Storytime: Cosmic Adventures
Storytime: Cosmic Adventures
Let’s go on a cosmic adventure… with a parachute! You don’t need a parachute for the following activities. You can use a sheet or tablecloth. If you don’t have enough participants to lift it, securely tie the end to the legs of a sofa, bed, or table and watch the fun begin!
Join us Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. or Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room.
Ages 2-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
A favorite game of many children, this exciting rhyme lets the children help count down from five to a blast-off at zero. They know what will happen when the count reaches zero, but the anticipation while counting makes this rhyme a great skill builder for understanding sequencing, the order in which something takes place. – “Reading Picture Books with Children” by Lambert
Activity
Give your child a cardboard tube or scarf and pretend it is a rocket ship or she is the astronaut at the controls. Ask her to count down with you and then lift your rockets high on blastoff. Or you can squat down with your child pretending to be a rocket, and jump up on blastoff.
Books Presented
Pop-Up Peekaboo! Space
5,4,3,2,1 – blast off! Go on an out-of-this-world adventure with two brave astronauts, Daisy and Danny, in this lift-the-flap baby book. Rocket into space, past the stars and planets, and join them as they land on the moon. Discover brave astronauts, space rockets and funny alien spaceships in this imaginative pop-up book! Babies and toddlers can lift the flaps and watch them pop up from the page. This peekaboo picture book helps teach young children object permanence, which is an important step in childhood development. The simple rhyming text will boost your little one’s imagination as they guess which intergalactic character is hiding under the flaps. The easy-to-read text helps preschoolers remember the new words they are learning for early language development. Turning the sturdy, board book pages and moving the pop-ups help toddlers develop motor control for improved dexterity.
Snail in Space by Rachel Bright
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
The Universe Song
Tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Oh the universe is great and the universe is far
There’s a whole lot planets and galaxies and stars
And we live right here on a planet called, Earth
and this is what we do our space adventure.
We take the rocket ship up and the rocket ship down,
take the rocket ship up,
take the rocket ship down
Take the rocket ship up and the rocket ship down
and we turn around.
If You’re Happy and You Know It! Space Adventure
If you want a space adventure, *lift it high
If you want a space adventure, *lift it high
If you want to travel far and circle round the stars
If you want a space adventure, *lift it high
Verses: shake it fast, shake it slow
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
Zoom, zoom, zoom,
We’re going to the moon
If you want to take a trip,
Climb aboard my rocket ship
Zoom, zoom, zoom! We’re going to the moon!
Far, far far, We’re going to the stars…
Fun, fun, fun, We’re going to the sun…
Source: Jbrary
Extra verses
Crafts and Activities
Astronaut in Space Coloring page
Flying Spaceship Craft
Additional Books
Stella, Star Explorer by Kelly Leigh Miller
Astronaut PiggyWiggy by Christyan Fox
Pluto Visits Earth! by Steve Metzger
Fly Guy Presents: Space by Tedd Arnold
During a visit to a space museum, Fly Guy and Buzz learn all about planets, space crafts, space suits, and even dirty snowballs (i.e. comets)!
