Room 3 won a National poetry competition!!!

  Room 3 had the opportunity today to Skype a real live astronaut in Florida –having won a national competition run by the New Zealand Space Agency. “Message to the future - school competition”

“Beginning with Pacific peoples, many cultures have voyaged to Aotearoa at different times from all around the world. They navigated across the seas using stars as their guide. The voyagers travelled in state of the art craft using the stars in outer space and the environment to guide them. They were scientists, innovators, astronomers and astrologers.Today, New Zealander’s are still looking to the stars and we are creating new opportunities to discover and travel into space.

The message will answer the question:            What could be our future in space?”

We also had Tahwai Moss who works for the NZ Space Agency at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment who joined our class today while we took part in the Skype call with Nicole Stott (the astronaut)
The first prize was 
* A certificate for the class
* Tuia mission patches for the students in the class
* A live-cross via skype with NASA astronaut Nicole Stott (retired) artist, and speaker

With expert help from Annabel.... the class had to compose their message in 200 words, and were up against young people across the country from Year 0 – Year 8. Here is Room 3’s poem....

 A Trip to Space

We could zoom to the Moon

Or float out to Mars, The Red Planet,

With dusty storms

Dark red like a light that is not working properly.

We could land on hot Venus

Hot like lava.

We could swoop out to Jupiter

With its swirling red spot storm

Spinning like a bey blade

Or take a rocket to the hot shiny Sun

Throwing out rays of light under Maui’s net

We would go past sprinkled stars

Glowing in the black darkness

Of Space.

Here are the pictures of todays skype call with Nicole Stott and visit from Tahwai Moss. The children got the opportunity to read their poem to Nicole and ask her many questions about her life as an astronaut in the International Space Station.

It was a very exciting morning!! Woop woop!!

    

And here's a short video of one of the kids questions being asked and answered.......

Thank-you Annabel for your amazing poetic inspiration this year. 

You are awesome!