Areas of Learning: Communication, Language and Literacy, Knowledge and Understanding of the World and Creative Development.
Context: Activities related to topic of animals.
Learning Intentions: To use talk to organise, sequence and clarify ideas (CLL).
To choose colours and tools for a purpose (CD).
To select colours and tools and objects (KUW).
Success Criteria: I know/can choose colours and tools to record my ideas.
I know/can click and drag objects to create an imaginary animal.
Key Vocabulary: pictogram, graph, add, remove, click, paint brush, spray can, colour, palette, undo, screen, click, drag, print.

You will need: simple graph program.
As a class we talked about different pets that we have at home and which is our favourite pet. We create a pictogram together.

We used the pictogram to find out which was our favourite and least favourite pet.

Activity one:
You will need: simple paint program.
In pairs, ask questions about their imaginary pet:
What colour is it?
How many legs has it got?
How does it move?
Ask the children to create their imaginary pet on the screen, selecting appropriate colours and tools.

Activity two:
You will need: paint, brushes, assortment of paper.
The children painted pictures of their imaginary pets.
At writing table they recorded labels for their pictures ‘My imaginary pet is thin and spiky and lives in a tin'.

You will need: simple modelling program.
The children created imaginary animals on the screen.

Thinking Questions: Which is our favourite pet?
What does your imaginary pet look like?
Which tools have you used?
What is the same about the picture that you have painted and the picture on screen?