MISSION 2 Create a mind map for your research on ONE of your animals.

OUR PROJECT AIMS Look at how animals live Think about language to make animals move Create sounds animals might make Write our own poems Perform our poems Work independently MISSION 1 Our first step is to do some research into TWO different animals. We need to find out the following and make notes in our books: What sort of animal it is - fish, bird, mammal, reptile, etc. What the animals look like colour, size, coats, ears, eyes, legs, etc. Where the animals live country (hot or cold), their homes (nests, burrows, in trees or under the ground), etc. How they raise their young what the babies are called, how they feed, how long they stay with their parents, etc. What they eat and how they get their food. What noises they make try to make sound words for these. MISSION 2 Create a mind map for your research on ONE of your animals. MISSION 3 Draw pictures of the following: Your two animals Their babies Their homes The food they eat Animal Magic 2001 www.teachit.co.uk 1

MISSION 4 Now write a poem about one of your animals called If I was a You can use this writing frame if you like but you don t have to. If I was a I d live in I d live with And all day long. If I was a I d eat and I d find my food by And all day long. If I was a I d like the way I look With my and Especially my If I was a I d have to learn to And I wouldn t talk I d So, I d to be a Animal Magic 2001 www.teachit.co.uk 2

MISSION 5 Design face painting masks for both your animals. Make sure you only use the following colours: black, white, brown, green, blue, yellow, and red. MISSION 6 Now produce a WORD-PROCESSED version of your poem for best. You may add a clipart picture if you like. MISSION 7 Now rehearse your poem aloud. You are going to perform it! Animal Magic 2001 www.teachit.co.uk 3

OUR PROJECT AIMS Think about: how animals live describing how animals move describing animal sounds writing our own poems performing our poems working independently. Draw your animal here MISSION 1 First: research TWO different animals. Use this frame to help you My first animal is a... (fish, bird, mammal, reptile, etc.) It looks like...... (colour, size, coats, ears, eyes, legs, etc) It lives in... (country hot or cold, their homes-nests, burrows, in trees or under the ground etc.) Its babies are called... It raises its young by... (how they feed, how long they stay with their parents, etc.) It eats... and gets its food by... (hunting, grazing etc) The sounds it makes are... 2008 www.teachit.co.uk animals.doc Page 1 of 5

Remember our aims Think about: how animals live describing how animals move describing animal sounds writing our own poems performing our poems working independently. Draw your animal here My second animal is a... (fish, bird, mammal, reptile, etc.) It looks like...... (colour, size, coat, ears, eyes, legs, etc.) It lives in... (country hot or cold, their homes nests, burrows, in trees or under the ground etc.) Its babies are called... It raises its young by... (how they feed, how long they stay with their parents, etc.) It eats... and gets its food by... (hunting, grazing etc.) The sounds it makes are... 2008 www.teachit.co.uk animals.doc Page 2 of 5

MISSION 2 SECOND: Create a mind map for your research on ONE of your animals. My animal is MISSION 3 THIRD: Draw pictures of the following: Your two animals Their babies Their homes The food they eat 2008 www.teachit.co.uk animals.doc Page 3 of 5

MISSION 4 Now write a poem about one of your animals called If I was a You can use this writing frame if you like but you don t have to. If I was a... I d live in... I d live with... And... all day long. (sleep, swim, snore, eat, hunt...) If I was a... I d eat... and... I d find my food by... And... all day long. If I was a... I d like the way I look With my... and... Especially my... If I was a... I d have to learn to... And I wouldn t talk I d... So, I d... to be a... 2008 www.teachit.co.uk animals.doc Page 4 of 5