Our Place in Space

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All first graders from Mrs. McAlpin's, Mrs. Townsend's, and Mrs. DeLea's classrooms have been working on activities together as they have studied space. Mrs. Guimond's third grade has adopted buddies from Mrs. McAlpin's classroom.

All the first graders made robots from recycled materials and then wrote stories about their creations. See what they did.
robot picture
alphabet book picture The first graders have brainstormed space words related to space. They created one picture for each letter of the alphabet
The third grade students wrote reports and created slide shows about space. They shared them with their first grade buddies.slide show picture

Research

Please e-mail us with your information and ideas about these statements.

Are these statements true or not?

Earth is the only planet that has air.
Earth is the only planet that has oxygen
Earth in the only planet with one moon.
Earth is the only planet with gravity.

Things we would like to know:

What is the difference between meteors and asteroids?
What makes the craters on the moon?