What's out There?: Circle Activities

Calendar Date Icons

Icons for each day of the week to identify the date. Includes repeating patterns and contains 31 days so you can customize the unit to suit your specific time frame.

• Calendar Icons (Sun, Shooting Star, Moon)

Songbook Icons

Support student participation by providing song choice icons and visual supports for each song.

Circle Activities

Use these activities to introduce the theme and teach key vocabulary and concepts.

• Astronaut Activities
• Counting Down to Blastoff
• Hot Sun Game
• Planet Scavenger Hunt
• Solar System Bingo

Theme-Related Videos

Use the following videos during circle to introduce the concepts taught in this theme unit.

We recommend that you preview the YouTube videos prior to student viewing to ensure appropriate content as video links can break or change. Also be advised ads may appear within the videos. 

• All about the Sun

• The Solar System Song

• NASA Spaceship Launch

• Take a Tour of the Space Station

• Constellations: Connect the Dots in the Sky

Theme Vocabulary

Introduce new vacabulary and concepts through written and visual supports.

• Astronomy: Astronaut, NASA, Observatory, Rocket, Satellite, Explorer, Launch, Orbit, Space Ship, Space Station, Float, Telescope, Shuttle, Spacesuit, Helmet, Countdown
• Space: Asteroid, Black Hole, Comet, Galaxy, Gravity, Meteor, Milky Way, Moon, Shooting Star, Solar System, Sky, Eclipse, Universe, Outer Space, Sun, Stars, Constellation, Rotation, Alien, Planet
• Planets: Earth, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus
• Colors: Black, Gray, White, Blue, Yellow, Purple
• Shapes: Crescent, Circle, Star, Triangle, Semi-Circle, Diamond

• Vocabulary Flash Cards 3x5 (large)
• Vocabulary Flash Cards 3x3 (small)