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 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 looked carefully at pieces of Georgia O'Keeffe's artwork and carefully sketched the lines and shapes they could see.
In science we are learning about plants. We discussed what we already know about plants and what a seed needs to grow before planting our own sunflower seeds. We are going to observe their changes over time.
We went on a plant hunt around our school grounds to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants.
In are we used colour to explore a piece of Georgia O'Keefe's artwork. We matched colour strips and swatches to plants in our forest school. We looked carefully at the colours and shades in the plants. We then recreated the colours using different types of media.
