Lesson 2 - Going outside
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 - Lets 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 - Lets 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 - Lets 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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