Using natural materials outside is fabulous you can use them to create items from mobiles and clay heads to shelters/ Consider the properties of different natural material and help children learn to recognise some of their key features.
This can be anything from using mud to make : mud gingerbread in connection with the " Gingerbread story"
To making mud troll faces due the "Three Billy Goat Gruff "
Use your garden or your school grounds or a local park etc to discover and identify a range of trees and plats. Activities will vary slightly depending on age? ability, but will include the role of plants, leaves, roots and stems and an introduction to photosynthesis ( the requirement for light, water and air why leaves are green and the leaf being a powerhouse for the plant)
And as I was doing the other day with a group of reception tying in with the subject of Spring looking for signs of new life in nature : Looking for buds, daffodils, bird nests etc ...
Why not go kite flying ? It's a perfect way to see nature all around you.
This can be anything from using mud to make : mud gingerbread in connection with the " Gingerbread story"
To making mud troll faces due the "Three Billy Goat Gruff "
Use your garden or your school grounds or a local park etc to discover and identify a range of trees and plats. Activities will vary slightly depending on age? ability, but will include the role of plants, leaves, roots and stems and an introduction to photosynthesis ( the requirement for light, water and air why leaves are green and the leaf being a powerhouse for the plant)
And as I was doing the other day with a group of reception tying in with the subject of Spring looking for signs of new life in nature : Looking for buds, daffodils, bird nests etc ...
Why not go kite flying ? It's a perfect way to see nature all around you.
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| In the words of Mary Poppins "Lets go fly a kite " |
I have never ever mastered the art of kite flying, if it is dry enough today we may go build a den at my friends cottage
ReplyDeleteI wish I could fly a kite. I tried many years ago and was so rubbish I couldn't even get it off the ground!
ReplyDeleteNice photo again Claire :)
ReplyDeleteMy children love kite flying. They are fascinated x
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