Month: January 2016

Dear Diary, 15th December 2015

I cant believe it… tomorrow is THE day that I blast off into space! I have been planning and getting fit for years, now the day has finally come. I feel so honored to be blasting off into space and being the first British astronaut to board the International Space Station.

Over the last few days I have had free, I have been spending so much time with my family. I have felt so blessed to have loving family by my side whether I am in space or on earth. For my last few days on earth I have had a magnificent time with my family. We went to a nice little cafe for our lunch, then we went to the house and had a game of football. I am so gutted that I will not be there to see my children open their Christmas presents. Before I left I checked my Facebook and my friend said, “Tim I am so proud of you!”

I am concerned that the rocket engine fails and I go plummeting toward earth, we have problems with the ISS that I can’t fix or I get lost in space when I go on a space walk.

I am really thrilled to be going to space, especially when I look out the window and see the stars. I’m looking forward to experiencing zero gravity and seeing earth when I am travelling at 17,500 miles per hour.

I have mixed emotions about my journey out of this world, literally.

 

Dear Diary                                                    15th December 2015

I cant believe it, I have been preparing  for this day for years. I am thrilled that I get to go to space.

I have loads of emotions going round in my head…

The main reason I am worried is because I’m going to miss my family but I know that I will be in great hands. The thing that I’m most exited about is experiencing zero gravity and it will be so funny trying to drink water in the space station. Also it will be really magnificent when I see the earth beneath me!

I have just checked my phone on my new Instagram post and one of the comments said, “Tim I’m so excited for you to go into space.  I hope every thing goes well!”

I’m nervous and excited about the launch. I hope every thing goes to plan!Wish me luck on my incredible adventure!

Harry Rose Session 2 – 22nd January 2016

Today  we learnt a lot of facts about space but unfortunately there was a power cut half way through!  Mr Rose kept speaking and we will watch the rest of the power point next time.

There are 88 constellations but we can’t see them all from Shetland because some are in the Northern Hemisphere and some are in the Southern Hemisphere.

Some of the ice in Antartica is 3 miles thick!

There is land underneath Antartica (south pole) but just water underneath the Arctic (North Pole)

The highest mountain on earth is underneath Antartica!

Planet Earth is the only place we know for definite where life exists.

You get hit by micro meteorites everyday! You don’t feel anything because they’re just a speck of dust.

Every year 50000 tonnes of space dust falls to earth.

Comets are made from rock and ice.

The ice melts as it gets near to the sun and this makes the comet’s tail. It’s tail always points away from the sun because it blasts it in the opposite direction.

Comets orbits are very big and make oval shaped paths in space. Comet Catalina is passing through the plough constellation at the moment.

Satellites move slowly across the sky and have solar panels to generate electricity.

It is possible to see the ISS from Shetland but you need to know exactly when it will pass and have a clear sky to spot it.

The next closet star to us is 43 TRILLION kilometres away!!! It would take us 70000 years to travel there at the speed of light. A message from there would take 4 1/2 YEARS to get to us, travelling at the speed of light!

The speed of light is 300000 km per second or 300000000 m per second.

The sun is just over 4 1/2 billion years old and is about half way through it’s life.

The moon moves further away from earth every year.

A light year is a unit of distance, not time.

A parsec is even bigger than a light year.

Dear Diary,                                                                     15 December 2015

I can’t believe it ! Tomorrow is the day I go into Space ! I’ve been planning and getting ready for this for so long and it’s finally happening. I am so thrilled and honoured because I will be the first British astronaut to aboard the International Space Station! But although I am delighted I am also concerned about the engine in case it fails on the journey up into space and I die. I really hope nothing bad happens in the six months I am up there…

I am also going to miss my family very much and hope they are all proud of me! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I can’t believe I am only one of a few people to see planet earth from Space and I  really eager to see it.

I also had a lovely last night with my family and I am really sad that I am going to miss my boys opening their presents on Christmas Day. I just got a text from my cousin in Shetland saying, ” Good luck and I wish you all the best. I hope you have a wonderful time in Space and I look forward to hearing about your adventure “. I don’t know if I will be able to get to sleep tonight. Tomorrow couldn’t come soon enough!

Tim Peake

Harry Rose Session 1 – 15th January 2016

Fantastic facts from today!!!

Meteor is when it is travelling towards earth , meteorites are when they’re on earth and a meteoroid is when it’s in Space.

Shooting stars, also known as an asteroid are the size of a grain of sand (air particles make the glow)

Moons are also known as satellites.

Anything orbiting a star is a planet.

Anything orbiting a planet is a satellite.

Black holes are points of incredible gravity created by a super star exploding and collapsing.

Stars in Galaxy – billions of stars, 200billion in our galaxy.

Count to 1million 11.5 days.

Count to 1billion 32 years.

It would take 6400years to count all the stars in our galaxy.

Milky Way is the name of our Galaxy.

Surface of the sun is in constant motion.

Sun is made of gas so parts of it turn around at different speeds.

17-20 million degrees Celsius in centre of sun with outside 6000degrees.

1 million planet earths can fit into the size of sun.

-273 degrees in space when far away from a star, the coldest temperature is called absolute zero.
Core of earth made of iron and is the size of Mars.

Gravitational pull to sun makes the planets go faster the closer they are.

There is an Asteroid belt after Mars.

On Wednesday afternoon we joined together with p4/5 to start our Space topic.

To get into groups we had to look underneath the tables and choose a picture like an alien, Big Bang explosion or a planet.

Then we did some graffiti to find out what we already know about Space.

Then we wrote questions about what we wanted to find out about in the topic.

We were given a task to make up an Aboriginal Dance in groups.

At first we watched some YouTube videos of Aboriginal dancing then we discussed what moves are used in thIs type of dancing.

In the hall we practised in our groups and put together a routine.

Our dance is about the animals in Australia like snakes, emus, kangaroos and crocodiles.

We hope you enjoy our video!

In class P.E we got to make aboriginal dances. We looked on you tube and got lots of ideas.

There was a lot of animal ones and they all told stories of things that happens in the outback.

We decided to make one about how kangaroos got hunted  for food.

We were given a challenge to make up an Aboriginal Dance in Class P.E.

We watched some videos on YouTube to learn the basic moves and to give us some ideas.

We started trying out some things and then we got the hang of it!

Here is our finished routine!

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Check our our routines from Zumba this afternoon!  We had so much fun and are really looking forward to our next 3 sessions with Mandy,