Week 3 - It Came from Outer Space with the Young Professors

It Came from Outer Space!!!!!

This morning we welcomed the Young Professors back into the library! We had 10 Professors today: Zoe, Ava, Sydney, Tyler, Joshua, Cohan, Cody, Chloe, Paige, and Chesney!

We started off talking about our theme for the week! This week's theme: It Came from Outer Space, meant that today we were going to venture out into space and talk about aliens, planets, and astronomy!

To begin everyone was given a rocket ship name tag! The name tag had a space that said "My name is ______________ From the planet of ___________________" 

Here, we made up our alien names for our name tags by taking the first 3 letters of our first names and adding it with the first 3 letters of our last names! Mine was a pretty horrible sounding name "Amapou"! But the kids seemed to find it funny! We had some great alien sounding names though! Some like "AvaJin", "ZoeGil", "TylMcN", "JosFri", and "ChesFlu". 

What are name tags looked like!

After completing our name tags we all gathered on the tarp area and talked about Science Fiction books in the library! We talked about what sort of things you would find in a science fiction book! Things like time-travel, space-travel, science, aliens, futuristic technology and so on! We also talked about fiction books and non-fiction books and where to find them in the library!

Next we looked at some photos from the great Hubble Telescope! The kids enjoyed looking at the photos!

We talked about NASA and astronauts and played a game pretending to be astronauts and moving in 0 g gravity! Here they had to try to spin around, sitting in a rolling chair without using their feet or arms to touch the ground or without pushing off the ground! 

Here are some pictures of us playing this game!

Astronaut Sydney working her way through 0 g

Paige and Ava working as astronauts as Joshua and Tyler watch in the background.

Zoe and Cody in full movement! 

After our game we started our craft which was making alien masks! Just like the Little Einsteins made yesterday! The kids went all out decorating their masks! They added some glow in the dark stars, goggly eyes, and pipe cleaner antennas to their aliens!

Here are some pictures of their crafts!

Chesney with his finished project! Awesome!

Mr. Tyler working on his mask at the craft table!

Aliens Joshua and Chesney!

Miss Alien Zo-Zo with her astronaut helmet and mask!

Mask on!

Ava looking at her fine alien mask at the craft table!

Sydney and Cody with their alien masks!

Paige, Ava and Chloe with their masks!

Cody adding some last minute touches to his mask!

Miss Ava!

And that was our Reading Club for the Young Professors today! I unleashed them into the library and all the kiddos grabbed some books and recording their reading record logs and getting their ballots into the draw box!

Happy Reading Young Professors! See ya next week!