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The class plan for Space Week
- Monday: Planet Earth, will start with KWL chart. Then group work for research, assisted by myself. Then create collage of Earth e.g moasic template module 2. Revisit the KWL Chart.
- Tuesday: The moon, read Papa give me the moon, make rockets
- Wednesday: The Solar System: Inquiry questions, then mnemonic for planets, curious minds activity. The children will discover cool space facts e.g how big (or small!) each planet really is.
- Thursday: Aliens and Imagination, read the poem the Marrog, Draw/create your own Aliens and write about his home planet
- Friday : Reflection and Astronuts (ISS website), designing our own space suits
Activity Set ‘What Clothes to Wear’ – Seasons. This would be a great lesson for my class as we have a dressing up box, they love movement, hands on activities and storytelling
Dressing Up Box/Role Play: The seasonal activity from the pdfs would be great for vocabulary development and integration with Irish, drama and they colour the pictures at the end
‘Rain, Wind and Storm’ Weather Story – Intearctive story telling that nicomporates movement, sound & drama. This would be great for all children in my classroom as it helps children visualise weather changes.
Other resources and activities
Season song by pancake Manor
Bua na Cainte has some rhymes can can be integrated
Book, Maisy wonderful Weather Book
Games Weather bingo in english or irish
We like to play a parachute game with a ball ithat represents a ship and I narrate a story e.g Joe is fishing the dsun is shining the waves are low etc
Start of lesson for Junior Classes:
Start with “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” in Irish.
Include actions, rhythm, or call-and-response.Mind Map: What We Know About Stars
Then WALT We are learning to…
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Powerpoint about stars (twinkle.ie) Possible questions, can we touch or catch a star? How far away are they?
Are all stars the same? Have you ever seen a shooting star? The work done in a observatory ?Examine night sky photographs or online planetarium images.
Discuss patterns, brightness, colours, and differences among stars.Activity: Hands-On Activity. Draw your own consolation e.g it use to be a saucepan.The revisit walt at end to consolidate the lesson
I chose Activity Set ‘The Moon’, because the Moon is full of mystery, wonder and features in a lot of great story books, that I have in the classroom.
In the Junior room I’d start by reading the lovely Irish picture book An Grian agus Gealach, it’s filled with bright meaningful pictures to spark their imaginations. Then, we’d look a short videos to discover that the Moon peeks out both in the daytime and at night, even if we can’t always see it.
Our main adventure would be creating a special “Moon Chart”, using the same/familiar format as a weather chart. Children tick the box each evening and parents can email in photos or write a comment about the position/visibility of the moon. . Back in class, we’d share our charts and talk about how the Moon changes shape—sometimes a skinny crescent, sometimes a big glowing circle.
lots of opportunities to develop the lesson over the week and integration is essential with new curriculum
Inquiry based learning for the Junior classes:
The lesson begins with the question: “Why does the sky change? Why is it bright sometimes and dark at other times?, Is it bright at bed time?Then I will read the book an grian agusgealach to the class.
Using a torch as the Sun and a globe or ball as the Earth, children see how one side is lit (day) while the other is dark (night). As the globe is slowly spun, they learn that day and night happen because the Earth turns, not because the Sun moves. Children take turns with the torch and globe, exploring the idea in a hands-on way.
They then create two drawings—one showing daytime, one showing nighttime incoorpating the correct vocabulary and integrated with out class story An grian agus Gaelach
Finally, the class discusses again why we have day and night, reinforcing the key idea while encouraging curiosity about space.
