Celebrate Spring!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Celebrations New Beginnings

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Know about similarities and differences between others, and among families, communities and traditions.
  • Sing songs and dance and experiment with ways of changing them.
  • Use what has been learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Reflect on the new beginnings, life and activity Spring brings using dance and Art.

Children will:

  • Dance, experimenting with movement and action to symbolise the new life and changes Spring brings.
  • Create paintings to express changes and new beginnings in Spring.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Guess how much I love you in the Spring by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram
  • Seasons come, seasons go Tree by Britta Teckentrup
  • Paper, paint, paint brushes
  • Resources for wool wrap sheep
  • Toy farm and animals
  • Playdough
  • Information books and jig saw puzzles