First Steps in the Environment
Audience: Early Years
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Outside today - weather and clothing
- Seasonal observations and activities
- Sensory experiences
- Themed scavenger hunts
- Sorting, counting and displaying natural objects
- Animal detectives
- Introduction to a range of habitats
- Observing and constructing animal homes
- Care of living things
- Walks using geographical language
- Outdoor, site-specific story telling
- Exploring the properties of natural materials and how they may change
over time
- Making connections between natural materials and manufactured objects
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Develop listening skills
- Learn to follow instructions
- Practice speaking to a group
- Extend their descriptive vocabulary
- Understand the links between a woodland story and the real woodland
- Practice recording their thoughts outdoors
- Use non-fiction texts to gain information
- Practice sequencing text from a story or lines of poetry
- Increase their observation and communication skills
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