Room 22 and Room 23 have been so lucky this term. As part of our inquiry unit 'Exploration' we got to go on a trip to the Star Dome. At the Star Dome we had a lesson about space and we learnt some really interesting facts. We learnt that it takes 365 days for the Earth to orbit around the Sun and we also learnt that the Moon orbits the Earth, and this takes around 27 days. We now know that it takes 24 hours for the Earth to complete a rotation, this is one whole day. One really exciting thing that we learnt about was how the Earth, Sun and Moon all work together to give us night and day. We have got really good at explaining this idea, if you want to ask :)

After our lesson at the Star Dome we got to have a look around at all the interesting things that they had on display. We saw planets, rocket ships, information and facts, games, night and day models and we also got to take pictures in a pretend spacesuit, this was extremely cool.

The last thing we did at the Star Dome was watching a movie called "The Cardboard Rocket". This movie was really cool and we learnt lots of things about all the planets up in space. We learnt facts about the planets, the order of the planets, all about stars, the moons and the sun. The children can tell you all about the planets if you ask them.