Welcome to the Nine Planets

1. Welcome to the Nine Planets

2. Our Mission We’re ready to blast off into learning about the nine planets of our solar system, and learn an easy way of remembering their order. Lets go….. BLAST OFF! 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 10 9 8

3. Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto The Sentence... You just need to remember this silly sentence to remember the order of the 9 planets…. My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizza’s.

4. M M y ercury Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. It is very hot on Mercury.

5. V V enus ery Venus is the second planet from the sun. It, too, is very hot.

6. E E xcellent arth Earth is the planet we live on. It is the third planet from the sun. Earth is the only planet known to have living things on it.

7. M M ars other Mars is known as the “red planet.” It is the fourth planet from the sun.

8. J J ust upiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It is mostly made up of gas.

9. S S ent aturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. It is also made up of gas. Saturn has many rings around it.

10. U U ranus s Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. It, too, is made up of gas. It is very cold on Uranus.

11. N N ine eptune Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It is a lot like Uranus and the two are often called the twin planets.

12. P P izzas luto Pluto is the ninth planet from the sun. It is made up of frozen gas. It is very very cold on Pluto because it is so far away from the sun.

13. What did we learn? My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas. Pluto Neptune Uranus Saturn Jupiter Mars Earth Venus Mercury