The Moon

In the book we are reading aloud Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin the moon has been missing.  

Rendi the main character has seemed to be the only character who notices that the moon is missing.  At night Rendi struggles to sleep constantly hearing moans and groans.  Later in the book the character Madame Chang tells a story about how Wang-Yi visits the moon once every twenty-nine days to visit his wife.  

The story that Madame Chang was a pourquoi story that fit perfectly with the other pourquoi stories that we had been reading and that the students were writing themselves.  I knew as soon as we read Madame Chang's story last week that I wanted to spend this week talking about the moon.  

Today we started this study of looking at the moon by looking at a moon cycle.  

The students also got to look at a moon calendar.  The calendar shows how the moon will look throughout the month of December.  Hopefully students will step outside tonight and be able to find the moon in the sky and compare it to the moon calendar in their Earth and Sky notebook.

I cannot wait to learn more about the moon this week.  Hope you all had a great start to your week.