Gross and fine motor tasks

Monday- ​FINE MOTOR: Smash moon rocks with a hammer. Here is the recipe for the moon rocks.

Tuesday-

GROSS MOTOR: Throw asteroids (balls of silver foil) into a bucket.

Wednesday-

GROSS + FINE MOTOR: Toss and balance the moon rocks (silver foil) using a large spoon. They might even have an egg and spoon (space race) with them.​

Thursday-

FINE MOTOR – Unravel the moon rocks (silver foil).

Friday-

GROSS MOTOR: Jump, run and balance like a rocket ship.

Weekly Writing Tasks 

Monday- ​Ask your child to draw their own alien and label it. ​

TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE: ​Can you ring the drawing to life using the Chatterpix app. Encourage your child to pretend to be the alien and record their sentences.

Tuesday- ​Write an ​invitation​ to the alien to invite them to your very own space party. 

Wednesday- ​Your child can draw out or write their own menu for an alien. What does an alien eat? Moon-burgers, star biscuits or fruit rockets. Click ​here​ for more ideas.

Thursday- Task your child with designing their own spaceship. Can they​ describe how the machine would move.

Friday- ​Ask your child to look up to the sky and down to the ground. Ask them to draw what they can see and have a go at completing the sentence, I can see a…