This week we are learning about space. We have found out about all the different planets and about our planet - Earth. On Monday we did a mind map about what we knew about space and we also came up with a few questions. We wanted to know how many stars there were in the sky and later in the week we found out that there are more than a billion stars!!
We have had a go at making rockets from lots of different construction kits and we have done lots of art work about space. On Wednesday we used marbling inks to create space-like patterns and Miss Ball helped us to print our own space paper. It was very messy and one of the ink bottles exploded all over poor Miss Ball !! But all the mess was worth it because on Thursday we used our brilliant space paper to make our own planets. Look out for them hanging up in our class!
Jessica-May and Courtney marbling
Daniel helps with a messy job!
Sophie helps to mix the marbling ink
Lexi making one of our planets
Abigail and Sophie cut out the circles
Alfie and Chloe help to string up the planets
Eimantas builds a space rocket
Jordan holds the rocket steady
We have also made aliens and listened to lots of space stories - we can't make our minds up about whether aliens really exist - who knows? However, on Wednesday we got a letter from someone called Mr Alien? He lived on Mars and he had sent us a fact sheet about his planet. The envelope was full of red, sparkly dust! He asked us to write a fact sheet about planet Earth so we set to work. Mrs Young then sent the fact sheets back to Mr Alien. Do you know the next day we had a reply from him with a present (still covered in red, sparkly dust) - it was a 'Gogglebit' from Mars. How exciting! May be aliens are real after all?
Mr Alien sent us a 'Gogglebit' from Mars!
Do you think Mr Alien might look like this?
Chase and Daniel writing about space
We have found out all about the first man on the moon - we watched a video clip of Neil Armstrong in his space craft 'The Eagle'. We saw 'The Eagle' land on the moon and then watched as Neil Armstrong climbed out of his space craft and walked on the Moon. We decided that he must have been very brave to go all that way (we read that if you could drive in a car to the moon it would take 170 years) !
Reece completes the space puzzles
Mackenzie and Jessica-May get ready for blast off
On Friday we had a special dance coach come into school to teach us how to do a Carnival dance. We had a brilliant time and all tried really hard to learn the dance. In the afternoon we had a special assembly where we all had to perform our dances for the rest of the school.
Rosanna was really good at dancing
Ebony followed the dance instructor's instructions
Alexus and Sophie are great dancers
Diggory is going to spend the weekend with Ebony as she tried so hard in the dance lesson today. Have fun!
See you next week.
Grasshopper Class