This week the children were introduced to the scientific vocabulary Carnivore, Herbivore and Omnivore.

Once we were familiar with these terms it was time to delve deeper into why different animals might have different diets. We looked at wild animals and discussed why they might only eat meat such as lions and wolves. We also looked at their features and here is what the children discovered:

“Snails are herbivores as they can’t eat meat…they don’t have sharp teeth to rip it a part!”

“Lions live in the wild so they eat other animals to stay alive. This means they are carnivores.”

The children then got given a set of animals with pictures of what they eat on them. The children then grouped the animals by drawing and labelling them.