Tag Archives: Outdoor Learning

Group Blue, Group Green

Autumn Fun With Green and Blue

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Autumn

This week the Green and Blue groups have been learning all about the changes in season and weather.  We have investigated autumn through songs, artwork, books and games.

We made an autumn tree and leaf print pictures to decorate our story corner.

Blue and Green group used their maths knowledge to match the leaves to the numbers on the chalkboard.

We love singing our autumn song!

 French

Over the past week we have had lots or opportunities to practice our french with Mrs Branco and Pierre.  We are starting to count and say hello/goodbye in french. Have a listen to us practising our song.

 

Community, Gardening, Health & Wellbeing, Learning at home, Natural World, Outdoor Learning

Cool with Tools by Mrs Small

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Mrs Small  noticed that lots of people are out enjoying gardens and green spaces. Click on the links below to watch videos of Mrs Small giving us tips on how to be safe.

Cool with Tools Part 1

Cool with Tools Part 2

Remember to let us know how you are getting on with your community spaces and gardens!

If you need help to identify birdsong click on the link below;

Identify Bird Song

 

Eco Learning, Learning at home, Natural World, Numeracy & Mathematics, Outdoor Learning

Rainbow Nature Hunt

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Hi everybody, Mrs Reynolds here, I hope you are all keeping well and staying safe. I was reading Mrs MacLeod’s post about going on a rainbow nature hunt and I knew my little girl Erin would love to do that, so I thought I would share what we did. I made Erin a grid from string and cardboard and placed different colours onto it for her to find on our walk. For older children you could add different  numbers to each colour of how many items to collect for a numeracy experience and write the colour names on it to promote literacy. Erin really enjoyed collecting the items and placing them under the string to take them home with her. Maybe some of you could try this on your next walk and send us a photo of what you managed to collect. Keep an eye on the blog to see more of what Erin and I are up to and please keep sharing your ideas with us as well.

Creative Arts, Imaginary Play, Learning at home, Literacy, Outdoor Learning

Fun ideas from Mrs Reynolds!

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Hello everyone,
Hope you are finding lots of ways to have fun at home and in this lovely sunshine! Mrs Reynolds has shared some photos of great ideas she has been using with Erin at home:
TRANSIENT ART
An old cutlery tray filled with interesting objects like stones and cones and an old picture frame can be used outside to create many different patterns and pictures.

Below are some examples of outdoor Transient Art by the British environmental artist Andy Goldworthy. You might get  some ideas from him…

DIFFERENT WAYS WITH A PADDLING POOL
1) Use it as a Wee Den to draw and read in

2) Erin’s Daddy’s birthday balloons were collected to make a place for dolls and teddies to have a party
3) RHYME FISHING:
Another idea is Rhyme Fishing in a paddling pool, an old baby bath or a washing up bowl. Fill it with water and throw in some rhyming objects (e.g. cork -fork; key-pea; petal-metal), then challenge your child to fish out the objects that rhyme using a ladle or other utensil. For an extra challenge you could work on a way to make your own fishing net…