Check out our mnemonics poems!

Hi ya’ll out there, 

We have been learning how to write mnemonics poems in class.

The idea of mnemonics poems are to help you remember the order of something.  We learnt the order of the planets. You write a sentence where every first letter of the word in the sentence stands for one of the words you need to remember. 

E.G. to remember the order of the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Mnemonic Poem: My Very Energetic Mutt Just Slept Under Newspapers

Can you think of one? Create your own and share it with us.

By Hamish & Laura

These are some of our mnemonics poems.

Our Robot Arrays

“Hi, it’s 3/4B here!” This term in maths we’ve been learning about multiplication and arrays. We made awesome space rockets and robots using square tiles and arrays.

We took photos of our fabulous artwork and filmed ourselves reflecting on our work using the iPads.

We then used the iPad app ‘Aurasma’ to link our videos to our artwork photo. When you hover over our artwork with the iPad our video appears. It really is like learning in the future! Come check it out!

By Molly and Adrian 

Spinning in Space

Did you know that Apollo 8 was the first mission to go around the dark side of the Moon?

This term we have been learning all about space and our solar system, but mainly, the Sun, Earth and Moon. 3/4B have been doing lots of fun activities such as watching how our shadows shrink and grow and creating some fabulous art works.

We have been watching a funny and interesting show called ‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’. We suggest that you should check it out.

We hope to share some interesting facts and work with you as we learn more about our amazing solar system.

Tell us about the fabulous topics that you have been learning about in your classrooms!

By Will.V, Seb and Elijah 3/4B.   

Please check out our Artwork and poems and tell us what you think.

We love learning about 'Spinning in Space!'

A visit from David Shaw - Space Engineer 

3,2,1, BLAST OFF!!

This is 3/4B and their awesome blog!! Last week, one of our fabulous community members, David Shaw, came in to talk about NASA. In case you didn’t know, NASA is an American space agency. NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. David is retired now, but he used to be a space engineer at NASA. We learnt a lot about NASA including how long you got to fix a machine if it went wrong; 18 seconds, and that if you wanted to eat food in space, then you had to eat it all mushed up in a tube. Thankyou David!!3/4B has landed now! Goodbye! 

P.S.  David is Hannah’s grandad! Thanks again Grandad!

By Hannah and Marnie.

What about you? Do you know any interesting information about space you’d like to share with us?