Growth!
Our core text this half term is The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis.
Welcome to the summer term! We hope you enjoyed the Easter break and that you had chance to spend some much needed time with friends and family.
This half term our topic is 'Growth'. We will be engaging in a variety of learning experiences to develop our knowledge and understanding of growth in the natural environment.
We began our topic by making our very own Bog Babies! We then planned and wrote a character description as part of our English learning.
In Science we have planted and watered our own sunflower seeds and will observe growth and change first hand as we watch them grow
In Art we are learning about the life and work of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe who is famous for her paintings of flowers. The children chose their favourite piece of Georgia O'Keeffe's artwork and carefully sketched the lines and shapes they could see.
As part of our English learning we made a 'Bog baby home'. We talked about habitats, what we needed to include and built our own for our Bog baby in the forest school. We collected adjectives and nouns to describe our habitats to be used in our writing tomorrow.
In Science we have been naming and identifying common plants. We explored around school taking pictures of all the beautiful flowers and plants we could find and created a 'picollage' using the Ipads.
In Geography we went on a walk to Victoria Park to study human (man made) and physical (natural) features. The physical features we found included the Pendle Water, old trees and wildflowers and we found several human features such as bridges, the duck pond and the band stand.