Montessori solar system

Our Solar System Part 3: Montessori Curriculum Arts

Here’s our unit studies shelf with many of our Astronomy materials. This is our Solar System basket. I paper mache’d the foam planets from a kit in order to make them more durable. The booklet has a great song entitled “The Family of the Sun”. I used a product called sculptamold on this styrofoam […]

Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.

Never planned to homeschool, now wouldn't trade it for the world

Yes! Today we used toilet paper to learn about science! How fun is that? To better understand how far from the sun each planet is we made a model. Remember kids...I am not Ms. Frizzle and can't turn our school bus in to a rocket ship and take you to the moon, therefore we have to make a model. The solar system is way to big to "see" so we have to model it! Toilet paper came in handy today for our solar system model! The students were put into groups today and assigned two different planets…

Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.

I put together this sweet little play dough kit as a Christmas gift for my son. I started with a $3.99 GLIS box with lid from IKEA, made some homemade galaxy play dough, solar system story stones, handmade astronaut peg doll, wood craft stars, space figurines and our die cast space shuttle .

List of free moon printables along with ideas for using moon printables to create Montessori-inspired themed activities for preschoolers through grade 1!

Looking for some fun ideas to teach kids about space? Check out his space unit for kids. Measure the distance between the planets with toilet paper!