Elaborations

• handling and observing living and non-living things
• developing an emerging awareness of some essential characteristics of living things, such as ‘eyes are for seeing’
• exploring and identifying some of the living things found in a range of situations, such as pets at home, plants in the garden, animals on a farm, in the school grounds
• recognising and naming some familiar living things
• recognising some living things that can be found in the world around them
• handling and observing living things