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Nursery Week 7 — Cats and Dogs

Skills & curriculum alignment
Skills & activity types:
  • fine motor
  • early numeracy
  • literacy / phonics
  • art
  • science observation
  • social-emotional
  • tracing
  • writing
  • sorting
  • matching
  • observation
  • other

A Nursery weekly lesson plan focused on Cats and Dogs, covering pet care, their physical features, behavior, and communication, along with tracing letter Ff, introducing blue, and making dog paw prints.

What children learn

  • Identify cats and dogs as common pets and discuss responsible care.
  • Explore their homes, physical traits, food, behaviour, and communication.
  • Recognise, trace, and write the letter Ff and its sound.
  • Identify blue, sort red and blue, and practise left and right slanting lines.

Key activities

  • Painting and discussing common household pets
  • Building a pet habitat from paper and cardboard
  • Creating textured cat-and-dog artwork
  • Sorting picture cards to identify suitable pet foods
  • Making and wearing origami cat or dog masks for imitation play

You’ll need

cat and dog pictures, paper and cardboard, paint and brushes, yarn and glue, pet-food picture cards, mask paper and thread, blue and red objects, letter Ff cards, sand or rice trays

Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy

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