This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to practise techniques of painting scenes depicting a specific type of rain to simulate natural phenomena in landscapes. The class can suggest how to use colour shades and brush strokes when painting to evoke ideas and feelings about the rain.

Practise different techniques of painting scenes depicting a specific type of rain to simulate natural phenomena in a range of different landscapes

Lesson One : Weather Scenes

Identify and and describe how different types of weather can be represented in paintings

Lesson Two : Raindrops

Investigate tools and equipment that can be used to create the shape of raindrops in a painting

Lesson Three : People and Umbrellas

Identify, compare and describe how the weather can be represented in paintings

Lesson Four : Rainbows

Investigate how to mix paint to record all of the different shades of colours that can be seen in a rainbow

Lesson Five : Rainy Day

Select and mix colour shades to paint a picture showing a view from a window on a rainy day

Lesson Six : Painting Exhibition

Identify and record different ways to improve a painting of showing a landscape on a rainy day

  • Counting Twenty

    Counting Twenty

    Explore how to model and illustrate ways of counting different numbers of objects and pictures with matching sums to twenty

  • Alphabet Lists

    Alphabet Lists

    Practise building lists of objects that have been recorded in alphabetical order to match different themes and topics

  • Garden Flowers

    Garden Flowers

    Develop and refine skills in representing different types of flowers grown in a garden by using a range of painting techniques

  • Equal Groups

    Equal Groups

    Explore and record how to divide numbers of different groups of things into matching equal groups of two, three and four