Usborne has these great ten week programs that we have used this year for Science.
They have a couple of History programs too.
The program is broken down into days of the week, and has some wonderful activities and LOTS of internet links that go to some really great sites.
Brendan has really gotten into Space! He loves it! He remembers so much!
So part of the program was to make a model of each of the planets as we studied them.
and now we have the whole solar system!
Some of them we did with a clay core and soft clay over it, because we needed to put features on the inner planets, but the outer one's are mostly gas and so we were able to simply paint them.
Yes, that is a CD representing the rings of Saturn, John's idea.



