Meanwhile, back in Mountainville…
We’ve been back for a bit now and life is perhaps starting to settle in a smidge of a routine. I hesitate to say that because I’m sure it will spin out of control on me again at any minute! This is what we’ve been doing recently… We are learning about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Elaine and Nolan enjoyed making some moon crafts (complete with glitter – one of my least used craft items because of the mess!) Elaine’s Nolan’s Then we conducted a project to visualize the size difference between the sun, the earth, and the moon. The large make-shift paper circle represents the sun (54.5” wide). Ours is about three inches too small because that’s just how it worked… A mini-marshmallow (1/2” diameter) represents the earth. The sun is 109 times larger than the earth, so we lined up {almost} 109 mini marshmallows across the center of our “sun” to visualize the vast size difference. It was very helpful that we had just visited the planetar...