Science · Kindergarten to Grade 3–4
Pet, or wild?
Who feeds it? One question sorts the animals.
One animal at a time, your child answers one question: who feeds it? They sort each one into with people or wild, and older children into pet, farm or wild.
- Kindergarten to Grade 3–4
- 8 min
- Nothing to prepare
- On the screen
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Is it a good fit?
- Ready if Your child knows a few animals, like a cat or a cow, and can tap a picture.
- Too much today? The Kindergarten level: two bins, with people or wild, and six animals.
- Too easy? The Grade 1–2 level: pet, farm or wild, with eight animals.
What your child practises
- Sorting animals
- Pets, farm and wild
- What an animal needs
“A tiger needs space to roam, so it could not live on our sofa.”
If your child says something like this, in their own words, the idea has landed. Finishing the rounds means they took part; this is the learning.
Your part
- Nothing needed
- Each question has a Read it to me button
- Plays alone, with you nearby for the dare
Take it off the screen (optional)
Take the Pet's dare: find three farm animals in the kitchen: milk, eggs and wool. The sock drawer counts.
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The full design
What it is
Some animals live with people and some feed themselves, and the question that sorts them is "who feeds it?". One animal at a time, your child taps the bin: with people, or wild; from 1–2, pet, farm, or wild. A miss is never "wrong": the Pet asks the question back ("someone brings its food, which bin is that?") and the second tap is an easy one. The bins carry a picture (a house, a tractor, trees) so a child who cannot read the words yet can tell them apart.
How it goes
The Pet asks "who feeds it?" over the animal's card; a tap on the picture opens it big. Your child taps a bin. The right bin gets one true thing about that animal ("a cow gives us milk", "a camel is kept for milk and riding, in the desert"); a miss gets the question back and the round waits. Six or eight animals, then the finish says how many were sorted; new animals come round about every three days.
The Pet
Asks: "would you find it in a house? a field?" Notices: "someone brings its food"; "it gives us wool". Dares (1–2 up): find three farm animals in the kitchen: milk, eggs, wool (the sock drawer counts). If your child is stuck, the Pet will tap the bin with them.
By band
K: two bins, with people or wild, six animals. 1–2: pet, farm, or wild, eight animals, and the family's cat last, so the pet bin always has its animal. 3–4: eight animals, then why not a tiger at home (space to roam, its own food, its own kind: any one is a fair answer and the Pet adds the other two), and the cat.
Done, and what counts as evidence
Done = the animals sorted. The tiger's three needs are the 3–4 observation; nothing is written for K.
What's personal
Our cat stands in for the family pet until the family's own animals are data. The bins are honest wherever your family lives: a camel is kept by people in Jordan and in a zoo in Canada, so "farm" is right in both; a reindeer is herded in the far north and wild in Canada, so either bin is right and the Pet says both. Nothing is stored.