Information and guidance
Before using the content
Tell the children that today鈥檚 theme is 鈥榮pace鈥 and that they will be pretending to travel in a space rocket.
鈥 Do any of the children know about 鈥榮pace鈥 or 鈥榬ockets鈥?
鈥 Who would travel in a rocket? Where might they be travelling to?
鈥 What might they take with them?
Movement language
The following vocabulary will be used in the programme:hammering, banging, drilling, slowly climbing, wiggling, zipping, pushing, pressing, twisting, tapping, whooshing, blast-off.
Movement
The children are helping Steven to build a space rocket. They mime hammering and banging, drilling holes and tightening nuts and screws with a spanner. Next the children pretend to be a getting into their space rocket. They slowly climb up the ladder, step by step, lifting first one leg and then the other.
Then they bend forward to put on their space suits, placing their feet carefully into the trouser legs and pulling them up with both hands. Next they pull on the tricky space boots and wiggle their arms into the sleeves before they quickly zip up the jacket.
The rocket rumbles and it鈥檚 time to stretch up to reach for the space helmets, wiggle them over their heads and check everything is fastened and ready. The children then sit cross-legged in the astronaut鈥檚 seat and mime clicking their safety belts across their laps. They lean forward and push buttons, twist knobs and tap dials to operate the space rocket.
With the music the children repeat the sequence of movements and actions as they join in with the 鈥楻ocket into space鈥 song. Finally blasting off with a final count down, a big whoosh, hands held high pointing upwards鈥s they zoom up鈥ike a rocket taking off.
Song (tune: 鈥楯elly on a plate鈥)
Rocket into space, rocket into space,
Space suit on, space suit on,
Rocket into space,
10, 9, 8鈥
Rocket into space, rocket into space,
Helmet wiggle, helmet wiggle,
Rocket into space,
7, 6, 5鈥
Rocket into space, rocket into space,
Push a button, push a button,
Rocket into space,
4, 3, 2鈥
Rocket into space, rocket into space,
Hold on tight, hold on tight,
Rocket into space,
1 and blast-off! Whoosh!
Story: Rocket dreams
Lola loves everything to do with outer space. Her room is covered in glow-in-the-dark stars and moons and planets; her bed covers and pyjamas have rockets on them too鈥
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