Thursday 27 March 2008

space day

On Tuesday we got up at 7 o clock ( that's very early for me ). me, Samuel and dad got in the car and went on the long drive to get to a space day thing. It took a long time because of the traffic.

When we got to the place which to Samuel's horror was in a school. Don't worry it was still a home ed trip it was just in a school. Ironic isn't it?

At first we were not sure where to go but when we found it it was a bit cramped. More people turn up than they thought were coming. We then went into the hall where the blow up planetarium was. It looked like a big silver bubble. We did a bit about the planets and the solar system and then moved on to stars. They turned off the lights and projected the night sky onto the roof of the bubble thing. I saw two constellations straight away.

We then went out of the bubble and had a quick break whilst they took down the bubble. We then made some moon spinners to show all the moon's phases. We then had lunch and a play before starting the next activity.

We split into teams of 4. We had to make 2 rockets. Two of us would make a rocket to go highest and the other two would make a rocket to be reusable. I was making the fast rocket. It was the basic design but when I tested it it was very good. We were going to launch them out side ( by the way we were using air to launch them ) but it started to rain. So they moved the launcher to an angle so we could see which went furthest. My rocket was one of the ones that hit the wall at the end of the hall.

We then got in the car and went home.

Monday 17 March 2008

a new play park and the bromley meeting

On Thursday we went to a play area a bit like monkey bizz but bigger. It's called fun drum.
It took a while to get there but it we got over the long journey by figuring out how long it was since we were there last there.



On Friday we went to the bromley meeting. Despite the fact it was meant to rain it was really warm and sunny. We were out side most of the time and found a lot of cool places to play in.
We all so found a tape measure which some one had tied around a tree. I don't know why someone had tied it to the tree though.

Thursday 13 March 2008

pottery

On Wednesday we went to bromley to paint some pottery. It took us a little While to find it but we got there first.

There was so much to chose from. In the end i chose a model dragon. Three of us were paining dragons and we were at the same table. I think i did well. I was a bit slow so mum had to help me do the second coating but i did every thing else my self.

Saturday 8 March 2008

Halls, reporters and animal parks.

On Friday we went to the bromley home ed meeting. It was in a hall in the middle of no were. A lot of peaple showed up a reporter also came. It was a lot of fun.

On monday we went to godstone farm. Again. It was same as last time until the end when lots of school kids ( i think they were in year one) came into the play barn. It was very crowded.