Pets & Other Animals Level: Key Stage 1 - Cross-curricular activities

Lesson
Music
Kindergarten - 1st Grade
Music Playtime
Music Playtime

Music Lesson Description

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Popular Pets

Pet Graphs (mathematics, art)

Everyone draw and color a picture, on a small piece of paper, of the pet you would most like to own. (Could use ready drawn pictures for children to color in.) Cut out, then make a collage-style graph showing which is the most popular pet.

Caring for Cats (PSED)

Here are lots of Cats Protection League resource packs and lesson plans for teachers.

Class Pet Poem (literacy)

Help the children to make up a class poem that they can say in a rhythmical, sing-song way. Start with this outline and fill in the missing words:

  • I asked if I could have a pet
  • And this is what they said
  • You can have a … or a ... or a ... or a ...
  • A ... or a ... or a ... or a ...
  • I'll have all of those, I said!

You could make it rhyme, or not, eg: You can have a dog or a frog, or a cat or a bat.

Lots more ideas here!

My Animal Song (poetry & music)

The children could make up their own word,s. This is Holly's Hippo song, made up and sung at the piano.

  • Consider the poor hippopotamus
  • His life is unduly monotonous
  • He lives half asleep
  • At the edge of the deep
  • And his face is as big as his bottom is!
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