Aliens who love stealing pants landed in our Bears class, as we explored the Aliens Love Underpants story written by Clare Freedman and Ben Cort. We took a small step into space to play and build our understanding through a space station role-play experience and our small world helped us to retell and adapt the story adventure of aliens, rockets, and pants!

On the writing table, we made marks in different ways, using magic screens, foil and chalkboards. We wrote space words, practised name writing, and wrote the phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs. We even wrote lying on our backs inside our space station tunnel, just like an astronaut in space!

Aliens Love Underpants was our main story focus, but we also took the opportunity to read lots of space themed stories such as Beegu, The Smeds and the Smoos, Look Up!, How to Catch a Star and more. We also shared 'Whatever Next' a story written by Jill Murphy. We listened to the story, then filled a backpack with the things we would take with us into space, just like Baby Bear. Finally, we made a paper backpack and wrote a list to put inside.

On the creative table we painted on clingfilm and foil to paint the view from inside a spaceship. A fun and interesting way to paint - the Bears loved it! We explored colour mixing with jars, food colouring, pipettes and funnels, building on our previous colour mixing learning with ice cubes. In pen disco we listened to a Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay, as we danced, sung, and drew rockets, planets and stars.

Inspired by the story 'Look Up!', we went outside to paint a meteor shower using a splatter technique. Our meteor paintings have created a background for our 'Look Up!' display to show off our painted aliens, spaceships and patterned pants!.