A good idea for Junior and Senior Infant classes would be to use Aistear as a way of teaching Space and Aliens. These would be some cross curricular ideas for the class to do.
Stories: ‘Space Story’, ‘A Space Adventure’ and ‘Astronauts..A Kids Guide.
Songs: ‘The Planets Song’ and ‘The Planets of our solar system’ ‘The Moon Song’
Writing station: Space passport and log book, practiced counting down from 10 and tracing the numbers.
Construction: Design and build a rocket.
Art: Made space helmets from cereal boxes and play-dough from scratch.
Small world: Alien-landing scenarios in a small village.
Role-play: Variety of imaginative scenarios including landing on different planets, rockets crashing etc.
Play-dough: Made stars, asteroids, craters on the moon, aliens, planets, rings for Saturn and rockets with flames.