Wednesday Morning

Morning all who are following our EOTC experiences in Wellington.
It was lovely to sit down last and see that so many of you had left messages. 
Will pass those messages on to the kids at breakfast.
 It's looking like a beautiful morning (bit of fog - but it is only 6.30). We will be heading off to the Island Bay marine Reserve and I'm confident all will have an amazing time.
Keep up the following of our week. Hastings seems a long way away.

Parliament

This morning we had our visit around Parliament.

The politicians were nowhere to be seen, so we got to explore with our Educator.  He was really impressed by the awesome questions asked and the way we were able to show off all we already knew.

Carter Observatory

Our next stop was the Carter Observatory. We spent time in the planetarium watching an amazing presentation about the weather on all the planets in our solar system.

Then in the classroom we shared and developed our knowledge, before working on a visual way to show the distance each planet is from the sun.

It really made sense and was far easier to understand than talking about millions of light years!!!

(Becky, the kind teacher has emailed this activity to Mrs. Hawke so that all of the classes at St Mary’s can learn about this!)