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We started our study of Space with the Sun. We first read Genesis 1:14-19 and talked about how God created the Sun and the Moon. We then watched this very cute video made by Story Bots. If you haven't seen this show on Netflix, I highly recommend it!


I ordered this book off of Amazon and we read the portions about the sun together. Next we read a poem about the sun and they colored a picture of the sun.

For Math, we sorted pictures of the Sun, Moon, and Earth. Naomi and Isaiah took turns counting how many of each object we had. Isaiah continued counting, while Naomi started to add. How many Suns and Moons are there? How many Moons and Earths are there? Very cute activity that you can find here. 

For phonics Naomi and I played this game to practice CVC words. We each drew 5 cards and tried to find a place to put them that made an actual word. We were able to play this game a couple of times! I was very surprised at how much fun Naomi had playing this! When we were finished playing, I mixed up the letters and Naomi picked one letter a word to glue down and put in her notebook. 

For handwriting practice, they made name suns. Each sun ray had a different letter. Once the sun was glued down, they got to paint glitter on their suns.




I had a fun science activity, but of course the week I chose to study the sun it was cloudy and rainy all week! The idea was to place different things on a plate, put it in the sun, and see what melts. We are going to do this once all this rain goes away.

I also made sun themed lunch and snacks for the kids. Again, I was surprised at how much the kids really enjoyed their 'sun' food!

Just cheese cut into sun shapes

Sun sandwiches with tomato and pepper rays and pineapple suns with strawberry rays

Rice cakes covered with peanut butter and apple slices for the rays

We also watched a video on Disney+ about a mission to the Sun. It was a documentary about how scientists created a probe to get close pictures and data from the sun. Funny enough, the name of the probe is the Parker Probe. Naomi and Isaiah found this extremely amusing since their youngest cousin's name is Parker. Since this documentary was meant for an older audience, I fast forwarded a lot. But, it did have some great pictures and views of the sun!

We ended our sun study with smash paining a sun. We cut out white circles of paper, globbed paint on the paper, slid it into a bag, and then hit away. I think we might have to do this again!
I think the end product looked very neat too! After the picture was dried, we added it to the notebook. Isaiah practiced the letter S and Naomi wrote a sentence telling what she learned about the Sun.









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