Poppins Book Nook–Space Explorer’s Camp Kit, other Space Activities, #Giveaway and #FREE Space DVDs (Linky Party)

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This Year’s Co-hosts

The wonderful bloggers that participate in the Poppins Book Nook are:  Enchanted Homeschooling Mom ~ 3 Dinosaurs ~ To the Moon and Back ~ Planet Smarty Pants ~ Farm Fresh Adventures ~ Growing in God�s Grace ~ Chestnut Grove Academy ~ Learning and Growing the Piwi Way ~ The Usual Mayhem~ Preschool Powol Packets ~ Monsters Ed Homeschool Academy ~ Adventures in Mommydom ~Teach Beside Me ~ Life with Moore Babies ~ Kathy�s Cluttered Mind ~ Are We There Yet? ~ Our Crafts N Things ~Hopkins Homeschool ~ ABC Creative Learning ~ Joy Focused Learning ~ P is for Preschooler ~ My Bright Firefly ~A Mommy�s Adventures ~ Inspiring 2 New Hampshire Children ~ World for Learning ~ Ever After in the Woods ~Golden Grasses ~ A glimpse of our life ~ Journey to Excellence ~ Happy Little Homemaker ~ Little Homeschool Blessings ~ Raventhreads ~ Tots and Me ~ As We Walk Along The Road ~ Stir the Wonder ~ For This Season ~Where Imagination Grows ~ The Canadian Homeschooler ~ School Time Snippets ~ Peakle Pie ~ A Moment in our World ~ Every Bed of Roses ~ Finchnwren ~ At Home Where Life Happens ~ The Library Adventure ~ Embracing Destiny ~ Day by Day in our World ~ Our Homeschool Studio ~ A �Peace� of Mind ~ Thou Shall Not Whine ~ SAHM I am  ~ Simple Living Mama

Space Explorer’s Camp Kit

This is a great kit from Usborne Books, this particular kit is a combination of the Junior and Apollo kit, but they also offer the kits separately.  A great educational tool!

Check out some other Space related activities:

(includes links to even more Space Activities)

**Leave a comment with your email address and the first 5 receive the DVDs listed in the above post FREE (postage paid by me)!  Additional DVDs will be available FREE for a small postage and handling fee (to be paid via paypal, I’ll email you instructions).  Give me a few weeks to get back to you, I have a full plate these next few weeks…but I WILL get back!  I promise!

Skrafty Minecraft Astronomy Class

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Beyond Our Planet Bundle Giveaway! Every month the Poppins Book Nook group will be offering readers a chance to win a brand new storybook or product that ties in with our theme for the month. This month one lucky entrant will win a bundle of fun for the theme of Beyond Our Planet.  This bundle will include a copy of the storybookThe Moon Book by Gail Gibbonsand a Space& Astronauts Bucket Playset.

Entrants must be 18 years or older and reside in a country that receives U.S. Postal mail. This giveaway is brought to you by the company Enchanted Homeschooling Mom who is owner and founder of the Poppins Book Nook. By entering this giveaway you are also acknowledging that you have read and agree to all of the Rafflecopter terms & conditions as well as Enchanted Homeschooling Mom's disclosures found here.  Just enter the Rafflecopter below to win: a Rafflecopter giveaway

An InLinkz Link-up

Hands on Learning about Space

Walking the Solar System

So today we walked the solar system!  So cool!!  I have a great friend who use to teach public school (she now homeschools her children).  She offered to share some of her space lessons with us and have some group study!

The distance is so great that I couldn’t photograph the entire thing (that and we live on a curved road, a straight one would work much better).  It was a real eye opening experience for the kids on how big the solar system is and how far all the planets are from the sun!  Pictured above the blue ball is the sun, they are at Venus.

Here is the scale information we used:

Sun – ball 8 inches in diameter

Planets –  (she used a variety of materials that matched the indicated sizes, however suggestions are made below)
Mercury = .03in (pinhead)
Venus = .08in  (peppercorn)
Earth = .08in (peppercorn)
Mars = .04in (pinhead)
Jupiter = .9in (chestnut or pecan)
Saturn = .7in (hazelnut or acorn)
Uranus = .3in (coffee bean)
Neptune = .3in (coffee bean)
Pluto = .02in (should you choose to include it, pinhead)

stick the items to 3 x 5 cards

Spacing them-

One pace is a 3ft long step…..

The Sun is the starting point
From the Sun to Mercury is 10yrds (~about 10paces)
From Mercury to Venus is 9 yrds (paces)
From Venus to Earth is 7 yrds (paces) (from Earth to the Moon is 2.4in)
From Earth to Mars is 14 yrds (paces)
From Mars to Jupiter is 95 yrds (paces)
From Jupiter to Saturn is 112 yrds (paces)
From Saturn to Uranus is 249 yrds (paces)
From Uranus to Neptune is 281 yrds (paces)
From Neptune to Pluto is 242 yrds (paces)

Total distance is 1,109 paces or 3,000 feet approx

The kids had a great time, and kept turning around to see if they could still see the sun.  Again works much better on long, straight, flat surface….our road has some small hills and curves…but still it made the point!

Moon Phases

This has been around the web a few times on a few different sites.  I got the moon phase cards from a Montessori class I took.  But you can get them from Montessori Print Shop for $2.29, which includes charts as well. 

Then all you need are some Oreo cookies!

Sorting Planets by Features

Bigger than Earth v/s smaller than Earth

Has moon(s) v/s does not have moons

Has rings v/s does not have rings

Has moons and has rings

Has moons, has rings and is bigger than Earth

These are the planets we used…

we also used these printable planets from 1+1+1=1 to help us determine which planets were which from the kit. 

We arranged them from largest to smallest, and then lined up the 3D planets with the pictures.

We were able to determine the following from our Venn Diagrams:

All the planets with rings have moons
All the planets bigger than Earth have rings (and moons)

Planet Fact Cheat Sheet

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Field Trip #115 Friday Blog Hop - Virtual Field Trips to Space

Field Trip Friday!

Blog Hop designed to share 'FIELD TRIP' related Blog Posts

(does not have to be a 'home school field trip', can be any trip to any place with your children!)

Please stop by and visit my co-host’s blog and give them a shout out!
Lisa @ Our 4 Kiddos

 

  If you have been following my blog you know by now that field trips are our ‘thing’.  We love field trips and aim for one a week (at minimum).  Sometimes places we want to visit are just too far away (especially living on an island…though that is soon changing).  We have recently dabbled a bit into VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS.    Since we are studying space, I decided to look into some virtual space trips.   I found several sites that offer you the space travel ‘experience’.   One site offered FREE DVDs of Virtual Trip to the Moon and Journey to the Stars.  In an attempt to not overwhelm them with Homeschoolers requests for FREE DVDs, he has sent me a large number to give my readers.  I have only a few Field Trip to the Moon DVDS, but LOTS of the Journey to the Stars DVDs. However – we are moving in a few short weeks…therefore…I will not be offering to mail these out until April.  I will post information on how to get your copy at that point….so be sure to follow me (if you don’t already) so that you can get the information on how to request the DVD, at that time I will give you the link to the learning guides that go with them. It will be FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE!   Other virtual trips we have found:

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory   Space Wander
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre – this one is at a cost, held via Skype; would be best for a group.   Now I’d love you to link up your field trips…virtual or otherwise!  

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S is for Space – Unit for ages 2-6

Sensory Bin – contains blue rocks, blue and clear flat marbles, Space Toob (including the lid), jacks, glow in the dark stars, planet cut outs.

Moon paintings – cloths pin with cotton balls to make craters on a black circle

Astronaut food – freeze dried fruit

Shape Sorting – star buttons

Space Puzzle


Solar System Puzzle

Galaxy Playdough – blue playdough with silver glitter and space playdough cards

Star Punch

Pin poke constellations


Space spelling words

Counting cards and star buttons


Chopstick transfer – glittery pompoms and a star shaped ice tray


Counting moon rocks

Counting Clip Cards

Star counting pages with star stickers

Other Space Activities we have done, including links to printables pictured above:

Space Math – Kindergarten/First Grade (Ordinal Numbers, Addition, Geoboards)

More Preschool Space (Transfer stars with spoon, transfer pom poms with tweezers, golf tees and marbles)

More Space – (3 part cards, exploring magnets, sweeping, writing practice, lego build, rhyming words and sentence building)

Space Books

DIY Rockets

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Brag Time - Rockets

So I posted a few weeks ago about the rocket launchers we made, well I finally was able to get video of them....so you can see JUST HOW FAR up these things go!!

The videos aren't the best b/c you can't really see the rockets in the sky, but that is because THAT IS HOW HIGH THEY GO...so high you can't even see them until they are coming back down!

You can see the original post on how to make these launchers HERE

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Field Trip #23 Friday Blog Hop

Field Trip Friday!

A Blog Hop designed to share 'FIELD TRIP' related Blog Posts

(does not have to be a 'home school field trip', can be any trip to any place with your children!)

We made it to the Mars Exhibit this week!  It was a really fun end to our 2 week space unit.  C really enjoyed it and didn’t want to leave, making me promise we’ll come back.  The exhibit is there until the beginning of January, and since we have season passes to the museum, I hope to make it back at least one more time before it switches up to something else. 

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