As you probably know, we decided to emphasize Rosh Chodesh, the new Jewish month, which is lunar, this year, and that led us to embark on a study of the moon. One of the class parents graciously ordered posters for us- one of the moon and another of the solar system.
I thought the solar system poster would be above our level and I put it in its box on the top shelf of a closet. Yesterday I was trying to organize that closet and the box with the poster literally hit me in the head [just like a good idea does]. This morning I put the poster on a table to see if the children would show an interest in it.
A few children went over to it and had so many questions. They wanted to know the name of each planet. We located the sun and the Earth's moon. When they were shown that Uranus spins in a vertical manner, one child wanted to know which way the other planets spin. Our next step is to look at the poster with more children and find out what further questions arise.
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