (Climbing motion)

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, We’re going to the Moon.  (repeat)

Count down!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

(Crouch down with hands together)

Blast off!

(Jump up and shoot arms into the air)

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom,

We’re going to the Moon!

 

 

Rocket Ships:

 

Five litte Rockets blasting out the door!

One goes to Mars and then there are four.

Four Little Rockets winking at me.

One shot off and then there were three!

Three little rockets with nothing to do.

One shot off and then there were two!

Two Little rockets afraid of the sun.

One shot off and then there was one!

One little rocket alone is no fun.

It shot off and then there were none.

 

 

 



As I said, I did this Space storytime about two years ago and it went really well, but I was bothered by the lack of a puppet.  I always have a puppet to help end storytime, but didn't have one for this theme.  Buzz Lightyear?  No, too Disney.  Then I came across this post which I had pinned to my pinterest Board:
Litte Astronauts by Storytime Katie. 

 

Instead of just two, I had to make five and then I had to make one more little rocket ship. 

Five Litte Astronauts

Five little Astronauts floating in space

The first one said, "Let's get out of this place!"

The second one said, "Off to the moon!"

The third one said, "I'll be there soon!"

The fourth one said, "My space ship is ready!"

The fifth one said, "Wait!  Hold it steady!"

Then Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, they took off on their flight

And the five little Astronauts zoomed out of site.

(Have a safe trip!)

 

 

This storytime worked well for all ages, and by that I mean toddlers to Pre-schoolers.  We had to talk about why you couldn't see the Astronauts eyes (they have helmets on) and there were other very interesting discussions!  It was a blast!