Aliens directed drawing

We just wrapped up our space unit. We learned all about the moon, stars, planets, and astronauts. On the last day we had some alien fun. After reading Aliens Love Underpants and Aliens in Underpants Save the World, we brainstormed a list of words that describe aliens.

Here is our bubble map of alien adjectives. The alien clip art came from Deanna Jump's alien unit.

We used our anchor chart to help us write alien list poems.

I am in love with how cute this alien directed drawing turned out. After drawing the alien they used a black crayon to outline and painted with water colors.

We also made a class book patterned after the book, Aliens Love Underpants.

For more ideas check out my space unit on TPT.

space

Along with aliens I added Babbling Abby's astronaut unit. After reading lots of books about space and astronauts we made a tree map about astronauts. Each child had to write one fact on a sticky note and place it under the correct linking word. My low kids drew a picture.
Then we took all that information and created sentences using the linking words.

Then we completed astronaut applications and made astronauts.
We also sang and danced to the purple people eater song. Then we made spaceships and painted purple people eaters. This idea was inspired by Deanna Jump. If you would like the sentence prompt and number sentence prompt click one of the pictures below.

We graphed if you would like to live on the moon and analyzed the data.

aliens

This is such a fun unit for the end of the year. Run, don't walk to buy Deanna Jump's Alien unit. It is super cute. You will not be disappointed, I promise.

They had to put the poem in order and illustrate it.
We read the book, Aliens love underpants, made aliens and finished the writing prompt, "If an alien came to visit . . ."

Alien bubble map

We used the bubble map and linking words to write sentences.