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So you want to be an animal protector?

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Protectors

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
  • Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
  • Recognise, create and describe patterns.
  • Explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.

Lesson Planning

Begin training to become an animal protector by learning what we need to be happy and safe and comparing this to what an animal needs. Learn about what foods different animals need. Measure food by weighing, making grape snakes, sorting unhealthy and healthy food and ordering sizes of bowls.

Teaching Outcomes
To develop an understanding about how important it is for us, and animals to eat healthy food.

Children will:

  • Understand that different animals need different foods.
  • Know what a healthy and unhealthy choice is.
  • Use maths knowledge to work out problems involving weight and capacity.

Provided Resources

  • Pictures of animals for children to draw food for
  • Instructions for feeding animals by balancing cubes and oats
  • Healthy/unhealthy food choices sheet
  • Animal pictures for outside measuring of food

You Will Need

  • Sticky labels
  • Balancing scales
  • Sandwich bags
  • Oats
  • Cups to measure with

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