Lesson video

Hi team, and welcome to another lesson with me, Mrs. Garrard, now, in today's lesson, we are going to draw a map.

We're going to hide some eggs and then we're going to use our map to help to find them.

Let's see, the first thing we will need to do today, is gather some resources, then, we'll design and draw our map, and then, we will follow our map.

So, for today's lesson, you will need some paper and some coloured materials.

You might use crayons or felt tip pens or pencils.

You'll need Easter eggs and a basket, a basket is handy to put them in, but you don't need one, if you haven't got one, you could just hold them in your hands, no big deal.

I'm using coloured plastic eggs, you don't have those, you could draw your own Easter eggs and cut them out, ready to hide.

Then you need a Teddy and your grownup.

So that either your Teddy or your grownup can follow your map.

Pause the video now and gather your resources, come back and press play when you're ready.

Great, now that you're back, we're ready to think about designing and drawing a map.

So the first thing we need to think about, is where is our Easter egg hunt is going to take place.

Will it be in your home or in your garden? If you choose your home, will it be just one room in your home or would it be your whole house? That's a decision you'll need to make before you can draw your map.

I decided to do my house, all of my house and my garden.

So the first thing I needed to do, was hide my eggs in my house and my garden.

Then draw my map, And the final thing is to follow them up and look for the eggs.

Can you see that I've drawn different rooms in my house.

I have my kitchen, my bedroom, and my front room, and also my garden.

I've used shapes to represent different things in my house.

So I have, can you see my sofa? I have a black sofa in my house, so I've drawn some shapes to represent my sofa and next to the sofa, beside the sofa there was a shelf unit.

And on the other side, there is a table and with a Lamp on.

So you have to look around your house, see what it looks like and see if you can draw shapes to represent the objects that are in your house, then you hide your eggs.

Can you see? Have a look on my picture, can you see the eggs? There are five eggs hidden on my map.

I've used coloured ovals to represent the eggs I can see in the kitchen, there's a yellow egg, you see the yellow egg? Yeah, and in the garden, there is a green egg.

So, once you've drawn your map, you'll need to draw your eggs on your map.

The next thing you'll need to do, is find your eggs.

You need to look for them, it might be tricky for the person following your map to find your eggs.

So you could give them some clues to help them.

You could use positional language.

That means language to describe the position of something to help them find your eggs.

So you could tell them clues like "it is on something black." That's a clue.

Or you could say "it is in a box" or "it's under some think that is purple." You could say "it's behind a box." Those are all clues that you could give to help the person that is following your map to find the eggs.

Now it's time for you to follow the map.

Can you see there's the picture of my map with my different rooms in my house and my garden with the eggs marked on it, I'm going to look carefully at the position, so the first egg I can see is in the kitchen, is a yellow egg.

Do you see it? It's beside the microwave, it's next to the microwave.

So, the first thing I'm going to do is go to the kitchen, find the microwave and look next to it, to see if I can find the yellow egg, the next egg I can see is in my bedroom.

Do you see it? It's on top of something, oh, it's on top of the chest of drawers, I can see the purple egg is on top of the chest of drawers in my bedroom.

So, I'll go to my bedroom, find the chest of drawers and look on top.

Barnaby is going to find, my bear is going to find the eggs today.

Let's see how well he gets on following my map.

Boop, it skipped.

Do you see Barnaby was so good at following the map, Barnaby followed the map and found all of the eggs.

He found a red egg on the shelf.

He found the yellow egg beside the microwave.

He found the purple egg on top of the drawers.

And he found the green egg in the flowers, in the garden.

Wow, who knew that Barnaby was so observant.

Great job Barnaby, team, I hope you have fun drawing you a map and following your map to find your eggs or hiding your eggs for a friend, a parent, or a caregiver to find.

I hope you have a really lovely time having your Easter egg hunt.

It's time for me to say goodbye now, but I'll be back again soon with another lesson, bye team.