Journey Sticks

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Transport: On the Move Through Nature

Objectives

Early Learning Goals

  • Show good control and coordination in large and small movements. Move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space. Handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.
  • Play co-operatively, taking turns with others. Take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity. Show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.
  • Be confident to try new activities, and to say why some activities are liked more than others. Be confident to speak in a familiar group, will talk about ideas, and will choose the resources needed for a chosen activity. Say when help is or isn't needed.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, role-play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Experience a woodland classroom environment and learn how to keep safe in a forest.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To experience a woodland classroom environment.
  • To learn how to keep safe in a forest.
  • To experiment with movements required to move around the area safely.

Children will:

  • Know how to keep safe in a forest.
  • Know how to find base camp.
  • Make journey sticks and talk about objects collected.
  • Experiment with different ways of moving. Jumping off objects and landing appropriately.

You Will Need

Find and establish a woodland classroom area and base camp.

  • 6 PE cones
  • Double sided sticky tape
  • Scissors to cut the tape