The dazzling SOLAR ECLIPSE

WOW - what an exciting morning we had checking out the Solar Eclipse - it was so cool!!! 
A.B. from Room 17 let us look through a special viewing board his mum made and we could see the Sun looking like a little red dot before the eclipse started.

Then later it looked like an orange with a slice taken out of it as the Moon started to block out some of the Sun. 
                                         
When the eclipse was at its best at 10:25am it felt darker than normal which was awesome, especially when we turned the lights off in the classroom. 
We were also kind of lucky that it was a little bit cloudy at 10:25am so we got to look at the crescent shape of the Sun without feeling blinded by the light - because the cloud acted like a filter to reduce the Sun's brightness.

We wrote about it all for Newsboard and we found out that it won't look this good in Auckland again until 2035.  
So we felt pretty fortunate to see it and we can't wait to watch it on the news tonight!!