Yuri Gagarin

This week for Reading l was working with Milana, Matthew, Viliami and Te poumuna we created an animation about the story of how Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space. We went to the stardome last week and saw a display about Yuri Gagarin we decided to use our digital creating skills to make a animation about this event. We first planned it out on a paper using the s chart this showed us the order on how he went into space, where he was from and what he went on. Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet Cosmonaut. People called him a hero and a town was named after him. When we were making our plan we were using our skimming and scanning skills to help us know the order of the event in the story. My favorite part about this story was when Vostok 1 the spacecraft launched into space and  he could see earth from outside the window. I really enjoyed making this animation about Yuri Gagarin.

Star dome

Last Night the year 8 students went to the Star dome to go and see the Planets, Different models, Yuri Gagarin and more. We went as a class to set in the seats at the star dome and learn more about the topic of space. Tobias from star dome talked to us while we were looking up into the sky he told us about Jupiter one fact that l found interesting that he told us was that it has 67 moons around it and there are four main ones that are the close to Jupiter. Another planet that he told us about was Saturn did you know that Saturn rings are made up of ice rocks and a interesting fact that l found that was interesting was it has 62 moons that are around it. After we finished with looking up at the sky we saw models of Yuri Gagarin landing it was made up of Lego most of the modes we made up of Lego it was really interesting to see that different models that were made and writing that talked about the different space crafts. I really looking and learning about the starts and the meaning and the different planet.