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Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist known for his site-specific installations involving natural materials and the passage of time. Working as both sculptor and photographer, Goldsworthy crafts his installations out of rocks, ice, leaves, or branches, cognizant that the landscape will change, then carefully documents the ephemeral collaborations with nature through photography.

https://www.livingyourwildcreativity.com/art-gallery-1-mitchell-1

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🍃Carroll diagram
🍃Leaf patterns
🍃Comparing sizes/colours/shapes

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🍃Sorting by colour/size/shape/types
🍃Repeating patterns
🍃Leaf pictures
🍃Creating shapes

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Using leaves to support measuring

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Using a large empty bottle create a rain gauge to record the amount of rainfall

https://www.science-sparks.com/weather-make-a-rain-gauge/

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🪵Stick shapes
🪵Ordering sticks by length
🪵Ribbon sticks - tie ribbon lengths onto stick to dance with in the wind
🪵Journey sticks - attach elastic bands and let children poke in items they find such as flowers, leaves etc
🪵Stick flags
🪵Paint a stick
🪵Give a stick a face

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🪵Stick shapes
🪵Ordering sticks by length/width
🪵Ribbon sticks - tie ribbon lengths onto stick to dance with in the wind
🪵Journey sticks - attach elastic bands and let children poke in items they find such as flowers, leaves etc
🪵Stick flags
🪵Paint a stick
🪵Give a stick a face

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Using sticks to help with tens and units 

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Using sticks to help with tens and units 

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https://www.learnwithplayathome.com/2013/04/counting-and-grouping-with-sticks.html?m=1

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Please familiarize yourself with our policy for Forest School.

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I have attached the table of activity ideas that are saved within staff tool kit- forest school- activity ideas

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I have attached the table of activity ideas that are saved within staff tool kit- forest school- activity ideas

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Here is a link to a great website that has some ideas for activities

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Need some down time? Why not try this forest yoga session. Take the children into the woodland area with an iPad and complete this 12 minute yoga session

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Take your class on a 12 minute woodland adventure with Karen.

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Here are some ideas to inspire some creative writing through the use of outdoors

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Sometimes it’s useful to stop for a while and think about what is good in our lives and what we can always rely on. Why not take some time out and have a go at this activity and use trees as a way to think about our lives.

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Create stick flags for different countries, then create a giant Earth 🌍 picture on the ground and ask children to place the flags where the country is on the Earth

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We are so lucky that within our local area we have an abundance of trees, plants and flowers. Woodland trust have a fantastic website to help with tree identification, you will be amazed how interested the children become and how quickly they pick up signs on how to spot specific trees.

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Credit: Philippe Clement / naturepl.com

Leaves are whole and are not divided right to the central leaf vein, such as apple or birch. The edges of some simple leaves can be indented or lobed, such as sycamore, field maple and hawthorn, so take care not to mistake these for compound leaves. Lime leaves are a simple and heart-shaped leaf with a pointed tip.

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Easy tips on British tree identification using leaves, flowers, fruit and bark. With pictures and notes on what to look out for.

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We are so lucky that within our local area we have an abundance of trees, plants and flowers. Woodland trust have a fantastic website to help with tree identification, you will be amazed how interested the children become and how quickly they pick up signs on how to spot specific trees.

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Credit: Philippe Clement / naturepl.com

Leaves are whole and are not divided right to the central leaf vein, such as apple or birch. The edges of some simple leaves can be indented or lobed, such as sycamore, field maple and hawthorn, so take care not to mistake these for compound leaves. Lime leaves are a simple and heart-shaped leaf with a pointed tip.

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Easy tips on British tree identification using leaves, flowers, fruit and bark. With pictures and notes on what to look out for.

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Woodland trust also have a great app for helping the children with tree identification. They will have to look at key features of the tree and answer questions in order to find out what tree they have found

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Identify Trees With Our Tree ID app - Woodland Trust

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Our Tree ID app is an easy step-by-step tool to help you identify trees in your garden, park or countryside wherever you are in the UK, whatever the season.

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Woodland trust also have a great app for helping the children with tree identification. They will have to look at key features of the tree and answer questions in order to find out what tree they have found

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Identify Trees With Our Tree ID app - Woodland Trust

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Our Tree ID app is an easy step-by-step tool to help you identify trees in your garden, park or countryside wherever you are in the UK, whatever the season.

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It is important to have an awareness of which plants are poisonous, here is a quick list from woodland trust

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I love the idea of books growing in trees 🌳📚

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I love the idea of books growing in trees 🌳📚

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Make a nature raft and test in a tray of water

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Using an egg box, give each section a colour/sound/object for the children to find and collect in their ‘treasure’ box

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Using an egg box, give each section a colour/sound/object for the children to find and collect in their ‘treasure’ box

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Who can create the tallest tower?

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Our world is filled with beauty. From our breathtaking wildlife to the plants that give us life, it's important to understand and care for our world, just as it continues to care for and give back to us. With these Children's Books About Nature, they foster a sense of learning and give kids knowledge and appreciation of the incredible earth we live on. Use these books to explore how nature works, and what we can do to help preserve our natural resources and creatures. Relax and enjoy the gentle time outdoors. Curl up with a few of these nature books as you and your children read great stories and learn about nature together!

Nature Books for Kids

50 Best Children's Books about Nature

There are so many beautiful picture books about nature and we are sharing some of our favorites here. Lovely children's books like Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in nature and A Butterfly is Patient. This list of nature books for kids includes fiction and non-fiction titles that will provide your family with hours of wonderful literature. Whether you are gathered together reading on the couch or your children are pouring over their favorite animals.
These Nature Based Books are a great way to enhance an interest in nature. Click on the book for more information
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More Nature Books for Kids

You have seen lots of children's books covering a variety of nature themes that will inspire your family's outdoor adventures. We hope you find a few new nature books your kids will enjoy.
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50 Best Children's Books About Nature - Natural Beach Living

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50 Children's Books About Nature, This list of nature books for kids includes fiction and non-fiction books that will provide your family with hours of wonderful literature. favorite animal books, Nature Walk books, outdoor adventure books, Nature Books for Kids, Picture Books about nature for Kids, children's books about outdoors and more.

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If you would like to know what your looking at on your Nature walk this website has some great ID guides

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How to Identify Wildlife - UK Species - Woodland Trust

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Identify British wildlife with our expert blogs and guides with photos and sounds. We explain how to use clues, bird calls, prints, eggshells and more.

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If you would like to know what your looking at on your Nature walk this website has some great ID guides

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How to Identify Wildlife - UK Species - Woodland Trust

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Identify British wildlife with our expert blogs and guides with photos and sounds. We explain how to use clues, bird calls, prints, eggshells and more.

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Wildlife trust is sending out postal/email packs to help getting schools/families to do one wild thing a day in the month of June
Download or send for your free pack today

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The UK's biggest nature challenge with The Wildlife Trusts is returning from 1 June 2023!

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I have signed up for a 5 days of nature course, which looks at ways to promote the use of nature in our practise. There will be 5 new lessons each day this week for you to watch (you can watch each day or wait and watch all together will only take around an hour)

Login: c.allen@berkswich.staffs.such.uk

Password: Oliver2020

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Hygge in the Early Years Accreditation and Early Years training.

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Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist born in 1887 who painted nature in a way that showed her how it made her feel. She is best known for her paintings of flowers.

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Who is she and what is she famous for?

Born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist who painted nature in a way that showed how it made her feel. She is best known for her paintings of flowers and desert landscapes.

She played an important part in the development of modern art in America, becoming the first female painter to gain respect in New York's art world in the 1920s. Her unique and new way of painting nature, simplifying its shapes and forms meant that she was called a pioneer.

What inspired her?

The artwork below is a landscape. Can you see how she has simplified the shapes of the hills in the painting?

As well as the shapes of the landscape itself, O'Keeffe was fascinated by the bones and skulls she found in the desert landscapes near where she lived. She said:

'To me they are as beautiful as anything I know...The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable.'

Do you agree? Why do you think she painted the bones so large in front of the landscape?

How did she develop her style?

Georgia knew from the age of 12 that she wanted to be an artist. She went to art school but what she was taught there didn't seem relevant to the way she wanted to paint. Then in 1912 she discovered the revolutionary ideas of an artist and designer called Arthur Wesley Dow. He emphasised the importance of composition - which means how you arrange shapes and colours.

As O'Keeffe explained: 'His idea was, to put it simply, fill a space in a beautiful way'. This was a light-bulb moment for her and from then on she began to experiment with shapes, colours and marks.

Georgia met other artists who, like her, were experimenting with abstract art. Art in the 1920s was exciting. Artists didn't just want to show how something looked but were using colours, shapes and brush-marks in unexpected ways to express meanings, ideas and feelings. This encouraged Georgia to develop her own unique style - a combination of abstract and realistic.

Look at this painting of hills, above. Although you can recognise what it is, it also has a strange and powerful atmosphere that a photograph of the landscape, or a more traditional, straightforward realistic painting, wouldn't have. What words would you use to describe this landscape?

It was painted in New Mexico, USA. Georgia first visited New Mexico in 1916 and fell in love with the dramatic desert landscape with its rugged mountains. This is what she said about the landscape:

'As soon as I saw it, that was my country. I'd never seen anything like it before but it fitted to me exactly. There's something that's in the air, its just different. The sky is different the stars are different, the wind is different'.

On the Road

Georgia wanted to stay as close as possible to the remote landscape places she loved, she travelled around the desert drawing and painting. She battled the heat and heavy wind and camped out under the stars. Luckily she had favourite mobile studio with her - her car - which she'd specially adapted as a place to work!

Have you ever visited a landscape that has taken your breath away? Next time try putting those feelings across using shapes and colours and try, (as Georgia says) to 'fill the space in a beautiful way'.

Kids explore Georgia O'Keeffe

Check out what these kids thought of the Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition at Tate Modern.

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Mountains, skulls and flowers. Take the time to look at the world with Georgia O'Keeffe. Find out who is Georgia O'Keeffe with this art homework guide, includes facts for kids.

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Minibeast bingo

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Beetle identification

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Random wild acts cards

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Minibeast bingo

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Beetle identification