Reflections
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and emulate techniques used by artists working in paint to create impressions of reflections seen in bodies of water. The class can practise using water washes to develop the shape and colour of a reflection seen in a river or lake.
Explore and emulate techniques used by significant artists working in paint to create impressions of reflections seen in different bodies of water
Lesson One : River Paintings
Explore and describe how a range of significant artists have used colour shades to suggest different times of the day in paintings of river views
Lesson Two : Water Reflections
Practise some of the different ways of representing reflections that might be seen in water using artwork techniques when working with paint
Lesson Three : Water Washes
Explore and implement some of the artwork techniques that can be utilised when painting reflections of different objects in water
Lesson Four : River Sketch
Practise selecting views and recording images when sketching a scene of a river location as preparation for completing a full painting
Lesson Five : River View
Investigate how to create a painting of a river view using different artwork techniques to illustrate some of the special reflections that might be visible in the water
Lesson Six : Painting Changes
Explore and evaluate completed class paintings of river scenes that include water reflections of some of the things that can be seen on the riverbanks
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Homophones Matching
Explore the spelling and meaning of some different words that are homophones by matching and listing pairs of words with the same pronunciations
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Friction
Investigate, describe and test the effects of air and water resistance and friction on different objects and materials presenting results using graphs and tables
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Capacity Conversions
Explain and model how to convert between different units of measurement for capacity by comparing and matching capacities in litres and millilitres
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Story Conjunctions
Identify and model how to link clauses in sentences related to some of the special characters and events that feature in different stories