{"id":4361,"date":"2020-06-02T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T11:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/?page_id=4361"},"modified":"2021-01-13T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:37:32","slug":"the-woo-in-the-wild-woods-mnu-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/the-woo-in-the-wild-woods-mnu-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woo in the Wild Woods &#8211; MNU Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These activities were inspired by the book\u00a0<em>The Woo in the Wild Woods\u00a0<\/em>by Ayrshire author Greta Yorke.\u00a0 Listen\u00a0 to and watch Greta reading her book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/the-woo-in-the-wild-woods-an-introduction\/\">You Tube &#8211; The Woo in the Wild Woods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Counting\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>CfE MNU Es and Os MNU 0-02a<\/p>\n<p>As the story is read aloud, ask your child to count out the different animals met on Jamie&#8217;s journey.\u00a0 Help them to practise raising one finger at a time to count along or make a mark (or tally) on a piece of paper each time a new creature enters the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measure &#8211; Find a Wand <\/strong>CfE MNU Es and Os 0-11a<\/p>\n<p>Outdoors, children find a stick which will become their own wizard&#8217;s wand.\u00a0 The stick must measure the same as the distance between the child\u2019s elbow and the child\u2019s wrist.\u00a0 A suggestion for decorating the wand is included in this short LOST video.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GCqHUwaVOgY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GCqHUwaVOgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maths Scavenger Hunt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a walk around the neighbourhood or around your garden, go on Maths Scavenger Hunt.\u00a0 Take an empty egg box with you and set yourself the challenge of finding 6 different things each with a maths connection.\u00a0 For example, find a tiny twig shorter than your pinkie but longer than your pinkie finger nail, something lighter than a feather, a long leaf, 6 pine needles, 2 beech nuts, a round stone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Mud Pies and Fractions\u00a0 <\/strong>CfE MNU Es and Os\u00a0 MNU 0-07a, 1-07a<\/p>\n<p>Get muddy!\u00a0 All you need is an empty pot or tray (a vegetable or fruit tray headed for the recycling bin works well), a spoon, soil or compost,\u00a0 some water and stones or sticks you find on the ground.\u00a0 Add water to the soil and mix it together to make a really thick mud. Make a mud pie in your tray and decorate the top of the pie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Half <\/em>of the pie should be decorated with objects collected from the ground (seeds, grass, leaves) the other <em>half<\/em>\u00a0 should be empty.<\/p>\n<p>Have another go at making a mud pie.\u00a0 This time, decorate a <em>quarter<\/em> of the pie.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great opportunity to use lots of maths vocabulary.\u00a0 \u00a0Chat\u00a0 about making sure that you create 2 <em>equal<\/em> parts on top of the pie.\u00a0 Only when the two pieces are equal can you say that you have <em>halved<\/em> the pie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These activities were inspired by the book\u00a0The Woo in the Wild Woods\u00a0by Ayrshire author Greta Yorke.\u00a0 Listen\u00a0 to and watch Greta reading her book\u00a0You Tube &#8211; The Woo in the Wild Woods Counting\u00a0 \u00a0CfE MNU Es and Os MNU 0-02a As the story is read aloud, ask your child to count out the different animals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/the-woo-in-the-wild-woods-mnu-activities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Woo in the Wild Woods &#8211; MNU Activities<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20798,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4361","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4361\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}