Words in the Wood
Audience: KS1 Literacy
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Following directional instructions
- Sensory hunt which features descriptive vocabulary
- Listening to questions from a key in order to identify a plant or
animal
- Listening to a traditional woodland story in situ
- Using a simple writing frame to record observations
- Reading text about some of the plants or animals they have seen
- Story or poetry trail
- Using mirrors, magnifiers or frames to observe closely and write
creatively
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Develop listening skills
- Learn to follow instructions
- Practise reporting back
- Extend their vocabulary
- Become more confident
- Develop respect for their environment
- Experience sharing and taking turns
- Develop their knowledge and understanding of the natural world
- Develop awareness of space, of themselves and others
- Handle a range of equipment with increasing control
- De aware of the life and decay cycle
- Understand that natural materials can be selected by their properties
to make things
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