Sunday, September 4, 2011

Outer Space

Mary 2y. 3m.
Mary is very curious about what is going on around us, interested about people and nature. Once I decided to experiment a bit and to tell about the space, cosmonauts, astronauts, Solar System and our generous Planet Earth. We looked at all these fascinating stuff in the book, I also showed her some short movies about our Universe.

Our Solar System - Size Of Planets and Stars to Scale

The reaction at first was rather ambiguous, which is clear as these are rather abstract hard to understand things for babies. However, later after glueing and drawing our Earth and other planets on paper Mary became very much interested in space, stars and planets. We also tried stickers, read books and played cosmonauts flying into space =).

Don’t know what this interest will turn into in the future, but space definitely is worth paying attention to as there is huge potential for development for humanity. But now Maria is looking every evening through the book about space, she has expanded her vocabulary and become more knowledgeable about the nature and the world we leave in. In autumn, when it gets darker earlier, we try to study star sky just above us.

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