Star Lab Experience

Yesterday we went to Star Lab in the hall. We had to walk through a dark tunnel to get into the dome. We could see the night sky on the roof and we learnt a lot of new things about space!

It would be great if parents could take children outside one night and talk about these new things that we learnt about. See if you can find the Southern Cross, the scorpion constellation or the planet Venus.

I learnt that…

-         Pluto is not a planet – Melanie

-         A red star is a part of a scorpion constellation – Fletcher

-         Planets don’t sparkle - Azra

-         The red star is the scorpion’s heart – Louis

-         The Sun is a star - Kate

-         The Milky Way is lots of stars and planets all together – Aaron

-         The red star is part of a scorpion – Aarush

-         Saturn’s rings are made out of ice – Claire

-         A star can be red, yellow, white or blue – Denziel

I found it interesting that…

-         The Sun is really hot – Mia

-         Venus does not sparkle – Claire

-         Inside a meteorite, it is bumpy – Isabel

-         Earth moves around the Sun and the moon moves around Earth – Guru

-         There was a red star in the sky – Tumana

-         Pluto is a ball of ice – Shivkrant

-         Metorites have bumps – Shivkrant

-         The Earth goes around the Sun – Kayla

I will tell my parents…

-         Pluto isn’t a planet because it is part of an asteroid belt – Denziel

-         People live in a space shuttle – Emily

-         A red star is part of a scorpion’s heart – Maddie

-         Venus doesn’t shine – Quinn

-         The Sun is a star – Kerisha

-         The moon is really cold – Francine

-         A group of stars is called the Milky Way – Melanie

-         There are lots of colours that a star can be - Azra