Cold!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Habitats

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.
  • 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.

Lesson Planning

Learn about animals that live in cold climates and think about how hard this must be. Discuss ways that animals adapt to their habitat to help them. Write some of these animals down by segmenting. Watch a video clip about cold habitats and remember some information to share with the class. Paint a favourite cold climate animal to add to the texture collage. Create ‘cold’ dances to the soundtrack of Frozen, role-play with small-world animals and make their own polar bear.

Children will:

  • Name some animals that live in cold climates.
  • Begin to understand how they have adapted to their environment.
  • Use their phonic knowledge to spell animal names or hear the initial sounds.

You Will Need

  • Music player
  • Blocks of ice with animals inside
  • Globes and magnifying glasses
  • Shaving foam
  • Plastic tray
  • Cotton wool
  • White wool