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March 12, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We added some Montessori materials for our science studies

Morning message pages introducing our astronomy unit:

Morning Message

The UMOCA had a FREE kids’ craft making astronomy mobiles.

Well, don’t ya know we hightailed it over there! Fun, fun fun! Free, free, FREE!

UMOCA Field Trip

5 Little Astronauts. He named each little astronaut after our family members. So sweet!

5 Little Astronauts

The girls enjoyed learning about and labeling the moon phases.

Labeling Moon Phases

Kate loved our Montessori moon cards:

Moon Phases Montessori

Fun astronomy matching game

Astonomy Matching Game

Comet kabobs snack

Comet Snacks

There are stars in my apples!

Apple Stars

Mnemonic the girls wrote to remember the names of the planets. Yes, I know Pluto is not a planet anymore, but it was fun and we needed to include the word “pigs” somewhere!

Astronomy Mnemonic

So cute how they laid all out on the foyer floor to do their word searches!

Astronomy Word Search

Working on alphabetizing the planets in these adorable workbooks from Target’s dollar spot (a long time ago)

Astronomy Workbooks
Astronomy Workbook

Found a fun popup book at a discount bin.

Astronomy popup

Elizabeth did astronomy in 1st-2nd grade with Apologia Exploring Creation With Astronomy, so this will be review for her. Tori and Katie are so excited! I even have some fun little things to include Alex.

Astronomy Unit Study

Poetry

Here are some poems that we plan to work on this month. We love poetry! I will have the moon poem on our calendar board and the gravity poem in a Montessori poetry basket. I also have some other poems in the works.

Calendar

Week 1: Intro, Sun and stars
Week 2-3: planets
Week 4: comets, asteroids, and other heavenly bodies
Week 5-6: Earth and moon

We start off our morning each day with these: Calendar Connections.

Texts

Stargazer’s Guide to the Night Sky

Apologia Astronomy

Arts and Crafts

  • make a solar system mobile
  • moon sand sensory bin
  • moon painting
  • stencils and stamps
  • watercolor planets
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Time lapse phases of the #moon with @Oreo! #homeschool #science @apologiaworld #oreo

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Games

  • Astronauts to Earth
  • Space Dominoes
  • Space Memory

Notebooking

  • copywork
  • word searches
  • mazes
  • Fun space printables
  • More fun space printables

I have some biography studies, mostly for Elizabeth. She also wants to do some mythology comparisons with constellations.

Montessori

  • 3 part cards
  • Nomenclature cards
  • poetry

Books

Field Trips

We went to UMOCA (fun crafts!) and the Planetarium. We went star-gazing while camping on Antelope Island.

Watching a lot of Doctor Who counts too, right?

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