Rain Views

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
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty