The Night Sky

The mid-winter theme unit of study in our classroom is The Night Sky! We finished our study of magnets before we all left for break in December and since returning to school last week we have been learning about the moon and stars! So far we have learned that the moon has different phases and looks different every night. We have also learned about the way that the moon orbits the earth and the earth orbits the sun. Different children got to take turns pretending to be the moon, earth, and sun, moving in orbit, then we made paper model orbits which you saw come home earlier this week. We have been looking at a lunar calendar on the smartboard every morning and yesterday we began daily charting of the moon's phase. If we have a clear night I encourage you and your child to go outside for a few minutes and notice what the moon and stars look like. I will post more as we continue our unit of study. Below you will see photos of our orbit project, our moon phase chart and a moon phase project, as well as photos of each child standing in front of a giant map of the moon!

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