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Flowering Plants 2 Learning tasks for Year 1 .

Plant Detectives Week 2 We are going to be looking closely at wild plants around our garden, school or local park. We will learn some of their names and make simple comparisons. • What does a wild plant look like? • What is a wild flowering plant? • Recognise and name flowering wild plants. • Investigate which wild plants we can find in our garden, school or park. • What are the similarities and differences between the wild plants you have found?

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Look at this image. What do you think its is? What do you think it looks look like? Send your ideas into the year 1 mailbox.

What is a wild plant? You may have heard wild plants being called weeds. Do you think wild plants are weeds?

What is a wild plant? A wild plant may be called a weed. A weed is any plant that is growing in the wrong place. Wild plants are not weeds.

If we were all in school we would be going out to look at the wild flowering plants in our school grounds. We can’t all do that at the moment so these are some of the flowering plants that I have found growing in our grounds. Can you name any of these flowers?

These wild plants are called: These are some more wild plants I found in the school grounds. Have you seen any of them before? What other wild plants do you know?

Here are photographs of more wild plants growing in our school grounds. Try to remember some of their names and what they look like.

Finally, before you go to your writing task talk to your grown up or teddy about what you can observe. What is the same and what is different? When you are out for a walk today look around and see what wild plants you can see. Can you name them? You could say: The petals of these flowers are the same shape, but the flowers are different colours.