How lovely to think that it’s the first day of Spring today. There are plenty of signs of new life all around us and we have been very busy spotting them! There are bulbs growing in the Nursery flowerbeds, pink blossom on the tree outside Mr Quinn’s office and we think there might even be a robin nesting in our garden shed!
We have been talking about growth and change and encouraging the children to use lots of comparative language. The story of ‘Titch’ by Pat Hutchins is a lovely way to introduce the ideas of size difference. You can revisit the story here – you might like to turn the sound off and read it yourself. Do you think you might know what Titch’s tiny seed grew into?
We thought it was probably a giant sunflower! Here’s an incredible time lapse video of a sunflower growing from a tiny seed into a tall plant before finally flowering. We were all fascinated!
At the end of the video, you’ll notice the sunflower starts to wither and droop as it comes to end of its time to flower…but this is not the end of the story! We read ‘Billy’s Sunflower’ by Nicola Moon and Karin Littlewood to help us understand what happens next in the life-cycle of the sunflower and how the seeds it produces can be planted to grow into new plants! You can read this story again at home using the video below.
After all this reading, thinking and talking about seeds, plants, flowers, soil, petals and stems we had to, of course, plant our own tiny seeds just like Titch and Billy!
And we have also started work on a beautiful sunflower display using paper plates and bubble wrap:
Once we have finished our sunflower display we will, of course, share it with you!
Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday!