Lesson 2 | Going outside | Field of Mars EEC
Lesson overview
Students read or listen to a story about animals, then play a story match game by finding features from the story in their own outdoor space. They watch the Let’s read a story and Let’s build a cubby videos, build a cubby using natural or household materials, and finish with a teddy bears’ picnic. Through play, they explore how stories, animals and experiences can make places feel special.
Learning intention
- We are learning how to play outside.
Success criteria
- We can do an activity outside.
Activity 1 - Let’s read a story
Tasks
- View the Let's read a story video.
- Read a story about animals.
- Match pictures from your story to what's outside.
Let's read a story I Field of Mars EEC (1:36min) I YouTube
Activity 2 - Let’s build a cubby
Tasks
- View the Let's build a cubby video.
- Build a cubby.
- How will you play safely?
Let's build a cubby I Field of Mars EEC (0:58min) I YouTube
Activity 3 - Let’s have a teddy bears’ picnic
Tasks
- Take your soft toys outside for a picnic.
- Take a photo or draw a picture.
Teddy bears picnic
Video transcript
...and a great big grin Snake asks slyly, "May I come in?".
We've been reading stories about animals. Animals are one of the things that make
this place so special to me. I wonder if you can go and read a story about something that belongs in your special place.
Today we were reading Goodnight Possum by Coral Vass and Sona Babajanyan. I'm going to play story-match now where I match the features from the story to the features in my garden.
I'm going to look for some red leaves, some trees, flowers, a funny-shaped leaf and some gum leaves. I found some red leaves and I counted eight in total.
Outside there are plenty of trees. Here I've matched Possum's flower.
I also found some white flowers and some purple ones. Here I found a funny-shaped leaf. And here I found some gum leaves, one brown and one green
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Video transcript
Hi we're here under the babysitter trees. This is our nature play space.
Julie-Ann let's go make a cubby. Yeah, let's do it.
That was really fun. Did you see we made a really big cubby with big sticks? We found those sticks underneath our babysitter trees.
But perhaps you could make a cubby at home using sheets or blankets.
Or you could go outside and make a smaller cubby using smaller sticks, one that would be perfect for a teddy.
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