A class plan for space week:
English
Reading: Little Comet (large picture book to be read in a whole class setting) with beautiful illustrations of each planet, the sun, comets and asteroids.
Oral language/ poetry: The children would discuss the solar system and they would listen to and recite a poem called The Planet Role Call.
Writing: the children would write sentences in their copies based on the planets eg Mars is called the Red Planet. They would also get two spellings per night for homework during Spacs Week eg Monday 1) sun 2) moon Tuesday 1) stars 2) planets.
Music: the children could listen to and sing The Planet Song.
Visual Art: the children could create their own solar systems using black card and coloured chalk using an image on the Interactive Whiteboard as a stimulus
Drama: the children could take part in role play activities based on the moon landing and aliens arriving on planet earth.
Science: the children could complete one of the lessons/ experiments from the Milo and Marvin website eg making an Alka Seltzer Rocket
Maths: the children could take part in activities based on 3D shapes (spheres) and sorting activities eg sorting planets based on size eg biggest yo smallest etc.
Gaeilge: the children could listen to and learn the words for different objects within/ parts of our solar system in Irish eg An Domhain, Satarn etc.
History: the moon landing and famous female astronauts