Project Planet

Lauren had her biggest homework project of the year this past weekend. She has been learning about planets at school, and the final assignment was to select a planet of her choice, check resources out of the library to write a report, then create some piece of artwork to accommodate the report. Lauren picked Pluto. I was there with her in the library when she selected the resource book. I forgot that Pluto had been demoted...it's not a real planet anymore. Well, part of the book report Lauren was tasked to write asked what she knew about Pluto. Thankfully she already knew Pluto was not a real planet anymore, that instead it was a dwarf planet. Whew - crisis averted. So, she wrote about what made Pluto special and not like the rest of the planets. It has a messy orbit - she really liked that. It means there is a bunch of junk in its path unlike the other planets. It also rotates opposite to all the other planets in our solar system. Lauren liked demonstrating this to me by spinning herself silly in the living room. She decided to create a diorama of Pluto, and thankfully we had the help of Lauren's friend Grace who corrected me that the background should be black, not blue as I had planned to direct Lauren to paint it. Where was I during planet week?? Crossing my fingers Lauren gets a check mark for her awesome diorama!