Hello there.

My name is Mr. Wilshire and in this lesson we are going to be looking at signs of winter.

The outcome of this lesson is I can describe changes in winter.

There are some key words for us to think about as we go through our lesson.

I'm going to say them and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

Ready? The first one is season.

Well done.

The next, winter.

Great job.

Now, deciduous.

Excellent.

Evergreen.

Good.

And the last one, observe.

Well done.

Have a little read of these definitions that are here.

If there are some of these words that you've heard before, you can make sure that you remember them now.

If not, you can pause a video here and have a quick recap.

The first part of this lesson is called winter.

Aisha is celebrating her birthday and wonders how long it will be until the next one.

Here's Aisha and her party and Jacob and Laura, and she says, "Well, my mum says I'll have a whole year to wait, "until my next birthday." Jacob says, "How many months will that be?" Well, how many months are there in one year? Discuss.

How many months are there in one year? She counts how many months there are in one year, using a calendar like this.

There are 12 months in the year.

Right, and let's have a see and see if that's correct.

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, 12.

Of course there are 12 months in one year.

She says, "Wow, that's a lot of months for me to wait." Unfortunately, that's the thing about birthdays.

They only come round once a year, don't they? Let's stop and think.

How many months are there in one year? Are there four, seven, or 12? The correct answer here is 12.

There are 12 months in one year.

Aisha then says, "Well, I wonder how many seasons "that will be." Do you know, how many seasons will there be in one year? How many different seasons are there? Let's find out.

A year can be split into four different seasons and here's some images to map them.

There are four of them.

"Do you know the names of any of these seasons," asks Laura.

Well, Alex here says, "Well, I know that Autumn is one of the seasons "and that's when leaves on some trees change colour.

"Also, some trees start to lose their leaves "and the weather becomes cold and wet." That's true, isn't it? Autumn is a lovely time of your year, because you get to wrap up warm again and also there's some beautiful colours around.

Can you see that in this picture here? Maybe you've seen that before as well.

The other seasons are this one.

What's this one? This is winter.

Well, this one here.

What season is this picture representing? This is spring.

Fantastic.

And finally, why are all those people on the beach? What season could this be? This is summer.

Fantastic.

It's nice and warm then, isn't it? Let's stop and think.

Who do you agree with? Sam says, "The four seasons are March, April, May and June." Andeep says, "The four seasons are Thursday, Friday, "Saturday and Sunday." Lucas says the four seasons are autumn, winter, spring, and summer.

Who do you agree with? The correct answer here is Lucas.

The four seasons are autumn, winter, spring and summer.

Do you know which season Aisha's birthday is in? Remember, her birthday month is January.

What season comes then? Aisha's birthday is in winter.

It's usually wintertime.

Then remember December when Christmas is, it is very cold, isn't it? January and February comes straight after that month and it's very cold then too.

Sometimes it even snows.

The season of winter occurs in December, January and February.

Here they are, December, January and February.

Let's stop and think.

When is the season of winter? Is it September, October and November? Is it December, January and February? Or is it March, April, and May? The correct answer here is B, December, January and February.

That brings us on to task A, create a birthday display, write your name and your birthday on a strip of card who has a birthday in the season of winter? So, choose a bit of card that you're going to write your name on and match up to the month that your birthday is in.

I wonder which of you have got their birthday in the season of winter? Best of luck.

Restart the video when you've done that.

Now, did you get on? Well here we've got some of the children who have written down their birthdays.

We have Jun and Laura, whose birthdays are in September and November.

Sofia and Izzy, whose birthdays are in April and May.

Aisha and Alex, whose birthdays are in January and February.

Andeep and Sam, whose birthdays are in June and August.

Now, who has got their birthday in winter? Can you remember the months of winter? That's right.

It was December, January and February.

So, Aisha and Alex have their birthdays in the season of winter.

Well done for completing that task.

I wonder if your table looked like this? Or maybe there were lots more names to be added in there, because your class is a lot bigger than this.

The next part of this lesson is called Signs of Winter.

It's winter, and Jun is looking out the window at home.

He says, "A few weeks ago I couldn't see where my friend Jacob lives, "but I can now." Here's a building that Jacob lives in.

Maybe you've seen a building like this before or maybe you even live in one like this.

Wow, it's very tall.

Why do you think that Jun couldn't see where Jacob lives, but he can now? Discuss.

I wonder why.

Let's move on and find out more.

Let, Jun can only see Jacob's building in winter, because, well, because of what happened to the leaves on some of the trees.

What's happened to them there? Jun says, I don't remember seeing this building in the summer.

What's happened to the leaves? Why have they all gone.

During autumn and then into winter? June says, some trees lose their leaves in the autumn, so when we observe them in the winter, they have no leaves or hardly any leaves left at all.

Sometimes the trees will keep some of their leaves and you'll see them still flushing around on the branches and that's okay.

It's just that the majority of the leaves, will fall off the trees, leaving the branches looking very bare like in this picture of this lone tree in a field.

Do you know the name for trees that lose their leaves once a year? I wonder.

Look at these trees here and their branches arcing out into the sky.

What's the name? Is it Bob or Jeff? What's the name of trees that lose their leaves once a year? Definitely not Bob or Jeff.

Trees that lose their leaves each year are called deciduous trees, and I wonder if you can see any deciduous trees from where you are now.

Have a look outside your window and see if you can spot any.

You'll know them because if it's the autumn time or the winter time, they might not have many leaves on at all.

Have a good look and see if you can spot any.

Jun observes that some of the other trees, still look green though and have kept their leaves.

Have you ever spotted this as well? "Some of the trees haven't lost their leaves," he said.

I wonder if we know the names of trees that don't lose their leaves in the winter.

Is it maybe Sandra or Claud? I don't think that's right.

What do you think? Name of trees that don't lose their leaves in the winter are evergreen trees, plants and trees that keep their leaves all that time are evergreen trees.

And Jun says, "Oh, I remember the word evergreen, "because evergreen trees don't change colour.

"They have green leaves in every season." Oh, ever green, they're forever green, aren't they? Here is an image of some evergreen trees in the winter.

I wonder what it is that's so different about these trees, through the deciduous tree.

Well, if you look very, very closely at the evergreen trees, you'll see that actually the evergreen trees, don't really have leaves.

They've got little things called needles on the end of them and they act a little bit like leaves, but are actually very sharp and pointy.

They stay on the trees all year round and they very rarely lose them.

That makes sure that you can always see, some sort of greenery outside.

Maybe you have an evergreen tree that's in your playground or maybe near your home.

Have a quick discussion.

Have you ever seen an evergreen tree before? I've got an evergreen tree in my garden and at Christmas time, I like to put little fairy lights on it and some tinsel to pretend it's a little miniature Christmas tree.

Stop and think, is this true or false? All trees have no leaves or very few leaves in winter.

The answer there is false.

Why do we think this? It's because only deciduous trees have no leaves in winter.

Remember, evergreen trees keep their leaves all year round.

Jun and his friends go for a winter walk near their school and they describe what they see.

Yeah, I can see some of those trees are green and some of them aren't.

Jun says, "Well, this tree still looks green." And Izzy says, "I noticed that some of the trees have got no leaves." I wonder if you can spot that as well if you were to look out your windows.

Jun and his friends are looking closely at the things they see around them.

If you're out on a wintery walk, you may need to be very careful.

You might be icy and slippery underneath your feet, so make sure you take care when you're walking.

Which skills are Jun and his friends using here? Pause the video and think.

Jun and his friends are using observation skills.

They're observing leaves, they're observing on a walk.

You don't always need a magnifying glass or have an extra look, but sometimes it can help you get that ever so little bit closer to something to take a special look at how something works.

When we observe something, we look very closely and use our other senses too.

Sometimes the best way to observe something is by standing still and being very quiet and seeing what happens.

You might even find, you may observe some different wildlife that comes out.

I don't think the wildlife likes to come out if it's very noisy.

When we observe something carefully, we can then describe what we notice as well.

Sofia says, "I spotted a deciduous tree with no leaves." Jun says, "I spotted a holly plant with green spiky leaves "and red berries." And Izzy says, "I can see a bird's nest in a tree." Wow, there's some interesting things to spot, aren't they? And there I can see a picture of some holly as well.

So, stop and think, what can help us to observe the signs of winter? Is it a ruler, a thermometer or our senses? The correct answer here is our senses, a thermometer would be able to tell us how warm or how cold something is and a ruler I don't think would help observe, anything at all.

So, it's time for the final task.

You need to go on a winter walk of your own here or you can use the image on the following slide.

See if you can spot these signs of winter.

Can you spot a deciduous tree without any leaves? Can you spot a frozen puddle? Can you spot some snow drops? They are tiny little white flowers that come out in the wintertime.

Can you spot a frozen cobweb.

Record any other things that you may observe on your winter walk as well? Don't forget, there's two different types of trees.

One of them is deciduous, any other one is evergreen.

I wonder if you can spot any of those as you walk.

If you'd like to and if it's too wet and windy, you might decide to stay in the classroom and have a look at the next slide.

If it is too wet and windy or very, very cold, you may decide it's a good idea to keep an eye out for things as you go back to your home.

Have a little look here at this image and decide what signs of winter can you spot? Best of luck to you.

See you in a moment.

What signs of winter did you spot? Well, did you spot any of these? Did you see a deciduous tree with no leaves? Did you spot a frozen puddle? Did you see any snow drops? Did you spot a frozen cobweb? You may not have been able to find all of those things, and in fact, it's not always frosty and snowy during the winter is it? So, cobwebs may not have a lot of frost on them, but make sure you keep an eye out over the next few weeks and months, especially during the winter time to see if you can spot any frost.

I wonder what other things you found on your wintry walk.

Did you find any snow? Did you spot an evergreen tree? Did you find anything on the ground that you weren't expecting to find? Did you see any animals or listen out for any other animals? I wonder.

Jun here says, "I spotted an evergreen tree.

"They don't lose their leaves, "so they look green all year round, even in winter." Izzy said, "I can see a bird's nest in a tree, "because of all the leaves that have fallen off, "it must be in a deciduous tree." Well, I think Izzy's right there.

Andeep says, "I observed a holly tree.

"It's got spiky green leaves all year round, "and in the winter it's also got red berries." If you use the image here, you may have spotted the deciduous tree with no leaves.

You may have spotted some evergreen trees.

You may have spotted a bird's nest on a bear branch.

You may have seen a frozen cobweb and some snow drops maybe.

There's a frozen pond in the middle there and berries and holly.

Also I can see that the children are wrapped up nice and warm in that picture there too, aren't they? Hopefully you had a good time investigating and exploring the land around you.

Let's summarise our lesson, Signs of Winter.

I can see some wintry frost in that image there.

That looks very cold, isn't it? There are 12 months in one year; winter, spring, summer and autumn are the four seasons.

The season of winter happens in December, January and February.

Deciduous trees have no leaves or very few leaves in winter.

We can use observing skills to describe changes in winter.

Hopefully you've been able to use, some of your observing skills and I hope that you go on to continue looking out for different signs of different seasons.

I'd be Mr. Wilshire, thank you very much for listening.