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Today Cat Sandion is blasting off to explore space and we hear a story about Martin the space dog on a mission to the moon.

Introduction
Key vocabulary: space, rockets, planets, stars, spaceship, spaceman, astronaut, solar system, meteor, aliens, the Milky Way.
Sound discrimination: rocket boosters and a count down sequence: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Blast off! Children can join in with actions as they mime blasting off with their rocket arms.

Cat invites the children to listen carefully and imagine that they have taken off in a rocket. They are travelling through the dark sky surrounded by planets and twinkly stars.

Song – Twinkle, twinkle little star
Twinkle, twinkle little star
(Hold hands up about shoulder height. Open and close hands)
How I wonder what you are
(Raise shoulders and hold hands out)
Up above the world so high
(Raise hands high and make a round shape)
Like a diamond in the sky
(Form forefinger and thumb from each hand in a diamond shape)
Twinkle, twinkle little star
(Hold hands up about shoulder height. Open and close hands)
How I wonder what you are.(Raise shoulders and hold hands out)

Twinkle, twinkle little star
(Hold hands up about shoulder height and wriggle fingers)
How I wonder what you are
(Raise shoulders and hold hands out)
Up above the world so high
(Raise hands high and make a round shape)
Like a diamond in the sky
(Form forefinger and thumb from each hand in a diamond shape)
Twinkle, twinkle little star
(Hold hands up about shoulder height and wriggle fingers)
How I wonder what you are
(Raise shoulders and hold hands out)

Help the children to join in and follow the actions as they sing the rhyme.
For subsequent hearings you can introduce additional actions:
Line 1: twinkling fingers
Line 2: point to head, looking puzzled
Line 3: point up to sky
Line 4: make a diamond shape with fingers of both hands
Line 5: as line 1
Line 6: as line 2

Story time: The space dog
Once upon a starry time… Use pictures or real items to introduce a rocket, the globe, stars, astronaut, numerals zero to ten and help the children to sequence and remember. Use these items later when retelling and sequencing the story.

Cat recaps on the Space dog story and then introduces the final song ‘Five little men in a flying saucer’. Cat describes the actions to accompany the song and encourages the children to join in with the song and actions.

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