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Careful creepers

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.
  • 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.
  • Solve problems, including doubling.
  • Use everyday language to talk about size and compare objects.
  • Sing songs and dance.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture and form and function.

Lesson Planning

Children know hedgehogs and cats are nocturnal. They explore the behaviour and physical characteristics of British nocturnal animals through dance and movement. They express their thoughts through art and design.

Teaching Outcomes
To know that hedgehogs and cats are nocturnal animals; to describe their physical features; to replicate their movements through dance and learn a bedtime lullaby.

Children will:

  • Know hedgehogs and cats are nocturnal animals
  • Recognise the physical features of a hedgehog and cat
  • Understand why hedgehogs are a successful nocturnal animal
  • Move with purpose and control

You Will Need

  • Peace at Last by J. Murphy
  • Tambourine
  • Hedgehog outlines
  • Printing media
  • 1- 9 dice
  • Clothes pegs
  • Air-dry clay
  • Sticks/twigs
  • Playdough
  • Wool/string

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