Week 1

April 2020

Welcome

Welcome to Outdoor Explorers - Indoors!

Join my toys and me to let me know you've visited this page. Perhaps you could get some of your toys to join us too.

1 minute 14 seconds

A game you can play Indoors and Outdoors

Play Simon Says

This is one of my favourite games. Play 'Simon Says' with me and see if I can catch you out. Perhaps you could play the game with your toys or someone else in your family.

1 minute 04 Seconds

Watch and draw an Outdoor Explorers favourite -

Sonic the Hedgehog

Watch and draw a picture of Sonic

This short video of just over 2 minutes shows how you can draw Sonic.

Finished drawing

Outdoor Explorer Junk Modelling

Make a box puppet

We have been collecting lots of empty boxes and packets whilst at home. We keep them in a bag and then when we feel like making something, there is lots of interesting material to choose from. On this film which lasts just over 1 minute we are going to make another box puppet - a friend for Boxie. Can you make something using junk? Remember to check that you can use all the materials before making something!

1 minute 14 Seconds

Display your work on our Outdoor Explorers Carousel

Display your work

Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the Outdoor Explorers' most popular characters, so we have added a few hedgehog pictures to start off our big draw. Why don't you draw a picture, colour it in, take a photo and send it to us? We can then add it to our picture carousel.

Mrs Aitken and Laura prepare to make rock cakes.

Baking Rock Cakes

Mrs Aitken and Laura are making rock cakes today. This short video shows them measuring out the flour. To watch the whole video, click on the 'Activities' tab.

1 minute 34 seconds

Watch and Learn

Watch a hedgehog

1 minute 22 seconds

We often make hedgehog houses at Smithton Primary School and this short clip shows how important it is for a hedgehog to have somewhere cosy to settle down, especially in the winter.

We made a hedgehog house at Smithton Primary

Some children made this hedgehog house in our outdoor learning area last autumn, all ready for a hedgehog to come along and hibernate through the winter months.

5 Fun Hedgehog facts: 1 They are nocturnal. They like to sleep in the day and come out at night. 2 They hunt primarily using their hearing and smell because their eyesight is not very good, although they can see quite well in the dark. 3. They have around 5000 to 7000 spines. 4.Hedgehogs have the ability to hibernate (although not all do), which makes them one of only three mammals that hibernate in the UK. Hibernating means that they hole themselves up and stay in a dormant state for winter. 5 The ‘Hedge’ part of their name comes from where they build their nests - hedges, bushes and shrubs. The ‘hog’ part comes from the small snorting/ grunting sound they make which is similar to a pig/warthog.

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