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Nursery activities: Our bright idea - Blast off

Following the creation of a colourful display about hot air balloons (Nursery World, 10 May), the children of St Osmund's Pre-school have been making up exciting stories about journeys into space as they play in their small world space station.

PLANNED LEARNING INTENTIONS

To begin to use talk to pretend imaginary situations

To use some number names accurately in play

To show an interest in why things happen and how things work

To introduce a story line or narrative into their play

RESOURCES

- Small-world equipment associated with space travel, such asastronauts, a space station or airport, space vehicles

- posters and books about space travel and the universe

- silver stars

- black paper

- paper plates

- paint

- sponges

- salad spinners

STEP BY STEP

- Look at the space related books and posters together and discuss howastronauts travel into space to discover more about planets.

- Suggest creating a space station to launch small-world rockets intospace.

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