Meet the Animals: Lesson Plan 3 My needs are your needs

Question: What animals did you see at the animal sanctuary?

Answers:

• Pigs
• Sheep
• Cows
• Chickens
• Goats
• Alpacas
• Donkeys
• Ducks

Question: What needs do animals have?

Answers:

• Good food
• Clean water
• Room to play and have fun
• Companionship (being with friends)
• To feel safe
• Health care (to be treated by a vet when injured or unwell)

Question: What is an animal sanctuary?

Answer: An animal sanctuary is a place where rescued animals are well cared for, allowing them to live out their lives in peace.

Question: What are young sheep called?

Answer: Lambs

Question: What were the names of the two lambs at Karen’s Kind animal sanctuary?

Answer: Bala and Bailey

Question: How old were the lambs in the film?

Answer: Three months (They become adult sheep at a year old)

Question: What are the different personalities of Bala and Bailey?

Answer: Bala (a boy) is boisterous, lively, active, cheeky, and confident and Bailey (a girl) is calm, chilled, relaxed, and well behaved.

Question: How can you tell that Bailey is happy being stroked?

Answer: She wags her tail

Question: How are lambs similar to dogs?

Answer:

• They wag their tails when they are stroked
• They like being fussed and stroked

Question: How is Bala mischievous?

Answer: He tries to help himself to more food

Question: What clever thing can mother sheep (ewes) do?

Answer: They can recognise their own lambs by the sound of their calls

Question: What were the names of the two pigs at Karen’s Kind animal sanctuary?

Answer: Luna and Ray

Question: What are the different personalities of Luna and Ray?

Answer: Luna is a cheeky, outgoing, confident and sometimes mischievous

Ray is calm, chilled and relaxed

Question: What clever things can pigs do?

Answers:

• Sit for treats
• Learn to open a gate
• Learn their names
• Play games

Question: What do mother pigs like to do before they give birth to their baby piglets?

Answer: Make a nest

Question: What was wrong with Daisy when she arrived at the sanctuary?

Answer: She had lost all her feathers when she was on the farm

Question: What clever things can chickens do?

Answer: They can learn to count the numbers on a dice (clicker training)

Question: What amazing thing can mother hens do when they are sitting on their eggs in the nest?

Answer: They can talk to their chicks while the chicks are still inside the eggs.

Question: Why does the mother hen sit on her eggs in the nest?

Answer: A mother hen sits on her eggs in the nest to keep them warm, so that they develop properly and hatch

(Fertilised chicken eggs typically take 20-21 days to hatch from the time a hen starts sitting on them. Chicks become adult chickens after 18 to 20 weeks)

Question: What do chickens like to do?

Answers:

• Peck and scratch in the soil
• Take a dust bath
• Forage and explore with their friends in the flock
• Some like to be cuddled

Question: What are the names of the cows at the Farm Animal Sanctuary?

Answer: Mavis, (Big) Busty, Louise

Question: What do they like to eat?

Answer: Oranges (among other things, such as grass)

Question: What do cows like doing?