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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Measurement
Measure, compare and record the mass and capacity of different objects and containers using a range of non-standard measurements
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Word Halves
Identify and complete the halves of letters for different cvc words beginning with the initial phoneme sounds for matching alphabet letters
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Seaside Subtraction
Calculate and record the difference between pairs of numbers to ten by counting back to show numbers of items sold in a shop at the seaside
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Animal Alphabet
Practise finding information in non-fiction books about some of the different animals that live around the world