Our Trip to the Moon

Wow! Today was the coolest. We are studying the moon this week. We are learning the phases of the moon and we've made models of the moon, earth and sun. So today we watched the Astronaut Farmer (a wonderful movie... I highly recommend it). and then we went out to our land and went on a moon trip. We put up the tent and the kids drew all kinds of controls and hung them up with Duct tape. We brought a smorgasbord of electronic devices and put foil on our heads and blasted off. When we got to space we floated around the space shuttle eating cereal and cheezits for a while before landing on the moon. Then we put up the American Flag, and collected moon dust and moon rocks and jumped as high as we could (then multiplied it by 6 to see how high we would have really jumped on the moon). We made footprints in the dust that will stay there for years and years just like Buzz Aldrin. It was so much fun. The kids were really into it. Click here for a slide show of inside the space shuttle Incredible-1. Please note the gauges on the walls and the planet Earth in the window behind Ardara. Enjoy!