'Look up,Look up'

 John Willits had a wish to fly round the moon.

Above all,he wanted see UFO'S and meet aliens.

He wanted to meet the aliens he had seen on the small and the big screen.

He wanted to be an explorer and go further than his back garden.

Look up! Look up! he said with dreamy eyes.

He imagined new worlds and far away galaxies.

On his birthday,his mum made a space rocket cake and rented a space cadet suit.

He was having a party and everyone was invited,his neighbours,

His school friends,Sunday school friends and even an entertainer!

When they opened their invitations their eyes became big and sparkly.

Everyone was so delighted!!!

The day before John had decorated the house and filled the party bags with a sugar mouse.

And on the day,John helped put up the balloons and practiced dancing to party tunes.

He filled up plates with jelly sweets and biscuits,golden coins and pirate riches!

He put on his space cadet suit and his sister put on fairytale princess dress.

Look up!Look up!He said 

Some superheroes are flying into the room!We have a red cape ,a black cape

and a spider suit.There is a wizard,a pirate,a cowboy,a space toy and a dinosaur!!

A rabbit,a little frog ,a runaway croc and a unicorn with a little dog.

Suddenly the door bell rang and there stood a mystery man.

They played musical chairs,and musical statues,musical bumps and ate marshmallows from 

a chocolate fountain. 

When they played pass the parcel and everyone won a glow stick.

They wished it was dark outside so they could see them light up.

All the party food was placed on the dining room table,everyone  gathered round the cake,a

Spaceship cake lit up with six candles

The room went dark and John made a wish to fly into Space.

Look up,Look up he shouted!!!

Suddenly a light came in from the window.It was a real spaceship in his back garden!!

John and his friends all climbed aboard!!!

They listened for the count down 5-5,4-4,3-3,2-2,1-1 lift off!

There was smoke and fire,they were amazed,the stars shone above them and

They travelled many days to 

'The magic of the moon'

Look Up,Look Up!!!John said 

As they flew past the Northern Lights and brushes of colour filled their eyes.

The children decided to play ‘I Spy’

Look up!Look up! 

They looked through the telescope as they went up and up and high.

They could see a face in the moon.

They wanted to find rocks and collect lunar dust to keep for themselves and hide in their room.

They kept watch for a shooting star and stayed well away from meteors!

They wanted to see a galaxy,to touch it and float without gravity.

Look Up Look Up!!

Each star lit up their face and the earth and the other planets were lit up 

as if they were on stage.

The sun it’s self was the spotlight.When the planets started to fade they said ‘Good Night’.

The children played a game of dot-to-dot as they looked at the constellations.

‘Orion’s belt’,’The Plough’,and ‘The Great Bear’,God's creations.

As they got closer to the moon the landing was quite shakey

but the children arrived bravely.

They opened the hatch,it was ‘One step for a Space cadet’!

’A giant step for the moonettes’!!

When they went for a Spacewalk they wanted to bounce all afternoon.

They wanted to collect a milky way and make a diamond footway.

Could they go to Mars and see a blue sunset?Could they find some aliens and 

Invite them as a guest?

All the children were given spacesuits,a purple suit and looked down on planet Earth.

Suddenly,a little head popped up, and then his friends ‘Hi,I’m Axol

‘We are the moon protectors’!

‘We are like the stars

We are rays of light’!

The children were a little afraid and raised up their glowsticks!

‘We are earthlings,we mean you no harm’.

Axol said:

‘Would you like a guided tour’?!

‘This is our home,we call it ‘Marshmallow Manor’

The children agreed ‘it looks like a bouncy castle,can we come inside’?!

Axol said: ‘Of course you can’

’Would you like a drink of moon cola?’

The children were very happy to meet the aliens,they said

‘Would you like to play together?’

John suggested a game of moonball.

He said ‘Whoever wins takes the moon cup home!

And so it began,they played until the sun went down.

Nobody wanted the day to end.

Axol said:

‘We would love to visit you on planet earth’

They all said:

‘We would love to have you!We could take you round the world in our new ship.

‘We come from a place called England.

There are old monuments to see and we could take you to ‘Buckingham Palace’,where the 

queen lives!

There’s ‘The Eiffel Tower’ and paintings in France.

There's 'Sydney Opera House' and big red rocks in Australia.

In America we could visit New York.The ‘Statue of Liberty’ and ’The Empire State Building’

all lit up at night.

We could fly over to ‘The White House’ and meet ‘The President’.See the beaches in Los 

Angeles!

In Iceland there is The Northern Lights.A rainbow of colours in the sky that look like a 

rainbow of flowing dresses’!

All this chatter made the children and aliens forget they had to say goodbye,the aliens said:

Look up Look up!!

‘Don’t cry we will send you a message in the sky’

However,when they walked back to the spaceship it looked different.It was all iced up!

John turned round to his friends and the aliens and said ‘What has happened’?

‘The hatch will not open’

‘Why is it frozen’?

'Dont worry' Said Axol

‘All we have to do is wait for sunrise’

'But our parents will be worried and miss us'

'Is there another way?'

'Yes you could take a space taxi'!

'It will take you on a guided tour of all the constellations'

'And take you home'

The children had a think and agreed to take the taxi home but first they got back

in their fancy dress.

Waving goodbye to their new friend Axol they arrived back in John's garden.

He told his mum where they had been and she smiled at him and the children.

The children nearly went home and then John remembered the party bags!

They became very excited.In each party bag there was a letter and an extra special 

Gift inside,

A model of Axol and his people straight from the moon.They never forgot their 

space adventure.

They could 'Look up and Look up 'to remember!!!