Ooh. They got to define things. She liked that! Harriet had done some reading on Astronomy. She really liked Astronomy. So she had done some background reading on it. She wanted to have a head start on things, and wanted to impress. So it might have been a bit of a nerdy thing, but she had done reading. It would help in the future, so she knew that it would be worth it.

Hattie smiled, listening to some of her classmates answers. She wasn't sure of some of the words, but she knew a few. Smiling, she raised her hand. "Sir. A star is a big ball of gas, and I believe it is held together by it's own form of gravity. There are lots in the sky, but the closest one to us is the sun, which I think is why it appears bigger than most of the stars we see at night"