Who lives here?

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Habitats

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
  • Talk about the features of the 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.
  • Try new activities confidently, and say why some activities are liked more than others.
  • Talk about ideas and choose the resources needed for the chosen activities.
  • Follow instructions involving several ideas or actions.
  • Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about experiences and in response to stories or events.
  • Sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Lesson Planning

Learn about the word habitat and explore amazing different habitats all over the word. Learn names for animal’s homes. Create a texture collage by picking and choosing resources and materials that fit with the habitat. Put the collage together to make a habitat display.

Children will:

  • Understand what a habitat is.
  • Begin to know which habitats some animals might live in.
  • Begin to name some of the habitats.
  • Describe the texture of a material.
  • Choose materials to create a collage based on their texture and colour.

Provided Resources

  • Habitat picture sheet
  • Descriptions of habitats

You Will Need

  • Counters
  • A4 card or paper
  • Lots of different texture materials
  • A display board split into 4 sections

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.