Spring Flowers

This curriculum topic scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and print patterns and shapes to reflect flowers that can grow in family gardens during the spring. The class can practise making printing blocks to design shapes of different flowers to use in their artwork.

Identify, describe and print patterns and shapes to reflect flowers that can grow in family gardens during the spring

Lesson One : Shapes and Patterns
Investigate, model and record how to create a range of different shapes and patterns when printing using some coloured paints

Lesson Two : Shapes and Colours
Identify and describe a range of different shapes and colours that can be seen in some pressed flowers that have been collected from a garden area

Lesson Three : Flower Petals
Investigate and practise some of the different ways that can be used to print petal shapes to represent a flower using a range of art tools and media

Lesson Four : Printing Block
Investigate how to design and make a block using a range of shapes to utilise when printing some different repeating patterns

Lesson Five : Gardens
Practise using some different objects and tools to print a range of special flowers that might be seen in a garden during the spring season

Lesson Six : Garden Pots
Practise using a range of special techniques to print some different flower shapes and patterns on the outside of garden pots
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Food and Drink Colours
Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals
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Calendar Days
Identify and record the sequence of the seven days of the week using the correct vocabulary words to describe units of time on a calendar
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Fantasy Stories
Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings
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Class Portraits
Investigate and practise some of the different artwork techniques that can be used when composing and painting a portrait of a classmate