Year 1 Animals

Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 7:51am

Today we learnt that animals come in all shapes and sizes and that we can describe them by looking at their body parts. We discovered that some body parts are common to all animals whereas some body parts are only found on particular animals. We began the lesson by listening to a number of clues and using our prior knowledge about animals to try and guess the animal.

‘I have six legs, I can fly, I am red with black spots…What am I?

We then looked at a number of different animals from each animal classification and identified their key features. We asked and answered questions about why certain animals need these parts, where they live, what animals we could think of that were similar and how many different types of each animal we could name. We then used this knowledge to investigate a range of animals and match the correct labels to each.

We also drew and labeled the key features of our favourite animal.

'My favourite animal is a frog - it has long hind legs so it can jump!'

'My favourite animal is a shark - it has fins and gills to help it swim and breathe under the water'