Easy Rider
Episode 30 Planet: Self
Learning concept of the episode: Even when you are unsure of your ability in trying to do something new, it can be exciting and fun and result in experiences that you enjoy. Various strategies can be used to overcome anxiety about new things, such as asking a friend for help or trying the new experience in a reduced form.
Story Summary
A Flocker welcoming committee meets Bing and Bong and presents them with gifts. Bong puts a shiny new tricycle and helmet to immediate use, but Bing is hesitant about a new unicycle. Bing cannot ride a unicycle, tries a few times, and keeps falling off. So Bong helps Bing gain the confidence and skill Bing needs to ride the unicycle; they ride a modified, more stable version of the vehicle together and then Bing tries training wheels. Bing gains enough confidence to try it alone and soon he is riding well enough to perform some exciting unicycle stunts alongside Bong and the tricycle at the Skateboard Style Court.
Focus Early Learning Goal
Personal, Social and Emotional Development 2: Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group.
Linked ELGs
PSE12, P1, P2, P7,
Preparation
- Watch the Tiny Planets episode
- Talk about what Bing and Bong did in the story
Talk about…..
- Wheeled objects, bikes, cars etc.
- Why did Bing find it difficult to ride the unicycle?
- How did Bing and Bong work together?
- Discuss how practising something helps you to improve at it
Focus Activity
Easy Riding (see overleaf)
Follow-on Activities
- Make wheeled toys for Bing and Bong out of junk modelling materials
- Go for a wheel spotting walk, record the amount of wheeled objects spotted.
- Ask children to retell a time when they have tried something new and couldn’t do it at first. Talk to them about how they felt.
Easy Riding
Aim
To encourage the children to move confidently on wheeled toys and to work together in pairs
Resources
- Various large wheeled toys including bikes, cars, push-along toys, trolleys , prams etc.
- Skipping ropes
- Balls, bean bags, small objects
- cones
Guidelines
- Set up the outdoor area with large wheeled toys.
- Put smaller equipment into boxes on one side of the playground and place empty boxes on the opposite side of the playground.
- Place the skipping ropes in a box near by.
- First let the children free wheel on the wheeled toys, encouraging them to share and take turns.
- Ask the children then to think about how they could join the wheeled toys together as Bing and Bong did. Encourage the children to use the ropes to join vehicles together and tow.
- Set the children a task of joining vehicles together and moving small objects from one side of the play ground to the other, placing them into the empty boxes
- Make the activity more difficult by setting up obstacles using the cones.
- Encourage the children to work together in pairs
Key Vocabulary
Wheels, numbers 1 to 4, working together, pairs,
Health & Safety
Ensure that the children are supervised at all times especially when using the skipping ropes.
Explain to the children the dangers of putting ropes around people’s necks etc.
Ensure all wheeled toys conform to Health and Safety standards and have been checked for any damage.
Ensure correct ratios are maintained when working outside.
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