NATURE’S RAINBOW

PIONEER SCHEME

SESSION OBJECTIVES

LEVEL 1

WELLBEING & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

• Shows curiosity and interest in the outdoors by actions and facial expressions.

SELF MANAGEMENT OF RISK

• Listens to simple rules and instructions when outdoors

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

• Shows curiosity and interest in the outdoor environment by actions and facial expressions.

CREATIVITY & IMAGINATION

• Notices, touches, picks up and takes a closer looks at nature.

RESILIENCE & PROBLEM SOLVING

• Can settle their emotions outdoors.

BIODIVERSITY • Enjoys looking at the trees, flowers and wildlife when outside.

PHYSICAL & PRACTICAL OUTDOOR SKILLS

• Experience travelling and moving over a range of terrain in different ways outdoors with support.

• Can repeat the names of basic plant features when seen, such as: tree, leaf, flower, grass, stick.

• Can name something they did outdoors with prompts

Session Focus Children will investigate different colours outdoors.

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Curriculum Links

Literacy: Listen to stories, responding to what they hear with relevant comments; They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.PE/D: Children show developing control and co-ordination in fine manipulative movements.Maths: Explore characteristics of objects & use mathematical language to describe them.Art (EAD): Represent their own ideas through art.Science (UW) : Make observations about plants.

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Resources• Spike’s Spikes eBook. • Species Identification: ‘Colour Match’ Resource.• You can make this activity as simple as you like:

see above pictures for ideas of resources.

Associated Risk Assessments Generic Site RA; Collecting & Handling Natural Materials RA.

Session Outline

• Read the eBook Spike’s Spikes together.• Talk about how he made a mistake, but put

things right in the end, with patience. • Children are to work together to help Spike re-

build the rainbow by spotting, matching and (maybe) collecting colours in their outdoor environment.

DifferentiationLA- Assist with the tasks as appropriate.HA- Can they spot any patterns with the colours they find/ do not find?

ExtensionWhen complete, can the children re-build a rainbow pattern with the colours they find? Which colours were there lots of/ not much of?

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