P1-3 children at Kells have been learning all about our solar system. They learned how to use a sun spotter to look safely at the sun and were amazed at how fast the sun appeared to move across the spotter. They were able to talk about how this movement was actually the rotation of the Earth.

They also spent many weeks making paper Mache planets. They wrapped paper and glue around balloons in 3 layers, then painted and decorated these to look like the planets. They made their own labels for each planet on the computer and have hung them in our corridor in their correct order.