Engaging in Space Week is a week full of fun learning a for the children .
Being a Senior Infant class there is a lot of singing art and craft and experiments going on ,
Monday
Planets and the Solar System Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2prtmPEjOc.
Discussion not the planets and divide the kids up into groups to make their own solar system with balloons of different colours, markers ,string , wool and a variety of amaterials to make the planets, Discussion on size of each planet in relation to each other and visual representation on whiteboard to help them would have been covered before starting the craft activity.
Tuesday The Moon
Discussion and watch the first Landing on the moon
Mystery Science What would it be like to live on the Moon? What is the Moon Made of ?
Using shaving foam the children could make their own moon surface.
Wednesday The Sun /Shadows and Sundail
Hopefully the weather will be on our side and the children will be able to get outside to create a sun dail using chalk. There are many video clips on the sundail that children could watch . This could be linked into the history of telling the time and clocks through the ages .
Children could work in pairs and draw shadows of themselves at different times of the day ….weather permitting.
Thursday
Mice Rockets experinments , Here the children will experinment with different bottle types ,different mice and make measurements to decide which is the best rocket and why .
Friday
Storytime where the children listen to stories about Aliens and where they come live .What planet do you think an alien could live on? Why ? What do yo think they would look like ? What would they need.?
Revise The Solar System song .
Air Dough provided and the kids after discussion will make their own Alien and when dried paint and decorate.
End the week with a Kahoot quiz .