Bringing our Outdoor Learning In

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In Prep-1 when it is the Winter months, we bring the outdoors in by using natural materials to learn new skills and be creative.

We started by drawing a design from our imagination of what we thought a woodland’s creature might look like.

We then whittled a piece of wood using the whittling knives to sculpt our creature. We sanded part of the wood until it was smooth and added other details like eyes, a tail, or wings.

In literacy we made our own books about our woodland’s creatures. It was an information text which included family, habitat, and diet.

We learned about how artists use backgrounds and foregrounds to create depth in a picture. We used fine liner pens for the intricate details and used ink to add colour.

We then over the next 6 weeks started to create a diorama using a shoe box which showed the habitat where our woodlands creature would live.

We later added a 3d component using magi-clay, a pop out using a paper folding technique and added something to hang down from the roof of our diorama.

We also drew a design for a pouch to keep our woodlands creature safe.

We hope that you will appreciate the amount of hard work and time that has gone in to bringing our outdoor learning inside.

We especially love that they are all different and extremely beautiful.

We hope that you enjoy seeing part of our learning journey through the photos.

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