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Local animal protectors

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Protectors

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • 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.
  • Talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
  • Make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
  • Use what has been learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
  • Represent own ideas, thoughts and feelings through, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Explore local wildlife and act out how the animals might move and travel. Guess the animal game. Create a class dance about these animals. Sketch with detail observations, make salt dough animals, label different animals, find them in non-fiction and guess the animal nose!

Teaching Outcomes
To name animals which are local to their environment. To use movement to explore these animals.

Children will:

  • Understand which animals live in our country and what makes them unique.
  • Name some British animals and move like they would.
  • Create observational sculptures and sketches.

Provided Resources

  • Large pictures of different British Wildlife animals
  • Small pictures of different British Wildlife animals
  • Salt dough recipe
  • Close up pictures of noses

You Will Need

  • The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
  • Small world animals
  • Pots
  • Salt dough ingredients (water, flour, salt)
  • Possibly cooker/microwave

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