Animal Feelings

English Reception/Year 1

Exploring and Playing

  1. Animal small world (in sand)
  2. Animal emotions
  3. A bee's eye view
  4. Cat dancing!

You Will Need

Essential Text
They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel

Hamilton Group Reader
Just Suppose by Ruth Merttens

Group Readers

Just Suppose

This story uses repetition and humour to create a text in which imagination runs riot and surreal situations, of the sort which children particularly like, abound. As they are just starting reading, this highly accessible text is as much fun for children as many with more complex but less creative language.