PLANETS & SOLAR SYSTEM UNIT- English and Spanish Bilingual (Adapted Book)

Prek - 2nd Grade

This packet is of high difficulty for preschoolers, average difficulty for kindergarten and first graders, and easy for second graders. If the student is in ESOL/ESL, a dual language class, RTI, or receiving special education, then the adapted book series is an excellent choice.

It is especially beneficial for second graders who are in RTI/MTSS, at risk for academic problems, in special education, learning with the Unique curriculum, or need an adapted/modified program. Teachers using the Unique Program may find this packet very helpful for students with autism, Down syndrome, and other diagnoses.

THE WORKSHEETS IN THIS ADAPTED PACKET TARGET THE FOLLOWING:

-copying vocabulary words

-parts of planet Earth

-matching planets to words

-counting things in the solar system

-understanding spatial concepts

-cut and glue to answer "wh" questions

-cut and glue the astronauts on the moon

-label the rocket ship

-circle the things the astronaut will see in space

-cut and glue the planets in space

-What comes after? (cut and glue to answer the sequencing questions)

-writing prepositional phrases

-tracing lines around the solar system

-Jupiter coloring page

-combine two words and write them

-describing items in the solar system

-words associated with a telescope

-words associated with the sun

-describe outer space

-copy sentences about planets

-write your own sentences about solar system items

-understanding the pronouns he, she, they

-circle the things that are the same

-circle the thing that is not the same

-complete sentences about planets (cut and glue)

-sort the stars and planets (cut and glue)

-sort things are that planets and not planets (cut and glue)

-follow 1-step directions by coloring an astronaut and his rocket ship

-What can you do to keep the Earth clean?

-read and answer questions about an astronaut

-tell a story about the places the rocket should visit

-parts of a satellite

-cut out the planets and create a solar system

-My Planet Report

-read and answer questions about Earth

-read and answer questions about Saturn

-My Book About Planets

-cut out your own rocket and astronaut to play

-cut out a puzzle of outer space and build it

Use the following YouTube videos of Pete the Cat Out of This World

in English: https://youtu.be/a4e0v6t9MdQ

in Spanish: https://youtu.be/Sw5ZTmG7yXQ

THE ENGLISH AND SPANISH VOCABULARY WORDS TARGETED IN THIS RESOURCE INCLUDE:

-telescope/telescopio

-rocket/cohete

-astronaut/astronauta

-sun/sol

-moon/luna

-planet/planeta

-Mercury/Mercurio

-Venus

-Earth/Tierra

-Mars/Marte

-Jupiter/Júpiter

-Saturn/Saturno

-Uranus/Urano

-Neptune/Neptuno

-solar panel/panel solar

-antenna/antena

-pronouns (he, she, they)/pronombres

-prepositions (next to, on, between, around, through, over)/preposiciones