Lesson Three – Baby Animals

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore how to identify and match the names of some of the different baby and adult animals that can be found living on a farm.
The class can describe and record how each of the adult animals can look after and care for their young offspring by providing, food, comfort and security after they have been born.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify and match the names of some of the different baby and adult animals that can be found living on a farm
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe and compare some of the different animals that live on a farm, a set of cards to match the names of different pairs of baby and adult farm animals and a template to select and record how adult animals can look after their young offspring when living on a farm.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and and match the names of some of the different baby and adult animals that can be found living on a farm,
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the changes to farm animals that occur during the spring and jobs performed by the farmer during this season of the year. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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