Well, the eclipse had to be one of the most exciting things that happened this week. I admit that I was probably more excited than the kids were. We were not in the totality area, but I do believe we were at 97 percent. However, the clouds took over throughout the day and messed with our view. We were able to see the moon passing over the sun at different times though. I wish we would have charted it like I planned. However, the eclipse must have had a terror effect on the twins who seemed to just be screaming the majority of the day. lol
Cate knew she was staying home the day of the eclipse because she wanted to see it. AJ went to school because he had football practice, but we checked him out early. Caleb went back and forth between not wanting to miss school to being scared of being at school during the eclipse. We changed his form 3 times and eventually just kept him home.
We did do some activities leading up to the eclipse and the day of it. Check them out below!
Moon phases!
I printed these free cards from firstschoolyears.com. Just Google phases of the moon cards. We talked about each phase of the moon, drew them, and used oreos to create each phase. Of course, that was the best part for Caleb. He was really concerned about eating them afterwards.
Stages of the eclipse
We had looked at some videos about the eclipse earlier. Then, the actual day of the eclipse, we used the phases of the eclipse cards to talk about them as we watched it on the tv. I printed these free cards from cosmic Montessori .com. I was so glad I found them to use with the kids. Then we decided to use the golden oreos to represent the sun and the regular oreos to represent the moon. The kids put them over different parts of the (sun) as the moon passes over.
Now you know, of course, there was some type of party. I told you guys I was probably more excited than the kids plus I just like to create things. lol I decided to make crescent sandwiches to represent the moon and you can see our galactic popcorn back there.
A closer look at our galactic popcorn. It was actually kind of a fail. We were trying to melt candy melts that refused to melt so we could drizzle it. So we ended up slinging it. Then, we decided to just use cake icing and food coloring. TA-DA! We added sprinkles for that extra space touch.
Pretzels and marshmallows made constellations and an easy stem activity.
They were camped out in the yard trying to see the eclipse. Aj went in and out because he said he didn't want to go blind.
It was pretty sunny at first. Then it got really cloudy and even drizzled a bit. These two came inside for umbrellas and went back out. Cate really wanted to see the diamond ring in person and not just on tv. She did get to see it on tv though and said, "that's the ring daddy should have got mama!" Haha! Caleb wanted to see the Bailey's beads. He said that it was his favorite part.
This is one way Caleb watched the eclipse. Andre taped his glasses into one of his superhero masks. He's wearing a different superhero mask in the picture above this one. That one covers half the face, but we noticed a small crack in it and decided to switch it up just to be safe.
Documenting their eclipse day experience was made easier by this little doodle sheet that was printed from skiptomylou.org
I attempted a very not together word search. Very not together.
Cate decided to help her mama out!
Earlier in the week, Caleb started working on a rocket and Cate helped him. They picked today as the day to launch it off. The twins climbed in too.
How was your solar eclipse experience? Did you get to see all the phases? Did you do any fun activities to share?
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