For the past few months we've been working on an astronomy unit and discovering poetry with a winter theme....perfect for our cold winter days.
For the poetry, we read Snow by Evening by Melville Cane. Before reading the poem we used the words and tried to create a poem of our own. I think Liam did a really good job. His poem
"quietly tree blossoming with millions of falling petals"
Delaney decided to add a few more words in her stack of single words and came up with a delightful poem too.
"Gray white sky bitter wind
suddenly flew snow within
quietly drifted all day long.
Petals of gray
millions to see
and all night I quietly watched it all fall."
Astronomy studies.....we spent time learning about the moon, stars, the inner planets and outer planets, asteroids sun, and many astronomers from the Renaissance time period.
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| Making asteroid imprints on the surface of the "m" aka flour in a pan. |
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| For FHE, we played a game where Dad was the moon and we were the water tides being pulled to and fro. |
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| A yummy day making the phases of the moon with oreo cookies! |
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| Pictures of our own suns created by our hand prints and the moon using our thumb prints. |
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| Eating Astronaut food-- Freeze dried beef stroganoff . |
They each had to give a personal report on a planet of their choice. I had them make paper mache replicas of their planet. Liam's report was on Mars and Delaney researched on Jupiter.
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| Making edible satellites |
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| The red sands of Mars. We disintegrated steel wool pads until they turned to rust in play sand. It's ir on on the surface that makes Mars so red |
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| A delicious cake planet. |
