A 5-day Pre-Nursery lesson plan on wildlife (tigers, monkeys, giraffes, elephants). Includes letter V recognition, rote counting 1-20, and biscuit sandwiches.
What children learn
- Describe the appearance, movement, food, young, and distinctive features of tigers, monkeys, giraffes, and elephants.
- Compare animal body patterns and sort animals as striped, spotted, or plain.
- Recognise and construct the letter V and connect it with its sound and initial-word examples.
- Rote count from 11 to 20 through movement, music, puppets, balance, and group games.
Key activities
- Assemble a paper tiger from geometric pieces and black stripes.
- Make a monkey mask and dramatise The Monkeys and the Cap Seller.
- Collaboratively fill a large giraffe outline with yellow paper and black spots.
- Play an elephant-trunk ring-toss game after investigating elephant features.
- Sort animal figurines by body pattern and prepare biscuit sandwiches.
You’ll need
Wildlife pictures and animal figurines, coloured paper and glue, monkey-mask and story props, large giraffe chart, elephant ring-toss set, letter V flashcards and craft materials, number songs and puppets, pattern cards and baskets, biscuit-sandwich ingredients.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, cognition/literacy, literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.