Story time to hook and engage the children on the theme of Space ‘Neil Armstrong’ Little people, Big Dreams. Show children a video of the moon landing and a video of a space shuttle taking off
Music- Learn the planet song from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t099KIWVVs
Arts and crafts- create your own solar system e.g. through paper mâché
ICT- project work- group the children into small groups of 2 or 3 and use Ipads/ computers to find information about a planet in our solar system.
Literacy based on the ICT session create a fact file/information leaflet based on the information the children have found out about the planet. Show children the NASA website
Maths- children can do Planet space maths themed topics such as counting on and back in 2’s, 5’s,10’s, 3’s and 4’s. You can also lead onto multiplication using arrays
Science- Rocket launching, create a bottle rocket and use rocket launcher to race and look at distance.
PE- games using pictures of the solar system- children play a hopping/ jumping game to learn the order and names of the planets. Allow each child to jump one at a time onto each planet shouting the name of each planet as they jump. Every child can have a turn while they memorize the rhyme. Then using the blank paper cover up the names of the planets now ask the children to go to a planet (e.g. Venus). You can make the game more competitive by having those that get it wrong are out and winner gets a planet sticker.