Blossom and Root is a secular curriculum geared towards homeschool families. In my first year of homeschooling, when my eldest son was 4, I began using the Level 0 (kindergarten) Language Arts and the “My Great Space Adventure” parts of the curriculum. The language arts portion gave us some much needed guidance as we got the hang of homeschooling. And while we did start our space missions , we never truly ‘blasted off’ (pun intended).
But this year, when my younger son was ready for kindergarten, we decided to dive into the Space Mission once again. And this time, it was a huge hit! I have a better grasp of using this curriculum, and I feel I’m better prepared for the missions every week.
We’ve actually built our space ship, blasted off, and are now exploring outer space!
Along the way, I’ve created some resources to go along with this Adventure. And I’ve saved them all especially as I plan to blast-off again with my daughter when she starts her kindergarten journey in a few years!
EDIT (Sept 18, 2025): Well, it is 2 years later and my daughter is now blasting off on her own space mission to visit Planet L21! As we go along, I am so grateful for the resources I already cobbled together. Plus my daughter gets the upgraded 3rd edition version as I am creating a few more resources too. I will add them as we go along insha Allah. These newer resources will be marked with an asterisk * at the beginning.
Here are some of the resources and files. I hope it makes some other homeschool family’s Space Adventure that much easier and fun-filled!
- Voice Changer app – Ahead of each mission/ week, I print off the letter from Mission Control in the parent’s guide. Then I record myself reading it using this app. The R2-D2 voice effect gives it that extra touch as though someone from Mission Control is actually talking to the little astronaut. My 4-yera old and his little sister listen to each mission on loop and get the biggest kick out of their ‘Zula Missions/ as they call it. (Ps. I’m not including the voice files as B+R have one for sale, so I don’t want to infringe on the copyrights.)
PHASE 1: Construction to Launch – Mission 1-11
- *Mission 1: This page is a perfect accompaniment to the first day on the Space Adventure. The page includes a full page astronaut suit that your mini-astronaut can design and a space to print their name.
- Mission 2 – This colouring page goes along with the assignment to create a list of everything needed to stay healthy while aboard the spaceship. It’s perfect for the little astronaut to colour, then cut and paste into the mission log book.
- *Mission 2 (version 2): This upgraded version of the “Supplies” mission includes more things my daughter wanted to take to space along with a suitcase template to “pack” aka glue the items into. And the mini-astronaut can even design the suitcase cover!
- Mission 3: This mission called for the creation of 7 patterns, each 12 units long. This template has enough rectangles to make each pattern as per the specifications. Just cut them out and have your little astronaut arrange and glue them.
- Mission 5 – The control panel requires the astronaut-in-training to use a specific number of several different shapes in the design. This file has all of the required shapes’ outlines…just print and colour. You can use it as is for the control panel. Or cut and then rearrange and glue everything on to a separate sheet of paper which is what we did.
- Mission 7: Time to build the spaceship! This template includes most of the shapes required to decorate the spaceship. It also has 3 blank pattern strips for the 20-unit patterns. Below I’ve attached another template with images that you can use to create the patterns.
- Geometric images for Mission 7: This file has the geometric images we used to create the 20-unit patterns for our spaceship. W made a masjid/mosque themed spaceship so the pattern images follow along with that theme.
- Mission 8 – This mission focused on the spacesuit and the concept of pairs. Here’s a print-out of a blank pair of space gloves and space boots for your astronaut to design into matching pairs.
- Mission 9 – Mission control wants a number line added to the space ship. Here is a blank number line that the astronaut-in-training can print and use to write their numbers on before adding it to the spaceship.
