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.
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 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 toad too!
