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Our bright idea - Slithering snails

Minibeasts got bigger when one nursery acquired some African snails, as manager Karen Crawford reports.

Staff at Rainbow Nursery provide children with a wealth of opportunities for exploring the natural world, and their giant African land snails are a great favourite.

As they handle and care for the snails the children are learning at first hand about life processes.

Planned learning intentions

To show care and concern for others, for living things and the environment

To use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events

To show an awareness of similarities in shapes in the environment

To find out about, and identify, some features of living things, objects and events they observe

To recognise the importance of keeping healthy, and those things which contribute to this

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