Space

Firstly, sorry for the lack of posts this week, it has been a very busy first week back. Here's hoping next week will be calmer! 

We have started our new topic of Space this week and we are already learning a lot. Our focus this week has been the moon landing. 

We begun by dispelling any myths that the moon is made of cheese...although that would be very cool!

We made our own craters in wet sand.

We used different objects to create the varying sizes of craters.

We learnt about the three astronauts that were sent into space in 1969 to become the first people on the moon.

The next thing we did was learn about rockets, their components and the purposes of each part. This is in preparation to use making our own rockets. Yesterday we all designed a rocket and thought carefully about the shape and size with regards to aerodynamics. 

This afternoon we have begun to make the rocket starting with the body. 

Pictures of our rocket building to follow!