This week in Earth and Space

We have been very busy learning about space and the solar system. We made our own planets and we measured them using radius so that they would be to scale. Jupiter took up the whole room, and Pluto was the size of a golf ball! We have been collecting information for our planet reports. So far we have learned:

• Venus is about the same size as the Earth.
• Pluto is actually a Dwarf Planet....too small to be called a real planet, but we have decided to count it!
• Neptune and Saturn and Uranus have rings.
• Mars has no atmosphere.
• Mars has two moons.

We also went to IMAX at Waterloo to watch a 3-D movie about astronauts and the space station. Astronauts float on the space station.
This week we'll go to the science museum to learn more and meet an astronaut.

Also, we had healthy living week last week. We did a play about the food groups called the Royal Food Family. We shopped for healthy snacks and gave them out at playtime.