High and low!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Habitats

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 two habitats and that some animals like to make their homes high and others prefer to stay near the ground. Use reasoning to explain where they think an animal might live and why they think this. Paint a picture of animals that live high and low for the display collage, make animal homes from playdough, nests from real twigs and leaves, sort animals and play a habitat sorting game

Children will:

  • Name some animals that live in high and low habitats.
  • Look at how different animals have adapted to live in their habitats.
  • Create an observational drawing of an animal to add to a display.

Provided Resources

  • Animals that live in high and low habitats
  • Sorting animals and habitats
  • Different habitats sheets

You Will Need

  • Small world animals
  • Playdough
  • Twigs and sticks to make nests