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Strong and mighty!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Working Animals

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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.
  • Give attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
  • Write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
  • Show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements.
  • Move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.
  • Handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.
  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.

Lesson Planning

Children discover a heavy object in their classroom. They learn how horses and elephants have been trained to move heavy items and compare and contrast this with machines.

Teaching Outcomes
 To identify and describe strong animals that can be trained to help humans complete difficult tasks, compare and contrast using animals and machines to undertake the same role, create models and puppets using imagination to combine and decorate materials.

Children will:

  • Know that some animals can be trained to undertake specific jobs.
  • Understand that people choose animals for specific roles because of their talents.
  • Be able to compare and contrast the effect of animals and machines.

Provided Resources

  • Outline of a horse and elephant with writing template
  • Large outline of a horse and elephant for enlargement to A1
  • Finger puppet templates

You Will Need

  • Large log
  • Bottle-top elephant (see weblinks)
  • Handwriting and colouring pencils
  • Coloured paper
  • Colouring media
  • Small world forest scene

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