Reply To: Module 5 – Rockets & Alien Chemistry

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Aoife flannery
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    I have used the Aliens love Underpants storybook before with senior infants, as a basis for my thematic plan for Space and the children loved this story. Of course there were numerous literacy opportunities with using this storybook, including reading the story, orally retelling the story to your partner, sequencing the events in the story, creating a new ending, etc. The children were fascinated with the idea of flying into outer space on a rocket, and thus, we made our balloon rocket as a class. During aistear, at the junk art station, the children had access to a range of materials which they could use to help design their own rocket for blasting into outer space! This allowed for integration with Visual Art also. We listened to, and learned the song ‘5 Little Aliens in a Flying Saucer’, which allowed for integration with Music, Drama and also Number with the counting element involved. I would certainly use the new resources from this module about Aliens if I were teaching this unit of work again.

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