Forest and Woodland

Personal Social and Emotional

In group time, discuss how the woodland/forest makes you feel? Happy, sad, scared, calm…

Would you like to live there?

Communication and Language

Listening. Take a group of children into the woodland and listen. What can we hear? Birds, insects, leaves rustling… Make a talking tray with items collected from the woodland.

Literacy

Read The Gruffalo, Where’s my Teddy and Red Riding Hood.. Do the stories tell us what the forest/woodland is like

Mathematics

Using mathematical vocabulary. Count how many trees there are in the wooded area. Find the tallest. Find the shortest.

Understanding the World

Find out some information about trees. Find out what animals might live in the forest/woodland. Squirrels, birds, snakes, insects…

Physical Development

Move to music growing and swaying in the wind like trees. Move fast like a squirrel, crawl like a snake. Use fine motor skills to make a finger print bluebell picture.

Expressive Art and Design

Make a collage pink blossom tree using tissue paper and paint. Find some leaves and do some leaf rubbing with chalk and leaf printing with paint.

Focused Vocabulary

Forest, woodland, blossom, tallest, shortest, squirrels, branches, twigs