After the usual routine and worksheets, we started the fun stuff. We read a book about the moon and I learned some cool facts myself, like how it would take more than half a year if you could drive to the moon in a car.
I showed the boys how the moon reflects the sunlight, giving us "moonlight." We took a tin foil ball into the dark bathroom to represent the moon and then I pointed the flashlight (the sun) at it. To help them understand this concept more, I had them look into the mirror in the dark. Only when I turned the flashlight on the mirror, was the light reflected onto their faces, like the sunlight reflecting off the moon.
Jude thought it was funny that the moon is "bumpy." He and Maddox made a moon surface with flour and white paint, then we took a bottle cap and pressed it into the surface to make craters.
But, above all, the Oreos were the hit of the day.
We used them to make different phases of the moon.
Every time Maddox would go to lick off part of the icing, he would conveniently "forget" and bite half the cookie.
Needless to say, our Oreo moons lasted about a whole 30 seconds.
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