3-2-1 Blast Off, Into a Week about Space

We started off our week by blasting off into space.  We made sure to wear the proper helmet so we could breath in outer space. 

With our astronaut log books in our hands we traveled to each planet in our solar system to conduct our research.  

Once back on Earth we shifted our focus to Earth's moon.  We learned how even thought the shape of the moon changes in the night sky, it isn't the moon that is changing...it actually isn't changing at all.  The moon rotated around the Earth, so at different times during the month the sun's light shines differently on the moon making it appear that the moon is changing shapes.  We had fun showing this with Oreo cookies!

 

We had so much fun this week exploring space and the moon.  Last week we had a blast learning about Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut.  We watch some of his video's.  Check them out below.