Little Miners Library
This week's dig · Oct 12 to 17

Space week

Rockets, moons and the people who reached for them.

Grab your hard hat
Cartoon kid in a yellow hard hat and glasses carrying a pickaxe

How old is your reader?

Showing the week for elementary.

Monday

Theme book
Cover of The Darkest Dark

The Darkest Dark

Chris Hadfield

A real astronaut wrote this about being afraid of the dark as a boy. Good for brave and not-so-brave readers.

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Tuesday

Theme book
Cover of Mae Among the Stars

Mae Among the Stars

Roda Ahmed

Mae Jemison dreamed of space and got there. Ask your reader what they dream of doing.

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Wednesday

Theme book
Cover of There's No Place Like Space!

There's No Place Like Space!

Tish Rabe

The Cat in the Hat tours the planets. Silly rhymes with real facts inside.

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Thursday

Theme book
Cover of Moonshot

Moonshot

Brian Floca

The Apollo 11 trip told in beautiful pictures. Read it in a whisper during the landing.

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Friday

Related story
Cover of Mousetronaut

Mousetronaut

Mark Kelly

A tiny mouse saves the day on a real space mission. Written by an astronaut.

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Saturday

Play day

Glow-in-the-dark solar system kit

Paint the planets, hang them up, and turn off the lights.

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Craft of the week · for all ages

Paper plate planets

1. Give everyone a paper plate and pick a planet to make. 2. Paint it. Swirl colors for Jupiter, red for Mars, blue for Earth. 3. While it dries, cut a ring from a second plate for Saturn. 4. Add a string and hang them in order across a doorway. 5. Say the order out loud each time you walk under them.
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