This week we learned about The Moon. While making the cookies for playgroup I demonstrated with the dough fourths, and how the moon is one fourth the size of the earth. We frosted them in the different phases of the moon (crescent, half, gibbous, full). When we were mixing the cookies we discussed fractions and thirds and fourths as we made the recipe. Now he knows the basics of fractions and I got to eat cookies! I had a bunch of leftover flour so we tossed it all in a tub and threw different sized balls at it to see how the biggest craters on the moon were formed (bigger asteroid/greater velocity=bigger crater). Then we walked in it with our bare feet to feel what it would be like to walk on the moon. The we went to the library and got a bunch of moon books to read. And compiled our new moon knowledge into the lapbook below...
We also went to the Natural Science Museum and saw a real rock from the moon. We didn't find very cool space stuff there, but we sure learned a lot about butterflies. Matty us an expert now on chrysalis and the changing butterfly. Today we went to Pump it Up to play on the moonwalk bouncy houses there. Before we left we talked about the difference in gravity and our weight on the moon vs. earth. Matty weighs 7 lbs on the moon. I won't disclose my moon weight. When we got home from Pump it Up Matty said at lunch, "Hey, things would fall slower on the moon since there isn't as much gravity there." Yep, he gets it. success.
We also went to the Natural Science Museum and saw a real rock from the moon. We didn't find very cool space stuff there, but we sure learned a lot about butterflies. Matty us an expert now on chrysalis and the changing butterfly. Today we went to Pump it Up to play on the moonwalk bouncy houses there. Before we left we talked about the difference in gravity and our weight on the moon vs. earth. Matty weighs 7 lbs on the moon. I won't disclose my moon weight. When we got home from Pump it Up Matty said at lunch, "Hey, things would fall slower on the moon since there isn't as much gravity there." Yep, he gets it. success.