Pets in the past

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Pets

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Express self effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
  • Use phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
  • Talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
  • Sing songs, make music and dance.

Lesson Planning

Look at pictures of pets in the past and compare with pictures of pets in the present, make pet portraits, collage of pets from the past, make a lead and tag for soft pet, listen and dance to old music.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand the similarities and differences between the past and present. Discuss why they think something is from the past.

Children will:

  • Present a part of their learning.
  • Learn to explore differences and similarities between the past and present.
  • Use dance to explore movement.

You Will Need

  • Picture of pets from the past on IWB and printed
  • Soft toys
  • Sticky labels
  • Old and new objects
  • Music to be played
  • Dolls house
  • Zoo animals
  • Magnifying glasses
  • Clipboards
  • Big paper
  • Wool