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Pocket-sized books that help with outdoor learning about trees.
Written with 4-7 year-olds in mind, but even teachers find they learn, too!
Useful resource for National Curriculum Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 Nature Science.
'Hello Trees' books make outdoor learning a walk in the park.
Exploring trees in the playground |
Ideal for working in pairs |
When Mrs Whiteside, Year 3 teacher at Aboyne Lodge
Primary School, St Albans, saw Kate Bretherton's 'Hello Trees' pocket-sized
books, she realised how useful they would be to introduce her class to the trees
in the school playground – and to cover elements of the ‘Growing Healthy
Plants’ topic in science.
Mrs Whiteside asked Kate to take a walk with pupils
round the trees in the school playground. She and Kate chose four trees to
study. Each child in the Year 3 Class was paired with a younger pupil in the
Early Years Foundation Stage. Each pair was given a table of squares to pencil
in a sketch of the leaf, bud, tree shape and the flower or fruit for each of the
four trees. Back in the classroom, the children looked through magnifying
glasses at tree cuttings that Kate had brought in, and completed and labelled
their drawings. Later, some of the children did bark rubbings to compare the
textures of the barks.
Mrs Whiteside says, “It was a large group, but the
children were engaged throughout and enjoyed the learning experience. It was a
successful session that I will repeat and share with other classes. And I
enjoyed finding out so much about our school’s trees!”
To see the inside pages of one of the books, Arthur and Annie Ash, click here.
10 trees in the set: ash, beech, birch, crabapple, hawthorn, holly, horsechestnut, larch, lime, oak.
Each set comes in a robust box with an A3 tree-identification chart.
Special price for schools: £18 for the boxed set (£1.80 per book) + £2.80 for postage and packaging.
Boxed set of 10 Hello Trees books for schools
+ A3 tree-identification chart
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