Animal inventors

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.
• 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.
• Use what has been learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
• Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.
• Use phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
• Write some irregular common words.
• Write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.