Help the turtles find their eggs!

Game for three players. Take turns to turn a card. If it is a rock turn the card back over. If it is an egg put it on your collection card.

The first player to get five eggs is the winner!

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Point to an animal and make its sound!

Phase 1 Phonics/Letters & Sounds Mat designed to…encourage children to identify sounds in the world around them, vocalise them and recreate that sound in response to a particular image in preparation for relating letters to sounds in phase 2.

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Pack of animal cards with description sentences. Children to listen closely to the description on each card (read by adult) and solve the problem of which animal is being described. Children then to respond by making the appropriate animal sound. Perhaps you could even make your own animal description cards?

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Pack of animal cards with sorting labels. Ideal for use as part of an interactive display or sorting activity or game. Differentiate for use with different ages of children by your selection of activity cards, the vocabulary you use and your use of questioning. You may like to select e.g. the headings ‘4 legs’, ‘2 legs’ and ‘0 legs’. Place them on the floor or a table and discuss with your child(ren) which animal cards should be placed under each of the headings. For some headings such as ‘Eats meat’, ‘Eats plants’ and ‘Eats both’ you may like to create your own venn diagram by using two hoops/looped skipping ropes on the floor or circles on paper which overlap in the middle. The 2 separate components go in each hoop e.g. ‘Eats meat’ and ‘Eats plants’ and the overlapping centre is where both characteristics are true. In this case ‘Eats both meat and plants’. If none of the characteristics mentioned are true for an animal, the animal card may be placed outside of the circles. This sorting activity is a great way to encourage children to observe animal characteristics closely. The active engagement with the subject matter means they are more likely to retain knowledge for example new vocabulary. Can you think of any other ways to sort these animals? Perhaps you could make your own heading cards?

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Whilst learning about animals, you may like to place these animal height markers on a height chart on your wall. Children will love to compare their height to that of different animals! Use vocabulary such as ‘I am taller than a pig, but shorter than a cow.’ As a follow up, you may also like to give them an appropriate colouring/drawing sheet from our ‘I am as tall as a…’ pack.

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‘Our Favourite Animals’ Pictogram Chart pictures and banner designed for children to not only think about their favourite animal, but also realise that others may not have the same favourite. In addition, children begin to learn about simple graphs and charts. Ideal for use in a classroom, preschool, nursery or childminder setting. Children do not have to necessarily complete the activity at the same time, but a chart can be added to a display and individual children can add their own favourites at appropriate times. Simply place any of the eight large animals on the first page in a horizontal line to form the base of the chart and children can add their own favourite smaller animal above to create the vertical lines of a chart. The lengths of the lines can be compared and number of animals on each can be counted to find totals. Questions such as ‘How many children like tigers?’ may be asked. To really extend mathematical thinking, questions such as ‘How many more children like elephants than kangaroos?’ Animals included are: lion, kangaroo, chimpanzee, zebra, elephant, dolphin, tiger and turtle.

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These animal sound cards (like our snap cards) are intended to be folded and then laminated to create a more sturdy final product which can be reused many times. Perhaps you could lay the cards face down on the table/floor and take it in turns to select a card. Whoever selects a card must turn it over so that only they can see the animal on the other side. Their challenge is then to make the noise of the animal and everyone else has to guess which animal card they have. Before you play the game you may like to go through the cards together and discuss what sounds you think each animal makes. If you have a group of children you may end up with a few different versions for each animal e.g. some may go for the sounds traditionally taught for each animal (which vary between languages and cultures) and others may go for a more realistic representation of the sounds they have heard the animals make. Have fun exploring animal sounds!

(Animals included are cat, chicken, sheep, duck, cow, pig, dog, wolf, lion and snake.)

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Ideal as part of an 'Animals' topic. These Animal themed Picture (and word) Snap cards can be printed, cut out and laminated to consolidate children's knowledge of animals, their names and their characteristics with a fun game of snap!

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Animals to be matched with their initial sound (apart from ‘x’ which we felt would be best demonstrated to children using the final sound in ‘fox’). Each puzzle connection is unique to allow children to self-correct.

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Each animal card folds over to create a card with an animal picture on one side and the initial sound on the other. Children can try to match letters to animals, match pairs of animals with the same initial sound or just pairs of letters.

Here’s a couple of games to try. Why not…

1. Lay out a selection of cards with the animal pictures facing upwards. Invite the children to find a pair of animals which start with the same initial sound. Turn the chosen pair over to see if they are right and model sounding out the letter sound on the back to check if they are right.

Alternatively…

2. Place 3 cards on a table with animals facing upwards (2 which match and one which doesn’t). Encourage the children to decide which one is the ‘odd one out’. Turn over the cards to see if they are right and model sounding out the letters to check.

Alphabet, Cards/Flashcards, Games, Matching Activities, Observational Skills, Phonics, Problem Solving, Sound Cards, Turn Taking, Snap Cards, Activity, Group Activity, Ant, Anteater, Butterfly, Bumblebee, Cow, Cat, Duck, Dog, Frog, Fly, Goat, Goose, Horse, Hedgehog, Lion, Ladybird, Meerkat, Mouse, Penguin, Pig, Rabbit, Rhinos, Squirrel, Spider, Animal Alphabet/Initial Sounds

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