In Summer 1, Zayit and Seorah’s class will be working across the half term on the topic of ‘Seasons’. Our big question will be ‘What happens in the seasons?’. This seasonal-themed project will explore the different features of each season, the weather that occurs, what we should wear in each season and the changes that take place in our environment all around us. Each week we will focus on a different season. We will begin by assessing the children’s prior knowledge of what they know about Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter by mind mapping their ideas about the features of each season. Throughout the week we will be doing different seasonal sessions such as themed messy play, choosing the right clothes to wear for each season, seasonal-themed maths and seasonal-themed poetry. We will then continue adding to our mind maps throughout the week as the children’s knowledge of the features of each season grows. Towards the end of each week, the children will individually choose from the mind map which seasonal features they would like to make for our whole class seasons art collage.
Teacher’s Reflections
“I think the project went really well and the children were very engaged in it. However, due to it being such a short term, it did feel like there was a lot of content to cover a short space of time. Maybe an idea for the future would be to combine the Summer 2 plants topic with the seasons and link them in with a possible focus on different plants in the seasons and environmental changes.”
- Lucy Robinson
Students’ Reflections
“My favourite part of the project was singing the seasons songs.” – Eli
“I learned all about how to dress in all the seasons” – Seth
“I learned that in Winter it can sometimes snow” – Arj
