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Signs of spring

English Reception
This unit is part of Reception English Spring into Spring

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Active Learning

  1. Wakey-Wakey!
  2. Hibernation
  3. Spring flowers
  4. Spring pictures

Creating and Thinking Critically

  1. Hickety Pickety
  2. Weather diary speaking/writing
  3. Signs of spring
  4. Flower experiment

Exploring and Playing

  1. Floral role-play
  2. Creative printing
  3. My little forest
  4. Paper flowers

Books to Share

  1. Show photographs taken on nature walk. Discuss them using appropriate and descriptive vocabulary. Ask children to identify their favourite and to use because to provide a reason for their opinion.
  2. Read Wakey-Wakey (resources). Say spring is a unique time, which people look forward to. Identify personal and communal celebrations which people anticipate, e.g. birthdays, sports event, religious festivals. Recognise those that specifically happen during the spring.
  3. Read Wakey-Wakey (resources). Notice the waking animals immediately want to eat. Identify the customs and distinctive food associated with specific springtime celebrations.
  4. Enjoy That’s Not a Daffodil. Consider how the main character feels at start/end of the story. Children describe the people/places/events that make them feel happy, e.g. Granny, the park, daffodils.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Spring-time Flowers (resources) Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Help children to vary the pitch and tone of their voice as they rehearse to emphasise words and phrases.

Group Reader: Wakey-Wakey
This lovely story about wildlife awakening after the cold, dark winter will engage beginning readers with its repeating structure and colourful illustrations

You Will Need

Essential Texts
Wakey-Wakey (Hamilton Group Reader)
That’s Not a Daffodil by Elizabeth Honey

Websites
Play Springtime Fun from cbeebies
Hibernation and British mammals, additional information from BBC
Hickety Pickety my red hen - BBC Teach

Additional information and images for the craft activities
Fruit and Vegetable Prints
Pot of Paper Spring Flowers from cbeebies
How to make Clay Hedgehogs
Colour Changing Flowers Experiment

Resources
Flowers, role-play props for flower shop
Woodland small-world materials
Fruit and vegetables for printing
Green paper, coloured tissue paper, modelling clay, paper cups

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