This week we had a go at sketching outside, the children were challenged to draw things in the smallest detail. This is a difficult concept for the children as many want to draw landscapes with each picture including the sun and ground level. With encouragement they began to get the idea.

What a great time we had at the Flight Museum and the sunshine meant we had lunch outside too. The children had a work shop where they explored the forces of gravity, lift and thrust. As scientists they learnt to repeat experiments to check that things really did work or to make changes and try again. They had a go at making simple rockets and paper planes.
After lunch, they children went in groups around the museum exploring the Fantastic Forces ‘play’ zone and some of the other planes on display including Concorde.

  

My favourite things about the trip:

CL, AS, MS, – gift shop,
AM, AP, OC, KF – going in the planes,
EH, NS, AB, PM, – the Fantastic forces zone,
LM – all of it,
GS, LRB, AR, MV – Concorde

I learned:

EH, GS – how to make a rocket
PM, CW – about Concorde the fast plane
NS – that planes need to be made carefully or it could all go wrong!
PH – there are so many interesting planes

I want to know:

LM, OC, PH, KF, – more about Concorde
MV – what was the first passenger plane?
NS – can we go again next Thursday?

I didn’t like:

The bus journey was too long.
I would have like to sit in the cockpit of a plane.
That it was spread out and we had a two minute walk between buildings!
I would like it to have been bigger

It doesn’t need to be better – I loved

 

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