Personal, Social and Emotional
Development
~ Select and use activities and
resources with help or independently.
~ Initiate a conversation with peers
and familiar adults.
~ Share experiences with minibeasts
with their peers. How do they feel
about the different minibeasts and
why?
Understanding the World
~ Can talk about some of the
things they have observed such
as plants and minibeasts.
~ Discuss what they think will
happen with the seeds they have
planted and what these seeds
need to grow.
~ Show care and concern for
living things in the environment.
Communication and Language
~ Is able to follow simple and more
complex instructions. Following
instructions when planting seeds and
preparing the garden for growing.
~ Begins to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’
questions.
~ Use talk to explain what might happen
next, recall and relive past experiences.
Physical Development
~ Moving around like a minibeast. Crawling like
a spider, slithering like a worm, moving slowly
like a snail.
~ Handles tools safely and confidently,
preparing the garden for growing plants and
vegetables.
~ Eat a healthy range of foodstuffs,
discuss the vegetables that we are
planting/growing.
Gardens, Crawling Minibeasts e.g. Spiders
and Snails
Nursery – Spring Term 2
You can help your child by encouraging them to
look at the shape of objects and things around
them. Share familiar stories and rhymes with
them. Look out for minibeasts in your gardens or
whilst walking around in the local environment.
Literacy
~ Recognise their own name and some familiar words.
~ Suggest how stories may end, think of different endings for
familiar stories.
~ Retell familiar stories “The Very hungry Caterpillar” “The
Very Busy Spider”.
Expressive Arts and Design
~ Creating a spider web using wool
and cardboard.
~ Snail trails using marbles and
paint.
~ Painting pictures of minibeasts.
~ Design a flowerbed, what plants
do you want to plant? What colour
flowers?
Maths
~ Count the number of legs on different minibeasts.
~ Look at the shapes of the spiders webs, snail shells.
~ Go on a minibeast hunt and see how many different
minibeasts they can find? How many altogether?
~ Look at the shapes of the allotment, plant pots, seeds.