Why Are Humans
Not Like Tigers?
Year One, spring two
Key questions…
Literacy books and stimulus
Maths strands
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Talk for writing based retell
Calculation
Adding
Subtraction
Place value
Ordering
Odds and evens
Dear Zoo
Book making using repetitive phrase
and language
Big Cats (non- fiction)
Comprehension
Literal information retrieval
Class book of animal fact files
Mog stories
Mog adaptation
WOW factors…
Measures
Weighing with cubes and comparing
measures
Relative length of animals in metres
3D shapes
Boxes for the Dear Zoo animals to be
contained in
Science objectives
Identify and name a variety of common animals, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and
mammals.
Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, omnivores and herbivores.
Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians,
reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets.
Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body
is associated with which sense.
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Identify the differences between wild and not wild, sorting into groups
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Fact files about different zoo animals and birds
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Sorting herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
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Poster to help people know how to look after their pets
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Label an outline of the human body
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Carousel of senses activities
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Direct comparison of humans and tigers
Questions for a zoo keeper
Computing – as prescribed by scheme… finding web images, e-safety
Geography – name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans
matching different animals live in the world to their places of origin
matching animals to their habitats
History - none
PE – gymnastics, outdoor games, cross-curricular PE
Music – use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
animal songs, rhymes and chants, accompanying with simple percussion
Art – to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
to use drawing painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas and imagination
animal patterns… collage and painting, 2Simple modelling to combine two animals and create a new species
DT – none
RE – know and understand the influence of key religious figures (SCARE B1)
Sharing appropriate religious stories about significant figures
PSHE - What are our responsibilities when we own pets?