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Christmas Tree Stars

This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to produce star decoration shapes for a Christmas tree by combining a range of different materials using modelling and shaping techniques.

The class can explain and model some of the special art processes that can be used to manipulate materials when making a decoration to celebrate Christmas.

Download this teaching pack including display poster, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to produce star decoration shapes for a Christmas tree by combining a range of different materials using modelling and shaping techniques

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to produce star decoration shapes for a Christmas tree by combining a range of different materials, display posters to identify and describe colours, shapes and patterns used on Christmas decorations and a template to help produce star decoration shapes for a Christmas tree combining a range of different materials.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to produce star decoration shapes for a Christmas tree by combining a range of different materials.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to use different modelling techniques when shaping and combining materials to create Christmas tree ornaments. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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    Ordering and Changing

    Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less

  • Changing Hundreds

    Changing Hundreds

    Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits

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    Number Order

    Identify and record the sequence of a selection of two digit numbers by the place value of their numerical digits when representing their order using concrete equipment and diagrams

  • Number Lines

    Number Lines

    Identify and record the position of a range of two digit numbers on different sized scales that extend from zero to one hundred place values