Planet facts!

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mercury&Display=Kids

http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/classes/cs255f04/cs255students/jbowerman/P11/PlanetFactSheet.pdf

World Hello Day!

Today is our World Hello Day!

We would love to hear from our international visitors to the blog!

We are also thinking about ways that people say hello around the world. Write a comment if you know how to say hello in another language!

4EL visit the North Pole!

Today 4EL went n a dangerous and difficult mission to the freezing lands of the Arctic! After a long journey we set up camp and got warm with hot chocolate and marshmallows!

Explorers' Diaries

There are some diaries of people living and working in Antarctica here:

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_working/diaries/rothera/2013/index.php

Researching Polar Explorers

Use these links to research famous Polar Explorers!

http://www.ducksters.com/biography/explorers/roald_amundsen.php

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/s/scott.shtml

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215022/explorers.htm

The Incredible Journey of Joseph Banks

This week we have learnt about the Incredible Achievement of Joseph Banks and Captain Cook. They were the first Europeans to visit Australia! Joseph Banks was from Lincolnshire and you can still visit his Conservatory in Lincoln today!!

The terrible storm

Today in class 4EL there was a terrible storm! Our visitor, Joseph Banks, told us what it was like to sail through a storm at sea. Then we had a go at recreating the storm in class!!