Nursery World - EYFS Activities - Outdoor resource box…bird watching

Twitching, inspired by one child’s interest, soon caught the imagination of a whole setting, Lyndsey Gardner explains

ON THE LIST

Range of fiction and non-fiction texts

Fabric

Tarpaulins

String

Pegs

Paper, pencils and clipboard

Masking tape

Binoculars

Materials to make own binoculars

Image cards as visual prompts

Camera

THEME

We decided to create a bird-watching resource box because one of the children in class started to talk about all of the different types of birds that she had seen on her way to nursery. Through discussion and as her interest grew, we extended our planning using a PLOD (Possible Lines of Development) to enrich the curriculum with varied learning opportunities – both indoors and outdoors.

CHOICE

We provided the children with a varied assortment of resources including fabric, tarpaulins, string, tape and pegs so that they could physically construct their own den/bird hide. The provision of both fictional and non-fiction texts, books and stories promoted discussion between the adults and children and enabled practitioners to model subject-specific language and vocabulary to support and extend children’s subject knowledge.

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