Living Things

1. Science Corner- white coats, magnifying glasses, bark, leaves, nuts, fur.... microscope...

2. Writing Corner, colouring in pencils, paper, magazines, scissors, venn diagrams

3. Role Play Area..soft toys/puppets/dress up

4. Giraffes Can't Dance..book study - retell- beginning/middle end---role play-rhyme-cvc word hunt-mystery animal, what sound does the animal start with.

5. Construction- using boxes create a jungle setting- plastic animals

6. Arts- hand print giraffes; painting using appropriate colours to paint evening setting for the Giraffe dance; making giraffe masks

7. Dance/Role Play;

8. Write a letter to Gerald or Leo - whole class

9. CVC words - play dough- sand- finger paint-chalk

10. Reading a weekly focussed text on animals/ plants/mini beasts/ gardens

11. Excursion to zoo/Underwater World - or an incursion

12. Blank pin up board where stns can pin up pictures of living things

13. Maths- tall/short/big/small/heavy/light hunt around classroom finding two things that are the same

14. The Lion Who Wanted Love- shopping for the jungle dance- shopping lists- sequence which animal

15. Collage Leo or Geral d; stns complete the sentence: Gerald is a ____________giraffe.