School Time With My Father's World Week 7 (posting a little late): Unit 2- Mm Moon concluded

Unit 2- Mm Moon Part 2

Words to Remember: I am the light of the world.

Oh my goodness, I just found another one of my School Time Review posts that I never published. I am not sure where my brain is these days. Once again, I am just going to keep this as is, though it was written quite a while ago.

Well, I am a little behind in my school time posts. We finished our Moon unit a couple of weeks ago and I am just now getting a chance to share. Hopefully some time this weekend I will get to share about our current unit.

First we worked on a M handwriting page.

School Time With My Father's World Week 7 (posting a little late): Unit 2- Mm Moon concluded

Unit 2- Mm Moon Part 2

Words to Remember: I am the light of the world.

Well, I am a little behind in my school time posts. We finished our Moon unit a couple of weeks ago and I am just now getting a chance to share. Hopefully some time this weekend I will get to share about our current unit.

First we worked on a M handwriting page.

I helped Hannah find the "M"s and write a couple, then she scribbled.

I had seen this idea on another blog and expanded it a bit.

I printed out a picture of the moon. Then I had the girls place Cheerios on the craters. (Continuing our lessons from last week on what the moon is made of and what is found there.)

I told them to make sure they put more Cheerios where there were more craters.

After they were done I allowed them to eat those Cheerios.  A few days later we revisited the moon crater project. I had them cut out the moon and glue it on black paper and add star stickers. 

Then they were to glue on the Cheerios to make it an art project instead of just an activity. 

They had to make a face in the moon first.

Then they glued the Cheerios on in the same manner as the other day, putting more where there were more craters.

Our next focus was on the moon's phases. We read a great book called Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin. In this book there are cut-outs that show the moon changing shape as the days pass. It did a really good job explaining the changes, showing the waxing and waning and also explained that the moon rises and sets at different times of the day. Some of this was a huge refresher for mommy. There was quite a lot I didn't remember from school.

Then the girls cut out their moon phases. I used the same templates I did a few years ago that I found at the DLTK website. This time the older girls were able to cut out their own moon phases, where last time they just did the gluing (sort of like Hannah this time). 

Tabitha, Amelia, Hannah

From top to bottom: Tabitha, Amelia, Hannah:

I knew I was going to do moon phases Oreo's. I had found this idea quite a while ago and have seen it several places since, so I am not sure who the credit belongs to for thinking up this idea, but it was fun!

I made the actual moon phases.

Then I had the girls place paper strips with the names of the phases by the correct Oreo half.

Then we ate the Oreo's.

Another book we enjoyed was The Moon Might Be Milk by Lisa Shulman. A young girl asks several different animal friends what the moon is made of. The cat says milk, the hen says an egg, the dog says butter, the butterfly says sugar and the mouse says flour. Then her grandmother proves that each is partly correct as she uses these ingredients (plus a few unmentioned ingredients) to make sugar cookies. The young girl concludes that the moon is a giant sugar cookie. So, of course, for Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen we made Sugar Cookie Moons following the recipe in the back of the book (where all the ingredients are listed). 

We then shared them with our neighbors to be "lights" in our small part of the world, reflecting Jesus' light and love as the moon reflects the Sun's light.

In addition to our Moon lessons, we also had a "Mini" muffin tin.

Hannah moved her mini bottle of  Crayola water to add her cup of Cheerios from when they were putting craters on the moon. Works for me, they are mini O's aren't they?

The older girls also completed a few of their worksheets while Hannah napped (We aren't getting them all done, but I figured we can take a day here and there to catch up unfinished worksheets and it will be a way to review what we have done so far.)

Handwriting:

Sound discrimination:

Math:

These sheets are included in the student sheets from My Father's World.

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Our M lessons continue

Since the last time I posted we have continued our M lessons. We did more measuring. This time we measured dry beans with the measuring cups. I tried to show them how we needed to fill the 1/2 cup 2 times to fill the 1 cup and so forth. Not sure if anything stuck with them or not, but the foundation will be there. We do talk about measurements and fractions while we bake too. So there was plenty of that going on right before Christmas. Here are some pictures of them playing in the beans:

We also read "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown. I took an idea out of the Dec/Jan issue of The Mailbox magazine that I borrowed from the library. It is actually a scaled down version as the magazine instructions required a full size cupcake paper for the moon and I only had mini ones. So I cut the paper in half. We used star stickers instead of glitter for the stars. One, it wasn't as messy, two, we have no glitter. I haven't had glitter in the house for years. The girls both did a great job gluing the window frame in place. My one addition to make this unique was to add curtains. I just happened to have old scraps of material in my craft tub, sooooo...

Staying on the moon theme, and once again trying to get some science in, we made "Phases of the Moon" books. I found templates at the DLTK website, the same website I get my letter templates from. I didn't use their idea to paint the moon as I didn't want a mess. After I cut out the moon phases (cutting two each for each girl so they could do the waxing and waning of the moon) I let them color them with yellow and gray crayons to give the moon a look of texture. We also used a black circle for the new moon. Then we glued them to black paper (I cut the construction paper in half) and I stapled them together after making sure I had the phases in the correct order.

On the way to church for our Christmas Eve Candle Light service, Tabitha was looking out the car window and told us she saw the crescent moon. Granted it was closer to the first quarter, but I thought that was pretty good. I hope to be able to take the girls outside when the weather is warmer and continue our lesson on the moon. Figure we can take pictures of each phase or glue little squares of paper, with the moon phases drawn on them, on the calendar.

Another idea I got out of The Mailbox magazine was for "If You Give a Moose a Muffin." We had been reading this book and I decided the craft for in their M alphabet book could be this muffin idea I saw in the magazine. They had a pattern for the muffin, which I had to draw free hand anyhow because the size of their muffin wouldn't fit in our book. Then I had to cut out blue dots for blueberries as we had no blue paint to make the blueberry swirl ones that were in the magazine. I used a brown lunch bag to cut the muffin out of because I can not find brown construction paper anywhere. (Hey, if anyone knows where to find some could you please share, none of the packs I see have brown in them, which makes no sense to me as brown is a needed color.)