This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to practise techniques of painting scenes depicting a specific type of rain to simulate natural phenomena in landscapes. The class can suggest how to use colour shades and brush strokes when painting to evoke ideas and feelings about the rain.

Practise different techniques of painting scenes depicting a specific type of rain to simulate natural phenomena in a range of different landscapes

Lesson One : Weather Scenes

Identify and and describe how different types of weather can be represented in paintings

Lesson Two : Raindrops

Investigate tools and equipment that can be used to create the shape of raindrops in a painting

Lesson Three : People and Umbrellas

Identify, compare and describe how the weather can be represented in paintings

Lesson Four : Rainbows

Investigate how to mix paint to record all of the different shades of colours that can be seen in a rainbow

Lesson Five : Rainy Day

Select and mix colour shades to paint a picture showing a view from a window on a rainy day

Lesson Six : Painting Exhibition

Identify and record different ways to improve a painting of showing a landscape on a rainy day

  • Number Doubles

    Number Doubles

    Model and record how to double different numbers to twenty using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to support calculations

  • Zoo Animal Doubles

    Zoo Animal Doubles

    Practise doubling different numbers of animals that might be seen at a zoo recorded in words and digits to ten using diagrams and number lines to model each product

  • Doubles Facts

    Doubles Facts

    Identify, match and record the doubles of different numbers to ten using concrete equipment and repeated addition to support each multiplication number calculation

  • Tower Doubles

    Tower Doubles

    Practise counting and doubling different numbers of cubes that have been used to make a range of towers to five, ten and fifteen