Bear is just a little in love with the moon, so, I've added it to our nature journal plans this year! Over winter last year, we paid attention to the full moons and Bear could name you several of them from our learning, but as soon as the days got longer and he wasn't seeing the dark, or the moon, we kind of stopped learning about them... This year, we are going to do a moon page in our journals each month.
Although the Harvest Moon was last night, it didn't work for us, so I let Bear stay up late tonight, and after his brother had gone to bed, we got all bundled up in our dressing gowns and went outside to look for the moon that I'd been tracking on my app all night so that we knew where to look... Was it there... of course it wasn't!
There was some disappointment at first, but then he saw a bright star in the same direction and told me that he thought it was a planet... honestly, I'm pretty sure it was probably just a star, but, it was sitting in the right place according to the sky map, to have been Saturn, so he was happy to have seen a planet!
We sat under a blanket and talked about the name of the moon and where it comes from, and he drank his milk and ate his biscuit while I drank my hot chocolate, and then, on good authority from Daddy and Nannie, who could see the moon from where they were, we waited it out, and were rewarded with it peeking out from above the trees exactly where we'd expected it to be - the excitement was real.
There was a very annoyingly placed streetlight almost directly at the side of it, which made the view a little less amazing, but Bear didn't care in the slightest and has gone to bed a very happy little boy, all excited about doing his journal page over the next few days... So, I have some photos to print, and we will do some writing, and put some stickers in when we next have a free afternoon, which I think is early next week as we have a busy few days coming up.
Did you see the Supermoon or Eclipse last night? I'd have loved to but was totally sleeping by the time they would have been visible.
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