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Fabulous flying animals

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 they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
  • Pay attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
  • Use phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
  • Make observations of animals and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology and art.

Lesson Planning

Children learn about diurnal and nocturnal flying animals and understand why they are active at different times of the day. They identify different British flying animals, explore their characteristics and sort them.

Teaching Outcomes
To identify specific diurnal and nocturnal flying animals and to explore the physical characteristics of those animals through art and writing.

Children will:

  • Be able to identify diurnal and nocturnal flying animals.
  • Write descriptive words/phrases.
  • Use their imagination to combine media/materials.

You Will Need

  • Owl Babies by M. Waddell
  • A1 black and blue paper
  • Wooden spoons
  • Cardboard tubes
  • Bird seed
  • Honey
  • Black outline of a bat
  • Bird-spotter guide
  • Clipboard
  • Binoculars

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