Lesson 3: Winter wildlife

Discovering how animals adapt to winter weather and learning how to hold and use scissors correctly. Teach this lesson at the end of Spring 1.

Learning objective

EYFS outcomes

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Lesson plan

Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to:

  • Assist the children in identifying their dominant hand to ensure they are provided with left-handed scissors if needed during the adult-led task of how to hold scissors.
  • Provide easy-grip squeeze scissors for children not yet ready to use standard scissors, ensuring they can comfortably and safely participate in the adult-led task.
  • Provide modelling dough rolled into sausage shapes and have the pupils cut off small pieces for extra scissor practice.
  • Challenge the children to use tools to add more detail to their modelling dough hedgehogs, such as sculpting realistic features like paws or adding patterns to the ears.

Key vocabulary

  • aututmn

  • hibernation

  • season

  • weather

  • winter

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