Communication, Language and Literacy

Names of spring flowers
Talk about the growth of day - more daylight, warmer weather
Birds building nests
Lambs being born
Life cycles
Animal babies
Stories -
The Enormous Turnip
Jasper and the Beanstalk
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

  Personal and Social Development

Celebrating new life
Festivals - Eid, Easter
Caring for young babies, young animals
Caring for living things in the environment - plants and trees
Noticing changes in the world around us - changes in colour, changes in growth

  Mathematical Development

Songs for counting -
'Five little peas'
'Five little speckled frogs'
Sorting different types of seeds
Matching baby animals to mothers
Comparing sizes - baby to adult
Sequence life cycle pictures
Counting seeds/flowers
Counting lambs/calves using toy animals, also sorting and matching

    Spring Topic Web    
Knowledge & understanding of the world

Life cycle of frogs
Observation and recording
Observation of frog spawn, tadpoles, frogs
Observing growth of cress, carrot heads, seeds and bulbs
IT - click and drag to match baby animals to mothers
Observing nests
Using magnifying classes to notice detail
Eggs hatching into chicks
Making Easter nests - baking

  Creative Development

Seed collage pictures
Paintings of flowers
Colour work - spring colours
Collage of chicks
Collage of lambs
Collage using natural materials e.g. Twigs, leaves, feathers
Cutting and sticking -
flower pictures
Using musical instruments - sounds of spring
Pictures for 'Enormous Turnip'

  Physical Development

Growing movements -
Curled up small like a seed
Tall like a flower/tree
Spread out hands/arms like a new 
leaf
Using tools with play dough and plasticine to make flowers, leaves
Role play/movement to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk or the Enormous Turnip

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