T1 came home this week singing an unfamiliar song to a familiar tune. It is quite clever how her school teaches them to remember by making them learn the facts through songs, since children are naturally predisposed to learning musically and it works!
Although T1 (being her father’s daughter, his ambition was to be an astronaut and so he has taught her everything about space) already knew the planets of the solar system since she was very young, she didn’t know the configuration in which they were placed. But now she does!
Allow me to share the song the school taught so your kids too can benefit. It is about the planets sung to the tune of the nursery rhyme, THIS OLD MAN.
MERCURY, NUMBER ONE
IT IS CLOSEST TO THE SUN
CHORUS: WITH A ROUND, ROUND, GO AROUND, PLANETS ROUND THE SUN, SING ABOUT THEM EVERYONE!!
VENUS BRIGHT, NUMBER TWO
MORNING AND EVENING ‘STAR’ WE VIEW CHORUS
PLANET EARTH, NUMBER THREE
WE LIVE ON IT, YOU AND ME CHORUS
PLANET MARS, NUMBER FOUR
NAMED FOR A ROMAN GOD OF WAR CHORUS
NUMBER FIVE, JUPITER
COLOURED CLOUDS AROUND IT STIR CHORUS
NUMBER SIX, BIG SATURN
MANY RINGS AROUND IT TURN CHORUS
NUMBER SEVEN, URANUS
IT LOOKS BLUE AND GREEN TO US CHORUS
NUMBER EIGHT, STORMY NEPTUNE
TRITON IS ITS FROZEN MOON CHORUS
NUMBER NINE, DWARF PLUTO
FARTHEST FROM THE SUN, YOU KNOW CHORUS
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hey thats cool!!! that’s one sure fire way to get the kids to remember. ei, dun talk about kids la, i a 30-soemthing old hag will also remember la. i also dunno where each is placed.
Thanks for sharing!!! Now I know too!! (I sucked at astronomy)
thank you ! more for me actually.. i also lost count on the sequence and it’s a great song to sing too !
thank you for sharing this… it’s soooo brilliant! Even I (shy to admit) didn’t know.. haha, but now I can learn this song and pass on to Vic (hopefully can influence her to sing, hehe)
My girl sings this tune to the Barney song too.
Gonna teach her this too, yes, I notice kids learn faster musically.
korkor told me this – My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. (And I thought he was talking about me initially!)