Forest Textures

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

Objectives

Early Learning Goals

  • Show good control and co-ordination 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 the activity. Show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.
  • Listen attentively in a range of situations. Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what is heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
  • Follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, role-play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Experiment with movement, experiment and manipulate mud and experiment with whittling.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To experiment with movements required to move around the area safely
  • To experiment and manipulate mud
  • To experiment with whittling.

Children will:

  • Learn how to whittle sticks.
  • Make up magic spells.
  • Make a magic mud painting.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Potato peelers
  • Tarpaulin for tool area
  • Sticks
  • Bowls
  • Mud
  • Paint, paper and crayons
  • Glitter
  • Hanging stars
  • A stick that has already been whittled into a magic wand
  • Small branch