Today we saw a partial solar eclipse! A solar eclipse is when, in the middle of the day it gets dark. It doesn't happen much. For this to happen the moon moves between the earth and the sun and blocks out the light. We were very lucky that the moon moved in front of the sun where New Zealand is.
During the solar eclipse it was dark, a little scary. You couldn't look straight at the sun because it can damage your eyes so you have to use special glasses. We thought it was funny that the birds stop moving during the eclipse because they think it's night time. We saw a video of a full solar eclipse and we thought it looked like a black hole.
This afternoon we made our own solar systems with just the sun, the earth and the moon. We used compasses to draw the circles. Many of us had never used them before. We can turn them two ways. You can turn the earth around the sun and the moon around the earth. We can even line them up to show how a solar eclipse works.
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