Solar System

The youngest students in Kindergarten and 1st grade learned about our solar system for the Science Celebration this year. As a class, we read picture books and watched two Magic School Bus videos. One video was about Comets and Meteors and the other about the planets. We had lively discussions about why Pluto wasn't considered a planet anymore and learned a Solar System song to the tune of "This Old Man." With partners, students studied more closely two planets, the sun, moon or stars. They used the information they gathered to make a poster for the Science Celebration held in the beginning of March. Students also created 3-D models of their planets with papier mache. Although the models weren't to scale AT ALL, students made very deliberate efforts to choose the colors they thought would fit their planet(s) best.