Activities Class: Orange Class Date Spring 2017 Activities Topic: Weather Area: Expressive Arts Class: Orange Class Date Spring 2017 Activities Activities Week 1 Frost Jack frost by Kazuno Kohara, Jack Frost in the Garden Brenda Williams- story massage. Collage using a collection of blue and silver materials with different textures Week 2&3- Snow Kippers Snowy Day, Penguins –nonfiction, Snowman and Robin, Snow Carol Thompson, Big Bear Little Bear, Each child to create a snow monster, using twigs and buttons and newspaper etc. Make snowmen out of milk bottles to use for snowmen maths work. Week4&5-Rain Alfie’s Feet, Rain, The Rainy Day- painting with water on black paper or chalkboards. Paint mixing to make rainbows. Children to compose music to go with a rainy poem, picking sounds and instruments to go with light rain to heavy rain to crahing thunder and lightening- bells shakers, cymbals, drums etc. welly printing to make patterns using different colours. Week 6 The Weather Monster, Elmers weather. Valentines Day –What Colour is Love. Make a waether monster using a range of textures. Make valentines cards Week 7 Welsh Focus Week, Bore Da- dragons, flags, listen to the Welsh national anthem and Welsh music Week8&9 Wind One Stormy Night, Blown away, Wind, Rosie’s Hat The Windy Day- create a sound story to go with one Stormy Night using instruments and Big Macks. Make and decorate new hats for Rosie Week10&11 Sun, Sun Carol Thompson, Yellow and shiny collages for sunshine- gluing and sticking skills. Make cards/flowers for Mothers Day Week11&12 Easter- Easter cards Welsh language and /Curriculum Cymreig Use Dil a Del to reinforce Welsh language in the activities covered in the topic. Use of Ipads and Big Mac to communicate in Welsh. Any appropriate material on Ngfl site. Community visit to Library for Rhyme Time, sing simple rhymes. Visit to Poppy Café in St Mary’s Church. Castle Encourage puils to describe the weather each day-” Sut mae tywedd heddu?” Encourage pupils to express feelings in response to places – happus triste. ICT and Digital Competency Use Active Inspire on whiteboard and fingerpaint on Ipad to mark make Ipads for sharing news, mark-making, interactive stories Use CDs and Youtube to experience different types of art and music

Foundation Phase Skills Class: Orange Date: Spring 2017 Topic: Weather Area: Skills Expressive Arts LNF Skills- Reading Literacy Reading Shared attention [RfL 40] Purposeful action on everyday environment [RfL 24] Express preference for items not present via symbolic means [RfL 41] Communicates ‘more’/‘no more’ through two different consistent actions [RfL 28] show increased attention to some books, while discarding others- A Steps Seek out ‘representational’ items, e.g. pictures, photos, tactile/flip flap books, etc A Steps Attend with interest as an adult reads a story, look at, touch and manipulate the book at intervals. Asteps Vocalise in response to a particular feature of a familiar story A Steps Numeracy= Data Handling Selects from two or more items [RfL 36] Touch, point to or give an object to indicate an ‘answer’ in a number activity A Steps match a very familiar object to a clear photo of an identical object BSteps Foundation Phase Skills Art To make choices To explore & experiment with materials, media and tools. Share their work and achievements with others Music Respond to different stimuli- sound and music To experience a range of familiar songs and rhymes. To explore a range of sound sources , instruments and use own body to make sounds. Use every day objects to make sounds Sensory play to compliment the stories – sounds and sensory items and activities to go with a story or theme ICT and Digital Competance Online behaviours- Attracts attention RfL39 A steps Observes moving animate items online Digital wellbeing – Communicates more/ no more through two consistent actions RfL28 Looks backwards and forwards between two items RfL29 B Steps – show their emotions. State simple likes dislikes. Digital Health- Express preference RfL41 Image and reputation -Express preference for items via symbolic means RfL43 A steps- Look at images Plagiarism A Steps Responds differently to images of familiar people and images. Digital rights and responsibility- RfL15 responds to personal identifier A Steps- Identify image of themselves Online Communities-Deliberately gains attention of another person to satisfy need RfL39 Presenting and Publishing- Shared attention RfL40 A Steps- shows preference for digital content Sourcing/ sending- Selects from 2 or more items A Steps Indicate a preference for digital activity Understanding & processing- Random activities cause effect RfL19 Purposeful action on everyday env. RfL24, Intentional exploration of env. Repeats action when first attempt unsuccessful RfL 31 Problem solving- modifies action when repeating action does not work RfL 38. Tries new strategy when old ones fail RfL42 Modelling & Evaluating- Does different actions in sequence to get reward RfL35 Initiates action to achieve desired effect Data collection A Steps-Explore& match object from choice of 2. B Steps Match identical objects or pictures