Our Autumn Term Project is “Animals from around the World”
After the success of our Space Project, this term we’ll be focussing on our own planet Earth, and discovering the amazing diversity of creatures that live in the different countries around our world.
From the animals we find in the steamy, wet rainforests to the arid deserts, high mountain peaks and the ice-cold poles. Children take great delight in discovering the types of animals that can be found, what they look like, what they eat and how they move about.
Australia
North America
South America
Asia
The Arctic
Africa
And, of course, at home in the
United Kingdom
The children will be encouraged to talk about any animals they may have seen when visiting other countries, or in our own countryside and gardens at home. This helps build self-confidence and improves vocabulary.
This is also a great project for incorporating discussions about the things that make us different from, and often the same as animals. We encourage the children to observe the differences in animals’ skin, hair or fur; how many limbs they have; the sounds that they make; what they eat and how they look after their young. This leads to discussions about what makes us human and a greater self-awareness.
Children love to imitate the creatures they are learning about, and this project allows for lots of role play, song and dance and a vast array of interactive stories. The nursery will be full of the sounds of trumpeting elephants, howling wolves and squawking parrots! There will be lots of opportunities for physical play too, imitating the movements that animals make.
The children love making art displays complementing each term’s project. We’re looking forward to helping them use their imaginations to create some of the animals they will be learning about, using a wide range of media.
Face painting, mask making and small world play all lend themselves well to this project which is always extremely popular with our young learners.
Our Zoolab workshop this term will complement our project very well, as the children will actually be able to handle, and learn about a variety of animals from different countries around the world.
If any parents or relatives have any experiences on their travels, or photographs of animals, please do talk to a teacher about sharing these with our children.
We’re looking forward to a whole world of animal adventures with our children this term.
We’re hoping it will be a ROARING success!!
