I would choose the activity set Space and Aliens with first class. It would be good to do this during space week when we would have already had plenty of space lessons and fun in class. I would begin by reading the story “Here Come The Aliens!” by Colin McNaughton. This book has lots of different looking aliens of different shapes and sizes coming to Earth. The class would look closely at the different shapes, sizes, number of eyes, clothing etc.
In Art we would then create our own unique Aliens by rolling a dice to decide how many heads/eyes/noses/arms/legs the alien would have. We could also link to 2D shapes by choosing a circle, rectangular square, triangular shapes body parts.
The book also shows pictures of different planets that the various aliens come from. The children could also learn about the different planets in our solar system. We could also create imaginary Aliens from these planets and give reasons.
We could also learn about how special the Earth is and the reasons why life is possible here like in the Special Life activity in this module.
Another part of the book shows how the Aliens speak in different voices. We could play a drama game where children have to speak in an alien language and use mime to communicate with the class.