Active Learning
English Reception/Year 1 Autumn Sci-fi and Space Stories
Star Trekking
Teach the children, then some may enjoy Exploring and Playing while you lead Group Learning.
Rocket Adventure (suggested as 5 days)
Group Learning
Exploring and Playing
- Model rockets
- Storytellers
- Role play
- Lunar landscape
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Whatever Next by Jill Murphy
Goodnight Spaceman by Michelle Robinson & Nick East
Astro Girl by Ken Wilson-Max
Space Explorers (suggested as 5 days)
Active Learning
Group Learning
Exploring and Playing
- Non-fiction books
- Role play and music
- Weighing moon rocks
- Space construction
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Look Up by Nathan Byron
Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram
The Aliens are Coming (suggested as 5 days)
Active Learning
Group Learning
Exploring and Playing
- Sort aliens using own criteria
- Create alien finger puppets
- Salt dough aliens
- Alien shelter building
You Will Need
Essential Texts
The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers
Here Come the Aliens by Colin McNaughton
QPootle 5 by Nick Butterworth