Class Plan for Space Week:
Geography: journeys – class will plan a trip to space using space passports designed by themselves.
Landscapes – children will look at videos of what the surface of the moon looks like. They will then make their own moon rocks by crumpling up bits of tin foil. These will be kept in our Aistear area.
Maths: Shape & Space – children will design rockets by using bits of coloured paper cut into circles, triangles, squares and rectangles. They will also make 3D rockets using toilet/ kitchen rolls and cones made out of rolled up coloured paper.
Distance – children will look at a video showing the stars that make up The Plough constellation and they will look at an activity sheet that details how far each of these stars is from the Earth’s surface.
Art: Construction – Children will carry out the fun activity shown in module 3 ‘Looking at the plough in 2 different ways’. (Curious Minds activity).
English: Topic (aliens) – skills used such as questioning – What is it? Where does it live? How does it move?
Observing: How does it look? How does it feel?
Predicting: What would happen if it came to Earth? etc.
Books: The Smeds and The Smoos, The Way back home and The Aliens in Underpants series of books.
Diary entries: Children can write about the day in the life of an astronaut or an alien.
Drama: Role play area – pupils can get in role as an astronaut and act out scenes in their space station or rocket in The Aistear area of the classroom.
PE: Children will play games such as shadow tag, space rangers and guarding the galaxy.