These are the planets that dwell 'neath the stars.
Saturn and Jupiter, Uranus too,
Neptune and Pluto, I know them, do you?"
This is the song I sang to Maggie on our walk last week as she was telling me she was learning about the planets at school. After I finished the song she simply said, "Mom, Pluto is a star, NOT a planet."
Two questions:
1. What do you do when your five year old is smarter than you?
2. How can they just go and change the planets like that?
Just doesn't seem right.
4 comments:
man i love yall...and no its just not right!
linds
Watts got me on that one, too! Same song and everything. I hope David reads this one...and Mrs. Teague!
Love you!
Jeannie
Wow, this makes me laugh, Buffy. I learned more the three years that I taught 4 & 5 year olds at ETV in Columbia than I did my entire college career.
Our curriculum mainly consisted of information I gathered from children's books which I checked out from the library on whatever theme we were studying. I was constantly coming home and asking Minot such things as, "did you know that a jellyfish doesn't have a brain?? They just sting whatever comes in contact with them!" I mean I seriously learned so much during those 3 years. They just didn't teach things like that when I was in school--I mean it was...See Jane run. Jump Dick, jump! 1+1=2, stay in the lines when you color--no creativity, no wonderful facts about jellyfish or planets. No wonder I scored what I scored on my SAT! HA!!! Guess I need to head back out to the library and check out a few more children's books!!!!
Just had to share this with you!!
Love you,
Judy
i don't think pluto is a star... it is just too small of a mass to be considered a planet anymore. it got downgraded. just fyi... now you can go back to being smarter than your child. :)
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