Childrens book: Seasons Come, Seasons Go
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If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the Lingokids website. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time here. Time is a difficult concept for children to understand. They start to get an idea of how time passes thanks to the different situations they encounter in their day-to-day life, such as: The fact that these events occur in a certain order helps the little ones to get a better understanding of time and how important it is.
Learning about seasons of the year and their transition helps kids better comprehend how time works. Seasons' changes are very distinct in certain parts of the world, and this is a thing that the little ones notice from a young age.
Tree Seasons Come, Seasons Go by Patricia Hegarty | LoveReading
Not to mention the excitement when summer is almost there, and the opportunity to go to the beach arises! Or some little ones are excited to see the plants growing stronger and flowers blooming during spring season. However, seasons don't happen simultaneously around the globe, there's a difference between the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres, and this could bring some difficulties while learning about seasons.
The best way to do it would be to teach your kids the characteristics of each season so they can easily differentiate them.
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During springtime , the daylight hours become become longer, the sun shines a little stronger, and flowers begin to bloom! Also, the temperatures start to drop, and it might be windy and rainy sometimes. Young children will love snuggling up with this story on a wintry day! Within a floating ice palace high above the clouds, the Snow Queen operates a snowflake machine, ensuring that it produces perfectly identical flakes. But one day when the Queen leaves her daughter Ellie in charge, the machine breaks and Ellie has to find a new way to make the snowflakes.
What are seasons?
We really enjoyed this imaginative story celebrating uniqueness and creativity, accompanied by its charming illustrations and soft, wintry colour palette. The instructions for making paper snowflakes are included on the final page and we can see this book being relished in Early Years and KS1 classrooms as part of winter themed topics.
Winter Magic is perfect as a stimulus for a winter-time writing project or for dipping into at story time. Inside the pages you will encounter mythical winter beasts, icy snow queens, dancing Nutcrackers and frozen worlds. The pictures, hidden images and text work together to create perfectly interactive information books that both delight and intrigue their readers. Remember to supply a torch too! There is also an accompanying activity book available from Amazon.
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Where the Poppies Now Grow. Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey. Nominated for a number of prestigious awards, this poetic new book brings the memories associated with World War I to a level suitable for younger children. Perfect for use around Remembrance Day, Where the Poppies Now Grow tells the story of best friends Ben and Ray, who swap their simple lives on countryside farms for the raging battlefields of France. How do children learn about seasons?
Children will talk about and observe the changes in the weather and the seasons. They may be given pictures to sort into the different seasons. Children may collect information over the year, for example photographs of the trees to compare.
Seasons of the year
Children might work scientifically to create charts and tables of the weather. During each season as it occurs throughout the year children may discuss the weather changes and take part in seasonal activities such as exploring the sound of crunching leaves during autumn, watching baby chicks hatch during spring, etc. Create an autumn scrapbook. What do we do in autumn and winter?