Weekly Planning for English

Week Beginning: March 21st , 2011 Theme: Spring

Subtheme: Plants

1. Areas of experience:

• Math Corner - Subitizing (sunflowers, seeds)

- Sorting: plant/animal (images with plants, animals)
• Mark-making - Collage (paper, glue, coloured cello-tape, magazines, scissors)
• Science Corner – “Growing Plants” (plastic plates, seeds, sponges, water)
• Creative Area – “Tissue Flower” (crepe paper, straws, string)
-“Handprint Paper Flowers” (coloured paper, straws, scissors, pencils,
tape/glue, and stapler)
• Brain Games: “Hippety-hop” (play-acting expands the mind); “Secret pictures” (this game
helps a child “see through someone else’s eyes”)

2. The song of the week:

Flower Garden

The farmer plants the seeds

The farmer plants the seeds
Hi, Ho and Cheery O
The farmer plants the seeds.

The sun begins to shine

 The sun begins to shine
Hi, Ho and Cheery O
The sun begins to shine.

The rain begins to fall

The plants begin to grow
The flowers smile at us.

Spring is Here

Spring is here, spring is here

The flowers, the trees,
The birds and the bees
Spring is here, spring is here
Everything is in bloom.
The grass is green
The air is clean
The birds are singing a song.
A warm, spring day
All I can say
I wait for spring all year long.
3. Stories:

• Patty’s Pumpkin Patch

• Growing Vegetable Soup

• From Bulb To Daffodil

• Growing Plants
 • Wonderful Worms

• The Bunnies’ Picnic

4. Fingerplay:

Relaxing Flowers

Five little flowers standing in the sun (hold up five fingers)

See their heads nodding, bowing one by one? (bend fingers several times)
Down, down, down comes the gentle rain (raise hands, wiggle fingers and lower arms to simulate
rain)
And the five little flowers stand up again (hold up five fingers).

5. Words of the week: plants, flower, growing, seeds, watering, wholes, bulb, root, stem, leaves/leaf, parts
of plants.

6. Jolly Phonics: New sounds:

For 4-5s /j/

Jelly and jam,

Jelly and jam,
Jiggling on the plate.
Oh, what will I eat with it?
/j/-/j/-/j/-/j/-/j/.

For 5-6s

Reading Time!