Amazing Animal Life Cycles

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Monday 18th May 2026 

WALT: know if all animals grow and live in the same way.

What do you already know about how animals grow and change?

What Is a Life Cycle?

A life cycle shows the stages a living thing goes through as it grows. All animals start as babies, grow into adults, and produce new offspring.

The Butterfly’s Life

A butterfly passes through four stages: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult. This big change is called metamorphosis.

The Frog’s Life

Frogs start as eggs in water, become tadpoles, grow legs, and turn into adult frogs. They move from water to land.

The Mammal’s Life

A kitten drinks milk and learns from its mother, then grows into a young cat and finally becomes an adult cat.

How Do Animals Move?

Some have legs, fins or wings. Their bodies are built for their special way of moving.

What Makes Them Different?

Birds fly. Fish swim. Mammals walk, run or jump. Insects crawl or fly.

Ways Animals Travel

Similarities and Differences

Some have fur, feathers or scales. Some live on land, some in water, or both.

Grow and change, need food, water and air, have babies or lay eggs.

All Animals

But They Can Be Different

Let’s Compare!

Look at a bird and a fish. How are they the same? How are they different?

Challenge Time!

Draw the life cycle of two animals.

Label each stage with simple words and pictures.

For example:

Now, How do they move?....

Use your sentence stem.

________ move by________________.

What is the same about how they grow and live?

They are similar because....

What is diffferent?

They are different because...