World Animal Day

World Animal Day takes place on 4 October.  The following resources are suitable for use with primary children and can either be downloaded or linked to.

  • World Animal Day - see the official website for more information about the event

French

  • Calligrams – use this selection of animal based calligrams written by French schoolchildren to write your own animal calligrams for World Animal Day
  • Calligrams (ppt)
  • World Animal Day reading (doc)
  • Zoo cards - celebrate World Animal Day by making nonsense poems about animals at the zoo!
    Children combine phrases written on these cut out cards to form a silly sentence. They can put these together to make a nonsense poem in French about animals. English translation provided.

General

  • Calligrams (ppt)
  • Zoo cards (English) - celebrate World Animal Day by making nonsense poems about animals at the zoo!  Children combine phrases written on these cut out cards to form a silly sentence. Centres are free to adapt this resource into other languages so that learners can create nonsense poems in the target language about animals.
  • How do Animals Sound in different languages? - compare animal sounds in different languages with these colourful comics by artist James Chapman.

Spanish

  • World Animal Day reading
  • Zoo cards - celebrate World Animal Day by making nonsense poems about animals at the zoo!
    Children combine phrases written on these cut out cards to form a silly sentence. They can put these together to make a nonsense poem in Spanish about animals. English tanslation provided.
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