Transcript Garden centre

Garden centre- Topic web
This topic web for the garden centre helps support planning across all areas of learning.
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Personal, social and emotional:
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Physical:
How to look after our immediate
environment
Talk about own experiences of plants
Working together to plant flowers in
the garden
Looking after class plant
Discuss and talk about famous artists
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Communication and Language:
Handling small tools- trawls,
spades, pots- digging and planting
Larger equipment to transport
objects- wheel barrows, baskets
Large paint brushes- water painting
outside on floor, walls
Large chalk- flower sketching
Make own gardens in shoe box
Looking after class plant
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Role play- garden centre, florist,
flower stall
Digging patch- trawls, soil, pots,
seeds
Variety of fiction and non-fiction
text- plants
Plants and magnify glass
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Literacy:
Mathematics:
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Read information booksflowers
Draw and label a flower
Wrote about their favourite
flower painting
Write a shopping list to the
garden centre
Write a recount on how to look
after a plant
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Money- buying and selling
plants, garden tools
Comparing length- look at
different heights e.g.
sunflowers
Patterns- look at different
petals and their arrangements
Understanding the World:
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Look at flowers under the
microscope/magnify glass
Plant own flowers
Look and compare different
seeds
How to look after plants
Compare plants from around
the world
Flower life cycle
Expressive arts and design:
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Flower pressing
Leaves, soil, seeds, petalsnatural pictures
Mud painting outside
Observational drawingsunflowers (look at various
artists)
Mixing colours
Tissue paper flowers