Activity Set: Space and Aliens
I would begin the lesson with the story ‘There’s an Alien in Your Book’ by Tom Fletcher. The basis of this story is about acceptance, and inclusion so it provides a great basis for SPHE and the oral language around this discussion. Other subjects I would also cover are:
Literacy: Story Sequencing/Caption writing and a debate about why aliens could or could not live on planet Earth.
Maths: Using shapes as a morning table top activity to build spaceships.
Music: Children compose accompanying sounds using percussion instruments to a read aloud of the story.
Art: Paper plate spaceship craft to launch our aliens back to Space/ making alien masks which could be used in Dramatic Play/ Aistear for Space Travel Agent.