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Waking up and enjoying spring

English Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Reception/Year 1 Mixed Age English Planning Spring into Spring

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Exploring and Playing

  1. Cress heads
  2. Clay hedgehog
  3. All around the daffodils
  4. Chalk talks!

You Will Need

Essential Text
That’s Not a Daffodil by Elizabeth Honey

Group Reader
Wakey! Wakey! by Ruth Merttens

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What is hibernation? from BBC Bitesize

Group Readers

Wakey, wakey

This lovely story about wildlife awakening after the cold, dark winter will engage beginning readers with its repeating structure and colourful illustrations. A great group reader to accompany a topic on spring, this phonologically decodable text will encourage discussion about native British wildlife and how the countryside changes through the seasons.

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