Additional Learning Resources for The Build Your Masterpiece Class Mini Adventures in Italy Galileo Spotlight:
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Book List:
I, Galileo by Bonnie Christensen
Galileo’s Telescope by Gerry Bailey and Karen Foster
Who Was Galileo? by Patricia Brennan
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis
Explorers on the Moon (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
The Moon Book By Gail Gibbons
There Once Was An Old Astronaut Who Swallowed the Moon by Lucille Colandro
My Little Half Moon by Douglas Todd Jennerich
Engineering the Leaning Tower of Pisa by Adam Furgang
Leaning Tower of Pisa by Nicole K Orr
20 Fun Facts About the Leaning Tower of Pisa (Fun Fact File: World Wonders!) by Emily Mahoney
The Leaning Tower by Raz Kids (reader) Find this book on Raz Plus HERE. (Subscription require, they also offer free trials! We love them!)
This Galileo Week + Mini Adventure Spotlight is found in our Moon Day Learning Pack, and pairs well with T is for Texture from The Masterpiece Alphabet, as well as the rest of the Adventures in Italy 1-6.
The Masterpiece Alphabet Kinder+ Art Basics Program is a hands-on curriculum that inspires children to be creative and spark their inner Artist.
Using the combined subjects of Art & Language Arts, your kindergarten+ students can build an artistic vocabulary while learning the elements of art, through creatively designed lesson plans from A to Z, with children’s books to inspire the topic and hands on projects to inspire you as the home educator, to bring art into your homeschool easily, and effortlessly.
“A is for Artist, who creates what they see. B is for Brush that glides paint on with ease. C is for Crayon that adds color to your creations.”
What’s Included:
Lesson Plans from A to Z with book lists, language arts Lesson Guides, Craft ideas, and more!
PLUS: QR codes with additional learning resources such as book links, read aloud links, recipes, craft ideas and more! No need to go to libraries, or buy tons of books! This is a feature loved by so many, and I am grateful to provide that added resource for you and your homeschool! If you find you love one or more of the books on the list, you can find easy to shop links in the QR code pages, which you can easily scan with your iPhone. This technology is so fun for kids, and they can also use this to direct their learning at home too!
Upper and Lower case Coloring Letter Pages with sentences to read, and trace.
Additional Craft Options for you to enjoy with the prinbtables: Create embroidery and felted letters using our letter pages
ABC Flash Cards - They are designed to be colored by you or your child in both upper and lower case letters, to create a mini masterpiece alphabet to treasure and use regularly.
“My Masterpiece Alphabet” Student Book Covers - a few different framed covers for your students to choose from
“My 7 Elements of Art” Booklet and Poster - Use this as you learn the elements of art with each topic.
Fun Artist Coloring Pages: Learn what it means to be an artist, from painting, sculpting, building, taking photos, writing stories, and reading books for inspiration.
Alphabet Watercolor Wallpaper for your homeschool wall: Print this out and glue together for an easy spalsh of color to your homeschool space!
Alphabet Watercolor Flashcards: 2nd set of flashcards in beautiful colors
Alphabet Watercolor Coins, in color and in a Black and White
Additional Worksheets: These have been added to the main lesson plan, woven with each letter for easy printing as needed. Vocabulary, predictable sentence tracing, mixed-up sentences, and creative writing with the words we feature through-out.
Student Letter Tracing Workbook
UPDATED: The download is a ZIP FILE that has 3 FILES included. Please open all files to utilize all of the resources included. I have added the additional language arts pages to the original Lesson Plans, and things will be a lot easier for printing you desired pages per lesson/letter in the future, as of Sept. 30. 2021. Please note that this program is for a range fo ages, learning together, so you can print the worksheet pages for your children as needed. Thank you so much for your interest in building a masterpiece alphabet with us!
Coming Soon: We have a special Masterpiece Art Journal in the works that pair up perfectly with this program, and will be perfect for you and your kids to continue learning about Art and Artists in Grades K to 6 +. More details coming soon.
The Spotlight of Galileo Additional Learning Resources:
Enjoy these videos along with our Spotlight, coloring pages and worksheets today!
Learn About Galileo For Kids:
Learn what Galileo really saw through his telescope:
Learn more about Galileo:
Learn more about Galileo and Jupiter’s Moons:
What was your favourite part about these videos?
Feel free to use the worksheet included in the Mini Adventure, to write or dictate the things your kids liked the most. My favourite part was learning about how he observed the chandelier swinging while waiting in church, and how that inspired him to do more research about it!
What have you observed that has lead to further experimentation?
Art Project: Pendulum Painting
Watch the following tutorial vidoes to see how to set up this project. Please note that on these types of videos that tend to show the best version possible, and I would suggest to mention to your kids that it’s an experiment, and let’s see what type of painting we can make! To get the perfect spin and circle painting can take many attempts, and tries. It does depend on the tools you use, and the paint fluidity. Have fun!!
I hope you guys enjoy creating Pendulum Art with your kids! We had so much fun with this hands on art project! Share your Pendulum Painting Art with us on Instagram and tag us to be featured!
Read this post here too see when we created Pendulum Art while writing this Adventure two years ago!
(Please note, the oldest version of the Build Your Masterpiece is shown in some of the pictures, and the recipe we did was different - and will be found in another Adventures in Italy all about Rome, that is in the works!)
Recipe: Let’s Make Herbed Focaccia Bread!
The holes we poke in the dough look so much like the craters on the moon, don’t they?
Read this post to see how we made this recipe, included in this Mini Adventure. (Plus, the recipe is also shared there too!)
