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GAME 5: TRIP TO MARS
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GOALS: What Children Will Learn.
Practicing: (a) How to use books; (b) Parts of a book: covers, pages, title, author, words, pictures; (c) How we read words in English from top-to-bottom, left-to-right: (d) Vocabulary: Mars, planet, title, author; (e) Writing one's name or initials; (f) Drawing; (g) Good manners; (h) Knowledge of planets and space travel.
TIP: If children are not yet able to do all the activities in this game, that's OK. Help them begin to learn by playing the game. |
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BEFORE YOU PLAY THE GAME
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WHAT YOU NEED:
From the Materials: Picture of Children on Mars, Our Favorite Things book (cover and pages), Alphabet Letters
From Your Home or School: Crayons or non-toxic markers
SET-UP THE GAME:
• Practice the meaning of: Mars, planet, title, author.
• Pretend you are the Children on Mars, and say their words.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING THE GAME
(1) Tell the Story. We live on the blue planet Earth. Far away, up in the sky is another planet, the red planet Mars. Nobody lives there. But let's pretend children live on Mars, and they want to know about children on Earth. Let's make a book about you and bring it to the children on Mars.
(2) Make a Book for Children on Mars. Help children complete Our Favorite Things book.
• Ask them to write the author's name or initials (child's own name) and draw a picture of the author (themselves) on the cover. Draw a picture of their favorite thing(s) on the inside page.
• As you read the story aloud, ask children to say words to complete blank spaces in the story (Example: “My favorite animals are ___.”) Write what they say to fill-in the blanks, or help children write their answers themselves.
(3) Change Magic Story Cars to Spaceships. Ask children: "But how will we bring our book to the children on Mars?" Show them picture of a spaceship. Help them say the letter ‘M’ (for Mars) and point to it on the Letters Page to change their Magic Story Cars into spaceships.
(4) Fly to Mars. Blast-off! Ask children to say what they see while they fly to Mars.
(5) Land on Mars and Give Our Book to the Martian Children. (Show picture of Children on Mars.) Ask children to give their book to the Martian children.
(6) Teach Children on Mars How to Use Our Book. A Martian child (you) says: “Thank you, but we don't have any books on Mars. Can you teach us how to use this book?” Ask children to use the book they made (cover and pages) to point to and explain:
• The book's title, author, front and back covers, pages, words and pictures
• How we read English words from top-to-bottom, left-to-right
(7) A Happy Ending. A Martian child (you) says: “Thank you. Grownups on our planet will read your book to all the children on Mars.” Ask children to say: ”You're welcome.”
(8) Blast Off and Fly Back Home to Earth. Tell children they did a good job as "authors" of a book that helped other children learn about new things. Remind them they too can learn lots of new things by reading lots of books with grown-ups.
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Play the game again. Help children make other new books
with themes such as “Our Favorite Toys” or “Our Favorite Songs.”
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