Our Goodnight Moon Lessons and Lapbook

We recently completed a unit study on the moon. We had some really nice weather and were able to go outside and look at the moon in the evenings! We are so thankful for the nice weather!

Our Bible Memory Verse!

 

Our girls working on memorizing the Bible Verse.

 Our Moon Unit Library Books.

Our "Goodnight Moon" Lapbook. Elle drew an astronaut on the front.

 Elle did a GREAT job making this lapbook! It was loaded with stuff!

 Em, sorting pompoms by size.

 Big sister helping out little sis:) They love homeschooling together and I love educating them!

 Elle doing her favorite thing (besides watching videos of surgical procedures}===MATH!

 Elle really loves doing math!

 Painting their puffy moonscapes.

 

Phases of the moon done with sponge painting. Paper Plate Moon painting done with half shaving cream and half glue----dries really puffy and makes cool textures!!

 Chocolate Cream Cookies---phases of the moon!

 I think this was the kids' favorite activity:)

 Em making her "Hey Diddle, Diddle" Book.

 Working on her fine motor skills. We called these "Moon Rocks."

 Having fun making letters with paper strips.

 Em had fun making her "Yellow Book."

 Cutting practice. It takes a lot of concentration:).

 Her "cut and paste" creation!

 Looking for the moon!
 It gets dark here really early now---bummer!

 Playing the Goodnight Moon Game!

 Elle loves making sentences (some are very silly) with her flashcards we made!

 A combination of practical life lessons and math.

 In "Goodnight Moon," it introduces the concept of pairs. Em learned to count by 2's!

 Using chopsticks to transfer her "moon balls."

 Playing in our "Moon Dough." We learned that the moon is covered in dust!

 Elle read "Goodnight Moon" to us a lot!

 Decorating stars.

 We took toilet paper rolls and attached foil squares to the top and punched holes in them. Then, turned out the lights and used the flashlight to shine the "stars" on our ceiling---the girls LOVED doing this!!!

 Thanks for following us!! We hope you have been blessed here.

Blessings,

Aria:)

Our Owl Lessons {Owl Babies Lapbook}

We have been having a wonderful time learning all about OWLS!!

We LOVE the book "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell and decided to make a cute lapbook based on the book!

 Elle is such a nurturing "little Mommy." She made me smile as she wore her sling and worked on her lapbook.

We used some of the printables found on homeschool share for our lapbook.

Our Bible Memory Verse.

 Being that owls are nocturnal, we discussed how they sleep during the day and are awake all night. We talked about how God designed our bodies to need sleep, but that God NEVER sleeps--He is always watching over us! That is good news!

 

Here are our books for this unit.

 Elle's favorite owl is the Barn owl because "it looks like God drew a heart on its' face." So, we laced some heart-shaped pasta onto pipe cleaners to make bracelets.

 The girls had a lot of fun working on different owl crafts.

 Em is working on an owl shape match game here.

 We have been blessed with some gorgeous fall weather here and have been spending tons of time outdoors.

 

 We love fall!

 Em using little rocks as her markers to practice number correspondence.

The favorite activity of the week-OWL COOKIES!!

 I made them from natural peanut butter, brown sugar, an egg and vanilla. Here is a similar recipe to what we made.

 Em working on her pre-writing skills.

 She LOVED playing the shape sort game!

We ordered{for FREE} a CD and booklet from our State's Department of Natural Resources. It has been amazing! The CD has all kinds of owl calls on it and the book has information on all of the different owls we have here.

 Elle did a great job identifying the owls and reading facts about each one!

 Ce Ce had fun making all of the "whooo" calls while listening to the CD!

 Learning about the life cycle of owls.

 Em's counting skills work-she counted the owls and clipped a clothespin on the correct answer! She loves math, too!

 Elle filling in the missing numbers on a worksheet I created.

Elle loves making up her own equations!!!

The girls also painted owls!

 And, they made paper plate owls.

 Reading their favorite Owl book-"Owl Babies." 

It was a wonderful week!

Blessings,

Aria:)