The youngest children started learning about the Solar System in January. Children developed questions they wanted answered about each plant.  As we listened to The Magic School Bus, Lost in the Solar System, and books by Seymour Simon children drew and wrote notes about each planet. We started with the gas giants and then moved onto the smaller planets closer to our own orbit. During Read Aloud these children listened to Sally Ryde’s To Space and Back, gathering information about man’s exploration of the solar system. Children will be assigned to be “experts” on a specific planet and responsible for presenting the information, gathered by the whole class, at our Science Celebration. Each science project will include a paper mache model of the planet.