Mercury

We started learning about other planets this past week. First up-Mercury. We watched these two videos to start our study. The first one is a song and the second is an informational video. 

The Bible verse we are focusing on for the next couple of week is:

Psalm 19:1- The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands.

The kids first colored a picture of Mercury- you can find it here.

The next day we did the first craft. We painted Mercury with all the craters. First I cut out circles on black construction paper and used brown and white paint. The kids used a toothbrush to 'fling' paint onto their Mercury cut-outs.

 

For a science experiment we created Mercury out of salt dough. The recipe we used was:

1 cup of flour

1/4 cup of salt

1 tsp. oil (we used vegetable)

1/4 cup of water

Once the dough was made, we created small flat Mercuries. The kids collected rocks outside and threw them at their Mercury to create craters.

After our Mercuries were dry, we painted them.

For phonics, we played a game called Planet Hop. I changed it a bit since Naomi needed practice with words containing a magic e at the end. I created new cards with words on it like: hop, hope, hat, hate, etc. She really enjoyed playing this game instead of just reading the words- and Naomi actually won!

For math we practiced small addition and subtraction problems. Instead of timing her this week, I let her color! It took her 3 days to do this, but she finished it! Isaiah colored by number- practicing recognizing his numbers. Here are the coloring pages. 

Naomi's favorite fact about Mercury is that it has craters like the moon. Isaiah's favorite fact about Mercury is that it is close to the sun.