Page 5 - Focus Science
P. 5
Unit 1: Overview
English content Science content
• Discuss unfamiliar vocabulary throughout. Would we call Bog Baby a wild
Record in a class dictionary or on the animal?
working wall.
Activity:
• Use pictures from book or front cover. Discuss
what it might be. Oral responses in full • Find out what pupils already know about
sentences. Record as appropriate. wild animals and what questions do they
have about wild animals.
• Go on a Bog Baby hunt.
• Take photos, sequence them, think about • Explore the term ‘wild animal’.
• Explain that it relates to an animal that has
other words for ‘looked’. Add time adverbs.
Retell orally in full sentences. to find its own food, water and shelter.
• Record sentences as appropriate. • Explain that not all wild animals pose a
• Read pages 1, 2 and 3.
• Discuss children’s actions. danger to humans. Distinguish between
• Look at the illustration on pages 2 and 3. those that do and those that do not.
Annotate – name the nouns, generate • Write a sentence about each of four wild
adjectives and choose the best for each animals
noun. • Choose one wild animal and ask them
• Set up reading/role play/ small world area questions related to their lives, especially
with story telling props and environment their habitats.
props.
