Rocket Launching Open Day

WELL DONE to the astronauts from Astronaut School (Rooms 5 and 13) who put on such a great space and rocket show for the whole school, and to the teachers, parents and grandparents who were such a great help making rockets, sending in books on space and the planets, and for coming in to see us this morning.  We hope you learned a little about space.  We sure did!!!!!!

Realistic rocket

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, BLAST OFF!

Rockets we made

Elastic rocket

Teacher made an elastic rocket.  If you would like to make one just follow the wonderful directions here:

http://www.primaryscience.ie/media/flash/act29/index.html

We were trying to see if the rocket  would fly further if we pull the elastic band tighter. 

It does work like this, but unfortunately the elastic band broke before we finished all our trials.  We will try more tomorrow!

Planets data chart

Our own rockets

Rocket art

Space PE

We are combining our monthly theme of "space" with our PE.

We played two wonderful space games today.

Our first game was called Earth and Moon and is played like "Ships Decks and Lifeboats".

We had to use our rockets to take off from the moon or Earth, we had to be astronauts on the Earth, in space and on the moon, we had to greet aliens, avoid asteroids and be in the right place at the right time every time.

The next game we played was Volcanoes on Venus and Craters on the moon.  The boys had the volcanoes and the girls had the craters.  Each group had to turn over as many of the other teams markers as they could.  This games is rather like saucers and domes which we have played before.

We love these space games. 

To improve our games skills we practised dribbling the bouncy balls.  We tried dribbling with our writing hands, with our other hand and with both. We are good, but there is still room for improvement.

Invitation

Rocket art

Craters and dinosaurs

By the way, are you wondering what the difference between asteroids and meteorites and meteors is?

Teacher found this on the internet:

ASTEROID - A large chunk of stony or metallic material lying between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
METEOROID - A smaller chunk of stony or metallic material that's usually been broken off an asteroid
METEOR - The flash of light seen when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere
METEORITE - A meteor that has impacted Earth's surface.

Fizzy Rockets

Volcanoes on Venus

Straw rockets

Balloon rockets

Rockets and astronauts

 

 We have written a song on our rockets.  We coloured and cut out the rocket songs and stuck them on to a giant rocket.  They look great.

We also drew in our faces and coloured and cut out astronauts.  We are a class full of astronauts.

Launching air rockets

We even had a rocket race to see which rockets flew the farthest.

Well done to Lauren, Laura and Evan who aimed the rocket launchers to fly the farthest.

Hard luck to teacher (for Ireland) who was narrowly beaten by Maite (for the glory of Spain!)

More water rockets

We really enjoyed launching the water rockets. We thought these ones were extremely exciting. We loved these ones because they went so high up in the air. One rocket went so high that it landed on the roof. We hope the super Mike will go up and get it soon.

Fizzy rockets

Today we made fizzy rockets. We used water and our rocket fuel (vitamin C tablet) We put a small amount of water in the tube and added the fuel and waited for blast off. The fizz forced the lid of the tube into the air. We were amazed. That is until we launched the water rocket!

The Earth, the sun and the moon

We are learning all about the sun, the moon and the earth.

We used a huge bouncy ball as the sun, the little football as the earth, and the tiny magnetic ball as the moon.

We were able to spin these around, just as the planets and the moon spin in space.

We are learning a great song about the planets too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzj6UEbIvKA

Water rockets

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1......Blast off!

We are learning about space at the moment.

Today we launched our water rockets outside.

This was so exciting.

We all had a turn launching the rocket (though it was easier with teacher's help).

One of our rockets landed on the roof, but we hope that our wonderful caretaker will help us recover this rocket!