The Planets!

These first couple of weeks of school we have be studying the Sun and Planets in our Solar System. We went on a space exploration and discussed different planets as we walked throughout the building to see about how far apart each planet would be (starting at the Sun) based on our scaled down model.

As we have been recording our facts from our space exploration in our planet foldable, we have been listening to the Planet Suite by Gustav Holst in the background! I have been so impressed by all of the connections the kids have been making between the scientific facts, Roman and Greek mythology, and musical score depicting each planet.

While the score we have been listening to in class has just been the audio, I think this video of a youth orchestra playing the Suite is amazing to watch. :)