Valentine Shapes

This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate and model how to shape, colour and combine a range of different materials to produce shapes representing themes related to Valentine’s Day. The class can describe techniques that can be used when producing shapes on a specific theme.

Wooden Hearts
Collect and combine a range of natural materials to make symbols of heart shapes when creating decorations to celebrate Valentine’s Day

Valentine Prints
Explore and practise some of the different ways of printing the shape of heart on a card to give to someone special to celebrate Valentine’s Day

Flower Vase
Investigate and practise how to combine different materials when making models of flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s 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