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Looking after our pets

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Pets

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Listen attentively in a range of situations.
  • Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to living things.
  • Talk about the features of the immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
  • Make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur.
  • Sing songs, make music and dance.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Lesson Planning

Look after the newly arrived class pet, listen to a vet, discuss how vets help animals, role-play being a vet, weigh pets, measure out ‘medicine’ and bandage injuries.

Teaching Outcomes
To find out what pets need to keep them safe, healthy and happy.

Children will:

  • Learn what a pet needs to be healthy and happy.
  • Ask questions and listen to the answers.
  • Use role-play to explore and extend their new learning.
  • Enjoy and learn a new song.

Provided Resources

  • Writing frames for letters and key words
  • Miss Polly song words
  • Template for adapting Miss Polly song

You Will Need

  • Visit from a local vet
  • Vet costume
  • A soft toy pet that hatched from an egg
  • Bandages
  • Stethoscopes
  • Thermometers
  • Bottles
  • Glitter
  • Balancing scales
  • Small world animals
  • Toothbrushes
  • Normal brushes

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