Our school has a huge passion for STEM and space week is always celebrated as a whole school. In my particular classroom i try and keep space week as a theme and make it as cross curricular as possible. I would give an area in the classroom to display all of our space week vocabulary, story books, art work etc. I have a science section all year round and it makes it really easy to refer back to informally throughout the day, for example when children are lining up, we would do a spaceship launch countdown as my timer for children to get into their spots.
To begin the week, I would use song to recap the names of the planets. When children are then familiar with the planet names and features, I would also read the aliens wear underpants book and I would facilitate a whole class art project. Children will be put into groups and will work together to make some paper mâché planets. This will be worked on over the week. When it is finished it will be painted and put on display so older classes can come down and look at it and my class can showcase all their knowledge.
I would host a bingo session and an orienteering quiz for Junior and Senior Infants. We would have lots of movement breaks that are related to space and the planets.