One thing leads to another . . . We recently got a book called "Thomas on the Moon" in which Thomas the Tank Engine takes schoolchildren to a Space Fair and they learn about the solar system.
Benji has been learning about the sun and the planets and he kept asking me whether we could "put them (the planets) together" and why that wasn't possible. So we watched some youtube videos about the comparative sizes of the sun and the planets, and about how the planets orbit the sun. He became more and more fascinated, so I got out a puzzle of the solar system that I had found a while ago and set aside for later.
He is now in love with the solar system and you can see just how happy he was to complete this puzzle. In the third photo, he is literally jumping for joy, and in the fourth photo, he's doing a happy dance so fast that he's just a blur.
I love rediscovering the universe with him.
--Victoria
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