1. What is a minibeast? Can you find any minibeasts?
Where are the best places to look?
Can you make a minibeast with clay?
Can you paint a minibeast ?
Can you count how many legs altogether?
Can you move like a minibeast and do a minibeast dance?
Minibeasts
What are minibeasts?
Where do they live?
Do they have wings?
Do they all have legs?
What is an insect?

2. Foundation Stage What is a minibeast? Term 3.1 PSED
Work collaboratively in small group?
Take account of others ideas.
Communication and language.
What is a minibeast?
Describe a minibeast.
Can you describe how it moves?
Tell a minibeast story.
Physical Development
minibeast hunts.
drawing/painting
/sculpture /clay
Confidence in letter formation and sitting letters on line as appropriate. Using scissors.
Understanding the World
Similarities and differences in living things and places.
Technology
Use ICT to support learning.
Expressive Arts and Design
Explore a range of media and materials to make a minibeast – clay, collage, sculpture, draw, paint. Minibeast dance and movement to music.
Literacy
Read and write simple words and sentences, using phonic knowledge.
Write a minibeast fact or story.
Read and understand simple sentences.
Mathematics
Minibeast problem solving involving addition, subtraction, sharing.
Appropriate language to talk about size and distance.