Our kindergartners have been studying the solar system for the past couple of weeks. They have visited the planetarium, watched Brainpop, Jr.’s Moby and Annie talk about the solar system, visited webpages about space. As a culminating activity, each child was in charge of learning about one planet and making a model of it. These were brought in on Friday, so when the students came to the lab, I told them they would be able to draw either the planet that they studied or anything else in the solar system.

This was the students’ first introduction to the Microsoft Paint program; although several were excited to share that they had this program at home. I gave a quick preview of the most important tools and off they went. Below is a collection of their drawings (and I think they did a really good job, especially for the first time!).

Enjoy!