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I have chosen the activity set The Planets. I would begin by asking the children what town we are in, then what county, country and continent. I would then ask them to describe the size of each of these i.e town = small, continent = large. We would then discuss what planet we live on and in what galaxy and we would think of words to describe the sizes of these. I would then play a planets song such as ‘Friends of the Sun’ or ‘The Planets’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrlgH97v94). We could then look at pictures of the planets and the children could brainstorm what they think each planets surface would be like based the images and on its order from the sun. Then we could play the planet game where hula hoops are placed around the room to represent each planet and one yellow one in the middle to be the sun. The children run around as rocket ships and then when I call a planet name they go to that planet. To conclude we would sing the song again and name the planets.