Lesson video

Hello, everybody.

Miss Hughes here.

What's your name? Great to meet you.

It's a lovely day, so I've come for a walk in the field.

There's some beautiful flowers growing.

Can you see them? They're called tulips and tulips grow at a special time of year.

Do you know what time of year tulips grow in? They grow in spring.

And we're going to be looking for all the signs of spring in this lesson and we're going to explain the changes that happen.

There will be three lessons on spring.

The first with me, the second with Miss Sidenius, and the third with Mrs. Garrard.

In this lesson, we will listen to a story, then we'll learn what happens in spring, and then it's your chance to go on a spring walk with your grown up and maybe do a photo shoot, look for signs of spring.

You're going to need your listening ears, which are already turned on, you're going to need a camera, you can ask your grown up to help you to use one or you can just pretend to take photos.

And you're going to need your eyes to look for signs of spring.

If you need to get anything before the lesson, pause the video here, make sure you're comfortable, and restart when you're ready.

Fantastic.

Let's begin our lesson by listening to a story.

And this story is about baby animals because in spring, lots of baby animals are born.

What animals can you see on this screen? Tell your screen.

Let's go through them.

We can see baby lambs, and their parents are sheep.

We can see baby calves, and their parents are cows.

What noise does a cow make? Moo.

And we can see baby chicks, with their parents, a chicken.

What noise does a chicken make? Cluck cluck.

Great job.

I wonder what the baby animals will do in our story.

Well, let me introduce you to Farmer Fian.

Can you all say hello Fian? And Farmer Fian has had a bit of a problem.

I wonder if we can help her solve it.

This story is called what a mix-up.

One day, Farmer Fian went outside.

It was spring time.

Blossoms were starting to grow on the trees, tulips and daffodils were all around her.

And the leaves were starting to grow back a beautiful shade of green.

Farmer Fian was so excited.

Spring was her favourite time of year because it's when all of the animals on her farm were born.

Farmer Fian had to get up very early every day.

She had to collect eggs from the chicken, milk the cows, and feed the piglets.

But one day when she woke up, she looked over to the gate and she saw a big hole in the gate.

It was completely broken.

Farmer Fian was a bit panicked.

She looked over the other way and saw all of her animals escaping in different directions.

The chicken was clucking as it went past.

Bock bock bock bock bock.

The cow was mooing as it stomped across the field.

And the pigs, oink oink oink, were rushing about with no clue where they were going.

Farmer Fian, in a rush, put all of her animals into pens.

She looked around feeling quite pleased that she'd managed to catch them all.

But, she looked in the pens, and she saw a bit of a problem.

Look at box number four.

What is the problem that Farmer Fian has? There had been a mix-up.

Farmer Fian had put the wrong parent, the wrong grown-up animal, with the wrong child.

They didn't match.

She had put a pig with a chick, a cow with a piglet, and a chicken with a calve.

Oh no, said Farmer Fian.

What am I going to do? What can she do, everybody? Farmer Fian decided to sort them.

It took her ages, but eventually she managed to reunite the grown-up animals with their children.

She put the chick with the chicken, the calf with the cow, and the piglet with the pig.

Farmer Fian was exhausted.

I'm glad spring only comes once a year she thought.

And she locked the gates and went to bed.

The end.

Your turn.

Well, Farmer Fian had a big job on her hands.

Matching the baby animals to their parents.

Lots of baby animals are born in spring.

Let's find out why by looking at the changes that happen in spring.

Spring is one of the four seasons.

Let's go through the four seasons together.

If you know them, call them out with me.

There's spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Say them with me.

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Spring starts in March and it covers March, April and May.

It's the season after winter and before summer.

The season we're learning about today is spring.

So what happens in spring? Well, take a look at the picture and tell me what you can see that shows us this picture was taken in spring.

We can see that on the trees, some green leaves are starting to shoot.

We can also see some white and pink flowers called blossom, they're called blossom.

And blossom on the trees is one of the first signs of spring.

But why do the leaves and blossom grow back in spring? Well, spring comes after winter and winter is the really cold season where the leaves have fallen off the trees because it's just too cold for them to survive.

In spring, the weather starts to get warmer, it starts to get warmer, and the days get longer, they get longer.

So because the weather gets warmer and the days get longer, plants and baby animals have a bigger chance of surviving.

Let's have a look at some plants that grow in spring.

What can you see? You might know the names of them, but if you don't know the names of them, just describe them.

Tell your screen I can see.

Here are just some of the plants that grow in spring.

There are some special spring flowers that grow every year like tulips, and daffodils.

You might see lots of spring flowers on the trees.

We've already talked about the little pink and white flowers they're called blossom.

And, of course, the leaves start to grow back on to the trees.

Lots of plants grow in spring.

But why do they grow in spring? Well, spring has really mixed weather.

It has some rain and some sunshine.

And plants both rain and sunshine to grow.

So spring is a really great time of year for plants to grow.

Plants need water and sunshine.

Great.

Lots of baby animals are born in spring too.

What baby animals can you see on the screen? Tell your screen.

Call them out with me.

Lambs, calves, and chicks.

Along with lots of other baby animals are born in spring.

But why do you think baby animals are born spring? Tell your screen what you think and then we'll go over the answer.

Baby animals are born in spring because the weather gets warmer and the days get longer.

That means there is more chance of the animals surviving.

There is more chance of them living.

So lots of baby animals are born in spring.

Now, here's a task for you.

On this screen you can see some pictures of different seasons.

I want you to pause the screen and point to the photos that show spring.

Restart when you're ready.

Let's take a look.

We have the lamb and the chick because they are baby animals which are born in spring.

The daffodil because that's a spring flower.

And the picture of blossom.

The berries are frozen.

That is winter picture because it's got frost in it.

So that is not a picture of spring.

And here is a picture of some orange leaves.

Do you know what season these are from? That's right, the leaves are from autumn.

Here is another task for you.

On this screen are two photos of different seasons.

What season do you think this photo is from? That's right, spring, you can see the blossom on the trees.

What about this photo? Lot's of you guessed autumn.

We can see the orange, yellow, and brown leaves on the trees.

Pause the screen here and tell your screen how is spring different to autumn.

Restart when you're ready.

I heard some great ideas.

In spring, the plants and the leaves are growing on the trees.

Whereas in autumn, they are falling off.

I heard some of you say that in spring, the weather is getting warmer, but in autumn, it's getting cooler.

And I even heard some of you say in spring, the days are getting longer, and in autumn they are getting shorter.

Well done, everybody.

Now, it's time for you to go on a spring walk.

You can ask your grown ups if you can go on a walk to see what signs of spring you can see outside.

Here are some things that you might see.

Call out to your screen what you might see.

You may see some blossom.

Or some spring flowers like daffodils or tulips.

You may even see some baby animals.

Ask your grown up if you can borrow a camera to take a photo of those things.

Though you must be supervised the whole time because cameras are very expensive.

You can even pretend to take a photo or do a drawing of what you see.

Or if you're doing this lesson at a time that is not spring, then you can ask your grown up if they can show you some photos of spring and you can describe what you see.

So, your instructions are walk, find things that remind you of spring, take a photograph, and describe them.

Here are some words you might like to use to describe spring things that you see.

You might say that they're colourful, you might say that they're delicate, spiky, bright, small, or natural.

I wonder what you'll find.

If you'd like to, please ask your parents are carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging Oak National and hashtag #LearnwithOak.

It's been great spotting the signs of spring with you today.

It's getting me really excited for the warmer weather.

I hope to see you soon.

Bye.