Year 2 were greeted by a wonderful surprise! A baby star had fallen from the Solar System and joined the children in Year 2. It had left a special letter with instructions, but sadly some of the letter got burnt in the journey and so was missing! The children are still not sure what might happen if they ate the stardust! The star was placed safe and sound in a jar, so the children named and cared for their star with joy.
Throughout the two-week topic, the children thought of imaginative ways to catch a star, predicted where the star had come from, wrote a set of instructions on how to care for the star and also created their own Star Shape poems. They also had the opportunity to make their own moon dough with glitter, and also looked at the work of Vincent Van Gogh recreating his famous painting A Starry Night.
It was a wonderful way to end our half term and hope that the children had as much as the teachers throughout this fun and wondrous topic!
