Key learning intentions
Language and literacy
Resources
* Card * old magazines * a small box Step by step
* Sing the song 'Old Macdonald had a farm' with the children.
* Talk about the different noises made by animals on a farm or in a zoo.
Discuss the sounds made by other animals - for example, a lion (roar), a snake (hiss), a budgie (tweet) and so on.
* When the children are confident with the sounds, get them to cut pictures of the different animals in their song from magazines and stick them on to squares of card.
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