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Space and Aliens.
Using the picture book ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ as a stimulus for the children.
Literacy: using the picture book to work on concepts of print with the children. Making predictions about the story. Focusing on rhyming words.
Maths: Measuring moon rocks (tinfoil balls), aliens, and rockets using non standard units of measurement. Putting Aliens into categories ( aliens that have 3 eyes, aliens that are blue, aliens that have 4 legs etc.)
Art: creating clay aliens, describing their aliens, imagining and drawing a planet that their aliens would like to live on.
Music: the planets song. exploring sounds that aliens might make.