To identify and name a variety of common animals - Zack the Zookeeper.

This is the first lesson in a sequence. Children will be working to help Zack the Zookeeper.

Children will start the lesson by recapping on their prior learning via a game of which is an animal out of two choices. Children will then be taught a definition of animal. This will be applied to a number of tasks to ensure the meaning is embedded.

Children will be introduced to Zack the Zookeeper. All lessons are based on learning generated from problem solving. Children will learn that Zack has done a number of things wrong but the issue is the task doesn’t name the animals e.g giving dog food to the animals.

Children will be shown a number of animals grouped into the 5 main animal groups. This will support learning in the next lesson where children will be defining the five main animal groups.

Independent application - Children will have 5 posters showing different animals and find an animal that starts with each letter of the alphabet.

Helping hands - Support teacher ‘expert’ group.
Chilli challenge - Children to be given an opportunity to think further about individual animals.

Powerpoint user guided
Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc
Red slides - Teacher led tasks
Blue slides - Reflection time
Yellow slides - independent application