Lesson video

Hello everyone.

Welcome back to another lesson with me Miss.

Sidenius.

Today, we're going to be learning all about what animals need to grow, not humans, animals.

Let's get started.

In this lesson, we're going to start by thinking about different baby animals.

Then we're going to learn about what those little baby animals need to grow.

And finally, we're going to make some prints of some baby chicks, some baby chickens using a potato.

So in this lesson, you're going to need three things, a potato, a black pen or pencil and some paint.

So pause the video here, make sure you've got those three things and come back when you're ready.

Star words, star words, star words.

My turn herbivore.

Herbivore.

A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants or grass.

So just like you can see in the picture with the rabbit eating some leaves, these animals only eat plants or grass.

What food do herbivores, eat? Plants or grass well done.

Let's go to the next star word, ready? Carnival, carnival.

A carnival is an animal that only eats meat or mostly eats meat.

Now that might be a fox that likes to eat rabbit or chickens or it might be a tiger that eats other animals as well.

And our last star word is omnivore.

Omnivore.

An omnivore is an animal that eats meat and plants.

What does an omnivore eat? Meat and plants, well done.

Here, I've got a picture of a chicken that's right, but the chicken doesn't start out like an adult chicken.

It starts out like a chick, a much like humans, baby animals need lots of different things to help them grow so you can see here, the chick starts out in the egg and then it gets bigger and bigger and bigger until it's an adult chicken.

Well, what do you think it might need to grow? Have a think.

Tell your screen.

Much like humans, farm animals also need food, water and lots of sleep to grow.

They need clean air as well.

So much like humans they need food, water and sleep.

What do they need? Well done, and can you spot some cute baby animals on the screen? Can you point to the piglets for me? They're having a nice sleep, all curled up together in the straw.

But with animals it's not that simple, they can't just eat whatever food they like different animals need to eat different things.

What baby animals can you see on the screen here? Tell your screen.

That's right, you can see a lamb.

A lamb is a baby sheep.

You can see a foal.

A foal is a baby horse.

And you can see a calf, a baby cow.

What are they all eating? They're all eating the same thing.

Tell your screen.

These baby farm animals are all eating grass, so they are all herbivores.

Remember herbivore is an animal that only eats plants or grass.

So lambs, foals, and calves are all herbivores.

I wonder if there are other farm animals that eat different foods to help them grow.

What can you see here? Tell your screen.

That's right, you can see some baby chicks, some piglets or a piglet.

Again, can you point to the ducklings for me? That's right, the ducklings are swimming around in the water they look very happy.

But these baby farm animals need to eat different foods.

They're not herbivores, they are omnivores.

Omnivores, and an omnivore if you remember is an animal that eats plants and meat.

So chicks like to eat a mix of corn and bugs, which makes chicks an omnivore because corn is plant food and bugs are meat.

What about piglets what do you think piglets eat? Hmm, tell your screen.

That's right, piglets also eat a mixture of meat and plants just like ducklings do as well.

What else do farm animals need to grow then? Hmm, have a think back to when humans are babies, can you remember what they eat before they have any teeth? Hmm, that's right, humans can only drink milk and some farm animals can only drink milk to help them grow as well.

And what else can you see the baby piglets and the baby ducklings doing in this picture? They're having a nice sleep aren't they? But do farm animals sleep in a bed like humans? No, farm animals sleep in lots of different places, just like you can see in the picture.

Some farm animals are very happy to sleep outside.

But humans would get too cold and uncomfortable to sleep outside.

Some farm animals like to sleep in a bond where it's nice and warm.

A lots of farm animals like to huddle up together and sleep cuddling next to each other to keep them warm.

Just like you can see in the picture.

So we've learned that farm animals need sleep and food just like humans, but they can sleep outside and eat different foods to humans.

We wouldn't be able to do that because we would get too cold and we would get bad tummy if we ate things like grass.

Now, because we've been learning about farm animals, I thought it would be really fun to create some potato print chicks.

So we can have some cute little chicks to look back on after the lesson.

To get started, I'd like you to ask a parents or carer to cut your potato in half for you.

And then you'll go to dry it on some kitchen roll, just like this.

So pause the video here, cut your potato in half and come back when you're ready.

Brilliant, we've got our potatoes cut.

Now we need to do is dip them in some yellow paint and you can make splotches all over your paper.

Deep some more paint on so your potato and make sure you feel your page with lots of different yellow splotches, but don't put them too close together.

Perfect, like that, brilliant.

Pause the video here make your potato prints and come back when you're ready.

Excellent, now it's time to decorate our prints.

So look, I've got a black pen and I'm just drawing some little feet and some little eyes on my chicks.

I waited for them to dry before I did this, otherwise the paint would go everywhere and I've got some little feathers as well, and I'm going to draw a little beak like that.

And it looks like my baby chick is flapping its wings.

Now I'm going to do some of my other chicks, give it some feet, some eyes, some feathers and a beak.

And you can see really looks like a baby chick now.

And this little chick is going to be looking in front of it, so I'm doing the feathers on the top of its head this time.

And the beak is going to be sticking out, looking down at the ground, pecking for some food.

And this one's going to be facing a different way as well.

So you can have them facing lots of different directions, they might be talking to each other.

They might be pecking some food off the ground.

There we go.

Pause the video here, create your potato chicks and come back when you're ready.

So now that you've made your lovely potato print chicks and they're off to the side.

I want you to have a quick think back to the beginning of the lesson.

Are you a herbivore or an omnivore? You can use the pictures to help you.

A herbivore only eats plants or grass.

But an omnivore eats plants and animals or meat.

So have a little think.

Tell your screen.

Wow, it's so interesting to hear some of you are herbivores and some of you are omnivores.

I am a herbivore because I am a vegetarian, so I only eat fruits, vegetables, plants, beans.

I don't eat any meat or fish, but I used to be an omnivore because I used to eat meat and fish and plants and vegetables and fruits and things like that.

Well done on creating your lovely baby chicks day everyone.

I hope you enjoyed learning about the ways that baby animals grow on the farm and how in some ways it's very similar to how baby humans grow.

And in other ways it's quite different.

See you next time bye.