Sunday, August 22, 2010

The Planet Mnemonic

Imagine my surprise, Pluto is no longer a planet. Oh no!
I need a way to remember the order of the planets. A mnemonic is a fun sentence that can help me to do this. Each letter in the sentence must start with the same letters as the planet order. For example...

My Very Energetic Monkey Juggles Some Unfolded Napkins

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

Can you post your own Mnemonic. Each entry gets a Golden Ticket and the best mnemonic gets... Chocolate.

Good Luck Team

Mr R

The Size Of The Planets - WOW

We have just begun studying SPACE! It should be great fun to learn about the amazing things that are out there. Next week Room 1 is headed to the Carter Observatory. Check out this clip of how big the planets are compared to some of the huge stars out there.
Write a comment below to tell me a fact about any of the planets in our solar system. Most interesting fact wins a... GOLDEN TICKET.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Terrible T-Rex

The T-Rex is 14 metres long. He is brown. He ate meat. The T-Rex lived in western U.S.A and
western Canada. T-Rex had teeth 20 centremetres long.

By Solomon.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Our First Podcast - Room 1


This week Mr R decided to have a play with garageband and post a short podcast to share our work. It includes notices, work sharing, joke of week and special guests from teachers! Enjoy

Sunday, August 1, 2010

The Dinosaur Song

The Breeze


We have had a wonderful start to the week. Our first session on the radio was this morning and it was... interesting to say the least. We talked future jobs, money and fishing? Stay tuned at 7:40 tomorrow morning to find out what else Room 1 had to say.