Think outside the Earth | English Literacy Classes

This week, we designed rockets, fastened our astronaut uniforms and set far into space to meet our home planet Earth’s friends in the solar system. As we taught them how to describe different planets, we learned that their favourites were Mercury because “it’s so fast”, Saturn because “of the rings” or Jupiter because “it’s very fat”!

 

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