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Exciting things the children will be learning in the Summer Term

How does your garden grow?

Our topic for the first half of the term is 'How does your garden grow?' We will read and watch a version of the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ to begin our topic. Over the first half term, we will read the traditional tale, alongside some alternative versions of the story, and share our opinions of these. We will learn the story of Jack and the Beanstalk using actions to help us and draw our own story maps. We will celebrate Earth Day on Friday 25^th April, and we will have the opportunity to plant and grow our own beans and sunflowers (as well as a few more things). We will learn about how different plants and flowers grow and take part in an experiment to investigate the things that plants need to grow. We will also learn some Jack and the Beanstalk songs which we will perform on stage at the end of the half term. 

Nature Explorers

Our topic for the second half of the term is 'Nature Explorers'. We will start this topic by going on a bug hunt in our Orchard and will have an exciting delivery of caterpillars. We will learn about the life cycle of the butterfly and have first-hand experience of the transformation of caterpillar to butterfly while we care for the caterpillars in the classroom. We will also create a ‘minibeast lab’ to observe different insects in the classroom. We will read some of the minibeast themed stories from the Eric Carle series and focus on ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ in more detail. We will, again, learn the story using actions to help us, we will create our own story maps and innovate the story. We will celebrate the end of the topic and end of the school year by having a ‘Beautiful Bug Ball.’