🌠🪐 National Astronaut Day

Each year on May 5 we celebrate National Astronaut Day to commemorate Astronaut Alan Shepard, Jr.'s space flight aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule. The 15-minute flight paved the way for future exploration and astronauts' travels into space. You can read more about National Astronaut Day on this website. 

Students could choose to visit the library today to celebrate National Astronaut Day in a small way. We began with two children's book read alouds: Garcia & Colette Go Exploring and Penguinaut!

Students gathered around for a good, old-fashioned, elementary school-style read aloud, where we also talked about the characters and illustrations. Then it was time to make!

Using ideas from different websites, students could make their own space shuttle from a template or a penguin.

From A Little Pinch of Perfect

From Huppie Mamma

Students had time to design, color, and make either (or both, if they wished) craft and take it with them today. They could choose a space shuttle template to cut and assemble, or a plate with orange paper to make their penguins. 

And then students had time to be creative!