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The Berenstain Bears On The Moon by Stan and Jan Berenstain
1. Dramatic Play
Math: Count down: 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1!
Buckle up tight.
Physical Education: Do some “Moon Jumps”.
Math: Count as you do them.
2. Art: Draw a rocket ship and a moon, etc.
3. Art: Moon Craft
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
1. Read a “moon” nursery rhyme.
2. Sing a star
song.
3. Say what you would tell goodnight to. Goodnight ...
4. Art: Moon Craft
5. Have older children write as many words as they can that
rhyme with:
room: broom, boom, doom, zoom
cow: bow, how, now, wow
moon: soon
bear: pear, tear
clock: block, dock, mock, rock, sock
air: fair, hair, pair
Moondance by Frank Asch
1. Science: During the day: Look at the clouds. During the
night: Look at the moon and stars.
2. Art: Draw a picture of the sky.
3. Music/Physical Education: Dance to some music.
4. Wash some dishes.
5. If you have a puddle nearby, look at your reflection.
You can also go to a nearby pond, lake, river, ocean, etc. and look at
your reflection.
Foreign Language (Spanish)
(the) moon = (la) luna
Language Arts
Moon Vocabulary
moon, crater, orbit, ...
Rhyming Words
Have the child think of other words that rhyme with the word "moon".
balloon, moon, noon, soon, spoon ...
Music
Aiken Drum: 1
or 2,
and Music
& Sheet Music @ Jojoy
Man in the Moon @
KIDiddles
Moonlight: Composer -
Claude Debussy (MP3)
Sheet Music
USA Clair de Lune by Debussy and midi
Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
Karadar.com
Moonlightsys.com
Moon Snacks: Home Economics (Cooking)
Moon Sugar Cookies #1
Make round sugar
cookies or dairy-free
sugar cookies. Frost
the cookies with white frosting. Sprinkle some granulated
sugar or
cinnamon sugar on the cookies. Bake
Moon Sugar Cookies #2
Make sugar cookies. Sprinkle some cinnamon sugar
or granulated sugar on the cookies so they look like craters.
Bake.
If you like, you can make Snickerdoodles (they have cinnamon and sugar
on top of them).
Moon Biscuits
Make biscuits
or dairy-free
biscuits but use 3 tablespoons of sugar instead of 1 1/2
tablespoons. Sprinkle some sugar (or cinnamon sugar) on the
biscuits. Bake.
Make snowball
cookies (Mexican Wedding Cakes), donut holes, or round sopaipillas
or dairy-free
sopaipillas. Put some granulated sugar, ground cinnamon and
granulated,
or powdered sugar in a bag. Shake. Place the cookies or
sopaipillas
in the bag and shake.
Science, Art, & Language Arts
(Writing)
Go outside and find the moon (if you can see it). Look at
it. What does it look like? On a piece of paper or science
notebook, draw and write when you saw the moon and describe the moon.
Moon Crafts
Moon Craft #1
Cut a circle out light colored construction paper. (For a further
view of the moon, use white or gray paint. For a closer view of
the
moon, use light brown (mix white with brown paint).
With a hole punch, punch a hole through the paper. Place some
yarn
through the hole. Have the child use sponges or crumbled up paper
towels
(or napkins) to make moon craters. Let dry.
Moon Craft #2
Cut a circle out light colored construction paper. (For a further
view of the moon, use white or gray paint. For a closer view of
the
moon, use light brown (mix white with brown paint).
With a hole punch, punch a hole through the paper. Place some
yarn
through the hole. Glue pasta, oats, rice, beans, or other
whitish
or brownish food items on your moon. Let dry.
Lunar Eclipse
Total
Lunar Eclipse: May 15-16, 2003 @ NASA
Lunar Eclipses
for Beginners
Sky-Watchers
Await Total Lunar Eclipse on Thursday @ National Geographic
The
Moon @ Exploration nasa Including an interactive moon phase by
date.
Moon Pictures: 1, 2
Nursery Rhymes
I see the moon
-Author unknown-
I see the moon,
And the moon sees me;
God bless the moon,
And God bless me!
The Man in the moon
-Author unknown-
The man in the moon
looked out of the moon,
Looked out of the moon and said,
'Tis time for all the children on Earth
To think about going to bed!"
Hey Diddle, Diddle, the
Cat and Fiddle
-Author unknown-
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Links
ABC's:
Moon Dot-to-Dot
You can write beside it: M is for __ oon.
Printables and Activities
Man
In The Moon Coloring Page
Moby's
Mobiles Print a moon, stars, planet.
Moon
Coloring Page @ Lil-Fingers (With the word MOON.)
Moon Mysteries Crafts and
Projects (Moon Mosaic & Moon Phases),
Activities (On-line Jigsaw Puzzle of the Moon, Plan a Lunar Picnic,
& Lunar Eclipse Activities), Colorize the Moon, and Moon Pictures
for Printing.
Moon
Pattern with or without lines: eduplace.com (pdf)
Moon
Printout/Coloring Page: EnchantedLearning
NASA's
Observatorium Coloring Book The second and third picture.
Misc. Links
Birthday
Moons
Earth and Moon Viewer
Espenak's
Eclipse
@ NASA Past and upcoming "Lunar Eclipses".
Inconstant Moon: multimedia
tours of the lunar surface
Lunar
Phases Also, see what phase the moon is in now. New 6/28/04
Moon Mysteries @ HOU Crafts
and Projects (Moon Mosaic & Moon Phases),
Activities (On-line Jigsaw Puzzle of the Moon, Plan a Lunar Picnic,
& Lunar Eclipse Activities), Colorize the Moon, and Moon Pictures
for Printing.
Moon Phases
Moon Rock
Craft @ DLTK
The
Moon @ Exploration nasa Including an interactive moon phase by
date.
The Moon @
SolarViews.com
Virtual
Reality Moon Phase Pictures You can view the
phase of the Moon for any date and
time [1800-2199 A.D].
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