Lesson Six – Harvest Plait
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explain how to follow a set of instructions when making a decoration celebrating the autumn harvest as part of a special festival.
The class can practise selecting and moulding materials to make a decoration representing the autumn to celebrate a harvest festival in the school.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explain how to follow a set of instructions when making a decoration celebrating the autumn harvest as part of a special festival
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore how to make a decoration to celebrate the harvest by following a set of instructions and a template to design and make models of shapes to celebrate the harvest in a special festival.
The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate how to follow a set of instructions to make a decoration celebrating the autumn harvest.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate how farmers collect the harvest in the autumn including grown crops and food sources from animals and explore how the harvest can be celebrated. 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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