School Safari
This curriculum topic scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and compare different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats. The class can label pictures and make models to record mini-beasts found in special habitats.
Identify and compare some of the different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats
Lesson One : Birds and Insects
Identify, describe and count the numbers of birds and insects that can be found living in some different places around the school grounds
Lesson Two : Insects
Explore and record how to compare and describe some of the different types of insects that live in some special habitats found around the school grounds
Lesson Three : Ponds
Investigate and record information about some of the different types of animals that can be found living in a pond habitat in the school grounds
Lesson Four : Trees and Bushes
Explain and model how to locate and identify some different types of animals that live in a special habitat found around the school grounds
Lesson Five : Under Stones and Logs
Identify, describe and count some of the different types of creatures that live in a special habitat that can be found around the school grounds
Lesson Six : Mini-beast Encyclopaedia
Practise selecting and recording information about some of the animals that can be found living in some different places around the school grounds
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Garden Measurements
Practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden
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Family Holiday
Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense
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Holiday Shirts
Produce items of clothing to wear on a holiday to a particular location by selecting and using shapes to represent different places
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Robot Movements
Explain and model how to control the direction and position of a robot when moving about the classroom to perform different functions