SPACE POSTERS COMPLETE

The kids spent the morning finishing off their space posters which are now hung proudly in the classroom.  They worked really hard over the last few weeks with their researching and learning about good question writing.  The accumulation of this work is now all on their poster with photos they printed using the Google image search, one of their new favourite things to do!

Well Done you guys, you did really well with your Space Projects and the posters are a tribute and fitting end to our space learning for this year!

REFLECTIONS ON THE STARDOME

In the reclining seats of the Stardome's theatre

The kids had a wonderful time at the Stardome and loved the show we went to about The Night Sky ... its amazing how much you can keep learning!  The Stardome seems to be under construction at the moment, so there are limited (nothing) things to do unless you take in a show, however, the shows are totally worth it and really not very expensive at all ($35 for a family).  So part of today's writing was about reflecting on their experience on Friday night going to the Stardome.  They loved the domed roof theatre where we took in the show and both had things they learnt about the night sky that they have keep with them ... a sign of a good learning attitude or at least a willingness to learn from others I reckon!

Ben working on his reflections about the Stardome

SQUEEZE IN ... a photo of us at Burger Fuel 

SPACE ALPHABETS

Today we had fun in English learning about research.  Its one of those things that isn't usually taught well at primary school but is so helpful to kids who can understand the concept at a young age.  So today we started off by talking about what you do when you don't know the answer to a question.  Any of course the answer was use things to find out and you do that by researching.  The kids then helped make a big list of resources you could use to find answers to different sorts of questions.  They did a fantastic job and we then used this learning to research an A to Z list of space words using books as our research tools.  I found a ready made one on the starlabs website, which also has lots of other great resources to use for any space learning!  The picture today is of Ben using the books to find words for each letter of the alphabet.  True to form, Ben found it hard to go to morning tea and leave this worksheet to finish after a bite to eat .... a clear sign it was a great task for my little home schoolers!