Here are this week's notes for what we're planning to do. If you have any ideas/books/songs please share!
Memorize Scripture:
Genesis 1:16 (God created lesser light to rule night...)
Memorize Scripture:
Genesis 1:16 (God created lesser light to rule night...)
Language Arts -
Word Study - oo sounds and patterns (u_e, oo, ue)
word web for oo words
Capitalization - when and where
Writer's Workshop - Mission to the moon
Math concepts -
phases of the moon
moon is one fourth of earth (demo with playdoh - make one big ball into four)
lunar weight vs. earth weight (16%)
How big is moon? (big as canada, russia, and usa together)
Science and Lapbook stuff -
characteristics of moon
Map Study of Moon
Far side of moon
other moons in our solar system
Crater Study and Science Project
- The moon is most noted for its many craters. The majority of these have been created by impacts from asteriods or space material. Discuss with your child how different sizes, different speeds and different dropping heights of meteorites might affect the size of a crater.
- Activity: Place an inch of colored sand (you could also use flour dusted with powdered tempera paint) in the bottom of a pie pan. Have your child drop a small styrofoam ball from about 6 inches. Ask your child what happened. The ball should create a small bowl-shaped indentation in the sand. Now have your child try with a large styrofoam ball, a small wooden ball and a marble from different heights. Compare the differences in depths and diameters of each crater. The heavier objects create deeper, wider craters with concentric rings of mountains.
History -
Apollo 11, Landing on the moon, etc...
Books to read:
The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon
One Giant Leap, The Story of Neil Armstrong by Don Brown
The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson
Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Neil, Buzz, and Mike go to the Moon by Richard Hilliard
Apollo 11: First Moon Landing by Michael D. Cole
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (for katie)
Field Trip Ideas:
NASA
Science Museum (Fly Me to the Moon IMAX movie)
Pump it Up - moonwalks galore. :)
Neil, Buzz, and Mike go to the Moon by Richard Hilliard
Apollo 11: First Moon Landing by Michael D. Cole
Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (for katie)
Field Trip Ideas:
NASA
Science Museum (Fly Me to the Moon IMAX movie)
Pump it Up - moonwalks galore. :)
Just For Fun-
Let the kids walk in a pile of flour :) (like moonwalk)
English muffin snack (crater comparison)
Glow in the dark paint balloon/paper plate moon to hang in room and glow in the dark night scene on dark paper, could use sponges for moon printing
Make Moon cakes: sugar cookies with “craters” pressed into and frosted like different phases of the moon
Dance to Moon songs: Blue Moon, Moon River, Moondance, Utah Moon by Grandpa Lee :)