Outdoor School Visit Date: March

Expedition Description: P3 Dig, Discover & Dish Up: The Stone Soup Experience at your school.

Objectives:

  • Living, once alive and never alive (3Bp.01)
  • Life processes and basic needs of living things (3Bp.02)
  • Plant parts and their functions (3Bs.01)
  • Conditions plants need to grow (3Bp.03)
  • Earth as the source of materials (3ESp.01)
  • Mixtures and dissolving (3Cm.02, 3Cc.01)
  • Basic needs and resources of Bermuda (3.SS.G2a)
  • Farming and shipping in Bermuda (3.SS.E1b)

This is an engaging, curriculum-aligned learning experience that brings science, sustainability, and community to life through hands-on exploration, purposeful talk, and real-world connections to Bermuda.

A free copy of the Mentor Text is provided at the expedition: Stone Soup by Jon J Muth

Vocabulary Voyage

The P3 Stone Soup thematic unit is built around the mentor text Stone Soup by Jon J. Muth, 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 vocabulary activities (approximately five minutes each) encourage pupils to develop language through small-group discussion, collaboration, and creative thinking. Two additional independent writing tasks, linked to the theme of the unit, allow pupils to apply new vocabulary in meaningful written contexts. These resources are designed to support oral language development, vocabulary growth, comprehension, and writing skills, while remaining easy to incorporate into short literacy blocks or small pockets of classroom time.

Mini Activities

  1. Describe & Guess
  2. Semantic Word Sorting
  3. Mind Mapping

Writing Activities

  1. Procedural Writing
  2. Making Inferences – Beginning vs End.

Mentor Text

Teacher Information