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I would do work based on the theme of Space and Aliens. There are lots of different activities which could be integrated into the theme. I would use the story Aliens Love Underpants as a stimulus for the lesson. This would a nice literacy lesson based on the theme as well. From here we would do some work around aliens and I would provide the children with lots of scraps of paper, tin foil etc and I would ask them to create their own aliens. These would be displayed in the classroom them. We would use some aliens for counting activities and pattern work. For STEM the children would have to build a space ship for their aliens. This would require some planning so that the alien has a seat in the spaceship to sit on. We would do some work around the planets but as it is infants I wouldn’t teach anything too technical and the children would decide which planet their alien lives on and which planet it would like to visit. The class would then discuss the journey and which planets it would have to pass to get to its destination etc. For Irish we would do some work around Is mise and the children would give their alien a name.