Collected Resources

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

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

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

1. Animal young
2. Spring birds
3. Swan lifecycle
4. Labelling a cygnet

1. Chocolate nests
2. Colourful eggs
3. The Ugly Duckling
4. Animal labels

1. Small-world farming
2. Floating fowl
3. Malleable materials
4. Animal sorting