We have never celebrated space week in our school before, so I look forward to starting it up in my school next year after seeing these abundance of ideas!
Here’s some ideas that I will use for my class plan!
English – I would use lots of space stories such as – ‘how to catch a star’ , ‘when the sun goes home’, and ‘the kid who came from space’. we would write a whole class letter to an astronaut(maybe Chris Hadfield!) with any questions that we have about space. we will have oral language discussions on photos of space- such as photos of the planets, sunsets, stars etc.
Maths- we would integrate our maths lessons with space- by doing shape and space and discovering star constellations and use ‘Stellarium’ website. we will work on 3d shapes aswell. We will do data surveys on our favourite planets and make bar charts.
Irish- I will have an Irish ‘stasiun spais’ station in the classroom which can be used for play and children will be pre taught the Irish vocabulary for space words in Irish lessons. we would do some bingo in Irish with the new space words.
Science- we will do many space experiments- such as ‘dancing raisins’ , ‘fizzing and foaming’ and ‘messy mixtures’ for some ‘alien chemistry’.
History- I would focus on reading stories about the man on the moon and learning about the first dog to space and looking at people who have travelled to space.
Drama- this would be our Aistear theme of space – with a role play station of space!
Music- we would do many space songs- such as ‘reach for the stars’ , ‘space man’ , ‘ rocket man’
Art – We would do a class project and create a solar system. Also, we would make a space craft and launch them off!
I’m so excited to do these activities this year!