moon | Danielle Huddleston Photography

Since we had already studied the properties of light on Day 1, we just made a couple solar powered projects for Day 4.

We read:

“Going around the Sun Some Planetary Fun” by Marianne Collins Berkes

and

“Eight Great Planets” by Laura Purdie Salas

Both are rhyming books and would be great for young children!

We watched The Magic School Bus “Lost in Space”.

My boys have seen all of these before but they seem to get more out of them when we watch them while learning about something in the video.

Making the Solar System ended up being a great way to explain how seasons and years work!

It is a great visual tool!

It would also be a great time to go to a planetarium!

I also included a few peeks into our other schoolwork.

Hope you have a great week!

On a whim (the place from which all good things come) I got the book “How to Build a Rocket” by Hazel Richardson from our local library.

I love it!

It is not just about how to build a rocket, it has a lot of information about the moon and experiments to go along with the lessons.

I am seriously considering buying this one.

The first thing it had us do was go in a dark room with a flashlight and a tennis ball (or baseball).

You have your child hold the ball out in front of them and shine the light on the ball.

This helps them understand why there are different phases of the moon.

It also helped mine remember that the moon was just reflecting light from the sun.

“He’s got the whole moon in his hands, he’s got the whole moon in his hands…”

I am odd.

Next we took a ball and string and then spun around while holding it.

This demonstrated the earth’s gravitational pull and it’s effect on the moon.

School is just so much work.

Watch out here comes the moon!

We are only a couple chapters in.

This book definitely gets my vote though!

Danielle Huddleston Photography