I taught my 2-year old daughter about it.
Show a picture of "Explorer 1" that you can find on the internet.
Teach all or as many concepts as you feel appropriate:
1. Satellite
2. Earth
3. Going around the Earth
4. Sending signals or information
5. Launching
6. Planet
Activities:
1. Make a satellite and the Earth from playdough
2. Imitate launching the satellite (Put the palms of your hands together by your chest - they represent "the nose" of the satellite. Make a motor sound and slowly raise your hands higher and higher until you stretch them all the way up reaching for the sky).
3. Song:
Put a ball (or something else that is round) on the floor. Ask your child to imagine that the ball is our planet Earth. Take your child's hand and going around the ball, sing the following song using the melody from "Going aroung the Mulberry bush".
Going around the planet Earth, the planet Earth, the planet Earth.
Going around the planet Earth, "name of your child" the satellite.
Sending signals to the planet Earth, the planet Earth, the planet Earth.
Sending signals to the planet Earth, "name of your child" the satellite.
Going around the planet Earth, the planet Earth, the planet Earth.
Going around the planet Earth, Mommy the satellite.
Sending signals to the planet Earth, the planet Earth, the planet Earth.
Sending signals to the planet Earth, Mommy the satellite.
Wow, Yulia, you are amazing! Did you study to be a teacher? This blog is awesome. I am overwhelmed just thinking about all the things I have to teach my children. But I guess you just do it one day at a time. You have some great ideas.
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