Come Outside - Jasper's Beanstalk

A new topic as we start our summer term - Come Outside! Our classroom is decorated with lush green beanstalks and beautiful blossom trees. 

Inspired by the blossom trees around us, we painted trees with pink and white fingerprint blossoms, and created chocolate playdough blossom trees, with pink beaded blossoms.  We crafted intricate blossoms for our Tell Me Tree. They may look like scrunched tissue paper, but I promise the process was much more technical, as we cut, folded and delicately peeled the paper. 

Our first story to explore - Jasper's Beanstalk, written by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen. Jasper is a frustrated gardener who wants to grow a beanstalk, but he grows impatient, so he digs the bean back up and throws it away. The Bears have planted beans, and ours are growing well. We wrote instructions for planting our beans, and used time language to sequence our instructions. We are taking photos and drawing our bean plants to record our observations. 

Jasper waited and waited for his beanstalk to grow. The Bears wrote a diary of what Jasper did each day to encourage his beanstalk to grow. 

While we waited for our beans to grow, we created a tall class beanstalk, carefully cutting curly tendrils and creating leaves using different media to add to the stem. On our creative table, we painted our own beanstalk by mixing paint to create different shades of green.

We wondered what we would find at the top of our beanstalk, so we painted our ideas and wrote a sentence to describe them.

Our next story is about the journey of a tiny seed that grows into a beautiful, giant flower.