Growing and Planting - Spring Term

Content Name

Growing and Planting - Spring Term

Content Type

WOW Lesson

Description

A topic fuelled by growth. Gardening can be a huge stress reliever for children as it teaches us how to control our emotions and build patience. Spending time in nature amongst flowers and trees will not only make children more content, but will encourage them to truly value our planet.

Curriculum

• Country

  England

  Key Stage:

  EYFS

  Years:

  Reception

  Subjects:

  • Communication and Language
  • Expressive Arts and Design
  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development
  • Physical Development
  • Understanding the World

  Topics:

  • ELG: Fine Motor Skills
  • ELG: Speaking
  • ELG: Building Relationships
  • ELG: The Natural World
  • ELG: Comprehension
  • ELG: Numerical Patterns
  • ELG: Creating with Materials
  • ELG: Being Imaginative and Expressive
  • ELG: Writing

  Programmes of Study:

  • Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter
  • Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary
  • Demonstrate understanding of what has been read to them by retelling stories and narratives using their own words and recently introduced vocabulary
  • Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters
  • Verbally count beyond 20, recognising the pattern of the counting system
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function
  • Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery
  • Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants
  • Show sensitivity to their own and to others’ needs
  • Sing a range of well-known nursery rhymes and songs
  • Compare quantities up to 10 in different contexts, recognising when one quantity is greater than, less than or the same as the other quantity

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