The tortoise and the hare: never give up!

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.
  • Say why some activities are liked more than others.
  • Speak confidently in a familiar group and will talk about ideas.
  • Choose the resources needed for the chosen activities.
  • Say when help is or is not needed.
  • Talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
  • Know that other children don’t always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
  • Know about similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions.

Lesson Planning

Children understand that everyone finds things difficult, but that it is possible to achieve difficult goals when they persevere. Children appreciate the feelings of frustration and achievement.

Children will:

  • Recognise that people find different activities difficult.
  • Identify activities they find difficult, but would like to be better at.
  • Suggest different strategies to achieve a goal.

You Will Need

  • Special visitor toy
  • Handwriting pencils
  • Circle of thick white card
  • Coloured ribbon
  • Masking-tape
  • Mixed art media
  • A1 sheet of green and red paper
  • Range of different size/shape jigsaws