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<span style=”caret-color: #163c42; color: #163c42; font-family: ‘Hind Madurai’, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;”>Hi Katie,</span>
<span style=”color: #163c42; font-family: Hind Madurai, sans-serif;”><span style=”caret-color: #163c42; font-size: 12px;”>I like the way you have incorporated such a variety into your Moon theme. I particularly like the cultural aspect to it. My boys love to listen to a story before hometime, so a Moon themed set would be perfect for the week I was teaching that topic. </span></span>
<span style=”color: #163c42; font-family: Hind Madurai, sans-serif;”><span style=”caret-color: #163c42; font-size: 12px;”>Aistear would indeed lend itself very nicely to this theme too – role play, lists of what the astronauts might take with them – design a space-suit/space rocket. Making a tactile moon using sand/playdough/fabric/found objects would really fire up some of the boys’ imaginations. </span></span>
Hi Aoife,
The bridge designing activity is a great one. There is an awful lot to it and it can be made as long or as short, as deep or as fleeting as you want. It’s nice to begin by looking at bridges around the world (as I once heard the term, you are giving them ‘tools to put in their backpack’ – you are giving them a springboard from which they can come up with their own ideas)
I also like how you have catered for the group that finishes first by adding a further challenge
Hi,
My name is Rachel. I have been teaching infant boys for the past few years.
My favourite fact is that is rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus (or is thought to at least). One of my boys taught me this.
We have a giant space/planets jigsaw in class and it is a great source of conversation and discovers as they groups make it up throughout the year.
One of my favourite inquiry-based activities to do with the boys is to get them to find somewhere in the classroom where their frozen ice-filled rubber glove will melt the slowest/fastest.
They talk about what might affect the outcome, look/search around the room for ideas and then as a group, they place their frozen rubber glove.
Once the gloves have all been placed, they then try to predict which ice-glove will melt the slowest.
As the day progresses, we keep a check on the gloves and maybe, update our predictions.
At the end of the day, they suggest why each glove melted as quickly/slowly as it did and possibly then suggest a better place.
