Flight Week at Nayland Primary

For the first week back at school this term we have been learning all about flight. We're going to tell you all about it.

What have we been doing in writing to learn and share about flight?
In writing we have been writing facts about things that fly like rockets and hummingbirds.
And we are going to make some posters to show people what we have learned.
Justin

What have we been doing in the afternoons to learn about flight?
In the afternoons we have been swapping over classes to learn about flight. We have been making different things like paper airplanes, parachutes, masks and origami birds and butterflies.
In Room 6: we are making paper airplanes to learn about flight. We tested our planes to see how well they flew.

In Room 7: we made origami birds and butterflies. These are both things that fly.

In Room 8: we made parachutes and tested them on the playground and on the grass. We also watched a little movie about a boy and girl who were going parachuting for the first time. My parachute worked awesomely. It floated down slowly like it is supposed to.
Stephanie

What do we know about how airplanes work?
Airplanes glide through the air because the air helps then fly when it goes across their wings. If they didn't have air going across their wings they would go straight down.
Analise

What do we know about how hot air balloons work?
Hot air balloons go up with hot air but go down with cold air. Hot air balloons go up with hot air because hot air is light and they come down with cold air because cold air is heavy.
Ellie

What do we know about how parachutes work?
The air goes up under the parachute and the gravity is trying to push the person down fast. If it went down fast by gravity the person would be dead but the air going up helps it to come down slowly.
Jessica