Children follow flowers from their physical parts and life cycle to flowering trees, foods, and occupations connected with flowers. Observation, sequencing, matching, story response, printmaking, letter revision, and spatial tasks broaden the botanical study.
What children learn
- Identify the main parts of a flower.
- Sequence the stages in a flower's life cycle.
- Recognise trees that flower and foods that develop from flowers.
- Discuss flower-related jobs and revisit Jj-Ll, numbers 1-20, spatial awareness, and symmetry.
Key activities
- Observing and labelling a potted flowering plant
- Sequencing and colouring a flower life-cycle chart
- Matching common seeds to pictures of flowering plants
- Reading The Rose and the Amaranth and responding through drawing
- Making bottle-print flowers while discussing flower-related work
You’ll need
a potted flowering plant, flower-part and life-cycle charts, coloured paper and string, seeds and flower pictures, paper strips and glue, story materials, bottles and purple and green paint, crayons, number cards and letter sheets
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy