{"id":4798,"date":"2016-09-03T14:09:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2022-03-20T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:11:44","slug":"griffins-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/03\/griffins-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin’s Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

While cleaning up the house over the weekend, we found a pile of work that Griffin created at school last year (first grade). This chart of the solar system reminded me of my recent post, Maggie’s Astronomy<\/a>, so I thought I should add this here. Griffin is aware, by the way, that Pluto is no longer considered to be planet.<\/p>\n

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Revolution of the Planets, Spring 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of his astronomy research in first grade, he also took notes on some of the facts he unearthed. I picked a few to share below.<\/p>\n

\"Comet<\/a>
Comets’ tails are made of dust and gas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Comet<\/a>
Comets have three layers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shooting<\/a>
Shooting stars are meteors burning in the earth’s atmosphere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Asteroids\"<\/a>
Asteroids are all different shapes and sizes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Asteroids\"<\/a>
Asteroids have little holes and when they crash they explode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note the creative (and phonetically reasonable) spelling of explode: “iiczplod.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While cleaning up the house over the weekend, we found a pile of work that Griffin created at school last year (first grade). This chart of the solar system reminded me of my recent post, Maggie’s Astronomy, so I thought I should add this here. Griffin is aware, by the way, that Pluto is no … Continue reading Griffin’s Astronomy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,65],"class_list":["post-4798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","tag-griffin","tag-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7460,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}