Lesson Five – Gardens

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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.
The class can explain and model how to create and print examples of different repeating patterns to show a range of garden flowers with a selection of special colour shades.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different flowers that might be found in a garden and a set of cards to model how to select and print sets of repeating patterns using different coloured flowers that can grow during the spring.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use different objects to print a range of different flowers that might be seen in a garden.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and print patterns and shapes to reflect flowers that can grow in family gardens during the spring. 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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