FOCUS ACTIVITY – SPRING NATURE WALK
Please click here to find out more about
the spring nature walk activity & how you and your child
can extend this fun, learning activity & links with the EYFS
curriculum.
MOTHER’S DAY – POTS & BULBS
We do hope all the
mummies loved the pots & planted bulbs that their children
made for them! The plants are miniature daffodil narcissi called ‘tete
a tete’ and a blue grape hyacinth. The children not only
had a lot of fun making and planting these pots but also learnt
and discovered whilst they played.
Here are some of the ways
this activity links to the EYFS - ( Early
Years Foundation Stage ) curriculum :
• Personal, social and emotional development – sense
of community. Showing affection for special people in their lives.
Joining in with family customs or traditions. Self-care. Appreciating
the need for hygiene, washing their hands after having handled
the soil.
• Communication, language and literacy.
Language for communication. Learning new words and being able to use them
to communicate about things that interest them.
• Problem
solving, reasoning and numeracy. Numbers as labels and for counting.
Counting each trowel-full to fill pot with soil. Using number
language, like ‘more’ and ‘a lot’. Shape,
space and measure. Enjoy filling and emptying containers / pots.
Discussing weight, heavy or light, full or empty. Sizes of pots,
smaller or lager.
• Knowledge & understanding of the
world – exploration and investigation. Discovering about
bulbs and growth through planting and looking closely at plants.
Designing and making. Deciding the best way to make their mother’s
day gift look nice. Time. Observing growth and change of bulbs
over time.
• Physical development – using equipment
and materials. Using scissors to cut tissue paper, glue sticks
to apply glue and trowels to put soil into the pots.
• Creative
development – being creative. Deciding how to decorate
their pots, using different colours and materials. Exploring
media and materials. Exploring feel and look of different materials,
silver foil, tissue paper and soil.
Things you can do at home
to extend this learning and fun activity:
Care for the plant – encourage
your child to care for the plant – giving it water & sunlight
(please remember to make a few holes in the foil at the bottom
of the pot & place on a saucer !)
Observe growth – watch
as the flowers develop & begin to open. Maybe take some photos
or draw some pictures to notice the changes over time.
Replant – once
the flowers have finished maybe you could replant the bulbs in
your garden or into a larger pot or window box for next year?
Have a good look at the bulb with your child andtalk about the
bulb, shoots and perhaps measure the roots – which are
the longest ?
Recycle & reuse – maybe you could reuse
the pot to sew something else? A seed for the summer – tomatoe
plant, pumpkin or sunflower.
We’d love to know how you
get on. Have fun together !
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