GoalSay that young animals grow into adults, and match some young animals to their adults.
New words
young · a baby animal or a child that has not yet grown upadult · a person or an animal that has finished growinggrow · to get bigger and change over time
Explanation
All animals start life as young animals. Young animals grow and change until they are adults. A puppy grows into a dog. A kitten grows into a cat. A chick grows into a hen or a rooster. A lamb grows into a sheep, and a calf grows into a cow. Many young animals look like small copies of their parents. Some look quite different at first. A caterpillar looks very different from the butterfly it will become. Young animals need food and care to grow. Many drink milk from their mother, and some are fed by their parents.
Worked examples
A chick comes out of an egg. It is small and fluffy. As it grows, it gets feathers and becomes a big hen.
A lamb is a young sheep. It drinks milk from its mother and soon eats grass too. In time it grows into an adult sheep.
A caterpillar eats leaves and grows. Later it changes into a butterfly.
Class activity
Grown-up and young (with an adult): look at pictures of animals in a book or on a screen. Find five adult animals and their young, for example a cow and a calf, a horse and a foal, a hen and a chick. Draw one pair. Then ask a grown-up to tell you what you were like as a baby.
Practice
1
What do we call a baby dog?
A puppy.
2
Which of these will grow into a cat?
B, the kitten.
3
Match each young animal to the adult it grows into: puppy, chick, caterpillar.
Puppy – A (dog); chick – C (hen); caterpillar – B (butterfly).
4
Name two things that young animals need to grow.
For example: food (or milk), water, care and a safe place to live.
