The flowers are back in bloom, the birds are singing their chirpy song and the sun is making an appearance once again (yay for this!)… guys, the season of Spring has arrived.
Now that we’ve said so long, farewell to winter for good, let’s take you through some spring-themed Key Stage 1 and 2 Science, Spanish and Learn English activities you can use in your classroom.
Science
Learn Screen
Fanciful Four – Season changes – observe changes across the four seasons.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early ***
- Wales: Year 1
- N. Ireland: P2
Seeds of Knowledge – Explore key vocabulary used when discussing plants and their basic structure.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early ***
- Wales: Year 1
- N. Ireland: P2
Seeds of Knowledge – Explore key vocabulary used when discussing plants and their needs.
- England: Year 2
- Scotland: First *
- Wales: Year 2
- N. Ireland: P3
Flower Power – An overview of different parts of plants and what they do to help the plant grow.
- England: Year 3
- Scotland: Second *
- Wales: Year 5
- N. Ireland: P6
Includes Activity!
Activity
Four Seasons – Relate different pictures to the four seasons of the year.
- England: F2
- Scotland: Early **
- Wales: Reception
- N. Ireland: P1
Flower Power – Identify the different parts of a plant.
- England: Year 3
- Scotland: First ***
- Wales: Year 3
- N. Ireland: P5
Includes Learn Screen!
Green Fingers – Name the parts of the flower and understand the different function of each part.
- England: Year 5
- Scotland: Second *
- Wales: Year 5
- N. Ireland: P6
Topic Tool
Plant Parts – Identify the parts of a plant: roots, stem, leaves, fruit and flowers.
- England: Year 1 & 3
- Scotland: Early ***, First * & First **
- Wales: Year 1 & 2
- N. Ireland: P3
Spanish
Activity
Que Llueva – Sing along to one of the most widely-known traditional songs, Que Llueva, which celebrates the arrival of Spring.
- England: Year 3
- Scotland: First **
- Wales: Year 2
- N. Ireland: P4
Includes Activity Sheet!
ThinkIts
Colourful Flowers – Listen to Rosa tell you which colours her mum likes, and then choose an appropriate bunch of flowers for her to buy.
- England: Year 3
- Scotland: First *
- Wales: Year 1
- N. Ireland: P3
Learn English
Topic Tool
Plant Parts – Identify the parts of a plant: root, stem, leaves, fruit and flowers.
- Level 1 & 2
Bonus Activity! Word Search Topic Tool
Make sure you know about the Word Search Topic Tool too! This fantastic resource is available in every year in the English module (it’s in differing sizes depending on the difficulty you want) – you can add in the words you want for a perfect Spring word search. We’ve come up with some words you could use:
- Spring
- Flowers
- Sunshine
- Butterfly
- Garden
- Plants
- Soil
- Sprout
- April
- May
- Bloom
- Bud