Learning Together with a Four-year-old (continued)

I continue  to learn new things along with my 4-year-old grandson. He’s very interested in the solar system. He knows all the planets, and together we visit a sidewalk in El Dorado Park, Long Beach, where we walk from the sun to Neptune in a scale representation of one foot being a million miles. Here he is with Saturn:

 We’ve also learned together about dwarf planets. He’s particularly intrigued that Pluto got demoted from a regular planet to a dwarf planet. Other large dwarf planets are Eris, Ceres, Makemake and Haumea. Our favorite is Makemake. It makes a great chant.