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Wet!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Habitats

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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.
  • Express self effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
  • Use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.
  • Develop narratives and explanations by connecting ideas 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

Listen to water music and relax while thinking abut what animals might live in water. Watch a video clip on habitats and remember facts. Be aware of other wet habitats and what might live in them. Make an animal that lives in a wet habitat for the collage display and sort animals according to where they live. Play a sorting game on the computers, look through non-fiction books to find fascinating facts, and create underwater number sentences.

Children will:

  • Recognise and name some animals that live in a wet habitat.
  • Begin to talk about how they have adapted to their environment.
  • Understand what a wet habitat might look like.
  • Ask questions and use good reasoning to explain their answers to questions.

Provided Resources

  • Habitats
  • Different wet habitat animals
  • Number sentence sheets

You Will Need

  • Music player
  • Computers or tablets
  • Small world wet habitat animals
  • Plastic tray
  • Rocks
  • Glitter
  • Shells
  • Non-fiction books about the sea
  • Magnifying glasses
  • Blue tissue paper
  • Counting sheets and counters

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