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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Maths Measurement Assessment
Assess abilities in estimating, measuring and comparing a range of different measurements for length, mass and capacity
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Family Life
Investigate and reflect on some of the special events and experiences that might happen in the life of a family
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Final Sounds Word Guess
Practise playing some guessing and matching games to identify the spelling and meaning of words with different final sounds
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Building Reports
Explore how to collect facts and information to work with when composing and presenting non-chronological reports about buildings that can be found in the local area