The Planets

We have been learning about the planets this week and their orbit around the earth. We know a great song to help us remember the names. All the planets orbit the sun. Earth takes one whole year to go all the way around the sun. Everyday, it rotates around, giving us night and day. It takes 1 day and 1 night (24 hours) to do 1 rotation. Today, we illustrated the song by colouring, cutting and sticking the planets in order. We had to look carefully at the sounds in the planet names and use the labelling skills we have been practicing to help us. "What colour are the planets?" we wondered. Luckily, we found an i-pad app about the solar system to help us discover what they were. We think planet Earth has the best colours!