Milford chronicle., 1960-02-26


we visited we got souvenirs. From
the jungle we got pictures. In
Egypt we learned to read hero
the Egyptian pyramids. With a
caravan we rode through the des-
ert, seeing the date trees and oasis.
Greece
We are going to visit Greece. In
Art we have started a statue. The
Greeks were famous for their
statues. We have seen three films
about Greece. We are also going
to learn some of their words.
Judy Rhodes
Ella Bennett
Christy Hamilton
Grade 5-Mrs. AntOinetfe Mac
Leans Section 3
Our Solar System
In our class we studied about
space. We would like to tell you
about some of the things we learn
ed about our solar system.
Mercury is the smallest planet
in our solar system. It is the
closest planet to the Sun. One
side is very hot and other side is
very cold. 1t take Mercury 88
days to go around the Sun.
Venus is the second closest
planet to the Sun. 1t is the orange
colored planet. 1t is also very hot
one one side and very cold on the
other. Venus is rocy.
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It is different from the other plan
cts because the top of it is cold
and the bottom is cold. The Earth
is 93,0O0,00O miles from the Sun.
The Earth also has a Moon The
Moon is very lonely place. 1t
has no air or water. 1t has weird
rock formations and craters.
We know quite a bit about
Mars because it is so close to the
Earth. We think there might be
plant life on Mars. 1t is not as
close to the Sun as the Earth, SO
it is cooler Mars is about 34,000,-
900 miles away from the Earth.
Jupiter, called the Great Red
Spot in about 1878 is the largest
! planet. 1t has diameter of about
$500 miles. This planet is prob
ably surrounded by a very think
layer of atmosphere.
Saturn is a yellowish planet. 1t
is the only planet that has rings
around it. The rings are about
100 miles wide. They are of diff
erent colors. Saturn is the second
largest planet in our solar sys-
tenn.
Uranus is a greenish colored
| planet. 1t is about 1,782 million
miles from the Sun. 1t has a
diameter of about $4,000 miles.
Uranus has five moons.
Neptune is one of the farthest
planets from the Sun.
/ Pluto may not be a planet. We
know very little about it because
it is so far away from the Sun.
Pluto is very small.
The Sun is not a planet-it is
a star. There are many stars big
ger and brighter. The Sun is in
the middle of all the planets.
We made reports and wrote
stories about imaginary trips we
took to the different planets. After
we read them in class we decided
to record them on tape. 1t was
not only interesting to hear our
own voices when we replayed them
but we found it helpful to use as
we were able to correct our own
mistakes in language when we lis
tened to our recordings. We made
individual drawings of the sky and
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position of the various planets
around the Sun.
We would like to share all our
stories with you, however, news
paper space does not permit us to
do so. Therefore, we chose a few
we thought wou would enjoy as
much as we did.
Jack Allen
Joseph Campbell
Neil Geise
Larry Legates
Joseph Sullivan
My Moon Vacation
We were in space-don't ask me
how we got there. We were up
there for a vacation. brought
all my things with me. 1t was very
hot on part of the moon and very
cold on the other side, so we stay
ed in the middle. We lived in a
tent. It seemed very hard to keep
things on the ground, so we had
to nail everything down. Then we
went out to play. My brother said
he wanted to play football, so
said, 81 will kick to you first"
When / kicked the ball it didn't
come down said to my brother,
1T looks like we will have to go
to get another football" We got in
the rocket and went home.
Neil Geise
The First Trip To The Moon
1t was the morning of the eigh-
teenth of March of this year. We
were waiting to board a three
stage rocket at Cape Canaveral
Florida. There were three of us.
was the pilot, Bob Hallett was the
co-piIot, and Butch Jones was the
navigator.
The bIast-off time was set fol
five o'clock that morning. A voice
over the loud speaker said, al
personnel clear the field, all per-
sonnel clear the fieId'i
Just after / boarded the rocket
/ gave the order to fasten safety