We were very lucky to have Mr Rose come back to visit us again. This time he took the planetarium with him, we enjoyed learning about the stars and constellations. Most of the Primary 4/5s went in the morning and some of us had to go after break with the 6/7s as we are a big class and they don’t have as many in their class. It was great fun and a great way to end our space topic!
Tag Archives: Space
Space with Mr Rose
Today Mr Rose came in to speak about the last few planets of the solar system. Here are a few more facts for you:
It takes 11 and a half Earth years for Jupiter to go around the sun.
Saturn takes 29 and a half years to go around the sun.
Uranus takes 84 years to go around the sun.
Neptune takes 165 Earth years to go around the sun.
You could fit all of the planets in the solar system in Jupiter.
The smallest star is the same size as 8 Jupiter’s.
It would take 1,000 Earths to fill Jupiter.
It would take 1,000,000 Earths to fill the sun.
1 day on Jupiter is 10 Earth hours
The Great Red spot on Jupiter is a tornado and you could squeeze 3 Earths into it!
Jupiter has 16 satellites and they are named after mythological creatures connected to Zeus.
Saturn has 18 satellites. The Satellite Titan creates a shadow on Saturn.
Uranus has 15 satellites and these are names after characters form Shakespeare.
Neptune has 8 satellites and are named after water goddesses
space posters
Today we presented our space posters that we made in groups with p67.There was 10 groups. When we were making our posters then at the start the youngest person had to pick a envelope. In side the envelopes there was names of planets. There was:
the sun,
Venus,
Mercury,
Earth,
the Moon,
Mars,
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Uranus,
Neptune
I think we all had a lot of fun
Cooperative learning with P6/7
We have been working with P6/7 as part of our topic, Space. Their topic is space too. On Wednesday the 3rd we started working with them. All the P6/7s came in to our classroom and we got put into groups. Then Miss Morrison explained what we were going to do. Each of the groups had to make a poster about a planet. It had to be very colourful and have lots of information. One person from each group had to pick an envelope and inside it would tell us which planet we were going to be researching. My group did the Sun. We each had a different role. There was 2 Head Researchers, 1 Head Illustrator and 1 Head Writer. We had to look in books for information first then after about 20 minutes we were allowed to look on computers. We didn’t get much done on the actual poster but it was good because we got together again on Monday and worked on our posters. Today before lunch P6/7 came through because we were going to show our posters to the class. We were allowed 5 minutes in our groups to decide who was going to present the poster. My group The Sun went first. Our poster looked really good. After that, all the other groups went. All the posters looked really good! I really enjoyed working with P6/7.
