Planet Trading Cards

A couple of weeks ago,

we began studying the 

planets in our Solar System.

We will spend time on each individual planet,

but before that,

I wanted the kiddos to have an overall

view about all of the planets.

We began this lesson by watching...

...THIS movie we got from the library.

(It was a tad "dry,"

but the kiddos did learn from it,

so it served its purpose.)

After the DVD,

the kiddos made some...

...Planet Trading Cards,

which will be part of their 

Space lapbooks.

 After cutting out...

...all of the Planet info cards...

(with Baby Blue's assistance, of course!)

...the kiddos glued them together

to create the cards.

(We cut out the game play question on each card,

since we would not be playing the game with the cards.)

Jungle Girl especially enjoyed...

...reading the factoids on the cards as she completed them.

Next, 

we will be headed to Mercury...

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