Wed., April 22, 2015
The Slice: 3rd graders rank planets for Earth Day
Third graders at Spokane's Balboa Elementary School ranked the planets as an Earth Day salute.
Here is a sampling of their work.
"I think that Pluto should be first because it is a dwarf planet and it should get hotter," wrote Blythe.
Apparently she viewed this planet placement business in literal terms.
A young scholar named Nathan was thinking along the same lines.
"Mercury is too hot. It needs to be last and cool down."
A kid named Elijah suggested that whatever arrangement works best for "astrnots" is fine by him.
Isaac wrote, "I like Saturn the way it is."
I suspect many of us feel that way. More here.