Lesson video

Hi team, and welcome to today's lesson with me, Mrs Garrard.

In today's lesson, we are going to identify animals that live at the beach.

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So the first thing we're going to do today is gather some resources for the creating part of our lesson.

Then we'll think about what animals you might see at the beach.

We'll learn what a rock pool is.

Then we'll learn what might live in a rock pool.

And finally, for our creating part of the lesson, we'll create our very own rock pool model.

For this lesson you will need listening ears and looking eyes.

An egg box, some sand and some small shells.

Some paper, some paint, some glue and some scissors.

Pause the video now and go and gather the resources that you'll need at the end of the lesson.

Come back and press play once you're ready.

Great, now that you're back, let's get on with the next part of our lesson.

So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to think about what animals you might see at the beach.

Have you been to the beach before? Have a think, what did you see there? I've been to beach, and I know that at the beach you see lots and lots of seagulls.

A seagull is a type of bird.

You'll see seagulls at the beach.

You might also see other types of birds at the beach.

On quieter beaches, you might see seals.

You won't see them on busy beaches like Brighton Beach, but quieter beaches in this country sometimes have seals.

You might see fish in the ocean.

You might see crabs on the shore.

You might see other shellfish like barnacles and winkles and limpets on the rocks.

Let's learn about what a rock pool is.

This is a picture of a rock pool.

A rock pool is made when the tide goes out and water is trapped in the rocks.

It makes a special habitat.

They're sometimes called tide pools.

They're called rock pools or tide pools.

What lives in a rock pool? So these are some of the things that you might see in a rock pool.

You'll see different types of seaweed.

You might see an anemone.

That's a type of creature that might live in a rock pool.

They stay stuck to the rocks and they wait for small fish to go past them, and then they grab them with their tentacles to eat them.

You might see crabs.

You might see small fish and shrimps.

You might see starfish, and you might see different types of shellfish in the rock pool.

So now we know what lives in a rock pool and what they look like.

It's time for us to create our very own rock pool model.

So listen to my instructions and watch the video carefully.

So the first thing I did is cut out a shape from a piece of paper.

Then I covered it with glue and used some tissue paper, some blue tissue paper, to create the water effect to look like the sea.

I'm going to spread the glue all over my first piece of paper so that my tissue paper, my blue tissue paper, will stick and look like the sea.

I'm being very careful to make sure that the whole surface of the paper is covered with glue.

Then I'm going to add on top my blue tissue paper.

Can you see when I stick it on it looks like it has some creases in it? That doesn't matter because it just looks like ripples in the water.

I'm going to put another piece on top because tissue paper is very thin.

If you don't have tissue paper, no big deal, you could paint, you could use paint to make the water.

Once that's stuck down, I'm going to put some glue all around the edge of the rock pool.

I'm going to start on this edge and I'm going to create some rocks.

I've cut out the egg box carton.

So I've cut out the little cups that hold the eggs, and I'm going to stick those down to make it look like some rocks.

I'm going to use some tape as well to secure it in place, some masking tape to stick them together and secure them in place.

Then I'm going to add some glue around the edge of my rock pool and sprinkle some sand on.

Because rock pools often have sand at the bottom and round the edges.

Now I'm going to sprinkle my sand on.

If you don't have sand, that's okay, you could just use some yellow paint to make your sand.

All the way around the edge.

You could also use some real rocks or some real shells if you have them.

So once I have sprinkled the sand around the edge, I'll need to wait for it to dry for a little bit.

Can you see how I've waited for the sand to dry and I've shook off that excess sand and taped together my rocks, and now I'm painting them grey.

I'm making sure I put paint on all of the egg carton to make it look a little bit like some rocks.

But like I said, if you have some real rocks, you could use those, or some shells, that would be just as good.

Then I'll need to wait for my rocks to dry a little bit.

While I'm waiting for them to dry, I'm going to think about the creatures that I might find in my rock pool.

So I'm going to get another piece of paper and some paint, and I'm going to use my thumb to print some shapes that I can then turn into the creatures that live in the rock pool.

So I've used my thumb, now I'm going to use my finger.

Hm, I wonder what I could make them into.

So now I'm going to leave them to dry and come back to my rock pool.

Now the rocks are dry, I can add some seaweed.

So I'm adding a little bit of glue, and then I've got some strips of green tissue paper that I'm using to make the seaweed in the rock pool.

Once again, if you don't have tissue paper, no big deal, you could paint it on or use any other type of paper that you have.

Newspaper would be good, you could paint some newspaper.

So that's our seaweed in our rock pool.

Last little bit of glue to stick it in place.

Now back to our creatures.

Now my thumbprints and my fingerprints are dry, I can add some different features.

So as you can see, I've used a red pen and added some legs and some pincers to make an orangy-red crab.

And I've drawn some fins and a tail on one of my fingerprints to make it into a fish.

You might choose to make a jellyfish, you could make a jellyfish.

You could make a starfish.

These are just some of the creatures I've chosen to make but you could make whichever you choose.

I'm going to cut them out and stick them into our rock pool.

Give my crab some eyes first.

Now I'm going to cut them out ready to go in our rock pool.

And there they are.

I've got a crab and two fish, my rock pool is not very big.

Yours might be a little bit bigger, let's see.

What else could I include in my rock pool? So I have a crab and two fish.

Maybe, if I have some shells, I could add some shells to my rock pool.

I could add some, maybe I could use some wool to make an anemone.

I wonder how I could make a starfish.

Maybe I could draw a starfish to add that to my rock pool.

I wonder what you will include in your rock pool.

Team, I'm really excited to find out what you include in your rock pool, and see what your rock pool looks like when you're finished.

If you'd like to share your rock pool with me, you could do that by sharing your work with Oak National.

You'll need to ask a parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, or Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak, and then I'll get to see your creations.

Team, that's the end of our lesson today.

I really enjoyed making my rock pool and I hope that you enjoy making your rock pool just as much as I did.

It's time for me to say goodbye now, but I'll see you again soon, bye team.