Learning about the moon

Two days ago, New Years Day, the moon was out in the afternoon and Ella noticed that it was a half moon. She then asked, "is it growing up or growing down?" As a former science teacher, this just melted my heart. What a fabulous question!!!! These type of questions from kids should be driving our science curriculum!!! After all this went through my head, I calmly said, "I don't know, but we should keep our eye on it and figure it out."

Today I noticed the moon was out when I was picking Ella up from school. I showed it to her and asked if she thought it was "growing up or growing down"? She said, "growing up". Then she suggested we go home and make a list, with pictures and look at the moon every day at the same time.

My dear Watson, I think we have our first science experiment that Ella has designed. To be continued...