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Sesame Tree
Target Age Group: 3-6 Year olds
Note on abbreviations
Areas of Learning:
PD&MU: Personal Development and Mutual Understanding WAU: The World Around Us Arts: The Arts
Skills and Capabilities:
TS&PC: Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities COMM: Communication UM: Using Maths UICT: Using ICT
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SUGGESTED LEARNING INTENTIONS
Children will
o Listen to and take part in discussions and communicate information, ideas and opinion(COMM);
o Explore and interact with a digital environment (UICT);
o Understand the need to respect and care for their environment (WAU); o Recognise the positive contribution they can make to their community (PD&MU);
o Describe how peoples actions can affect plants and or animals(WAU); and
o Identify an issue of concern in the local community (WAU).
CONNECTING THE LEARNING WORDS I MIGHT HEAR AND USE The World Around Us Litter, rubbish, recycle, materials, cardboard, glass, o Change over Time: How do things change? How can we make change happen? plastic, paper, tin, landfill sites and refuse.
Personal Development and Mutual Understanding
o Learning to live as a member of a community.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES o Bring in a bag of shopping (use plastic carrier bags and include items with excess packaging); o Unpack the shopping and talk about the excess packaging used, the wrappers that are taken off the food before it is stored and even the damage caused to the environment and wildlife by plastic bags. Talk about what to do with the packaging once it is finished with. Instead of throwing it in the bin, is there any way that it could be put to good use?; o Ask the children to collect a small number of pieces of excess packaging or wrappers from the foods they have eaten at home. Make a collection of these and any that you may have used in school. Name the different materials that are used for the packaging. Compare the different types: why might plastic be used for some and paper or card for others?; o Take the children on a supervised short observation walk, for example around the school playground, or a public open space in the community. Before the walk ask the children to be aware of litter* in their environment and to record this by using Resource A ‘Litter Watch Chart’. Encourage the children to take digital photographs of any ‘Litter Hot Spots’ ;
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o Following the walk, talk about the different kinds of litter. Ask the children for suggestions to prevent people from dropping litter. Encourage the children to suggest different categories for sorting, for example; different materials- paper, cardboard, glass, tin or plastic; different bins- Green bin, Blue bin, Black bin (or what is appropriate for your council);
o Talk about what happens to the materials in the Green/Recyclable Bin.
Log onto www.brysoncgeducation.org/index.php to find out about recycling, view the recycling story and even take part in the Bryson House recycling programme;
Identify with the children one thing you (collectively) will be able to do in school to reduce, reuse or recycle. Draw up a plan of action with the children and carry out the plan. Review the plan and action regularly.
(* Safety note: Before going out on the ‘observation walk’ ensure children understand that they do not touch the litter. Health and safety aspects in relation to litter are raised in Clip 1.)
Extension activity encouraging children to sort animals by colour, shape and size. Sorting by Shape and Colour: Zoe’s Pets Shelter : www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/games/flash.php?contentId=11230208
WATCH AND LISTEN
Clip 1: Big Whizzing Machine - Local Friends – Beach Clean. www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/big_whizzing_machine.shtml
Primary School children visit Benone Beach and show the positive contribution they can make to their community by taking part in a ‘beach clean’.
Clip 2: Big Whizzing Machine - Sesame Friends – Tidying Up. www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/big_whizzing_machine.shtml Bert & Ernie show consideration for others and work together to tidy up.
Clip 3: Big Whizzing Machine - World Friends – Recycling www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/big_whizzing_machine.shtml
Demonstrates how things change. Recycling rubbish into instruments.
Log onto http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page567.aspx useful information about recycling and caring for the environment. Follow the links to create musical instruments from rubbish or puppets from plastic bottles.
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HAVE A GO
Online Game : Potto’s Tidy-up-er www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/tidy_up_er.shtml
Potto and Hilda have a visitor coming for tea. Develop the language of shape, colour and texture and at the same time help them to tidy up before she arrives.
Offline Activity Sheets: Potto’s Colour Match-Up www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/
Sorting and matching colours to items.
Help Potto Recycle- matching the rubbish to its new product, i.e. plastic bottles to a fleece sweater, tin can to paper clips.
“ Remember to keep these in the scrapbook to record all that you have done.
ROUND IT UP
Clip 4 : Big Whizzing Machine - Tidy Up www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/big_whizzing_machine.shtml
Sing Along with the Karaoke machine or print the words of the song and sing along whenever you are helping to tidy up at home, in school…wherever!
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SUGGESTED LEARNING INTENTIONS
Children will
o Recognise the similarities and differences between cultures within and beyond N.I (PD&MU);
o Know that all cultures are given fair and equal status (PD&U);
o Recognise the variety of plants and animals in the locality (WAU);
o Communicate information, ideas and opinion(COMM)
o Experiment with media and identify shape, texture and patterns within their work (ARTS).
CONNECTING THE LEARNING WORDS I MIGHT HEAR AND USE The World Around Us House, home, bungalow, flats, caravan, o Place: Where do I live? What is in my world? tent, villa o Interdependence: Am I the same as everyone else? How do living things survive? Kitchen, bathroom, living room, Personal Development and Mutual Understanding garage, sunroom
o Similarities and differences. Long, tall, short, narrow
The Arts Mini beasts- caterpillar, snail, beetle,
• Observe and respond to things seen, handled, remembered and imagined. Ladybird, worm
• Investigate and talk about colours, textures and patterns
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SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
o Take photographs of homes in the local community. Cut out pictures from magazines or show books that display homes around the world, for example, barges, igloos and tepees. Be careful that the images used reflect the reality of the culture. Make models of homes viewed - a boat, an igloo or even a tepee in the garden!
o Provide construction material such as Duplo or Lego and junk material to create homes for different animals, for example ‘My home is a shell’, ‘My home is the Sea’. What type of home might that be? Would a worm live in a long or a tall home? Encourage creativity in their thinking by asking them to make the home mobile/floatable/sparkling/light etc. o Read the nursery rhyme ‘There was an old woman who lived in a shoe’. Explore the rhyme by asking the following questions: What is a family? Is this always the same? Do we all live in a house? Do we need a home? Are all homes the same? Why do we live in different homes? What are the different roles at home? What things do you do around your home?
o Copy/write their address onto an envelope. Help draw an outline of their front door on the reverse. Colour the door as it is at home. Add the number, handle and letterbox. On a separate piece of paper draw a picture of all the people in their family. Place this picture inside the addressed envelope and take a walk to a post box to post it.
o Collate data about their homes, for example, type of home, number of windows, door colour, do they have a gate? Display using a bar chart.
o Consider taking a visit to a special home, for example, a home for the elderly, a church, or a farm.
WATCH AND LISTEN
Clip 1: Travelling Communities www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/big_whizzing_machine.shtml
Recognising similarities and differences with the Travelling community in Northern Ireland.
Clip 2: Trip to Grasslands www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/big_whizzing_machine.shtml
A different home – how a family lives in China’s Grasslands.
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HAVE A GO
Online Game : Leaf Litter www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/leaf_litter.shtml
Developing an awareness of a tree being a ‘home’ to a rich ecosystem of many plants, animals and organisms.
Additional Website: RSPB – Become a Wildlife Explorer For Adults: http://www.rspb.org.uk/ For children: http://www.rspb.org.uk/youth/play/index.asp This site is well worth a visit providing up to date information about events happening in your area. There’s a children’s zone that provides information on bird habitats, as well as an interactive games area where you and your child can try out some virtual bird spotting.
Online 2 : Scrapbook www. bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/scrapbook.shtml
Beginning to recognise the variety of habitats and organism and the conditions that are required in order for them to survive.
Additional Website: BBC site- Autumn Watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/autumnwatch/ Fun for both Grown-ups and children, these sites provide information on the different habitats for plants and animals and the changes that occur during the seasons.
Offline Activity Sheets
1. Minibeast Match-up - draw a line from the minibeast to its name. 2. Count the Minibeasts - 1-5 Match the number on the leaf to the correct number of minibeasts 3. Count the Minibeasts 6-10 - Match the number on the leaf to the correct number of minibeasts 4. Scrapbook Challenge – Cut, stick and match the character to its home and what it eats.
^ Remember to keep these in the scrapbook to record all that you have done.
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ROUND IT UP
Clip 3: Big Whizzing Machine – Sesame Friends - Home is City Jungle
Print the words of the song and sing along. Sing the song to someone special at home.
USEFUL WEBSITES
Spring Watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/springwatch/spottersclub/ Find out about the habitats of plants and animals by joining PC Plum’s Spotters Club.
Barnaby Bear http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/barnabybear/ Go on a ramble with Barnaby bear to track the different footprints and match them to the correct animal. Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
For Adults: http://www.wwt.org.uk/text/6/learn.html For Children: http://www.wwt.org.uk/text/301/kids_zone.html The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has a kids' zone packed with fun games and activities; and a Fact Files section offering information and resource links on wetlands, wildlife, ecology and sustainability. Check out the Lesson Plans for teachers and parents: http://www.wwt.org.uk/text/300/teachers.html
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SUGGESTED LEARNING INTENTIONS
Children will
o Recognise uniqueness and value personal qualities (PD&MU); o Recognise and name the parts of the body (WAU); o Recognise and value similarities and differences between people (PD&MU); o Communicate information, ideas and opinion(COMM);
o Express ideas by creating pictures using digital media (UICT); and o Experiment with patterns and explore their visual outcomes (ARTS).
CONNECTING THE LEARNING WORDS I MIGHT HEAR AND USE
The World Around Us
o Interdependence: Who am I and What am I? Face, skin, eyes, nose, mouth, hair, ears. Personal Development and Mutual Understanding
o Themselves and their personal attributes; Shapes- round, long, tall, wide,
o Their own and others feelings and emotions; and narrow.
o Similarities and differences Colour - black, blonde, brown, auburn, The Arts red, fair, ginger, straight, curly, wavy.
o Investigate and talk about colours, shapes and patterns. Emotions- sadness, happiness, anger, Mathematics and Numeracy fear.
o Explore shape in the environment; and
o Investigate and talk about pattern in the environment.
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SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
o Provide a variety of collage materials- a collection of textiles, papers, yarns and natural materials e.g. feathers or leaves to make a collage of their face. Encourage the children to choose a piece of background paper and arrange their chosen materials to make the self portrait;
o Discuss their finished portrait, talk about the reasons particular items were chosen and why the materials were put together in a particular way. Talk about anything that was learned about themselves from the process. Compare with other portraits check out some useful background on artists at: www.bbc.co.uk/arts/
o Log onto the Colour Factory www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/#game=colourfactory where you can mix your own colours. Then try out the Portrait Painter at www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/#game=smartportrai tpainter to create a crazy portrait.
o Talk about all of the different things that they do that make them feel proud- their skills, talents or times when they did ‘a good deed’;
o Draw leaf shapes similar to those in Online Activity 2 : Leaf Art and work together to cut out around the outlines. Talk about then write one thing on each leaf that they feel they do well or one thing that they feel proud about themselves, for example, I can put my coat on by myself. I know how to set the table or I know how to tidy up my toys. Decorate each of the leaves;
o Add an illustration on the back of each leaf showing how they feel. Tape or staple the leaves onto a long strip of brown paper (tree trunk and branches). Place photographs /pictures of friends and family that help support, take care of and keep the child safe, along the tree trunk. Display in a prominent position. Remember to add further leaves to the ‘tree’ as the child accomplishes further skills or talents.
WATCH AND LISTEN
Clip 1 – Big Whizzing Machine – World Friends - Faces: Song
Sing along to the words of the song.
Clip 2 - Self Portraits
Children from Northern Ireland come together to paint self portraits.
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HAVE A GO
Online Activity 1: Plant a Forest www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/plant_a_forest.shtml
Create a virtual symmetrical tree and decorate it as wildly as your imagination takes you. Plant the tree in its very own forest. The more trees they create the bigger the forest will grow.
Online Activity 2 : Leaf Art http://extdev.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/fun_and_games/leaf_art.shtml
Use magical leaves to build up layers of transparency to create different effects.
Offline Activity Sheet 1: Potto’s Birthday Portrait www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/print_and_do.shtml
Colour match the leaves and decorate Potto’s portrait.
Offline Activity Sheet 2: Make your own tree www.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesame/print_and_do.shtml
Print out, then paint one side, fold together and press. Open up to see the pattern. Let it dry then cut out and place it on your fridge or why not store it in your scrapbook.
ADDITIONAL WEBSITES
CBeebies – Bubble Paint Game http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/fimbles/purplemeadow/bubblepaint.shtml Experiment with the Fimbles and paint with bubbles.
CBeebies – Spencer’s Colour and Stick http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/balamory/games/embedded_games/colour_and_stick.shtml Try out some of Spencer’s colour and stick activities. Print them out and paste to your scrapbook, or display on your fridge.
CBeebies – Watch & Listen with Mister Maker http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/mistermaker/watch/ Drop in on Mister Maker - and watch the children use themselves to create pieces of artwork……
Cbbc -Smart http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/smart/funandgames/ While developed for older children, this site offers a selection of games and suggested activities that younger children may find of interest.
Other Sites worth investigating http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/etc/teah/teahindex_gfx_en.html Visit the ‘24 hour museum and gallery’. This site is aimed at grown-ups who have children between the ages of 4-11. Visit the children’s zone that offers a range of ‘Show-me’ activities for children to investigate. bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesametree 10 bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesametree 11 Resource A: Litter Watch Chart Activity Planner Name Date:
Our ‘Litter Watch’ took place at :
Make a mark in the box if you see that type of litter.
Plastic Paper Glass Tin Cardboard Other
picture picture picture picture picture picture example example example example example example
Do you think the area was tidy? J L At the end of the walk ask an adult to add up all marks to find out what type of litter is most common. Why not go on a litter Watch at a different time of the year to see if there has been any improvement to the area. bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesametree 12 bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/sesametree 13 Activity Planner 3 Faces and Spaces Words for ‘TIDY Up’ Song
Potto I don’t know but I’ve been told, a tidy room looks good as gold.
Hilda If you tidy up today, it makes it easier to play.
Potto Put your things back where they ought-to.
Hilda Just the way the Tidy Song taught you.
Potto Tidy up, two, three, hup Tidy up, two, three, hup
Both I don’t know but I’ve been told, a tidy room looks good as gold.
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Words for ‘My Home Is In The City Jungle’ Song
My home is in the city on the 19th floor, you may think that’s high but there’s 19 more. There’s lots of apartments everywhere you go. There are people on top and traffic below. You can hear buses beeping and the neighbours TV. You can say it’s noisy, but it’s home sweet home to me.
My home’s in the jungle in a wooden hut. There are trees around and wood to cut. Lots of noise to hear, the birds and monkeys shriek, and we see our mail man every other week. Lots of folks other places, but it seems far away. You can call it jungle, but it’s home and it’s where I’ll stay.
My home is an igloo and it’s made of ice. You may think it’s chilly but it’s fur and ice. We’ve furs and blankets there to keep us warm. We can sing and play through any winter storm. We have friends who keep saying we should move down, but we never do, because we love our igloo home.
A home can be a castle or a little shack. A home can be near water, or railroad track. A home can be made of brick and steel, or grass you know. A home can be an igloo, be made of ice and snow. No mater what your house is like, whatever it may be it will always is home sweet home for kids like you and me.
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