Friday Stories: What I Learned About Our Solar System

Note: Friday stories are creative writing exercises we enjoy each week as
part of our homeschool curriculum. Below are the Lego King's actual
words, as typed by his mom, summarizing our recent study of the solar
system. His thoughts are his own and he was not prompted to remember any
of the information.

NASA will crash a rocket into the moon in 2009. Mitchell will be five when they launch it. I will be nine. It will break up a huge chunk of the moon so they can see if there is actually frozen water on the side where the sun never shines. They’re going to launch it a second time. They’ll launch the second one in 2009 also.

Even though it doesn’t look like Saturn has very many rings, it actually has thousands of rings.

Did you know that Jupiter could fit all the planets into it? There would be lots of room left over.

Venus has storm clouds so the sun’s light reflects on it and you can only see it on certain days of the year and it shines in the daytime like a star even though it’s not a star. The ancient Romans called Venus the goddess of love.

Earth has air, water, food, and life, unlike all the other planets. If the asteroid keeps going in the horseshoe shape, it could become one of Earth’s moons. It will become Earth’s second moon.

Did you know that scientists think that Mars used to have water on? That’s why it’s called the red planet. The water sort of rusted up the surface of it.

Did you know that Neptune probably had a meteor crash into it to make it rotate sideways?

Pluto is the smallest planet of all. Pluto is the ninth planet. Some people say that Pluto isn’t a planet.

The sun is 28 million degrees in the center. The sun spots are the coolest thing on the sun. The sun is a star.

Binary stars, the little one is actually more powerful than the big one. It keeps taking the big one’s hydrogen and then when it takes almost all of it, it says, I don’t need it. So it spits it out and creates a new star.