Rocks and Sand

Outdoor School Visit Date: November

Location: At your school

Expedition Description: Rockin’ Adventures: Discover Bermuda’s Sand and Stones with P2!

Get ready, P2 explorers! Something rockin’ is coming to your school! Join AgraLiving for a hands-on adventure all about Bermuda’s limestone, rocks and pink sand. Students will discover where Bermuda’s rocks and sand come from, why stone is used to build homes and how rocks can turn into sand. Through a fun sensory experience, students will see, feel and explore real rocks and sand, using their senses to uncover the magic hidden in Bermuda’s sand and stone.

We’ll spark our imaginations with The Three Little Dassies before becoming rock and sand detectives!

Curriculum Links:

• 2ESp.01 – Describe and compare different types of rock
• 2Cp.01 – Describe a property as a characteristic of a material and understand that materials can have more than one property
• 2Cp.02 – Explain why materials are chosen for specific purposes on the basis of their properties
• 2ESp.02 – Know rocks are extracted from the Earth in different ways, including from quarries, mines and riverbeds
• 2Cm.01 – Understand that some materials occur naturally and others are manufactured
• 2Cp.03 – Know that materials can be tested to determine their properties

A free copy of the Mentor Text is provided at the expedition: The Three Little Dassies by Jan Brett

Vocabulary Voyage

The P2 Rocks and Sand thematic unit is built around the mentor text The Three Little Dassies by Jan Brett, supporting ELA curriculum-aligned literacy learning alongside an experiential school visit with AgraLiving as part of the Horizons Programme.

The Vocabulary Voyage offers a set of optional resources designed to enrich language learning in an engaging and practical way. Three short, flexible vocabulary activities encourage pupils to develop language through through small-group discussion, collaboration and creative thinking. Two additional independent writing tasks, linked to the theme of the unit, provide structured opportunities for pupils to apply new vocabulary in meaningful written contexts.

These resources ssupport oral language development, vocabulary growth, comprehension, and writing skills, while remaining easy to incorporate into short literacy blocks or small pockets of classroom time.