Watch the Bean Grow

• Look at the book with your child
• What can you find out about in this book?
• Say to your child that this is an information book. We use them to look up facts and things we may not know
• Look at the pictures. Talk together about drawings and photographs and the difference between the two
• Can you see the page numbers?
• Talk together about your favourite page

Beyond Watch the Bean Grow

• Go for a walk to the local park and see what plants and flowers you can see. Talk about them together.
• Grow your own cress using the instructions in the pack. Check your seeds each day. Talk together about what you see changing. You can eat the cress! Did you like the taste?
• Make a cress sandwich using the instructions in the pack.

Useful Websites:

Cbeebies – Something Special | Growing

Youtube – The Seed Song

Youtube | Give Us A Story! – Jack and the Beanstalk