Activity: Stars
I would introduce this lesson by reading the storybook ‘Can you see the stars tonight’ by Anna Terreros Martin. This should spark a discussion about stars in the night sky. I will ask the children have they every heard of the plough? We will then look at pictures of the plough and identify why it has its name.
We will then try to recreate our own classroom plough during an art lesson. I will give the children a variety of art materials such as black card, matchsticks, lollipop sticks, pipe cleaners etc. Every child will have an opportunity to recreate their own plough. This hopefully will help children understand its shape and help them identify the plough in the night sky. We will create a classroom display of our ploughs. We will then compare them to pictures of the Plough in the night sky and see how they are different/the same
I will email parents and ask them to help their children identify the Plough at night. This might be an nice activity to do during midterm in October, when the sky is very dark.
