Watching the Lunar Eclipse

One of the things that I love the most about homeschooling is allowing our kids to fully explore things that interest them. We aren’t restricted to what is grade-appropriate or to the schedule of a school day.

Take Alexie for example. She is facinated with space. Planets, stars, astronauts, rocket ships. She loves it all.

So when the 2019 Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse came around, we just knew that it was right up Alexie’s ally.

Actually, being totally honest, this started with a mistake that we made. We told Alexie about a pink moon around her birthday back in July 2018. But, that particular lunar event was visible only to the other side of the world. We missed it and she was super disappointed. Oops!

We found out about the next one, double-checked that it would be visible in Ontario and then we told her. She was super excited this time.

Well the night came and it was freezing (-40C….yup). But, Alexie was so excited. We put her to bed and woke her up around 11:30pm. Dad bundled her up and they headed outside to see the Blood Moon Eclipse.

It was an incredible learning experience. And then she went right back to bed and fell asleep. The nice thing is, she got to sleep in the next morning.