Blast Off For Planet Kindergarten

Happy August!

Look what I found at Barnes & Noble last night.

It is AdOrAbLe! 

I'm planning to read it to my Kindies on my first visit 

with them our first week ... and I can't wait for liftoff.

Basically, this little superhero blasts off to Planet K where he meets some "aliens" and experiences "zero gravity" ... he seems to be having a blast ... until nap time, that is, when he realizes how much misses his family on Planet Earth. 

I especially love the Failure is not an option NASA page.

Basically, I'm planning to read it aloud

and talk with my newest learners about

what we need to survive and thrive

when we're on a discovery mission away from home.

Click {here} for some GR8 activity suggestions from Chronicle Books.

And, thanks to Jenn Long for her super suggestion below, click {here} to see book trailers and an interview at Watch. Connect. Read.

My husband suggested that I use the I Wanna Be An Airborne Ranger marching cadence to come up with an enrichment ditty.

 Don't you love it when hubbies get involved? Here goes:

Superhero Speech Bubble Source {here}

Challenge your superheroes to try their hand at writing one, too.

Need a meaningful movement break? This CD came in the mail this week from a reader in New York {thanks, Carolyn!} who said that Jared came to their school and did an awesome assembly for her superheroes. Jared's new song - I Wanna Be A SUPERHERO - is upbeat and catchy. The CDs are for sale now for $10 for one, $15 for two and so on {here}. 

He's also got a song simply called Hero.

Our next chapter in the book study happens

next week on Tuesday. We'll visit superheroes 

Jana at Thinking Out Loud and 

Danielle at Crayonbox Learning 

to talk encouragement.

For now, I'm blasting off to create another bulletin board.
Touch back down tomorrow to see how it turned out.
Have a blessed weekend!