Lesson One – Winter Garden

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden during the winter for a range of special purposes.

The class can practise completing a survey to record different pieces of information about some of the animals that are visiting an area in the school grounds.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden during the winter for a range of special purposes

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden in the winter and a template to collect and record information about some of the animals that could be seen in a garden habitat during a season of the year.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden habitat during the winter.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to explore how animals adapt to the changes to the natural world in the winter including animals that live in Britain and other habitats such as the arctic. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

  • One Less

    One Less

    Identify and record counted sets of objects that are one less than different numbers to ten on the theme of farms and farming

  • Farm Jobs

    Farm Jobs

    Identify and record how to use a selection of jobs that can be performed on a farm to identify the number sums that are one less than different numbers to ten

  • Animal Counting

    Animal Counting

    Explain and model how to use a selection of number sentences to identify the sums that are one less than different numbers to ten to show information about animals on a farm

  • Counting Cows

    Counting Cows

    Practise counting and recording the matching sums to ten that one less than different numbers of animals that can found living on a farm