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How does your garden grow?

Make flowers and create a class garden display that shows the height of all the children. Planned learning intention

Planned learning intention

Use mathematical language such as shorter and taller

Resources

Coloured paper, photograph of each child, glue, scissors, brushes, paint, real flowers of different sizes

Step by step

* Look at your collection of real flowers with the children. Discuss how they are all different sizes.

* Find out the heights of all the children. See if they can arrange themselves in order of height.

* Explain that they are going to make a flower that shows their height to display in a class garden.

* Print a background for the garden of green grass and blue sky.

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