Margaret Metcalfe, teacher at Bensham Grove Community Nursery School, Gateshead, tells the story
We certainly ended up reaching for the stars when our space project led to the nursery children making their own animated film, complete with aliens and a monster.
The nursery has some great 'spaceman' dressing-up outfits which stimulated the making of rocket models from scrap materials and sparked a project on outer space. During the project we looked through telescopes, used reference books to find out more about planets and stars, read story books with space themes and used our imaginations for space-inspired music and movement sessions.
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