A weekly lesson plan introducing snow animals like polar bears, penguins, walruses, and snow foxes, alongside the letter Z, shape oval, and creative activities.
What children learn
- Locate the Arctic and Antarctica as very cold regions and name animals adapted to snow, ice, and frozen ground.
- Describe how polar bears, penguins, walruses, and Arctic foxes use fur, fat, colour, flippers, tusks, tails, and other features to survive.
- Recognise and construct the letter Z and connect it with its sound and initial-word examples.
- Revisit the oval through shape construction, sorting, animal crafts, hunting, punching, and lacing.
Key activities
- Rescue frozen snow-animal figurines with warm water and eyedroppers.
- Make a cotton-covered polar-bear face and compare polar bears with other bears.
- Feed a large penguin cut-out with tossed paper fish and assemble an oval penguin.
- Construct a walrus face with tusks and whiskers and create a scrunched-paper Arctic fox.
- Prepare apple chaat and punch and lace around an oval foam shape.
You’ll need
Snow-animal pictures and figurines, ice, warm water and eyedroppers, paper plates and cotton, penguin target and fish cut-outs, walrus and Arctic-fox craft materials, letter Z flashcards and writing trays, oval flashcards and cut-outs, apple-chaat ingredients and utensils.
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.