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Sharing our home with animals and the community in Singapore

Launched in 2021 and supported by the Garden City Fund (GCF), NParks' registered charity and IPC, the educational resource package titled "Sharing Our Home with Animals and the Community in Singapore, our City in Nature" was developed to help young children develop a deeper appreciation for our city as an urban ecosystem.

It is designed and produced specially for children aged between 5 and 6 years old to share what it means to live in a City in Nature and how we can contribute to this vision.

Learning objectives

These resources support the learning areas outlined in the current kindergarten curriculum, Nurturing Early Learners.

With these resources, young children are encouraged to discover more about the world around them, develop socially and emotionally, and build their motor, language, literacy and numeracy skills.

Conducting the programme

All pre-schools licensed under the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) have received complimentary sets of the educational resources in August 2021.

These educational resources are also available online below. Each set includes:

Sara and Sunny learn to be pet parents for a week book cover

Join Sara's and Sunny's pet adventure to learn the ways of being a responsible and considerate pet 'parent'. If they are ready to own a pet, there might be a surprise for them!

Download the picture book

Poster animals around us sharing home animals

Poster animals around us responsibility sharing home animals

Poster our pet animals sharing home animals

Learn about the animals we share our living space with, the types of pets you can find in Singapore, and take a pledge to care for the pets and wildlife in our City in Nature in this poster series.

Download the 3 posters

Pet-O-pedia cards sharing home animals

Reinforce the lessons learnt in class with these illustrated educational cards!

Children will learn about:

  • What pets need
  • How pets behave
  • What to do before and after getting a pet
  • How pets can share their living space with other animals that call our City in Nature home

Download the educational cards and the instructional sheet to enjoy any of the 8 featured games.

Model construction kit sharing home animals

With this hands-on activity, learn about the different roles we can all play to support the community, animals and wildlife that share our home in our City in Nature.

Download the model construction kit

You can also use these prompters to supplement learning when using the following videos:

Willie the Whistling Duck explores our City in Nature

Follow Willie the Whistling Duck as he explores our City in Nature and discovers the people, native animals and pets that live here.

Willie the Whistling Duck understands responsible pet ownership

Living in our City in Nature, Willie discovers that there are also other animals that are found here - animals we keep at home called 'pets'.

Join Willie as he learns how to take good care of pets and what it means to be a responsible pet owner. Through this, Willie learns that pets depend on their owners to care for them for life, and keep them safe and healthy.

Willie the Whistling Duck learns to be a considerate neighbour

Willie the Whistling Duck is eager to learn how we can share our home with with the people and animals that live here.

From picking up after your pets, training them and bringing them to the vet to keep them healthy, Willie discovers that there are many things we can do to care for our pets and the community at the same time!

On this journey, Willie learns that we must all make an effort to keep Singapore a pleasant home for everyone.

Additional resources

You may also further enrich your children’s learning by using these fun worksheets as an extension of the preschool resources:

Frequently asked questions

Although these resources were designed specifically for children in the K1 and K2 cohort, schools are free to use these resources for students at other levels as well.

Many of our partner centres have adapted the resources and executed age-appropriate activities to complement their centre’s nursery curriculum.

As we have limited stock and have no plans to reprint, new schools may wish to email Raymond_Chan@nparks.gov.sg if they are interested in getting a copy of the resources, subject to availability.

You may download the entire package on our website.

At this moment, we have no plans to distribute these resources to any bookstores or retail outlets. Members of the public who are interested in getting a copy of the entire package should download them online.

Yes, there are other preschool resource kits produced by NParks on various topics such as the following:

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Last updated on 25 November 2024.