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Space Theme
By Amy

I teach 4th-6th grade special education. I did a space theme with the teacher across the hall this pass school year! FUN! Here are some ideas we did:
in the hall b/w our classes:

On each end of our hall we had
a big sign hanging from the ceiling stating: "You Are Entering the Black Hole of Learning!" We hung black paper from top to bottom (a lot of work); put the Solar System on it and other space bulletin board stuff -astronaut, rocket, space ships- as we worked on work throughout the year we put in on the wall

Decorations in our classrooms:
Hung planets and shuttles from the Naval

Museum in Florida I visited.

Bulletin Board Ideas:
We are blasting off to a Stellar Year-(in hall) Made a big space ship and had the students' names on individual little spaceships
We are Shooting for the Stars this Year! (big star in middle with students' names on individual stars)
Book Chart: We are reading our way through the Solar System
Computer Center: can’t remember but said something like Launching out into Cyberspace
Word Wall: Our Vocabulary is BLASTING OFF! (with a rocket I made)
Behavior Chart: Shooting for the Stars with Stellar Behavior
Have the different genre up: Genre Galaxy
Door- Welcome to Mrs. _____ Cosmic Quest or Welcome to Mrs. _____ Galaxy

We hung astronauts from the ceilings. We took digital pictures of teachers that our students would come in contact with ie. principal, asst. principal, P.E. teacher, Computer teacher, Speech teacher, etc. and made their faces big enough to fit in the astronauts faces! Precious!! Then we made a sign that stated: Our Floating Space Facts- or something like that. We hung big yellow stars and blue stars among the hanging astronauts and wrote on each star a fact like (3 x 3 = 9 any of the math facts; space facts, geometric shapes and their name; and thinking maps terms and the diagram- we teach thinking maps in our parish/county)

First Day of School: We dressed up like aliens! We had bought some black pants and long black shirts and glued stars, planets etc on them. You can get that at a craft store. We used a headband and attached some bead things on it and then hot glued huge goggle eyes on those. We also bought pointy elf shoes and spray painted them silver. Crazy I know!

Activities: Tried to center as much of the content around space-sometimes it was a stretch since I only teach language arts!

Spaceship glyph
Alien glyph-came out precious!

body color male (blue)
female (pink)
# of eyesgrade
# of armsmonth born
# of spotsage
mouthlike school (smile)
don’t like school
(smile)
Antennaeblue (left-handed)
yellow (right-handed)

Spelling words for the first 3-4 weeks were Space words. I use The Magic School Bus –Solar System to introduce the words. I don’t teach science so it gave the students some background info.

Poetry: Space alliterations and couplets

English: Tried to make sentences that dealt with space. If the students were being taught about

subjects: alien, spaceship, astronaut, star, planet, ….

Verbs: sparkle, zoom, roar, soar, fly, spin, rotate, …..