Spring and Growth - Summer 1
Spring and Growth
Our core text this half term is Jack and the Beanstalk by Ladybird First Favourite Tales.
In Phonics the graphemes that we will be learning in this half term will be:
ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er.
Please help your child consolidate these at home by reading the words in your red phonics Book.
Thank you :)
Growing a Beanstalk!
Following on from reading Jack and the Beanstalk, the children wanted to grow their own beanstalk. We talked about what we would need to grow a beanstalk and how we would look after it so it would grow extra tall and reach the giant's castle!
As a next step to this activity we have looked more closely at the different parts of a flower/plant. The children deconstructed a flower and sorted it into its different parts: flower, petal, stem, leaf and roots . We then talked about why each part is important to the flower/plant. The children choose to reconstruct their own individual flower using the parts. Other children choose to draw and paint some flowers from observation. We have also been busy at forest school planting some new flowers for us to watch bloom and grow. We have loved exploring our core text Jack and the Beanstalk in our indoor and outdoor classroom; counting magic beans, building, measuring and describing beanstalks, constructing the giant's castle, making magic potions - to name a few of our exciting activities!
Life Cycle of a Frog
This week we have been learning about the life cycle of a frog. We have visited the pond at forest school to look for frogspawn and tadpoles. We were very lucky to find lots of tadpoles and even saw a Mummy frog too, peeping above the water! We have brought the tadpoles back into our classroom to observe them change into froglets and hopefully little frogs! On returning from exploring the pond and catching tadpoles some children choose draw and paint the parts of the frog life cycle and others created a pond using reggio materials and loose parts from our classroom.
A Visit from a Scientist!
What an amazing experience we had this week at school - we were lucky enough to have a visit from Steven Lewis-Neill, a scientist who loves the great outdoors and minibeasts! He brought many minibeasts in to show us including snails, spiders, woodlice and slugs! Some of us were brave enough to hold them in our hands! We even got to meet his pet mouse and toad too!
