Hello there my name is Mr. Wilshire, and in this lesson we are going to be looking at signs of spring.

The outcome for this lesson is I can describe changes in spring.

There are some key words to remember as we progress through our lesson.

I'm going to say them and I'd like you to repeat them after me, ready? The first word, season.

Great.

The next word, spring.

Brilliant, now observe.

Great, now change and finally describe.

Well done.

Now, don't worry if you're not too sure what some of those words mean.

The definitions are on the screen for you now, so you can have a read and a recap as to what each word means.

Restart the video when you've done that.

The first part of this lesson is called seasons.

Now, Alex walks through the park every day on his way to and from the shops.

Here you can see an image of the park with lots of people walking underneath the trees.

Alex says, "The park looks different during the year, I wonder why this is?" Hmm? Why do you think it's so different throughout the year? Have a quick discussion.

What did you discuss? I wonder why does the park look so different? Let's find out more.

There are 12 months in one year.

A year can be split into four different seasons.

Here you can see a calendar, and on the calendar are the different names of the months.

I wonder if you can listen out for when your birthday might be.

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

Did you hear when your birthday was? I wonder which season your birthday falls into.

Let's find out more.

Each season lasts around three months.

Do you know the names of any of those seasons? Have a think.

Did you think of any? Let's see if we can remember some of them with the help of the other children, but first, stop and think.

Who do you agree with? Aisha says "A year is divided into three seasons." Laura says, "A year is divided into four seasons." Sophia says, "A year is divided into five seasons." Hmm, who's correct? Discuss.

The correct answer here is Laura.

A year is divided into four seasons.

How long is each of those seasons? Three hours, three months or three years.

The correct answer here is three months, each season is roughly three months long.

Alex decides to make a calendar and take some photographs of the park in each of the seasons, here you can see him taking some photographs and making his very own calendar.

Alex says, "This photograph is from when I started year one in September, I know that September is in the season of autumn." Oh, that's very good, I can see that, hmm.

Well, why do we know it's autumn? What do you know about the season of autumn? What did you discuss? Well, I can see in this picture it's starting to look a bit cold, and also there's lots of orange and red and yellow leaves all over the floor, and usually the trees will start to lose their leaves in the Autumn.

Alex then says, "I took this photograph on my way to Aisha's birthday party, and this was in January.

I know that January is in winter." What clues can we see here about the season of winter? What do you know? Oh, I know that in the winter it's usually very, very cold and frosty, and sometimes it might even snow.

Yeah, I can see that the leaves aren't really all fallen off the trees, but most of them are very empty and bare, they're certainly not green, and it looks very frosty.

Also, everyone is wearing coats and hats and scarves.

Alex then says, "I took this photograph in the school holidays in April." My brother said that this is in spring, hmm.

Have a look at this photo now, what do you know about the Season of spring? What did you mention? Oh, I can see that there's lots of blossom in the trees.

They're starting to get their leaves back, aren't they? And it's starting to look a little bit warmer, great discussing.

Alex then says, "I took this photograph just before I finished year one in July." This was during summer.

Oh, yeah there's lots of flowers there again, it looks very sunny and warm and there's loads of greenery around.

How pretty, what else do you know about the season of Summer? Maybe you notice Some of those shadows on the floor there.

Alex looks at all of his photographs and he says, "Can you remember the names of each of the seasons?" Hmm, what do you think? Can you remember? Did you remember the name of each of the seasons? Well, the four seasons are winter, spring, summer and autumn.

Can you see how each of those pitches matches up to a season? In the winter, it's very cold and frosty in the spring started to get a little bit flowery and the leaves coming back again.

In the summer, it's a lot warmer and there's lots of greenery and in the Autumn, all the leaves start to fall off the trees and create beautiful colours.

Stop and think.

True or false? The full seasons are Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

What do you think? The correct answer here is false.

No, those aren't the full seasons, are they? So why do we think this answer is false? The answer here is A, the four seasons are autumn, winter, spring and summer.

This brings us on to our very first task.

Follow the instructions on the worksheet to make a spinner to show how the year is divided into four seasons, you are going to need spinner template, some glue, a pair of scissors and a split pin.

Here you can see an example of the seasoned spinner.

That's what it should look like afterwards.

Now, you might decide that instead of using the pictures there, you might want to draw some of your own pictures.

You could even have a little go doing that on the back.

On the front there, you could even write your own title and maybe don't forget to write your name, so it doesn't get mixed up with everybody else's.

Best of luck with your spinner decorating.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully you had to go cutting out the seasons pictures or maybe you drew your own.

Then you need to cut out the circle, then glue on some seasons pictures yourselves, and add the split pin through the middle to finish the spinner.

Hopefully you enjoyed that task and now you are able to remember the correct order.

Did you get all of these in the correct order and match up the correct photos? Check your work with the picture that's on the board now.

The second part of this lesson is called signs of spring.

Each season lasts for around three months.

Do you know which months are in spring? Oh, we looked at this earlier, didn't we? And we had a think about when our birthdays would fall and which month and which season it would be.

Now we were out to find out the answer, so which months are in spring? Have a quick discussion.

The season of spring happens during March, April and May, March, April and May.

I wonder if any of your birthdays are during those months.

There are lots of other months left over and remember, each of the seasons usually last about three months.

Stop and think here.

Who do you agree with? Jun says the season of spring happens in March, April and May, and Andeep says the season of spring happens in December, January and February.

Lucas says the season of spring happens in September, October and November.

The correct person here is Jun.

The season of spring happens in March, April and May.

Alex walks through the park in March and he observes that some of the trees have changed since the winter.

Here you can see a tree in spring during March on that tree there.

Well, what can you see? Alex says, "I observe that some of the trees look different in spring." What do you observe about this tree? Hmm, have a good look and discuss.

What did you spot there? Let's find out some more.

Some of these trees have got buds on them in spring, these buds have new leaves or flowers inside them and they are ready to grow.

There you can see some buds on a tree, and then the other picture there is some blossom from buds on a tree.

Have you observed any trees with buds or blossom on them? If you have, I wonder what colour the blossom was, and I wonder what shape the leaf ended up being.

Next time that you are out and about, have a look at where you've remembered those two different things are, and see if you can spot the shape of the leaf, size of the leaf or the colour of the blossom.

Alex listens very carefully as well, and he observes a sound coming from a tree.

Hmm, here you can see a tree in spring and well, what do you think Alex can hear? I wonder there's a bird there, it's a black bird.

I wonder what he can hear though.

Of course, he can hear bird song.

This is a sign of spring as many birds return to the United Kingdom from warmer places as spring begins.

Lots of birds decide to stay around during that time, but it's very, very cold, so they don't usually fly around so much.

They prefer to store all their food up and make sure they're ready for a winter so they can be nice and warm.

Here you can see a blue tit on a branch crawling along, trying to find some different worms or grubs to eat maybe, also there's a wood pigeon as well in a tree.

Maybe that one's there trying to look for different fruits that are in the tree.

Have you ever heard bird song before? Did it sound like, was it a nice sound? Discuss? I wonder what bird song you've heard.

If I remember rightly, I've heard a robin and a pigeon recently.

They're two very different sounding types of birds.

Hopefully you've heard something similar.

Alex observes flowers starting to grow in the ground and in pots.

Here's some flowers growing on the ground, or they're beautiful purples, aren't they? And flowers growing in a pot there? Oh, lots of different colours there too.

Have you ever seen these types of flowers before or maybe you've seen some different, discuss the types of flowers that you've seen.

I know in my garden I've got some pink flowers that are roses, and also there are tiny little flowers which are yellow in my garden too.

Flowers are really pretty, aren't they? We must make sure that we don't pick all of them or otherwise nobody else will be able to enjoy them.

We certainly shouldn't go picking flowers that are in flower beds like the ones on the right there.

Now, these example of flowers are bluebells and some tulips, the flowers appear each spring.

Let's stop and think.

Which of these is a sign of spring? Is it the helicopter seed, the tree bud or a frosty cobweb? The correct answer here is a tree bud.

Usually the helicopter seeds will fall to the ground during the autumn and a frosty cobweb.

Well, you're gonna get cobwebs during different seasons in the year, but it's usually very frosty in the winter, isn't it? Alex and his friends go for a walk around their school grounds in the spring and they describe what they observe.

Oh, when it gets to springtime, maybe you could go and do that as well and have a think about what you can see.

Sam says, "Oh, this tree has got buds on it." Izzy says, "I can see some tulip and some daffodil flowers." Alex says, "I can hear the sound of a bird singing in that tree." Lovely they're all things that they've observed, so all the friends go around looking closely at the things that they can see around them.

What skills are Alex and his friends using? You can see someone there looking at blossom and someone looking at insects, so what skills are they using? Well, the different skills that they're using are observation skills.

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

You can observe by looking or you can observe by touching.

When we observe something very carefully, we describe what we notice, just a little bit like the buds that we saw on the tree.

Sam says, "The buds here look brown and green." Izzy says, "The buds are a pointy round shape." That's a really good way to describe them.

The children describe some other things that they observe in spring during their walk.

Sam says, "I could see some frogspawn in the pond, I think there'll be tadpoles there soon." Izzy says, "I could see a caterpillar on that leaf." It's been eating some of the leaf as well.

Oh, that caterpillar looks a bit orange and spiky, doesn't it? Have you ever spotted any of these things? Jun says, "Oh, I can see some catkins on this tree.

Catkins are lots of little flowers.

, that's another sign of spring." and Lucas says, "This tree is covered in lots of little pink flowers called blossom." Oh, I love the springtime and being able to see all the blossom coming out in the trees and the flowers too, it's a very pretty time of year.

So which of these may help us to observe signs of spring? Our ears, a ruler or a book about plants? Correct answer here is our ears.

We can listen out for signs of spring as well as see them, can't we? Is time for the final task of the lesson.

You need to go on a spring walk here or use some of the images on the next slide to spot these signs of spring.

Don't forget, sometimes it's a little bit rainy and wet in spring, so it might not be the best time to go outside now.

Sometimes just after it rains, that's when the birds like to come out and try and eat the worms in the ground, so it might be a good idea to try and get outside as soon as it stopped raining.

Here you can see lots of images as well.

You might be able to spot buds on trees or catkins, blossom or a nibbled leaf, some frogspawn if there's some water, but be very careful not to disturb it or go too close to the edge of the water.

You might hear some bird song, some daffodils maybe and even some tulips.

If you'd like to you can use this image of springtime to have a look and have a think about the things that you can see.

What shows us the signs of spring.

Restart the video when you've done that.

How did you get on? Well, hopefully you had a good chance looking at that image or maybe you saw some of these things as well.

Did you spot any buds on trees or blossom? Did you spot a nibbled leaf by a mini beast? You'd have had to get really close to a leaf to spot that.

Did you see any signs of new life happening, like the frogspawn? Maybe you saw catkins or listened out for some bird song.

Maybe there were daffodil flowers or maybe even some tulips, and if you use this final image, here are all the different things that you could have found.

Catkins and blossom have tadpoles in the water, bird song from the birds, tulips and daffodils growing as flowers, the buds on trees as new leaves or blossom, and of course, a nibbled leaf as some of those mini beasts come out in the warmer air, well done.

Let's summarise our lesson.

The year can be divided into four seasons.

The seasons of spring occur in March, April and May.

The first signs of spring are the sound of birdsong buds on trees and early flowers.

Changes in spring can be described using observation skills.

Hopefully you've had a chance to use some of your observation skills and go and look out for the signs of spring.

I hope that you go on to enjoy the spring weather as well.

Maybe even you could have a go at planting some new flowers for some mini beasts to enjoy.

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