The Moon and Spaceship

30/09/2008 (Tuesday)

a) The Spaceship Rocket
l Justin shared with the class his 3-D assembled model. He said that the other 2 missile shuttles will fall after the launching of the Spaceship Rocket.
l Asking why, the kids said that it would be lighter and the rocket could speed faster in the air.
l How does it fly? Wind factor?
l They said it relied on engine and the fuel.
l In the afternoon, we watched the countdown of the latest Chinese Rocket launching.

b) Discussion: Possible future
T : Why do we need to fly into the space?
Class: To check if there are aliens.
T : Also to search for the possible resources.
T : Do you think there are traffic jams everywhere. Wouldn’t you like traveling in the space with no jams?
Class : Haaa……impossible. It will not happen teacher.
T : Would you like to visit your favourite Planets….or Chang Er as claimed to be in the moon?
Class : No, we will not travel in the space.
l Nevertheless, the kids enjoyed the game of boarding into our Hot Air Balloon Toy. We used the umbrella as the Hot Air balloon. A Huge Umbrella!!
l So, we flew to the space. We hopped at the moon. W floated there like astronauts.

c) The Moon Motion
l The Moon was the first planet that astronauts ever landed on.
l They could find only sand and rocks.
l However, the Moon motion is really interesting as it tells us about the Earth and Moon’s rotation.
l We used Zi Jun’s “The Moon’ book to guide us through.
l Then, we compared some of the kids’ homework of “The Moon” which they drew throughout that one week of “Lantern Festival”. Amongst, we analysed Jin Nan, Zi Jun, Eugenen and Song Chuan’s book.

d) The Moon Motion Flip cards.
* Smilar to the old days, this is the way cartoons are made.
* The kids were given 16 picture of motions. Then they cut them carefully and arranged in ascending. They were independent. Le Xin and Jian Wei needed little guidance.
* They were happy to own their cartoon flip cards…haaaa!