Lesson Four – Printing Block
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate how to design and make a block using a range of shapes to utilise when printing some different repeating patterns.
The class can practise using the created printing blocks to make some other designs showing special flowers that might be seen in a family garden during the spring season.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to design and make a block using a range of shapes to utilise when printing some different repeating patterns
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the range of special shapes that can be seen in different patterns and a template to design and make a printing block using a range of shapes to print a flower shape that might be seen in a garden.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to design and make a block using a range of shapes to print some different repeating patterns.
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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