We made a model of the solar system in the garden. A ball was the size of the sun and the planets were different sized beads. The smallest planets’ beads were a bit big but they were the smallest beads we had. The amazing thing was how far apart the planets are. The sun is at the front of the house and tiny Pluto and Neptune are right down the back. 80 m away. We used 2 metres : 1 Astronomical Unit.

Juliana came over and gave us a funny game called mousetrap.

We had another big session learning Japanese. We finished a 1951 Japanese movie called Early Summer.