Stars activity -module 3
I will be teaching Junior infants in September so I am planning on having a lot of playful learning activities and working in groups and stations .
Station 1: I will give the children pictures of various constellations -to start with the plough and Orion’s Belt.
We will make these constellations on geoboards with elastic bands and also create our own constellations .
Station 2: every child gets a sheet of black paper and – sheet of sticker stars.
Looking at a picture of the plough on the whiteboard they must plot the stickers in the correct shape and then connect the stars together by painting with a cotton bud.
Station 3: we have nexus threading boards in school for fine motor development. Children must plot a constellation on their nexus threading board .
Station 4: drawing – I loved the idea on this module from space net where you give the children a picture of the plough and say I’m not a bucket I am a………..
Station 5: drawing stars using 2 triangles. Counting points on star , what shapes are in the star ? Lots of scope for mathematical language-bigger, smaller, corners , triangles , etc