This is a topic that I really enjoy teaching to young children. I would start by making a little library of all the space and alien related books for the children to browse through and I would read one to them daily. Below is a list of some of the books I would use:
Mousetronaut
Aliens love Underpants
Q Pootle 5
Roaring Rockets
Here come the Aliens
I would get the children to brainstorm ideas about how they would like their monster to look. We would draw their monsters first and maybe do a wax resist picture. Then I would let the children make a model of their alien using clay.
We would use adjectives to describe our aliens to each other and list all the characteristics of the aliens on a chart. The children could label their alien depending on their level of ability.
I would also integrate some maths by counting eyes, legs and arms of our collective group of aliens. Another nice idea would be to create a graph e.g. how many people have aliens with 1 eye, 2 eyes, 3 eyes etc. We could do some graph reading from the results of this.
I would ask the children to look at the planets in the solar system and decide which planet their alien may have come from and why.
I would play a space game in PE where the children could move to music like aliens and when the music stops, go to a “planet” in a group of e.g. 3 or 4
