Personal, Social and Emotional Development Mathematical Development Literacy

• Exploring foods and textures, carrots for the rabbits – taste,
explore, paint with
• Let the children enjoy carrying out small tasks such as
tidying up. Encourage the children to tidy up the toys,
crayons and books back in the book shelf.
• Encourage the chd to copy what you do when moving like
animals, playing with animals etc
Expressive Arts and Design
• Create sensory habitats and animals for the children to play
with
• Provide different animal or habitat inspired Playdough and
other media invitations
• Create a home corner in the forest – an animal cave or
home
• Singing and dancing to animal rhymes and songs – old
macdonald etc
• Making playdough or blocks to create a home for the
pet/animals.
• Make animal patterns using ripped up paper
• Matching and sorting animals • Make marks and prints with different animal toys
• Counting sets of animals • Read, share and explore simple board books about our
• Placing animals inside shapes. favourite animals or animals we are learning about:
• Animal insert puzzles Dear Zoo: https://youtu.be/DW5_gmd4ahY
• Adding and taking away up to 3 animals when playing A colour of his own: https://youtu.be/Foghuhc75Ts
Brown Bear Brown Bear: https://youtu.be/JkBmL3WPRbA
Physical Development
• Milking the cow with gloves
• Animal tape rescue games
• Act like the different animals, crawl, slide etc
• Wash the muddy farm animals: can clean the muddy
animals using jugs and spray bottles.
Babies and Toddlers
• Read and act out Walking through the Jungle
Animals

Understanding the World Communication and Language

• Create simple small worlds in diffferent trays for different
animals and help them to match them
• Matching animals toys to pictures
• Repeat actions that have an effect – pushing animals into
playdough or pressing toy/book buttons to make animal
noises
• Introduce farm/forest/pet animals or other real groups if
they already know these ones and their names and sounds
• Play animal sound game – teacher play or makes noise and
chd find matching toy: https://youtu.be/2Q-YMK1Q2Bk
• Following simple instructions find, hide and move the
animals
• Put pets in the role play corner for the children to act out
walking the dog, feeding the cat/fish etc
• Introduce multisyllabic words – elephant, crocodile etc
Understand and respond to simple who, what, where
questions in games involving the animals .