Personal Space Camp

At the beginning of the year we had a hard time with sitting crisscross apple sauce on the rug wih out touching or bothering others so our class took a trip to "space camp" We read the book Personal Space Camp by Julia Cook. Personal Space Camp is about a boy, Louis, a proclaimed “space expert” who  really struggles with personal space issues. When he gets sent to the principal’s office to attend Personal Space Camp, he is convinced that he is going to Space Camp! Louis quickly learns the difference between personal space and outer space and he even becomes a “Double Space Expert!”

After reading the book we used hula hoops and tried to squeeze 4-5 kids in a hoop to demonstrate what it is like too have to many people in a small space. We also traced 4 people. We layed the traced bodies on the carpet to see what it looks like when people are laying on the rug and taking up too much space. 

The people tracings hung in our room for the first 2 weeks to remind the kids about what personal space is.