It’s a beautiful day in the Magic Forest. Three friends are on an adventure, singing songs and learning about the natural world. Let’s explore together with Nico, Sam and our guide Greenman, the protector of the forest.
Help children build positive attitudes and resilience through routines, well-being and self-reflection activities.
Inspire children to appreciate the world around them with cross-curricular lessons and environmental themes.
Children love an adventure! The magical adventures await them online in enchanting stories, videos and games for the classroom and home.
Find out how Greenman adds magic to pre-primary lessons.
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This three-level pre-primary English course nurtures children as they grow and learn a new language, helping to develop confident social interactions and a caring approach to nature.
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Unlock the adventure with a unique code inside the Pupil’s Book.
Invite families to participate in children’s learning by continuing the magical adventures at home. The Greenman videos, songs and games are waiting for children online on Cambridge One.
Reward children’s effort and check their progress with step-by-step guidance and variety of tools. Find all the teaching resources including interactive activities with achievement badges in Presentation Plus.
Support learning with a fresh design that helps children to focus and notice the nature themes in every lesson. There are plenty of pen-to-paper opportunities to practise fine motor skills too.
Focus on children’s well-being with affirmations, self-reflection and relaxing yoga activities in the Forest Fun Activity Book. See their confidence grow with every lesson.
Encourage your learners to think about what they did well and to repeat an affirmation to build self-confidence and self-belief.
Discover new activities for very young learners to experience nature and learn with the new Forest Fun Activity Book. Engage children’s hands and minds with projects and crafts straight from the Forest School.
Choose from a variety of new digital content to manage every stage of the lesson, from routine boards to stories, songs and raps, to lots of videos including children’s yoga. The unique code in the Teacher’s Book unlocks these and more!
Fresh design that helps very young learners focus
Guidance for teachers on how to motivate learners and check their progress
Opportunities for families to participate in children’s learning journey
New ideas to help very young learners to experience nature and learn
A variety of new digital content to manage every stage of the lesson
Welcome back to the Magic Forest! The things you love about the series, the stories, the characters, the songs and the routines are all here. Now, with exciting new materials and components for teachers, learners and their families too, adding more magic to early learning!
Greenman and the Magic Forest Second edition is ideal for pre-primary children aged 3 to 5. Its whole-child approach naturally integrates English into learners’ overall education with:
A variety of digital content to manage every stage of the lesson
Guidance on how to motivate learners and check their progress
Design that helps very young learners focus
Opportunities for families to participate in children's learning journey
There are three levels: Starter, Level A and Level B. Each level divides into six main units, an introductory unit, four review units and four festival units.
All the main units follow the same pattern giving very young learners a clear structure which helps them understand what to expect and what is expected of them. It makes them feel safe, comfortable and ready to learn.
Explore
a value and emotion (such as ’recycling’ and ’being sorry’), contrasting concepts (such as ’clean’ and ’dirty’) and topic words
Learn
six new words in Lesson 1
language throughout the course to aid retention and comprehension
Reuse, recycle, repeat
pupils’ enthusiasm with a wide variety of activities
Spark
singing along to songs and moving your body to do the actions (Total Physical Response)
Enjoy
opportunities for each child to feel a sense of achievement!
Create
We start a unit with a unique topic and a story about the Magic Forest. A short video on Presentation Plus introduces each unit topic, engaging children with the unit theme. The first worksheet connects to the story. It invites children to identify, complete or draw pictures of the key vocabulary and helps them learn it.
The worksheets on the reverse pages are an important reference for teachers and parents. They include lesson contents, resources and song lyrics for the teachers and parents. The second worksheet provides practice of the key vocabulary and language structures in the unit. Notice how it promotes fine motor and critical thinking skills.
Bring in flashcards, games and audio to practise the six new words of the unit. Children can also practise the words through a song. The TPR actions support understanding, learning and retention. Reinforce learning by playing the vocabulary song on Presentation Plus.
The story presents some of the key language from the lesson. Children can listen to it in a ’real’ context. You can read the story in the Big Book, play the audio book while pointing to the pictures, or play the video on Presentation Plus.
Next, children focus on the unit concepts and developing critical thinking skills. This time, children listen or watch the story to review the language structures from Lesson 2, explore the unit concept, and, finally, talk about emotions and values present in the story.
Children explore opposite concepts (such as hungry/thirsty, good/naughty) presented through the Big Book story. Understanding the opposites develops cognitive skills of comparing two different things. It’s fun to explore the unit concepts and themes further by acting them out! The Pop-outs in the back of the book help you with that.
Time to move our fingers and toes! Action songs are great for practising and reviewing language, as well as developing gross motor skills and spatial awareness.
The Total Physical Response song, audio or video on Presentation Plus, invites children to join in with the actions and some of the words. Each time they hear the song, their confidence grows and they produce more words.
Lesson 5 is about counting. We sing a fun song and do the actions to practise numbers one to ten. Children can practise the numbers also with counting games and on-page activities.
The second worksheet focuses on number recognition and includes activities to develop pre-writing skills, such as tracing or drawing lines to match items.
We’re almost at the end of the unit. It’s time to revisit what we’ve learnt with activities involving stickers. Children love this part of the unit. In the back of the Pupil’s Book, there are stickers for all the key words. Children match the stickers to the pictures, saying the words out loud.
Review the learning with activities celebrating a season. Children revise the language every two units and learn about seasonal activities like what to wear in winter and how to organise a summer party.
Every unit gives you the opportunity to focus on Phonics. You can present letters and sounds with recordings and festival Phonics Flashcards. A Phonics song, with a listen and respond activity, tunes children’s ears to the letter sounds.
You can download an additional Teacher Resources Worksheet for extra practice from the Digital Pack.
This optional activity provides extra vocabulary practice and is perfect for fast finishers.
Look here for tips about other resources useful for this lesson.
Investigate the concept further with a Forest School activity and a project in the Activity Book.
And there’s additional activity in the Forest Fun Activity Book to reinforce a caring approach to nature.
You can also review seasons and weather with the interactive routine board in Presentation Plus.
There’s an additional worksheet to practise the vocabulary and fine motor skills in the teacher’s Digital Pack.
A seasonal song helps children to understand the concept of seasons and the world around them.
The worksheets on the reverse pages are an important reference for teachers and parents. They include lesson contents, resources and song lyrics for the teachers and parents.
The story presents some of the key language from the lesson. Children can listen to it in a ’real’ context.
Pupil’s Book with Digital Pack
Forest Fun Activity Book
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Big Books
Flashcards
A core component, featuring stories and a rich variety of activities (colouring, matching, tracing and more). There are stickers and pop-outs in the back of the book. This book offers between 1 and 3 teaching hours of English per week.
Use the code inside the Pupil’s Book to unlock the Digital Pack for learners. Home Practice gives the learners and their families access to the course audio, video, games and downloadable mini flashcards, mini word cards, and colouring worksheets.
This additional book brings Forest School activities to help you dig deeper into the topics and build children’s confidence in a creative way.
The activities draw on the nature theme inviting children to colour, doodle, solve puzzles and complete projects as they engage with their surroundings.
The well-being activities invite children to reflect on their learning and affirm their skills. Use the activities for additional practice of language and numbers.
Download extra resources: mini flashcards, mini word cards, letters to parents and festivals worksheets.
Use the unique code inside the Teacher’s Book to unlock all your teaching resources. Presentation Plus enables you to display all the components on the classroom screen. The interactive routine boards, games and rewards badges help you engage and motivate your learners.
Plan and deliver great lessons with this essential resource for teachers. The teaching notes offer step-by-step guidance for every activity in the Pupil’s Book and Activity Book, how to structure each lesson and how to monitor learners’ progress, how to talk with children about nature and the environment. Answer keys, ideas for games and activities for fast finishers complete the book.
Find a digital version of the Big Book in Presentation Plus – ideal for large classrooms.
Share the adventures of Greenman and his friends in a big format. The stories are the foundation of many lessons presenting the key words, structures and concepts. The Big Book is also ideal for reading together and experiencing stories with the whole class.
The digital flashcards in Presentation Plus have the option to play the audio and show written words describing the flashcards.
Show the series characters and all the core vocabulary in every unit. There is a description of the picture on the margin.
This additional book brings Forest School activities to help you dig deeper into the topics and build children’s confidence in a creative way. The activities draw on the nature theme inviting children to colour, doodle, solve puzzles and complete projects as they engage with their surroundings. The well-being activities invite children to reflect on their learning and affirm their skills. Use the activities for additional practice of language and numbers.
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