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Year 5’s Space Odyssey to MarsYear 5 are currently studying space exploration, here are some of the stories that they have written about travel to Mars!The Special MissionOne day, I found an official letter in my mailbox. It was sent by Special Space Mission Headquarters.When I opened the letter I learned that I was chosen for a special mission to go to Marsand investigate if there is life on Mars and I was ordered to go to the nearest spaceport on Earthas soon as possible. When I went to the spaceport I was guided to a spaceship which looked tobe built for long journeys in the solar system. I went into the spaceship then entered the controlroom and made the necessary adjustments for my journey to Mars. I sat back and relaxed and hitthe red button. Then I heard the spaceship’s powerful engines. Then the spaceship blasted throughthe earth’s atmosphere. After one week I found myself over Mars and then landed on Mars’ reddishsurface. Then I opened the door after that I went out of the spaceship. I saw many interesting thingsand I heard noises coming from a cave. I went inside the cave and there were drawings on the wall, Isearched the cave but then I heard noise of the volcano on Mars. I ran, then jumped out of the cave,then ran to the spaceship, pressed the launch button then blasted away fromMars to Earth.It was a long journey but I was safe- lyhome and I proved that there was no lifeon Mars but there was liquid water.The EndBy: Sarp 5KOur Trip to MarsIt all started when we were blasting off to space. We flewoff past the moon and we saw another spaceship. Insideour spaceship we heard a voice; “greetings earthlings” saidthe mysterious voice. “May we speak to your leader?” askedthe mysterious voice. We didn’t have a leader yet and somepeople were yelling to be the leader. Then we had to vote.Astronaut Sam was picked as the leader. “Have you decidedon your leader?” asked the mysterious voice. “Yes, we haveit’s Ast. Sam”. Said one of us, “what do you want?” asked Ast.Sam. The voice said that they needed everyone’s oxygen sowe all panicked. We asked the aliens if we could discuss thisproblem. We were discussing it and our leader Ast. Sam cameup with an idea to give the aliens our oxygenand then escape by the escape pod. Our leader went to thealiens and told them that she would give them some oxygen. The aliens said that they will suck up our oxygen in five minutes.After our leader came back from the conversation we quickly ran to the escape pod to escape with enough oxygen to breathe,unfortunately Ast. Henry couldn’t reach the escape pod in time and died. We left him in Mars but the others came back toearth.The EndBy: Samantha, Tracy and Gabin.Dedicated to Mrs. Marshal and our class teacher Ms. KaurI Made This,Ria Jasmine Wee made this fantastic space helmet at home withthe help of her dad. Ria is also learning about space explorationin Year 5 as part of a PYP Unit of Enquiry.Page 5