Foundation Phase - Planning for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship through stories
Fifteen stories for the Foundation Phase with ideas to link with ESDGC
Produced by Pembrokeshire teachers during the course
“Planning for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in the Foundation Phase”
28th June 2007
Compiled by Heather Cale – Foundation Phase Advisory Teacher
In conjunction with Janie Pridham
Updated Nov 2012 to include ESDGC themes
Story: Amazing Grace / Author: Mary HoffmanIllustrations: Caroline Binch /
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Interdependence
Needs and Rights
Diversity
Conflict Resolution / ESDGC themes:
culture and identity
choices and decisions
Personal & Social Development, Well Being Cultural Diversity:
- Becoming aware own feelings and emotions and identifying those of others.
- Recognising differences and cultural differences and diversity.
- Respects others and values their achievements
- Develops self esteem
- Questions stereotypes
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Explores stories within text
Performances – puppets, pantomimes etc.
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Story Telling / Mathematical Development:
Counting
Time / Creative Development:
- Performance
- Making puppets, costumes, posters
- Music – listening to jungle music etc
Creating music and sound effects
World Art Historical Art
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Explore historical figures and stories
Identify places
Investigation of own town facilities, transport etc
Trip to local theatre. / Physical Development:
Dance and movement related to various animals and characters. / Bilingualism:
Theatre role play
Story Vocabulary
Water Play
Pirate Ship / Sand Play / Creative Area
Junk for model making / Writing Area
Card for theatre tickets
Paper for programmes
Large paper for posters
Construction Area
Wood, boxes / Investigation Area
Globes
maps / ICT Area
Bee-bot and town plan / Maths Area
Mini elephants
Spiders
Outdoor Area / Role Play
Puppet theatre
Pirate ship
Indian camp
Materials/fabrics / Messy Play
Miniature jungles
Soil, grass etc / Tuff Spot
Island landscape
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Story: Cleversticks / Author: Bernard AshleyIllustrations: Derek Brazell /
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Interdependence
Diversity / ESDGC Themes:
culture and identity
choices and decisions
Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity:
Recognising differences - Recognising individual strengths - Helping others
Sharing – Perseverance - Overcoming difficulties - Self -esteem
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Phonic work – Names
Creative Writing – What do we like doing?
Poems – “I am good at…” etc / Mathematical Development:
Sequencing activities
Threading with laces
Pairing / matching / sorting
Measuring using chopsticks
e.g. How many buttons make up the length of a chopstick? / Creative Development:
Paintings using different brushes/ chopsticks/ tools.
Music: Use chopsticks and paper plates to create own patterns of sound.
Copying rhythms etc.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Learning about countries that use chopsticks.
What food do we eat with chopsticks? How do others eat? What utensils are used?
Use globes and atlases to investigate countries.
Uses of water, washing, swimming etc. / Physical Development:
Clown movements
Juggling – use balls to play with. / Bilingualism:
Vocabulary of clothing
Days of week
Water Play
Washing toy baby
Different utensils / Sand Play
Use chopsticks to pick and move objects.
Find own letters in sand and pick up with chopsticks. / Creative Area
Craft materials to make clowns e.g. wobbly eyes.
Paint names / Writing Area
Construction Area / Investigation Area
Different fastenings
e.g. laces, buttons, Velcro etc / ICT Area
Use paint package for drawing clowns / Maths Area
Measuring apparatus.
Threading on shoelaces
Outdoor Area
Juggling activities
Circus skills e.g. ribbons / Role Play
Big top circus area
Clown performing / Messy Play
Rice activities / Tuff Spot
Using chopsticks to pick up items
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Story:The Swirling Hijaab / Author: Na’ima Bint Robert
Illustrations:Nilesh Mistry /
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Diversity / ESDGC Themes:
culture and identity
Personal Social Development, Well Being Cultural Diversity:
- Recognising similarities and differences
- Festivals – Hindu Wedding
Language, Literacy and Communication:
What did your hijaab become? / Mathematical Development:
Pattern – shapes
Measuring a square of material for a purpose / Creative Development:
Pattern
Different music from various lands
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Travel
Different homes/ food
Investigating different materials – testing for sails, homes tents etc. / Physical Development:
Pattern printing
Making boats
Scarf dance / Bilingualism:
Food
Houses
Family members
Water Play
Boats / Sand Play
Desert / Creative Area
Drapes for tents / Writing Area
postcards
Construction Area
Make a fort / Investigation Area
Globes
Different materials
Religious artefacts / ICT Area
Bee-bot – taking a journey through the story sequence
2 Simple city / Maths Area
picnic
1:1 correspondence
Food shop
Outdoor Area
Journeys / Role Play
Costumes for story characters / Messy Play/ Cooking
Sandwiches
Fresh orange juice / Tuff Spot
Desert
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Story: My Granny went to Market / Author: Stella Blackstone Illustrations: Christopher Corr
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Citizenship and Stewardship
Diversity
Interdependence / ESDGC Themes:
culture and identity
choices and decisions
Consumption and waste
Wealth and poverty
Personal Social Development, Well Being Cultural Diversity:
- Recognising Differences
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Lists of shopping
Continuation of the book in writing
Poems
Creative Writing – write a similar book about Wales / Mathematical Development:
Counting
Matching
Finding Differences
Sorting
Shopping / Creative Development:
Music form each country including instruments
Masks
Crafts
Weaving
Lanterns
Making kites
Boomerangs
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Identify places
Learning about different countries
Weather
Clothing / Physical Development:
Dance from different countries
Boomerangs
Frisbee throwing
Kite flying / Bilingualism:
Country names in Welsh
Vocabulary of colour
Place names
Water Play
Sailing boats
Items to investigate Floating/sinking / Sand Play
Red sand
Animals/objects
Linked with Australia / Creative Area
Resources for: Kite making
Weaving masks / Writing Area
Postcards
Shopping lists
Diaries
Construction Area
lanterns / Investigation Area
Maps
Brochures
postcards / ICT Area
Global earth
maps / Maths Area
Russian dolls
Shopping bags
Sorting resources
Outdoor Area
Market stalls
Theatre
Musical instruments / Role Play
Travel agents / Messy Play
Ice cubes
Shaving foam
Coloured sand / Tuff Spot
African Animals
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Story: We all went on Safari / Author: Laurie KrebsIllustrations: Julia Cairns /
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Interdependence Citizenship – Stewardship Diversity / ESDGC Themes:
culture and identity
choices and decisions
natural environment
Personal Social Development, Well Being Cultural Diversity:
- Working together to achieve an outcome
- Understanding that actions have consequences
- Recognising differences
- Family and culture
- Taking part in classroom responsibilities / Turn-taking and sharing
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Rhyme
Phonic Work
Work about animals
Animal poems/stories
Alliteration / Mathematical Development:
Time
Counting activities
Sorting activities
Matching activities
Measuring
Comparing / Creative Development:
Animal songs
Animal patterns / Shields
A day in the life of an animal
Camouflage / Jewellery
Music from Africa
African Art
Tree rubbings
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Comparing Africa with the local environment
Animal Classification
Animal environments
Animal Homes
Identify places on globe
Endangered species / Physical Development:
Animal Movements
Dance
Travelling as animals / Bilingualism:
Vocabulary of animals
Vocabulary of environments
Number names
African Names
Water Play
Plastic sea creatures e.g. hippo, crocodile / Sand Play
Rice / Creative Area
Resources to encourage making of jewellery/ animals / Writing Area
Animal shapes paper
Letters/envelopes
clipboards
Construction Area
Plants in pots
Jeeps
Things with wheels / Investigation Area
Globes/Maps
Atlases
African Artefacts / ICT Area
Bee-Bot
Global Earth
Google: Africa photos / Maths Area
Animals to count
Calculators
Outdoor Area
Sand
Water
Soil / Role Play
African tribal dress
Safari/ tents / jeep
Binoculars / Messy Play
Clay
Paint / Tuff Spot
African Animals
Journey layout
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Story: Jamela’s Dress / Author: Niki DalyIllustrations: Niki Daly /
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Diversity
Interdependence / ESDGC Themes:
culture and identity
choices and decisions
wealth and poverty
Personal Social Development, Well Being Cultural Diversity:
- Recognising cultural Differences
- Taking part in classroom responsibilities
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Rhyming
Countries
Greetings
Languages
Nursery Rhymes / Mathematical Development:
Pattern making
Time
Money – British & foreign
Length/Measuring / Creative Development:
Music from around the world
Multicultural patterns
Printing patterns
Material for clothes
Taking photographs
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Learning about different countries
Traditional Clothes
Celebrations
Local Newspapers / Physical Development:
Hand clapping games
Moving in different ways e.g. swirling and turning / Bilingualism:
Vocabulary of Colours
Buying in the shop
Water Play
Soap powder
Wash board
Scrubbing brushes / Sand Play
Confetti
Rice
Flower petals / Creative Area
Materials and drapes
Binka - cross-stitch
Needles for sewing
Stamps for printing / Writing Area
Wedding invitations
Old newspapers
Construction Area
Wheels
Tyres
Large material / Investigation Area
Globes
Maps
Artefacts / ICT Area
Camera
Global Earth / Maths Area
Tape Measures
Rulers
Outdoor Area
Washing line
Pegs
Sheets
Tyres
Wheels / Role Play
Clothes shop
Wedding clothes / Messy Play
Cooking area:
Wedding cakes / Tuff Spot
Paints
Wet mud
Tyres – tyre prints
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Story: My Grandpa and the Sea / Author: Katherine Orr /Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Interdependence
Citizenship and Stewardship
Sustainable Change / ESDGC Themes:
natural environment
choices & decisions
culture & identity
wealth & poverty
Personal Social Development, Well Being Cultural Diversity:
- Recognising different lifestyles
- Recognising jobs people do
- Understanding that their own actions have consequences
- Identifying similarities and differences
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Phonic work linking sea life and vegetation
Lists of fish, sea food
Sea Poems e.g. “The waves come in they bring me a …”
“Fat fish, thin fish…”etc. / Mathematical Development:
Number, size, length, weight of fish, shapes, counting, sorting, shopping / Creative Development:
Make and decorate varieties of fish
3D constructions
Music from around the world
Sea shanties
Banana prints
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Handling and observing fresh fish.
Identifying places- globe/ map
Navigating routes to get to different places
Lifestyles of different families / Physical Development:
Moving like fish
Fishing with net
Healthy eating
Comparing diets / Bilingualism:
Vocabulary of food
Vocabulary of travel
The family
Grandparents
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Water Play
Fish
Boats – navigating around rocks
Underwater / Sand Play
Shells
Conch
Different coloured sands / Creative Area
Construct a fishing net
Threads / Writing Area
Postcards
Resources for pattern making
Wax
Construction Area
Equipment to build boats / Investigation Area
Globes
Atlases / Maps
Compasses / ICT Area
Researching
Bee-bit and floor plan / Maths Area
Calculators
Weighing / Measuring
Different sizes of fish
Outdoor Area
Fishing nets to trawl
Pebbles, fish, shell / Role Play
Fish shop
Boat agency
Sailing the coast
Sight seeing / Messy Play
Cooked rice
Moulds / Tuff Spot
Islands
Boats travelling
Story:
An Angel Just Like Me / Author: Mary Hoffman
Illustrations: Ying-Hwa Hu
Cornelius Van Wright /
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Diversity
Citizenship &Stewardship
Values and Perceptions / ESDGC Themes:
choices & decisions
culture & identity
Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity:
- Recognising and becoming increasingly sensitive to the needs of others
- Knowledge of familiar care routines
- Support, comfort and help other children when they are upset or sad.
- Awareness of similarities and differences between self and peers
- Ability to express feelings - Coping with disappointment
- Know that people have different preferences - see things from point of view of others
- Identify a problem and think of solutions
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Personal experiences of Christmas
Lists – Letters
Celebrations in other countries
Decorations – phonic work
Stories about Father Christmas / Mathematical Development:
Counting Decorations
Sorting Decorations
Shopping – money
Time
Money
Symmetry
Matching / Creative Development:
Making different decorations
Decorations
Christmas songs
Food from around the world
Decorate a tree
Christmas Music
Drama
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Identifying places on globe
different countries
Sustainable Transport / Physical Development:
Christmas Food
Dances from different countries
Action songs / Bilingualism:
Christmas Vocabulary
Greetings
Food
Decorations
Christmas Story
Water Play
Winter time
Ice
Snow / Sand Play
Camels – Desert
3 kings / Creative Area
Glitter
Templates
Decorations / Writing Area
Letters - Lists
Catalogues – Cards
Envelopes
Construction Area
Resources to make stars, stables etc / Investigation Area
Scents of Christmas
Globes/ Atlases / ICT Area
Search – Angels in different cultures / Maths Area
Calculators
Till for shopping
Box nets/grids
Outdoor Area
Visit to shops to see decorations
Decorate outdoors for Christmas / Role Play
Nativity
Santa’s Grotto / Cooking/Messy Play
Angel cutters
Salt Dough
Cake ingredients / Tuff Spot
Winter wonderland
Nativity
Icing Sugar
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities
Story:The Colour of Home / Author: Mary Hoffman
Illustrations: Karen Littlewood /
Key Concepts of ESDGC:
Quality of life
Needs and rights / ESDGC Themes:
choices & decisions
culture & identity
Personal Social Development, Well Being Cultural Diversity:
- Recognises differences and similarities
- Human rights
- Refugees – Story about child having to move country and why
Language, Literacy and Communication:
Travel – ways of travelling round the World
Different ways of Communicating – signing
Words in Somalia
Barnaby Bear / Mathematical Development:
Numbers of people in the family
Animals/Pets
Sorting animals
Graph work
Time
Capacity – water / Creative Development:
Representing own home
Drama: How does he feel?
What sort of music would He hear?
Happy/Sad sounds
Water music
Water in bottles to make different sounds
Knowledge and Understanding of the World:
Finding out about Somalia
- books – internet – globe
Clothes worn in different countries
Water in the dry season / Physical Development:
Travelling
Traffic lights Game
National dances / Bilingualism:
Colours
Feelings
Likes/dislikes
Water Play
Boats / Sand Play
Dry earth – exploring effects of water / Creative Area
Resources for exploring colours using different resources / Writing Area
Postcards
Construction Area
Materials to make boats/ vehicles
Animals from different cultures / Investigation Area
Globes
Maps
Types of food / ICT Area
Internet
Maps
Bee-Bot Journeys / Maths Area
Clocks
Watches
Outdoor Area
Exploring shadows
sundial / Role Play
Colourful Home
Travel Agent / Messy Play / Tuff Spot
Animals in soil
Additional Resources to enrich child-initiated activities