Space Week 2015

It's space week

OUR MISSION

To build a rocket a day!
Day 1: Straw rockets

Day 1: Space and straw rockets

We are  learning all about the planets.

First of all we tried to name all the planets, then we wrote down what we know about each planet.
We each chose our favourite planet, then made a data chart of this.
Venus was our favourite planet, Neptune was not popular at all.
Here's how we felt about the planets at first:

Next, with the help of the following song, we learned more about each planet:

We didn't have another chance to choose our favourite planet, but we are quickly changing our minds about our favourite planets.

We folded a page with all this information into a little planet booklet each.

We thought this was really cool!

Day 1 of Space Week.
We are on a mission to launch a rocket a day for space week.
We made and launched our first rockets today.

These are straw rockets and are powered by air under pressure.

They are small but powerful!

Our rocket morning

We had a wonderful rocket morning.

We set up our room yesterday.  Everyone was responsible for a table on which there was a space item.  We each had to talk about this item with our parents, visitors and other visiting classes.

Our parents came to see, other classes came to see and our principal Mrs. Coleman came to see.

At different intervals throughout the morning teacher rang the bell, the visiting children sat on the floor and the visiting adults moved to the sides of the room for various demonstrations.

We had demonstrations on:

how to launch straw rockets

how to launch elastic foam rockets

how to launch a stomp rocket

how to launch the snowman rocket

how to make a volcano

how craters are formed and how dinosaurs died

how to launch a fizzy rocket 

how gravity causes objects to fall

how to launch balloon rockets

The last part of our rocket morning involved launching the big air and water rockets in the yard outside.  The whole school came to see this.  It was soooooo exciting!

We lost our two water rockets.  After several goes both rocket landed on the roof.  Mike our long suffering caretaker has already rescued one and will rescue the other one some time when he gets a longer ladder!

What a wonderful morning.

Well done to all in Ms. McLoughlin's, Ms. Coade's and Ms. Geraghty's classes for the wonderful rocket morning!

Slideshows of our rocket morning/open day

Open day invitation tomorrow

Some wonderful space films

Have a look at some of the wonderful movies on space (and all other science and geography topics) that we have been watching in class.

Click on the picture to begin:

Our failed vinegar rockets

We had high hopes for our new vinegar rocket but look what happened!