Solar System

Today we looked at our solar system. We wanted to get as close to scale as we could. Our sun still could have been bigger but we ran out of construction paper. It could have used at least one more row of paper!! We learned all the names of the planets in order and looked at their size compared to the sun. We also set up the planets as they would look orbiting the sun. The kids had a lot of fun. Here are some pics and videos. The last video is one we watched to show just how small we are in the universe. How awesome our God is!!!
planets in order

set up as they would rotate around the sun
(you can't see the circles drawn on the board)