Nursery World - Enabling Environments: We're exploring ... Space

Eastfield Academy Nursery in Northampton got the children making
aliens, a rocket and even the moon after noting their interest in
space.By Claire Lowery

Here at Eastfield Academy Nursery we love to plan from the children's interests and motivations. All staff complete daily evaluations noting down what the children have been talking about and creating. Talk and play around the moon, spaceships and night-time made 'space' the obvious choice as a theme to explore further with them.

DESTINATION: THE MOON?

rocket The previous week, the children had really enjoyed the story Peace at Last by Jill Murphy so, to support our space theme, we decided to use another classic text by the same author - Whatever Next! in which Baby Bear finds a rocket and heads for the moon.

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