As the weather has cooled and the creepy crawlies have burrowed deep Fionna has moved on to bigger things... The Solar System to be exact...
From bugs to space... I am just waiting for the bugs in space stories...
These last few weeks have seen the solar system revisited... She started out recreating the same model as in the past... then moved on to clay. She wanted some help to get them "really round" then we brainstormed how to display them... straws started out as a good plan. We made bases for them and she told me how to spell each planet so I could etch the names on the bases with a sewing pin...
After a few days of drying time she was ready to paint them... She got out the Atlas of the Universe she obtained from the library and went to work...
This version of the solar system lasted a few days before she decided that the straws were no good and she needed metal rods for support because that would make it more like a museum display... "Like the hold up the dinosaur bones"... More clay is on the list... along with some heavy gage wire... or maybe just some coat hangers cut to size... More solar system making is in our future.
I have to say that I have learned more about the solar system in the last few weeks than I ever knew before.
She is devouring all kinds of books from the library... two trips we have made to get more and more books about space.
A few she really likes:
The Moon Book (by Gail Gibbons - I don't think I have mention that we LOVE everything by Gail Gibbons - She pretty much ROCKS every subject she writes/draws about... and there are a lot of them!)
Our Solar System Series (Specifically Saturn)
After reading the Young Astronomer books she was going around the house collecting things up to go into her Astronomers Field Bag... When the sky got dark she wanted to head out to the deck for some star gazing... luck would have it that some animal happen to be making strange noises in the forest that night... she was back in the house like a flash... She has since decided that the Farm is a much better place to star gaze because the is too much light pollution around here!
Last night when we tumbled out of the truck from our latest library excursion I told her to look up... She said, as she waved her hand in a sweeping motion over her head... "You see mom, this is evidence that earth is floating in space... the stars and the blackness... just space!"
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Wow, the universe on a stick. I LIKE IT !!! I understand you had a great Nature Walk with all the folks in the home-school group. Congrats on that! I'll bet Fionna loved having the kids over and showing them her forest. I got the ol' Aliso Trailer up on the hill behind the farm house. She's up past the original foundation of the MacDonald house. She has a great view. I had to build a road and trim the trees, but I gotherdun.
Those are so great Fionna!
Very museum-like :D
Happy star gazing little one.
wow. so awesome. how old is Fiona? i love how so much of this project is self directed.
Watch out Mom, Fionna has stars in her eyes now!
The solar system model is brilliant.
I love how excited she is to share all that she has learned....:)
Very cool! Nicely done! My dd went through her solar system kick last year.Fun!
What a great project, Dawn! Wow!
Beautiful! I remember our two doing a solar system out of fruits and vegetables...a memory I cherish about our learning-at-home days. ANYthing can happen when imaginations are free... Thank you so much for sharing!
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