Earth and Space

In Year 5 we have been learning about our solar system. We learnt the names of the planets and that all the planets orbit the sun. Venus is the hottest! Mercury is the smallest! We discussed the way Uranus spins on its side and that the planets closer to the sun have a shorter orbit. We discussed why the planets closer to the sun don't block all the sunlight from the other planets further away.

We also focussed on the movement of the moon around the Earth. It was interesting to discuss the lunar cycle and the different shapes of the moon. After our discussion, we made our own model of the sun, the Earth and the moon, using split pins so that the Earth orbited the sun and the moon orbited the Earth.