Y1K Ascot Blog: The tiny seed

The theme for this half term is plants, water and growing things. We are learning more about living things and how they grow and change. Our book is The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle but we will be reading a simplified version. The class really like the simple story line and clear pictures and some people are beginning to recall parts of the story by themselves.

Here is a link to the simplified video...

The seed
We have also been singing along to the planting song mother goose planting song
And the class really liked this video Peep plants a seed

We started our first day back by talking about our holiday adventures and making some holiday paintings...

After reading The Tiny Seed, we are investigating other kinds of seeds beginning with pumpkin seeds

First we explored them using our senses of sight, touch and taste...

We used the seeds for some counting, pouring and pattern making before moving onto colour mixing.

Everyone was excited to be able to take control of their own batch of seeds to dye and they did a great job! Scooping the seeds up and getting them into the bag was a feat in itself but they all persevered and enjoyed mixing and shaking to make their own rainbow of seeds. Its amazing how independent they are becoming when given their own small responsibilities! :)

We used our finished beautiful rainbow coloured seeds for a sorting activity. Using the tongs to pick up the seeds took a lot of patience and skill!

We also used the pumpkin seeds to represent leaves in our autumn tree art...

Nursery love playing in the sand pit and we have been attempting to make sandcastles this week.. with varying degrees of success!

We were observing how the flowers became translucent in the water tray when Ploen suggested we paint their colours back again! So we decided to do some painting with flowers and leaves...Great idea Ploen!!