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Moon Books / Literature

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].

Online Moon Activities

Moby's Mobiles: Night
NASA's Observatorium Coloring Book
The second and third picture has a picture of a man on the moon.

Older Children/Teenagers
Moon Jigsaw Puzzle @ HOU