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Project outline Here Come the Aliens!: Space invaders

Children will have great fun blasting into space with activities from Jean Evans based on an imaginative story book.

Here Come the Aliens! by Colin McNaughton (Walker Books, 5.99)will transport children into a fantasy world where weird-looking aliensfrom bizarre planets come hurtling to earth in their strange spaceships,bent on conquering the human race.

The aliens may be fearsome, ugly and bizarre, but their disgustingappearances and habits are sure to fire children's creativity and havethem giggling. This is a highly amusing story, with an excellent twistin the tail when a photograph of a class of four-year-old children hasthe aliens turning around in horror and speeding back into thegalaxy!

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The Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (page 11) emphasisesthe importance of providing children with a balance of adult-led andchild-initiated learning opportunities. This project, therefore:

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