Space Conference

Last Tuesday my class hosted a Space Conference.
Every kid set up a display of all of the mini-projects they have done on Space this term. It was heaps of fun! We had 11 classes come and visit, as well as parents, other staff members (including the Principal :) ). It was great to see my kids (some of them were even in 'costumes'hehe) as the 'experts' excitedly talking about things they knew... "Did you know that there is an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter!" "Uranus spins sideways!" "Jupiter is made of gas" "The International Space Station is as big as a football field!"

Of course their posters weren't perfect and they used masking tape instead of sticky tape (arrgh!), they had spelling mistakes and some of their facts were...um a little made up. But I was soooo impressed with what they had created, it was their own work! They were so proud of themselves!
More than anything I loved hearing from parents "when are they going to stop learning about space? It's all we've heard every night at dinner 'did you know...'" That's the highest praise! My kids were excited about learning and completely engaged with their topic.

Here are a few of their displays (sorry I had to cut the kids out... they make the photos so much cuter).

This group gave out Milky Ways and Mars Bars..

OOoh sideways. The cardboard box is the girls' design for their bedroom on the International Space Station - their answer to the zero-gravity was 'sticky floors' hehe it was cute.

These girls answered the question 'how is the solar system like a bag of marbles'. They actually had some great answers...and of course they had to make a model of each planet (and i think they invented some of their own).

This is a model of what the ISS looked like in 2007 according to my boys (notice the masking tape...)

These are the cute space biscuits I made for my lovely kids. (They were pretty and yummy)

Some days being a teacher is the funnest!