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ENRICHMENT

‍For more than just storytelling, these books can be used for enrichment activities. There are enrichment activities for this book and for the series. Work on enrichment in observation, counting, science, language and discussion, social-emotional values, and arts and culture.

Blast off into learning! These space-themed activities complement Up to the Moon! with hands-on crafting (draw an instrument panel), counting practice (wiggles, binks, danicus aquatics), environmental awareness (space junk), and cozy discussion prompts for bedtime reflection.

For more than just storytelling, these books can be used for enrichment activities. There are two enrichment activities

  • specific to this book, Up to the Moon, and

  • also comparing Up to the Moon with other books in the series

Work on enrichment in observation, counting, science, language and discussion, social-emotional values, and arts and culture. 

Up to the Moon Enrichment

Observation and Comparison

  • Follow the pet: Can you find the cat on every page?

Counting and Early Math

  • Page-based counting:  Count the stars on each page spread where there are stars. Count the orbits/rings around the sun.

  • ‍Compare quantities: Are there more stars on one page than others?

  • ‍Simple addition: Count the wiggles on each page spread and add them up.

‍Science / How-It-Works‍ ‍

Simple activity: Draw an instrument panel for your bedroom as if it were a spaceship. Maybe ‍add some gauges to count the number of:

  • steps on your spacewalk to the bathroom to prepare for bed

  • lights in the spaceship room

  • windows and to determine if they are open or closed

How many gauges can you make? The sky’s the limit!

‍Language, Story, and Spot-the-Next-Adventure

  • When they go to bed, who do you think will go on the next adventure? Where might they go?

  • Do you remember any make-believe names in the book? The squink, bink, wiggles and the danicus aquaticus? Do you want to create a make-believe name? If so, what for?

‍Social-Emotional Themes

  • ‍Point to pajamas, tooth brushing, tidying the room: What do you do to prepare for bed like the character?

  • ‍Identify helpers and the problem: Who helped when things went wrong? How did they help?

  • Leaving things better than we find them: Did they tidy up anything in the story and leave things better than they found them? What could we do in our neighborhoods, schools, and homes to help like the characters in the book?

‍Arts & Culture

  • Are there paintings in this book? What are they paintings of? Are the lines sharp or soft?

  • Draw your own space picture like one in the book or your very own.

  • The wiggles look like midcentury art designed after Sputnik I, the world’s first man-made satellite.

Across the Let’s Go Adventure Books Series‍

Observation and Comparison of Books in the Series

  • ‍Pet changes: There is a cat in Up to the Moon. Do you know what kind of pets are in the other Let’s Go Adventure Books?

  • ‍Room changes: What’s different between this bedroom and the bedroom in the other books? Posters? Toy chest? Bookcase?

  • ‍Moon phases: In Up to the Moon, the moon in the bedroom window is full, in the other books it is not. What is different about the moon in the books?

  • Room mobiles:  How is the mobile above the bed for this adventure different than the other books? What creatures and objects do you see are different?

  • Flags: When they reach their destination on the moon, there is a flag on a spoon. Can you see the difference between this flag and the flags in the other books ‍when they reach their destination?

‍Counting and Early Math

  • Do you think there are more stars in Up to the Moon than there are fish in Into the Ocean?

Science / How-It-Works

  • What help do the characters need with breathing when they are on moon and in the ocean?

Language, Story, and Spot-the-Next-Adventure

  • ‍How do you know at the end of the stories, when they are in bed, that there might be another adventure?

  • Remember some of the make-believe names in the books (squink, bink, danicus aquaticus, zoomfloomery). Can you make up a name for a spaceship or boat using your imagination? 

‍Social-Emotional Themes

  • ‍Leaving things better than we find them: Did they tidy up anything in the story and leave things better than they found them? What could we do in our neighborhoods, schools, and homes to help, like the characters in the book helped?

  • ‍There are many helpers in the books like the bink and wiggles as well as the whale and haberdasher. How did the characters help when they saw trouble on their way back home?

‍Arts & Culture

  • Each book has artwork in the home in the hallway by the door and near the mirror. There is an anemone impressionist artist in the ocean book. What kind of art do you see in your house, in your library, or in your school. Do you have a favorite painting there or in these books? Pick ‍an adventure page in any book and draw what you see.

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