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Nursery Who Lives in the Sea? Sorting Mat

Children sort animal cards onto a sea and land mat and talk about animal homes. • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Sea and land sorting mat. • 12 animal cards. Linked to Development Matters for three and four-year-olds. Print-ready PDF.

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Who Lives in the Sea?: sea or land sorting mat. A sorting mat with the sea on one side and a field on the other. Children sort animal cards: who lives in the sea, and who lives on land? What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Sea and land sorting mat. • 12 animal cards. Ideas for using it: • Sort it: Does this animal live in the sea or on land? • Why? How do you know? Does it have fins or legs? • Move like it: Swim like a fish. Walk like a cow. • Tricky ones: Seals and turtles visit the land too! Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Talk about what they see, using a wide vocabulary. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things. • Use longer sentences of four to six words. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.Read more

Who Lives in the Sea?: sea or land sorting mat. A sorting mat with the sea on one side and a field on the other. Children sort animal cards: who lives in the sea, and who lives on land? What’s included: • Teacher guide with Development Matters links. • Sea and land sorting mat. • 12 animal cards. Ideas for using it: • Sort it: Does this animal live in the sea or on land? • Why? How do you know? Does it have fins or legs? • Move like it: Swim like a fish. Walk like a cow. • Tricky ones: Seals and turtles visit the land too! Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds): • Talk about what they see, using a wide vocabulary. • Use a wider range of vocabulary. • Begin to understand the need to respect and care for the natural environment and all living things. • Use longer sentences of four to six words. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.

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