A Nursery weekly lesson plan about Forest Life. Children go on a sensory nature walk, investigate forest habitats and conservation, trace the letter Ww, practice counting 1-10, and learn non-standard measurement.
What children learn
- Describe how a forest looks and identify living things found there.
- Discuss ways forests support human and animal life.
- Identify actions that protect forests and wildlife.
- Recognise and write Ww and compare more/less and non-standard measures.
Key activities
- Exploring a forest treasure box of branches, leaves, rocks, soil, and weeds
- Sorting pictures of animals, birds, insects, and people found in forests
- Building a forest model from cardboard and paper
- Making a conservation craft from recyclable materials
- Taking a nature walk to collect and record forest-like materials
You’ll need
leaves, rocks and small branches, soil and weeds, forest-life picture cards, brown and green paper, cardboard boxes and glue, recyclable newspapers, rolls and cups, nature-collection bags, letter Ww cards, objects for hand-and-foot measurement, bottles and water
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy