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Up and Away - National Council for Curriculum and Assessment

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ELP page 21 Animals <strong>and</strong> plants<br />

This theme is closely connected to ‘Seasons, holidays <strong>and</strong> festivals’, ‘The local <strong>and</strong> wider community’<br />

(beach, park, bog, etc.), ‘Caring <strong>for</strong> my locality’, ‘Time’, ‘Colours, shapes <strong>and</strong> opposites’.<br />

General Resources<br />

Pictures, nature posters, stories, rhymes, songs.<br />

Examples of methods<br />

Each pupil draws a picture of a story that focuses on a season. They retell the story to the teacher.<br />

Use pictures of animals <strong>and</strong> birds as prompts <strong>for</strong> descriptions – colour, size, where they live, the sound<br />

made by the animals, birds, etc.<br />

Draw pictures to show how a flower grows from a seed. If possible, grow something in the classroom.<br />

A nature walk/trip looking at flowers, trees, animals, etc. that have been studied in the classroom.

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