Wool Constellations and the Phases of the Moon

Solar System puzzle to consolidate last week's work.

We watched the first moon landing in 1969 and did some interesting work around this theme.

Phases of the moon

The children spent an enjoyable morning making constellations with wool. We then identified their locations on a constellation map.

Hilarious alien dressing up competition

Moon buggies

Fun with plasticine and marbles to represent planets

The Boy made a cute space window display about all the things he's learnt about so far - with a few aliens.

Learning about binary galaxies

Star Constellations, Craters, Our Solar System and a Bit of Face Painting

The kiddies spent a while looking for the treasure I told them was hiding in the room.

They finally found the chocolate stars I'd hidden in the foil moon rocks. There was much squealing.

We started our astronomy work with the basics of our solar system.

This poster shows a million dots! We used it to gain some sort of perspective of the distances, quantities and sizes of space facts.

Space worksheets and hands on activities.

Making a planet with bubbles.

Flour with a covering of turmeric to represent a planet.

Understanding how craters are formed by meteorites,

We used this smashing book to learn about the 88 star constellations which cover our sky.

Making constellations in the understairs Secret Spy Lab, using a torch and card.

Using the idea of star constellations to learn about grid references.