The Junior Infants have blasted off into space for this month’s SESE topic!

We have a space station role-play area where the Junior astronauts can explore space, gather space rocks, learn how to fly a space ship and hopefully find some aliens! They have to be careful to complete their launch checklists before blasting off into the deep dark space, make sure they have their maps at hand, and keep observations of what they discover on each journey!

The classroom is a hive of activities where the children are making all sorts of space-themed creations from a variety of materials including malleable play and construction. We have lots of writing and drawing of space pictures, letters and postcards as well as lots of creative play in the moon landing small world tray and the moon sand tray!

We are a big fan of Jigsaws in Juniors too so this Space themed floor puzzle is a big hit with our current topic!

We have also made our own alien space ship drawings, which are on display outside our room, and I think you will all agree they are a very colourful sight!