Monday, 26 January 2015

Space themed blogging homeworks to improve writing.

Since I introduced this blog last October, the improvement in the children's writing has been amazing.  The children are now understanding that they are writing for an audience - a pretty big audience hopefully made up of whoever across the world reads this blog!  They are very keen to ensure that their writing is clear, concise, interesting and contains correct spelling and grammar. 

This has definitely translated into children's everyday classroom practice as their creative written work shows fantastic improvement as the weeks go by.  I am begged everyday to set more and more homeworks using the blog by the children in the class.  You can probably see it that it adds an extra dimesion to homework.  I hope it makes it more enjoyable for the children to complete and that they pick up new information from the activities that I set.

Tonight the children will continue to learn about Space by conducting some research of their own to answer the following questions.  Have a look at the comments below to see their responses.

1)What was the first creature sent into space?
2)Who was the first astronaut?
3)Who was the first man on the moon?
4)What other interesting facts can you find?

18 comments:

  1. 1.The first creature to go to space was a space dog.
    2.The first astronaut was called Yuri Gagarin.
    3.The first astronaut to walk on the moon was called Neil Armstrong.
    4.The Sun is over 300000 times larger than earth.
    On Venus a day is longer than a year.

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  2. 1)The first creature sent into space was a dog named Laika.
    2)The first Astronaut was Yuri Gagarin.
    3)The first man on the Moon was Neil Armstrong.
    4)On the way back from space Russians came down in capsules.Lots of them broke many bones and they had to stay in hospital for months.
    4)Some scientists think that the galaxy called Andromeda gobbled up other galaxies because it has a double center!

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  3. 1.The first creature sent into space was a dog called Laika.
    2.The first astronaut was called Yuri Gagarin.
    3.The first man on the moon was called Neil Armstrong.
    4.Here are some interesting facts about the moon - A person would weigh much less on the moon - The moon was only walked on twelve times.

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  4. 1 In 1957, Laika became the first animal launched into the orbit.
    2 The first astronaut was called Yuri Gagarin.
    3 In 1969, at 20:18 UTC Neil Armstrong became the first man to steep onto the moon.
    4 Way beyond our solar system there are billion and billions of stars.Some stars are much younger than our sun and others are much older.

    Many scientists believe that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago.

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  5. 1. The first creature in space was a dog called Laika
    2. The first man in space was called yuri gargin.
    3. The first man who walked on the moon was called Neil Armstrong
    4. People think that there is 9 planets but there is ) 8

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  6. The first creature sent into Space was a dog called Laika in 1957.

    The first astronaut was called Yuri Gagarin.

    The first man on the moon was called Neil Armstrong.

    A dead star is called a dead dwarf.
    A day on Mercury lasts approximately as long as 59 days on Earth.
    Neutron stars can spin at a rate of 600 rotations per second.

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  7. The first creature in space was a dog.
    The fist astronaut was Yuri Gagarin.
    The fist man who walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong.
    If you walk on the moon your foot step will stay they there for a thousand or million years!

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  8. 1. In 1957 , a dog called Laika was sent into Space and became the first creature to go into Space.
    2. The first astronaut to go into Space was called Yuri Gagarin.
    3. In 1969 the first man to walk on the Moon was called Neil Armstrong.
    4.Many Scientists think there might be rain diamonds on Uranus.
    4. The Sun was made from dust and gas and it kept spinning and spinning on tell it became the Sun

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  9. In 1957 the Russian dog named Laika was the first creature in Space.
    Yuri Gagarin was the first astronaut.
    Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon he and his partner Buzz Aldrin put the first flag on the Moon and it was the first flag on the Moon.
    Here are some interesting facts about Space
    1. The Sun losses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds.
    2. The big dipper is not a constellation it is an asterism.
    3. The great red spot is a huge storm on Jupiter it has raged for over 350 years it is so large that 3 Earths could fit in it.
    4. Saturn orbits the Sun every 29.4 Earth years it's slow movement against the backdrop of the stars has earnes it the title of labadsagush from the ancient Assyrians the name means oldest of the old.

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  10. In 1957 Laika the dog was the first animal sent into Space.
    Yuri Gagarin was the first astronaut to go to Space.
    Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon.
    We are moving through Space at the rate of 530km a second.
    The Moon is drifting away from Earth.
    The light is hitting the Erath but it is 30 thousand years old.
    The sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to the solar winds.

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  11. The first creature in space was a dog called Laika.
    The first astronaut was Yari Gagarin to go into space.
    The first man on the Moon was called Neil Armstong.
    A dead star is called a Black dwarf, the Moon is much smaller an Earth and many scientists think there might have rained diamonds on Uranua

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  12. 1.There were a few other animals in Space before.There was a group of Fruit flies and a Rhesus monkey.The first animal to go into orbit was a dog called Laika launched on board the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft on the 3rd of November 1957.Unfortunately Laika died during the flight.
    2.The first Astronaut was called Yuri Gagarin.
    3.In 1969 Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.He was the first human to go to the moon.
    4.The sun is about 4.6billion years old,
    Uranus is not visible to the naked eye,and became the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope.

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  13. The first creature sent into space was a dog called laika in 1957
    The first astronaut was a man called Yuri Gargarin
    The first man ever to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong
    1. Pluto isn't really a planet it is a dwarf planet
    2.If our earths pollution gets to strong the ozon leyer will break and the earth might explode this is called global warming
    3. Comets are like shouting stars but a little bit bigger and some come early and others will maybe come every 200 years.

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  14. 1.The first creature on the moon was a dog called Laika in 1957.
    2. The first astronaut left earth on April 1961 was a man called Yuri Gargarin from Russia
    3. The first man to walk on the moon was an American called Neil Armstrong in 1969.
    4. The sun is large enough that approximately 1.3 million earths could fit inside it.
    Pluto was discovered in 1930.
    Mars is the 4th planet from the sun. It is named after the Roman God of War and often described as the red planet.

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  15. 1,The first creature sent to space was a dog called, Laika .
    2, Yuri Gagarin was the first astronaut to go into space.
    3,The first man to walk on the moon was called Neil Armstrong.
    4, The solar system formed around4.6 billion years ago .

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  16. 1) The first creature sent in to Space was a chimp.
    2) The first Astronaut was Soviet Yuri Gagrain '
    3)The first man to land on the moon was Neil Armstrong.
    4)A dead star is called a black dwarf.
    4)Thay 're are now 8 plants because Pluto is a plantoid .

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  17. The first creature sent to Space was dog named Laika.
    The first astronaut sent in space was Yuri Gagarin from Russia.
    The first man to land on the Moon was Neil Armstrong.
    A dead star is called a black dwarf.
    People think there are 9 planets but there are only 8.

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  18. 1)The first creature sent into space was a dog named Laika.
    2)The first Astronaut was Yuri Gagarin.
    3)The first man on the Moon was Neil Armstrong.
    4)On the way back from space Russians came down in capsules.Lots of them broke many bones and they had to stay in hospital for months.
    4)Some scientists think that the galaxy called Andromeda gobbled up other galaxies because it has a double center!

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