Ideas using the Aistear methodologies in the Infant Classroom for Space Week:
Construction – Build own model space craft
Small World – mini alien characters – build the planet they are from.
Role-play – costumes for astronauts, rockets, characters from space stories, carry out roleplays of specific important events in space – e.g. moon landing.
Art – playdough, star art work, rockets, planets pictures
All of these activities could stem out of literacy activities and or lead into literacy activities such as diary keeping, space passport, postcards from space. Obviously with infants these could be templated and would be shared writing experiences. Or indeed it might be possible to link up with older classes and let the older pupils write the ideas of the younger pupils.
Music can be resource in all aspects of these lessons and I for one would definitely be using various scores from famous films and other songs synonymous with space to act as a stimulus for certain tasks throughout a Space Week.