Chicken Licken: being brave!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Tales

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Listen attentively in a range of situations.
  • Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
  • Express self effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
  • Develop narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
  • Play co-operatively, taking turns with others.
  • Take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise their activity.
  • Show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships with adults and other children.

Lesson Planning

Children explore the story of Chicken Licken to identify and describe the emotion of courage. They share experiences where they have been brave and explain strategies they have used.

Children will:

  • Identify times they have been brave.
  • Appreciate that people are brave in different ways.
  • Retell and sequence a familiar story.
  • Make adaptations to a familiar story.

You Will Need

  • Special visitor puppet/soft toy
  • Handwriting pencils
  • Sticky notes
  • 10 strips of card
  • Small world farm/forest scene and animal characters