With all this exploring of space travel, I have been reading and wondering… one thing I read was that in the days before writing, the night sky was a picture book for humans – a gallery for their imaginations!

This wonderful thought spurred the idea of inviting the children to create images using their bodies and using simple dots (like the star constellation we witnessed at the planetarium and in our own night sky observances).

Mrs Hughes and Eileen drape LED lights – what a great effect!

each child had identified their star sign and tried to create that shape

We remembered the line work we did when we explored Chinese calligraphy…

and I showed the children a set of YOGA postures that look like human letters…

The children wished to explore their own shapes using white paint and cotton buds and created these wonderful imaginary constellations…

Then I set the children a task to create an image from the dots I emailed them while they were on break time… here’s the dot pattern I created:

Look at all the incredible imaginative responses…

Every one of them DIFFERENT… thank you for the great session, Eileen, Mrs Hughes, Bernard, Mrs Hughes son who assisted and all the children!