Spring and Growth - Summer 1
Spring and Growth
Our core texts this half term are Sam Plants a Sunflower by Kate Petty and
Axel Scheffler and Jack and the Beanstalk by Ladybird First Favourite Tales.
Phonics
In Phonics we will be consolidating our learning of phase 3 phonemes and will be focusing more on applying these in our writing:
ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er
Please help your child consolidate this learning at home by reading the words in your red phonics book.
Thank you :)
Growing Sunflowers!
Following on from reading Sam Plants a Sunflower, the children wanted to grow their own sunflowers. We talked about what we would need to grow sunflowers and how we would look after them so that they would grow as big and beautiful as the ones in the story.
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.
