Last weekend I saw Karen's beautiful book she printed out directly from her blog. I was so jealous that she had a record of the last two years of her family's life. It inspired me to start blogging yet again.
On Friday Rick and I went the the Skywatch held at the McAuliffe Shepard Discovery center (formerly the Christa McAuliffe Planitarium). People set up their telescopes on the lawn for free and let you look at the stars the first Friday of every month. We set up our $30 telescope from Toys 'r' Us and invited my class the their families to join us since we are studying stars and constellations. Nine of my students and their families joined us! What a great turn out, especially considering this is a holiday weekend. The kids started going crazy trying to identify stars and constellations as soon as the stars started appearing. Venus, a planet not star, came out first. Thank goodness for Rick's Google star map on his phone. He just pointed it at a star and it told him which star it was and and constellation it was in. My students even pointed out that one of the stars was red, which turned out to be Mars. All the people there was so nice to my class and helped explain things and answer any questions. Rick even got our little telescope focused on Saturn and we saw it's rings! It was an exciting and rewarding night for me as a teacher. My students were excited and motivated to learn on a Friday night!
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Well, let me first say thank you for saying my book inspired you to start blogging again, because I think that is great. I have missed reading it. And second, I just got my 2nd edition of my blog in book form for the entire year of 2009 - all 158 pages of it - and it is AWESOME! Lastly, the sky watch at the McCauliffe Shephard museum is a blast isn't it. We went one year, and except for the mosquitos feasting on us, it was great fun and the kids had a blast. Love that place.
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