Reply To: Module 3 – Stars, Space and Aliens

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Martina Prendergast
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    I really like the ideas in Space and Aliens for infants. I would use the story Aliens wear underpants to motivate and inspire the children. I would have the children think about and discuss what aliens would look like and the features they would have. They then could draw or sketch out their Aliens and apply colours as they see fit. The continuation of the lesson would involve using clay, paints and recycled materials. To integrate in to Maths we could group the finished Aliens by similarities such as number of eyes, ears, arms legs, thus using the language of early maths skills, sorting and classifying. The Aliens could be displayed on an uneven surface, which looked like the moon’s landscape, and the children could predict, sketch and make spacecraft and imaginary houses for their imaginary aliens in other art lessons. The children could colour and cut out star shapes, stick string of various lengths with sellotape to the stars and I could hang from the ceiling over the display to represent the galaxy. This would be done over a number of weeks.

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