• When the children are familiar with the names of the months, tell them that the year is divided into four seasons.

• Depending on where you live, help them to think what the weather is like in each season.

• Is it usually cold in winter and hot in summer? Do flowers bloom in the spring and do leaves fall from the trees in autumn?

Mime:

• With the children, think of some activities they do in each season. For example, maybe they swim in the sea in summer, kick leaves in autumn, make snowmen in winter and fly kites in spring.

• In groups, ask them to secretly decide on one season and one activity and mime it to the rest of the class. Can they guess the season?

Tableaux:

• When they children have had fun miming lots of different activities play Freeze Frame.

• They mime an activity and you call out Freeze! They stop mid activity.

• You could pretend to take a snapshot of them with a pretend camera or you could use a real camera to capture their tableau. If you take a real photo, you could use this as part of a Seasons project.

• Help the children to label their group photo; eg-It’s summer. We’re playing on the beach.