I read If you decide to go to the Moon by Faith McNulty, illustrated by Steven Kellogg. It is an excellent and informative read aloud for school aged students
The Craft
I own a weeded coffee table book that I bought at the library. The book, Full Moon has beautiful photographs of the moon's landscape that I tore out of the book. The students were able to choose a page and glue their space explorer and ship on the page. A week prior to the program I emailed the contact parent and asked them to send a digital photo of their child. From the photos i corrected the size and cropped the image to surround the face. I captured, reduced and printed coloring sheet images of an astronaut and space ship on card stock paper. Then, I cut out the ships and space suits carefully cutting out the mask to fit their photos in. They colored and glued. It was pretty simple. I did tell them to glue the ship on or near the horizon in order for it to be in scale to the astronaut.
Photo Op
A coworker and I made this paper moon a few years back for Summer Reading. We used it for a photo booth. I recycled the idea and almost perfected my technique in Photoshop. Here are a few. I sent the photos to the parents as an email attachment. I received several thanks in response.
