Mad About Minibeasts!

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Minibeasts are small creatures that can be found in many different environments and they play a big part in habitat biodiversity. If you have a lesson plan or activity that has worked well in your early years setting and you would like to share it with other practitioners then please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you. Looking at minibeasts provides opportunities to learn about how we care for other creatures and for our environment, as well as plenty of counting and sequencing activities. g. bow saw; hand saw; axe; potato peeler; fixed blade knife; loppers; secateurs, garden shears; hand drill; palm drill and screwdrivers etc, tool safety is of paramount importance so we decided to talk to the children about each tool that we use and showed them how to use each item safely and correctly (we also do this as a matter of routine before using each tool).

It also suitable for teaching KS1 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and 1st level in Scotland. They must not be used for commercial purposes and you are not permitted to redistribute them in any way.

Two activity plans are laid out in detail for each area, and there is a book list to accompany the topic. This clip is relevant for teaching Music and Sciences at at Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Scotland. A Cuddle For Claude was nominated for the Sheffield Book Award and Claude is now the subject of a popular animated TV series.

We believe it's important that children learn how to respect and use real tools as they are more than capable given the opportunity (for further information on tool safety and storage at the nursery, please see our handbook: https://bit. Once upon a garden time… To hold attention and help engage the children you can show pictures, images puppets or toys to represent Susie and the birds, flowers, trees, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly, jar, twigs, lettuce, leaves etc. She then invites the children to think about the minibeasts which don’t make a sound - worms, butterflies, spiders, slugs and snails - and to think about how they move. So, next time you’re out in the garden, or at the park, or at the beach, look under rocks, in bushes, on trees, or flowers, or the soil.These simple, cheerful and humorous rhymes about all the familiar insects you might encounter in your garden - from slugs and snails to beautiful butterflies - are great fun to read together, and also make a good introduction to learning about the world around us. Extension activities based on patterns, shapes, humanities and sciences could be prompted from this video. The site was created a few years back with the aim of becoming a high quality sparklebox alternative - helping teachers and parents to create exciting and inspiring learning environments for young children. He has won the Federation of Children's Book Award and the Book Trust Early Years Award, but he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman. Additional activities included creating mud minibeasts (some were done on the front gate), using magnets with various items to see which ones were magnetic, topping up the bird-feeder, a woodchip tea party and a minibeast/bug hunt with magnifying glasses.