Active Learning
- Wakey-Wakey!
- Hibernation
- Spring flowers
- Spring pictures
Step into spring and look out for the signs of new life on a nature walk. Enjoy sharing Wakey-Wakey, The Odd Egg and The Egg Drop to help create descriptive phrases and captions, as well as explore springtime festivals.
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Spring (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
Essential text
Wakey-Wakey (Hamilton Group Reader) from hamiltoneducation.org
Desirable text
That’s Not a Daffodil by Elizabeth Honey
Websites
Play Springtime Fun from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Hibernation and British mammals, additional information from bbc.co.uk/blogs/autumnwatch
Hickety Pickety My Red Hen Counting song from bbc.co.uk/programmes
Additional information and images for the craft activities
Printing with fruit and vegetables from firstpalette.com
Pot of Paper Spring Flowers from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Clay Hedgehogs from youtube.com
Flower colour changing investigation from hunker.com
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
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Hen’s Song (resources)
Share poem and recite throughout the week. Children explore varying the pitch and tone of their voices to emphasise the rhyming words, e.g. shell/well. Children learn & perform the poem in small groups.
Group Reader: Spring for the Birds
The birds begin to sing in this beautifully illustrated text, they build their nests, lay their eggs and raise their young.
Essential texts
The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett
Spring for the Birds (Hamilton Group Reader)
Websites
Chicken Eggs Hatching from youtube.com
Raising baby birds from bbc.co.uk/education/clips
The Ugly Duckling told by Wilf Merttens
Chick Chick Chicken and Sleeping Little Bunnies Sleeping from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Paper plate chick, Odd Egg Suncatcher and Woolly Peg Lamb from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes
Resources
Ingredients and cooking equipment for chocolate nests
Farmyard small-world materials
Wool and pegs
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Grandma’s Easter Eggs | Hot cross buns (resources)
Share Grandma’s Easter Eggs, rehearsing throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Enjoy humour. Children vary pitch/tone of their voice to emphasise the wistfulness of each sentence! Sing Hot Cross Buns together.
Essential text
The Egg Drop by Mini Grey
Websites
The Easter Story and Preparing for Easter from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Celebrating Holi from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Decorated Eggs from bbcgoodfood.com
Easter Egg Hunt Kit from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Easter Card from www.youtube.com
Holi Powder recipe from littlepassports.com
Resources
Artefacts and photographs that represent Springtime people/ places/ experiences
Hot cross bun ingredients; coloured card; Spring festival books
Springtime garden small-world materials
A4 white cloth, mist spray, bright powder paints
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