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Activity set: Space and Aliens for senior infants.
Beginning of lesson: Story: The Smeds and the Smoos. Children will be encouraged to pick out the funny vocabulary they hear throughout the story such as: loobular lake, humplety hill, wurpular wood and jerberry coot. The children can then make up their own vocabulary to suit a planet of their choice. All planets will be discussed with a short fact about each one given.
Middle of lesson: Children can design their own symmetrical paper cut aliens. Using a sheet of paper folded in half with a pencil they can design one half of their alien and then cut along this line. Children can then decorate their aliens using crayons, markers, stickers, wiggly eyes, pom poms, feathers, beads and paint.
End of lesson: Children will listen to ‘The Planet Song’ and watch the video on Youtube. Children can then go over to the ‘Space Station’ Aistear area in the classroom in small groups and enjoy seeing what it would be like being an astronaut.