A Place For Everything

Episode 19                                                                            Planet: Stuff

Learning concept of the episode: Classifying/Ordering – Objects can be sorted and organised by visual appearance (e.g. colour, shape, size), and there may be more than one ‘right’ way to organise them.

Story Summary

Bing and Bong meet a junior Flocker on the Tiny Planet of Stuff. They are invited back to his room, which, according to his Flocker Dad, must be tidied right away. Bing and Bong join in the effort by swiftly putting books and toys randomly into the cupboard, drawers, and trunk. The room is now tidy, but when Bing searches for the pieces to a puzzle, the room becomes messy once again. Bing has a solution- put balls into drawers, books in the cupboard, and games in the trunk. Now the room is not only clean, but organised too, leaving time (much to the amusement of Bing and the Junior Flocker) for Bong to juggle!

Focus Early Learning Goal

Mathematical Development 4: Use developing mathematical ideas and methods to solve practical problems.

Linked ELGs

PSE9, PSE10, PSE13, CLL8, CLL15, P8

Preparation

• Watch the Tiny Planets episode 
• Talk about what Bing and Bong did in the story

Talk about…..

• The need for keeping things tidy
• What would happen if we didn’t tidy up after activities
• How we help at home

Focus Activity

Bing’s Spring Clean (see overleaf)

Follow-on Activities

• Have pictures that show things being done incorrectly, ask the children to spot what is wrong
• Have a keeping tidy week where the children have to keep tidy at nursery and home for a whole week, rewards can be given at the end of the week

Bing’s Spring Clean

Aim

For the children to organise their environment and understand the need for things to be kept in the correct place

Resources

• Items around the room that need to be put in the correct place
• Resource catalogues
• Clear sticky backed plastic

Guidelines

• Discuss with the children the need for putting things back in the right place and watch the video.
• Let the children have free play, then call them onto the carpet without tidy up time.
• Discuss again the need for tidy up time and then ask them to look around the room.
• Ask each child to find something that is not in its correct place and let them take turns to tidy up.
• Follow up with another discussion
• When the room looks tidy let the children look through the catalogues to cut out pictures that can be made into labels to show us where things belong (optional)

Key Vocabulary

Tidy, sort, find, helpful, organise

Health & Safety

Be careful if items usually belong on a high shelf etc; ensure the children do not climb to put items away.