Theme- Amazing Animals
Learning Outcomes:
Language Development
• Use vocabulary related to the theme
• Join in to sing songs and rhymes related to the theme
• Listen to stories
• Ask questions
• Reproduce and name animal calls
• Participate in puppet shows
• Enjoy and handle picture books
• Develop print awareness
• Draw simple lines (vertical and horizontal lines)
• Identify ‘what’s missing’
• Visual recognisation of alphabets
Mathematical Development
• Sort, match and group
• Recreate patterns
• Sing number rhymes
• Compare speed: fast and slow and quantities: more and less
• Seriate using stacking cups
• Fix three-four piece jigsaw puzzles
• Use positional concepts: in/out and up/down
• Develop an understanding of time: day and night
• Recapitulate colours; identify colours: black and white
• Indicate one to one correspondence
• Numbers: 61-70 (Quantitative approach using dot cards)
Knowledge and understanding of the world
• Name and identify common animals
• Share his/her experience from the past
• Indicate curiousity
Words in focus: dog, cat, rabbit, parrot, fish, farm, hay, cow, sheep, horse, duck, goat, hen, jungle, zoo, black, zebra, tiger, giraffe, elephant, lion, monkey, snake, bear, deer, sea, fish, whale, octopus, starfish, jellyfish, frog, turtle, crocodile, birds, nest, eggs, white
Concept: The theme starts with creating awareness about the word ‘animals’. During this theme, children are exposed to different types of animals: pet, farm, wild, aquatic and birds. Discussions are catered around creating awareness about the similarities and differences between the animals and us. Comparisons are made amongst animals too to let the children know how animals differ from each other in terms of their habitats, their eating habits and physical characteristics. Activities are planned around providing hands-on-experience for children to learn from, for example:
• Creating a jungle effect and making the children walk through the jungle to meet the jungle animals.
• Making animal masks and engaging in pretend play.
• Narrating animal stories.
• Planning for variety of art and craft and music and movement activities.
Prayers of the month:
Starting prayer:
Om shubham karoti kalyaanam aarogyam dhanasampadaa
Shatru buddhi vinashaya diipajyoti namoastute
Closing Prayer:
Ik Onkar Sat Nam Kartaa Purakh
Nirbhau Nirvair Akal-murat
Ajooni Saibhang Gurprasaad
Jap aad sach jugadh sach
Hey bhi sach
Nanak ho sib hi sach
Hey bhi sach
Nanak ho sib hi sach
Vaahe guruji da Khaad sa
Vaahe guruji da Fateah
Food prayer:
Sah-na bhava-tu, sah-nao bhunak-tu;
Sah viryam karva-vahe,
Tejas-vina vadh-itam-astu
Maa vidh-visha-wahai
Om shanti shanti shantih
Rhymes:
Previous rhymes for revision
Good morning, to you and to you
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Good –bye my friends
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Let’s clean up today!
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It’s time to go out and play
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Wash, wash, wash, wash your hands
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Put your right hand in
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Five little kittens (Sing to the tune of: Humpty-dumpty)
Five little kittens standing in a raw,
They nod their heads to the children so,
They run to the left, they run to the right,
They stand up and stretch in the warm sunlight.
Woof! Woof! Comes a dog, who’s in for some fun,
“M-e-o-w!” see the kittens run…..
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Who are the animals that live on the farm (Sing to the tune of: Wheels on the bus)
Who are the animals that live on the farm?
Live on the farm, live on the farm,
Who are the animals that live on the farm,
Let us all find out!
The cow is an animal that lives on the farm,
Lives on the farm, lives on the farm,
Let us all find out!
The cow is an animal that lives on the farm,
Lives on the farm, lives on the farm,
The cow is an animal that lives on the farm,
Let us all find out!
The cow is an animal that lives on the farm,
Lives on the farm, lives on the farm,
Now we know her name!
Variations using other farm animals:
The duck, the hen, the horse, the sheep etc.
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Old Mac Donald had a farm
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm
He had some cows, E-I-E-I-O
With a ‘moo-moo’ here
And a ‘moo-moo’ there
Here a ‘moo’, there a ‘moo’
Everywhere a ‘moo-moo’
Moo-moo, moo-moo.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
Continue the song with the following:
Hen-Cluck-cluck
Duck-Quack-quack
Sheep- Baa-baa
Horse-Neigh-Neigh
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Rolly Polly
Rolly polly, rolly polly
Up, up, up
Rolly polly, rolly polly
Down, down, down
Rolly polly, rolly polly
Out, out, out
Rolly polly, rolly polly
In, in, in
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Tiny tiny fingers
Tiny tiny fingers, swinging in the air
Tiny tiny fingers, snapping here and there
Tiny tiny hands, waving to and fro
Tiny tiny hands now, up and down they go.
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Walking through the jungle
Walking through the jungle,
Walking through the jungle,
What do you see?
What do you see?
I think I hear a noise.
Who could it be?
I think it’s a ……………..(name of animal)
Continue the song, naming the different jungle animals.
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I am a lion (sing to the tune of: Three blind Mice)
I am a lion, I am a lion
Hear me roar, hear me roar
I love to sleep out in the sun
And chase other animals just for fun
In all the jungle I am number one
I am a lion!
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The Elephant
The elephant, he walks like this,
He walks like that
Because he’s so big, he’s so fat
He has no fingers, he has no toes
But goodness gracious, what a long….NOSE!
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I like the G of the Giraffe
I like the g, g, g of the giraffe,
I like his long, long, long neck too.
But what I like the best,
The very, very, very best,
Are the big, big spots all through!
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I am going to the zoo
I am going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
What about you, you, you?
We’re going to see a…….. (name of a zoo animal)
At the zoo, zoo, zoo!
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Once I caught a fish alive
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Once I caught a fish alive
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
This little finger on my right.
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Where do the animals live? (Sing to the tune of: Here we go around the mulberry bush)
Where do the animals live?
The animals live, the animals live?
Where do the animals live?
In this great big world.
Our home is where the pets live,
Pets live, pets live.
Our home is where the pets live,
In this great big world.
Continue with…
The farm is where the cow lives….
The forest is where the lion lives….
The ocean is where the fish lives…….
The tree is where the birds lives….
