The Moon Might Be Milk By: Lisa Shulman Reflection by Casey Brock

This book is about a young girl's quest to find out what the moon is made of. As Rosie looks out her bedroom window at night, she asked her cat what the moon was made out of. The cat thought it was a saucer of milk but since Cat was unsure, Rosie and Cat went around her grandmother's farm asking all of the different farm animals what the moon was made out of. Hen thought it was an egg, Butterfly said sugar, dog thought butter, and the mouse thought it was made of flour. After many predictions, Rosie decided to ask for her grandmother's opinion. Rosie tells her grandmother what all of the animals thought first. As grandmother listened to Rosie's story, she gets out all of the things Rosie mentions. Grandmother puts all of the ingredients in a bowl and starts to mix them up. Grandmother tells Rosie that she is unsure what the moon is really made out of but she did know how to bake cookies that were a "magical piece of the moon." Rosie's grandmother makes moon shaped cookies out of the ingredients the animals think the moon is made out of.
This book is written for a younger audiance around the k-2 grades. You could use this book for many reasons in your classroom. You could use this story to introduce a science lesson where the students will study the moon and what the moon is really made out of. Just like Rosie and the animals, your students are probably unsure what the moon is made out of and this story can really spark their interest to learn more about the moon and its different phases, just as we are doing in Elm 320! You could also use this book to teach children literacy lessons such as teaching the terms personification as well as vocabulary when there are words students may not understand. You could also use this book to teach children how to make sugar cookies by meausring out ingredients for the cookies. Since the recipe is in the back of the book, you could teach your students math and measurements while having fun baking the cookies!