100 ideas for early years practitioners : forest school / Tracey Maciver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maciver, Tracey, author.

Series:

100 Ideas for the Early Years

100 ideas for the early years practitioners

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Outdoor education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 118 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Education, [2018]

Summary:

Forest School sessions have risen in popularity in recent years, with many nurseries and pre-schools offering them as part of their regular programme of activities. This new title in the best-selling 100 ideas series is filled with easy-to-implement ideas for introducing Forest School activities and concepts into each day, without putting pressure on the practitioners' time or the setting's budget. 100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Forest School promotes the use of natural resources and the environment, as well as encouraging and instigating child-led learning and play. It addresses health and safety in the outdoor classroom, discusses issues and myths surrounding Forest School, and explores how integrating it into early years settings and provision can enhance children's learning as well as developing a range of 'soft skills' such as self-confidence, working with others, sharing, problem solving, empathy and respect for self, others and their environment.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

How to use this book

Part 1: Getting ready

1 Preparing for the outdoors

2 What do we need to wear for Forest School?

3 What do I need to take with me?

4 Marking boundaries

5 Welly walk

6 Rope bus

7 Tree decorating

8 Books in the woods

Part 2: Using tools

9 Introducing using tools with young children

10 The rope safety circle

11 Low-risk tools

12 Whittling tools

13 Loppers and secateurs

14 Sawing tools

15 Drilling tools

Part 3: Fire

16 Getting ready for fire

17 How to light a fire

18 Making charcoal in a tin

19 Making firelighters

20 Fire words mobile

21 Campfire cookery

22 Bannock

23 Chapattis

24 Foil parcels

25 Nettle soup

26 Making popcorn

27 Roasting sweet chestnuts

28 Cooking with apples

29 Hot bananas

Part 4: Trees and leaves

30 Leaf sewing

31 Hessian pictures

32 Colour postcards

33 Autumn leaf spiral mobile

34 Autumn leaf wreath

35 Leaf fishing

36 Leaf masks for forest superheroes

37 Woodland magic

38 Conker balance

39 Acorn mushrooms

40 Sycamore seed crafts

41 Christmas tree crafts

42 Nature plaques

43 Elder beads

44 Leaf ID bunting

45 Tree cookie blackboards

46 Willow domes

47 Sunflower dens

48 Growing trees

Part 5: Sticks and plants

49 Tree cookies

50 Bell shaker

51 Simple dreamcatchers

52 Log houses

53 Elder bubble wands

54 Fairy doors

55 Willow lanterns

56 Forest friends and mini dens

57 Marionette puppets

Part 6: Bugs and minibeasts

58 Umbrella bug-catching

59 Peg caterpillars

60 Butterfly petal-bashing

61 Threading caterpillars

62 Snail racing

63 Bug stones

64 Sticky spider's web

Part 7: Mud and weather.

65 Making mud paint

66 Mud painting

67 Mud bricks

68 Pitter patter flood!

69 Rain painting

70 Rainstorm music

71 Wind drawing

72 Wind streamers

73 Kites

74 Experimenting with ice

75 Ice windows

76 Snow paths

Part 8: Wildlife

77 Animal ears

78 Animal games

79 Pine cone hedgehogs

80 Animal tracks

81 Stone and leaf animals

82 Fluffy owlets

83 Birds' nests

84 Festive bird garlands

85 Orange bird feeders

86 Apple bird feeders

Part 9: Adventures of the imagination

87 Dinosaur bone hunt

88 Salt dough leaf fossils

89 Story stones

90 Barefoot walk

91 Smelly trails

92 Forest pets

93 Gold rush

94 Shadows

95 Den building

96 Body art

97 Gross motor playground

98 Forest School in the dark

99 The unplanned adventure

100 Reviewing the session

Further reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472946638

1472946634

9781472946669

1472946669

OCLC:

1011184697