Manor Primary School – Reception Medium Term Planning

Petals and Pots

Overview of the Learning:
In this unit children will investigate, identify and name a variety of common wild, garden plants, and trees. They will identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees and will produce observational drawings. Pupils should use the local environment to explore and answer questions about plants growing in their habitat. They should observe the growth of flowers and vegetables that they have planted.
Core Aims
To investigate a variety of common wild, garden plants and trees using their senses.
identify and describe the basic structure of wild, garden plants and trees.
explore their local environment to observe plants growing in their habitat.
plant flowers and vegetables from seeds and observe their growth.
begin to use vocabulary related to plant structure.
observe, compare and contrast familiar plants and trees. / Characteristics of Learning. They will:
  • ask simple questions.
  • observe closely, using simple equipment
  • identify and classify
  • use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  • represent their experiences in play.
  • initiate activities.
  • make links and notice patterns in their experiences.
Children will:
  • identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants,
  • explorethe basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
  • use the local environment to explore and answer questions about plants growing in their habitat.
  • observe the growth of flowers and vegetables that they have planted.
  • identify, label and describeplant structures (including leaves, flowers (blossom), petals, fruit, roots, bulb, seed, trunk, branches, stem).
  • observe, compare and contrast familiar plants
  • produce observational drawings of familiar plants and trees.
  • begin to record how plants have changed over time.

Expectations
Children can:
  • identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
  • identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
  • Name and describe plants and vegetables that they have planted.
  • Identify with common names of flowers, examples of deciduous and evergreen trees, and plant structures (including leaves, flowers (blossom), petals, fruit, roots, bulb, seed, trunk, branches, stem).
  • compare and contrast familiar plants; describing how they are able to identify and group them,
  • draw diagrams showing the parts of different plants including trees.
  • Describe how plants have changed over time, for example the leaves falling off trees and buds opening; and compare and contrast what they have found out about different plants.

Manor Primary School – Petals and Pots