PP2 travel into space

PP2 are learning all about space this term. Last week they were investigating the planets in our solar system. They can name all of the planets and they know some fabulous facts about them. After watching a clip from Stargazing Live the children re-created a solar system to show the order of the planets and the distances between them. They used objects to show the size of the planets beginning with a peppercorn for Mercury (the smallest planet) and a football for Jupiter (the largest planet). Grapefruits, kiwis and cherry tomatoes also featured as the other planets. The children used toilet roll to measure the distances between the planets with each square representing 16 million km! As you can see they all enjoyed the challenge.