Year 2 Spring 2 Topic

Bean to Beanstalk, Chick to Chicken

Read...
Look out for these books in the Imagination Room or at Brierfield Library!  

Key words...​

bulb
fair test
germination
investigate
light
roots
seed
shoots
temperature
water

Fun facts...

  • There are around 300,000 different plant species and the number is growing all the time.

  • Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food.

  • Some plants are carnivores.  They have adapted clever ways to trap and break down insects for food.

  • Bamboo is the fastest growing plant.  It can grow up to 91cm each day.

  • An average size tree can provide enough wood to make 170,100 pencils.

Key words...​

adult
chick
cockerel
egg
hatch
hen
incubate
life cycle
nest
young

Fun facts...

  • A mother hen will sit on her eggs for about 20 days keeping them warm and turning them regularly.

  • Hens are really good mums.  They teach their chicks how to eat and drink and call them under their wings if danger is near.

  • A young frog is only about the size of a human fingernail.

  • Caterpillars are like tiny eating machines.  They spend two whole weeks just munching through leaves.

  • Some moths have no mouths.  They cannot eat and do all their eating while they are caterpillars.

Explore...

Watch the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and play a sorting game on the British Council website.
You could listen to the story on the BBC School Radio website.
Learn more about plants and how they grow with these BBC Bitesize videos and activities.
Get Growing with this online game.
Take this quick quiz to see if you can work out the lifecycles of a frog and a human!

Visit...
Towneley Park and Garden Centre - Burnley
Brockholes Nature Reserve - Preston

Do...

  • Get growing!  What can you grow in your garden or back yard?  A sunflower?  Some herbs? ​

  • Visit the park with an adult, take some paper and a pencil with you and draw the plants and animals you can see.​​

  • While you're at the park, go leaf or mini-beast spotting with these downloadable worksheets.  How many will you spot? 

  • Create finger puppets or stick puppets of the characters in Jack and the Beanstalk and create your own play of the story.

In school...

Picture
Class Novel - The (fairly) true tale of Jack and the Beanstalk by Liesl Shurtliff