[musca in soup (Jim)]

Hi all,
I have been asked to give a 'star talk' to 2 classes of year 2 (7&8yo) kids on an evening in a few weeks time (23 or 24 sept). Best guesstimate is about 50 kids and I presume some parents. One of the teachers has managed to get hold of 2 telescopes from a high school in town, and I will take mine down. (Don't have details of the telescopes yet)

I was thinking of getting everyone to bring rugs and lie on the middle of the school oval while I talk for a few minutes and shine a bright narrow beam torch around the sky, then maybe break into 3 or 4 groups with a telescope each (and adult/teacher manning the scopes) and maybe another group practicing how to find south, trace out scorpio and find a few other naked eye things.

The skies have always fascinated me and I'd say there'll be kids the same. I'd like to feed/encourage that fascination.

Any suggestions on what to look at/things to keep the masses busy while they wait their turn? I'm a bit worried about the numbers.

Jim