GRADE SIX SCIENCE

Hello Boys and Girls, Have you been having lots of fun learning at school this week? Do remember to be careful as you work. Remember to be focused and to pay full attention to your teacher. Give of your very best as you work from day to day.

Last week we began to look at the Solar System. Did you enjoy reading the poem? doing the word search? learning about the Solar System? Great. This week we will learn even more. Do you know the song, the farmer in the dell? Let us sing the song below to that tune.

The Family of the Sun The family of the Sun The family of the Sun There are eight planets in the family of the Sun

Mercury is hot And Mercury is small Mercury has no atmosphere: It’s just a rocky ball

(Repeat refrain… The family of the Sun)

Venus has thick clouds That hide what is below The air is foul, the ground is hot It rotates very “slow”

(Repeat refrain)

We love the Earth, our home Its oceans and its trees We eat its food; we breathe its air So no pollution, please

(Repeat refrain)

Mars is very red It’s also dry and cold Some day you might visit Mars If you are really bold

(Repeat refrain)

Great Jupiter is big We’ve studied it a lot We found that it has sixteen moons And a big red spot

(Repeat refrain) Saturn has great rings We wondered what they were Now we know they’re icy rocks Which we saw as a blur

The family of the Sun The family of the Sun Here are two more planets in The family of the Sun

Uranus and Neptune We don’t know much about Maybe you’ll study them And then we’ll all find out

(Repeat refrain)

The family of the Sun The family of the Sun There are eight planets and Now our journey’s just begun

Did you enjoy singing this song to the tune of ‘ The farmer in the Dell’? Learn it and sing it along with others. From this song write a line or two on what you found out about each