A comprehensive Nursery weekly lesson plan for Week 11 themed around Elephants. Children study elephants' physical features, trunk, skin, and herd social behavior, trace the letter Ll, and explore counting and measurement.
What children learn
- Describe an elephant's main physical features and multifunctional trunk.
- Explore elephants' habitat, food, family groups, and social behaviour.
- Investigate the texture and protective function of elephant skin and mud bathing.
- Recognise Ii and compare height, size, and non-standard units of measure.
Key activities
- Modelling an elephant's physical features with clay
- Making pictures with straw-blown trunk painting
- Designing an elephant habitat in a sensory tray
- Creating and wearing an elephant mask while singing
- Exploring skin texture and representing a mud bath
You’ll need
elephant pictures or toys, clay, paper and straws, paint and water, habitat pictures, sand or soil and leaves, toy elephants, paper plates and feature cut-outs, textured materials, letter Ii cards, measuring objects and blocks
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy