The Universe - the planets

First, we sang this song.  (I left out the verse for Pluto.) Bear loved it and we sang it frequently throughout the day.  As we sang it, I placed the planet cards I printed from Montessori Mom in order from the sun.  I used the sun card from My Montessori Journey for our sun picture. The solar system diagram is from Coloring Castle.

Then bear colored (looking at the planet cards to match colors)...

...cut...
(Bear can't cut circles yet, so I drew the lines to guide her in cutting out the planets. She does cut a perfect straight line.)

...and glued

as baby brother desperately tried to get in on the learning.

The planets Bear colored and cut out are also from Coloring Castle.

Tomorrow, we will use beads, oranges, plums, and balls of playdough to build our own solar system based on the directions from here.  And we will go online to look at this moving diagram.