Reusing and upcycling our rubbish is just one way of managing waste in an environmentally responsible way.

Focus on the illustrations in a picture book to help children identify where the narrative events are taking place. used by the animals as they describe how their habitat and behaviour will change when spring arrives. Beautifully illustrated with photos and artwork from NASA and ESA, this simple story is perfect for introducing the idea of planets and asteroids to children. Amazing tells the story of a little boy and his pet dragon, Zibbo, and the many activities they enjoy doing together.This book is a great introduction to the seasons and how the weather changes over the year, with a focus on what squirrels need to do to survive. Explore and represent patterns within numbers up to 10, including evens and odds, double facts and how quantities can be distributed equally. Not only does it introduce a variety of animals in their different habitats, but is a great way to explain how the moon travels around the earth.

The beautiful illustrations provide the chance to explain how the moon reflects the light from the sun. In this activity, your Ks1 class will read through the sentences and add in the capital letters and full stops to punctuate the sentences. It tells the issue of plastic waste and its danger that we face today through a simple story suitable and relatable for kids. This book shows us how a bird builds her nest and uses examples of lifting and dropping, pulling and pushing twigs and pulling up worms to explain how forces make things move, stop moving or change direction.

This book is quite long with 30 pages and as much as 6 lines of rhyming text on some pages, but we think the humour in the story will keep EYFS aged children engaged. Offer moon dough made from two parts cornflour to one part hypoallergenic hair conditioner, rocks and crystals, toy space rockets, alien models, counters and numbers. Converse with the children individually about their photos and scribe some of their words to make captions for the photos. For ice related activities, visit our meling ice STEM at home activiy and our insulating ice activity.