We learned the planets in order! (We included Pluto--we discussed how it is a dwarf planet.)
We sang songs, read books, and learned lots of important information about our solar system. Did you know that our solar system has 300 moons!
One of the songs that helped us learn the planets in order was this song:
The Planet Song (to the tune of The Farmer’s in the Dell) Author: Unknown
“The family of the sun,
The family of the sun
There are nine planets in the family of the sun.”
“Mercury is hot & Mercury is small
Mercury has no atmosphere
It’s just a rocky ball.”
“Venus has thick clouds
That hide what is below
The air is foul the ground is hot and it rotates very slow”
“We love the Earth our home,
It’s oceans & it’s trees
We eat its food we breathe it’s air, so no pollution please “
“Mars is very red,
It’s also dry & cold
Some day man might visit Mars if he is very bold”
“Great Jupiter is big,
We’ve studied it a lot
We’ve found that it has 16 moons and a big red spot!”
“Saturn has great rings,
We wondered what they were
Now we know they’re icy rocks, which we saw as a blur.”
“Uranus & Neptune,
We don’t know much about
Maybe you can study them & then we’ll all find out”
“Pluto’s last in line
It’s farthest from the Sun
It’s small and cold and icy too, to go there wouldn’t be fun.”
“The family of the Sun,
The family of the Sun
There are nine planets in the family of the Sun”
So quiz your children at home--See if they know the planets in order!!
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