On April 4, first graders at Glenwood Landing School took to the stage dressed in decorative “out-of-this-world costumes” for their first interdisciplinary Astronomy Celebration in front of their proud teachers, administrators, parents and family members.
This interdisciplinary Astronomy Celebration combined reading and writing through science along with art, music and foreign languages.
For months, students researched and wrote books about the planets in the solar system. During the culmination, the first graders brilliantly became the teachers as they taught their family members the “Reason for the Seasons” discussing the earth’s revolution and rotation around the sun resulting in day and night.
Additionally, the students sang a number of songs on stage including “I’m a Little Rocket,” “What a Wonderful World” and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” in English, Spanish and Mandarin. Plus, told numerous funny space jokes to the joy of everyone in the audience.
It was clear to all the families and guests in the audience how hard each of the students worked throughout their many months of study to achieve such a high level of collaboration, communication, innovation, problem-solving and critical thinking during their Astronomy Celebration.
Thank you to all of the first-grade teachers who dedicated months to teaching their children of Glenwood Landing all about our amazing planets in the solar system.
This first-grade Astronomy Celebration was spacetacular! Congratulations to all!