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Night and day

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Night Animals and Day 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 is heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
  • Follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
  • Talk about past and present events in own lives and in the lives of family members.
  • Know that other children don’t always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
  • Know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions.

Lesson Planning

Children explore the concept of daytime and night-time. They share bedtime routines and know what to do when they wake up. They identify activities that happen during the day and at night.

Teaching Outcomes
To know the difference between night and day and how people prepare for night-time and daytime, to begin to understand that some animals are active during the day while others are active at night.

Children will:

  • Know how and why people prepare for night-time and daytime.
  • Understand that people dream when they sleep and dreams can be funny and frightening.
  • Adapt a familiar lullaby.
  • Classify daytime and night-time activities.

Provided Resources

  • Day time and night time pictures
  • Venn diagram

You Will Need

  • Night Monkey Day Monkey by J. Donaldson
  • Soft toy monkey with daytime and night-time clothes/items
  • Paper plates
  • Coloured string, beads, feathers
  • Soft toys
  • Story books
  • Two hoops

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