I wanted to introduce the girls into sorting things out using a two-way table, as they were already pretty good at sorting things into groups. The NC also mentions being familiar with a variety of common pets, so I decided to combine the two things together.
We visited our local Pets At Home store, walked around looking at the shelves and display animals, taking photos and discussing what we saw. A free mini day out before popping next door to Asda lol.
When we got home, we looked through the photos one by one and together we sorted the animals into the correct boxes. The pet store was good in that the display animals all had little information plaques to say what the animals needed to be fed (this was especially useful when it came to the different kinds of fish!), or the pet food in the aisles had a picture of the animal it was for and a description of what was inside.
I quite liked this activity as a recap of the work done so far. The weather is brightening up too so I'd like to repeat it after a trip to the local zoo, insha'Allah. Hopefully there they can find some amphibians this time too!
You can download the worksheet here.
If you just wanted to focus on the 2-way sorting and recapping the key vocabulary, you could also do this with pictures of familiar animals instead. You could print some out or cut up a free leaflet for a zoo/sealife centre etc. which you often find in the library.
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