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This detailed two-week topic for Reception focuses on the topic of space. The EYFS space activities set out in the document integrate literacy, creativity and exploration.

Week 1: Learning about planets

Focus: Understanding the difference between fiction and non-fiction, exploring planets and creating factual posters.

Activities include:

  • Watching a story, “The Baby and the Rocket,” to discuss fact vs. fiction.
  • Using mnemonics to remember the order of planets.
  • Making posters about planets using facts and visuals.
  • Exploring the solar system through books and interactive play.
  • Associated play includes role-playing as astronauts, designing planets and constructing models.

Week 2: Rockets and instructions

Focus: Discovering the features of rockets and writing instructions for building them.

Activities include:

  • Shared reading of instructional texts and identifying key features like bossy verbs.
  • Creating descriptive labels for rockets and noting their features.
  • Building a large classroom rocket as a group project, with each child contributing.
  • Interactive games like rocket hopscotch and memory-based planet sorting.

Key objectives for EYFS space activities

  • Literacy: Distinguishing between fact and fiction, vocabulary development and writing captions, sentences, and labels.
  • Creative expression: Designing rockets and planets, role-play and collaborative projects.
  • Physical development: Engaging in outdoor play and movement activities like creating spacecraft setups.

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