This bundle includes 6 lesson plans and resources to support the learning of artist Georgia O’Keefe. Children will learn about the artist, her use of natural objects, colour and style before collecting their own natural resources to use as inspiration for their own artistic piece inspired by O’Keeffe.
Lesson 1: To understand and recognise the work of Georgia O’Keeffe
Lesson 2: to understand and locate natural objects and to record our observations
Lesson 3: To create sketch books to record observations and use them to revisit and review ideas.
Lesson 4: To improve mastery of art techniques using a range of materials
Lesson 5: To use sketches and swatches to create a large painted study
Lesson 6: To evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
Lesson 7: To explore a range of starting points for practical work (extra lesson not related to the unit)
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? 4 PDF presentations to support the first 4 lessons of the unit.
This unit is easily adaptable for other year groups.
This bundle includes 6 lessons and resources to support Art and Design skills based learning.
Skill: To explore ‘slab’ technique to make a sculpture/model
Lesson 1: To investigate the style of vase created in Ancient Greece
Lesson 2: To design a vase in the Ancient Greece style
Lesson 3: To explore and understand a range of clay techniques
Lesson 4: To select appropriate clay technique for a desired outcome, including how best to include additional features
Lesson 5: To paint an object using appropriate an appropriate colour scheme
Lesson 6: To make suggestions how my design could be improved
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
This bundle includes 2 weeks of lesson plans and resources to support the learning of Performance Poetry. Children will read and perform a selection of poetry before writing their own, which they will then perform to an audience.
SPAG covered: onomatopoeia, personification, similes and metaphors.
Lesson 1: To read and discuss a wide range of poetry
Lesson 2: To understand how to use tone, intonation and volume to convey meaning
Lesson 3: To understand how to use tone, intonation and volume to convey meaning
Lesson 4: To understand how to use tone, intonation and volume to convey meaning
Lesson 5: To identify types of figurative language
Lesson 6: To use simile and metaphor in writing
Lesson 7: To use onomatopoeia to create an effect
Lesson 8: To use personification to build imagery
Lesson 9: To draft and write, drawing on reading and research
Lesson 10: To improve writing by editing and making changes
Lesson 11: To confidently perform my own composition
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? No
5 slides that can be used as spelling starters/early morning task work to help embed the ‘ei’ or ‘ie’ spelling rules. Teacher planning notes included for all slides.
Includes:
identify the correct spelling
different sounds
true or false?
wordsearch
dictation
This bundle includes 9 lesson plans to support the learning of Greece: Ancient Greece, how Ancient Greece has influenced modern culture and Modern Greece. Lessons focus on History, Geography, Computing as well as English and Maths - there is even a Food Technology tasting session!
Children, as a class, could create a ‘Floor Book’ to demonstrate their learning.
Please see my other listing for a clay Art unit linked with the topic of Greece.
Lesson 1: To show what we know
Lesson 2: To create a fact-file about Modern Greece
Lesson 3: To investigate and interpret the past
Lesson 4: To understand chronology
Lesson 5: To create a glossary of Ancient Greek terms
Lesson 6: To find out about the religious beliefs of Ancient Greece
Lesson 7: To experience and test different foods linked with Greece
Lesson 8: To create a collage based on Ancient Greece
Lesson 9: To plan a budget holiday to Greece
Lesson 10: To plan and create a silhouette for a Greek vase
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? No
This bundle includes 2 weeks of lesson plans and resources to support the learning of Significant Authors. Children will focus on The Hobbit by the award winning author, JRR Tolkien. They will enjoy learning about and creating their own author fact-files, creating their own ‘hero’ character profile and experiment with writing descriptive phrases before writing their own fantasy story.
SPAG covered: adjectives, conjunctions, parentheses, colons and semi-colons, dialogue.
Lesson 1: To know about the life of a famous author
Lesson 2: To develop writing by understanding how authors develop plot
Lesson 3: To develop writing by understanding how authors create characters
Lesson 4: To develop writing by understanding how authors create characters
Lesson 5: To develop writing by understanding how authors create setting
Lesson 6: To write more complex sentences punctuated correctly
Lesson 7: To develop writing by understanding how authors create setting
Lesson 8: To plan writing, using the appropriate form
Lesson 9: To plan writing, using the appropriate form
Lesson 10: To draft and write narrative
Lesson 11: To write dialogue, punctuated correctly
Lesson 12: To draft and write, selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary
Lesson 13: To edit and improve writing
Lesson 14: To review the unit
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? Yes
This bundle includes 6 lesson and ideas for texts support the learning of Autobiographies. Children will read a selection of autobiographies before planning and writing their own.
SPAG covered: fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinate clauses, relative clauses, colons, semi-colons and dashes.
Lesson 1: To identify features of an autobiography
Lesson 2: To create cohesion
Lesson 3: To draft and write by using devices to build cohesion
Lesson 4: To draft and write by using devices to build cohesion
Lesson 5: To write using the features of an autobiography
Lesson 6: To evaluate and edit making changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
Lesson Plans Included? Yes
Resources Included? No
The Ungrateful Crocodile
Whole school assembly (primary) with slides and a script to accompany it. A reflective prayer is also included.
Moral Value - to help others without expecting anything in return.
A 4 page script to use as a class assembly. It has been divided into 42 speaking parts but you can use this as you wish (I had 30 children in my class and divided the speaking parts appropriately). Alternatively, an adult could read the script and just have some child participation.
A costume list is also included.