Seeing Stars

Yesterday we studied the stars.  We read a great book about stars by Nancy Wallace then we plotted our own constellations.

We started with a 6 x 6 graph.  The kids rolled two dice to get the coordinates and then they placed a glow in the dark star at the intersection.  After all the stickers were placed each child created a constellation.  

Kate and Adam turned their papers over and made copies of real constellations.

"Indian Rug"                       "Scorpion"                          "Dragon"

 For lunch we had star shaped PB&Js with Starbursts for dessert.

(A little peak at the mess we created)

 Last night we did a little star gazing and the kids (and Shem) slept in the backyard.

 Today we learned about the moon.  Turns out Cookie Monster was right....the moon is a cookie.

We ate the moon phases out of Oreos then we read Papa, please get the moon for me by Eric Carle.

What a great week in Florida and outer space. It was definitely out of this world!