Our solar system
Kiora my name is Paula,
For the past couple of weeks, Room 6 and I have been learning about the solar system.
We learnt about the planets in the solar system.These are the planets we’ve learnt about – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Our teacher told us to get in partners and pick a planet we’ve liked to do. Me and my partner (Ramsey) picked Mercury. It is the smallest planet in the whole solar system. Mercury is 58 million miles away from the sun. My partner Ramsey and I painted a polystyrene ball as the same colour as Mercury. After painting it we left it to dry. After 3 days Mrs Agnew gave us stickers to put on the ball and on the sticker we wrote the name of the planet we were doing.
These are the facts about Mercury:
Reaches over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
It’s the fastest planet on rotation.
It has no moons.
There’s no atmosphere.
There are quakes on mercury.
Time moves a little slower there.
There are a few dents on mercury.

