1. 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

2. 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 RfL B Steps – show their emotions. State simple likes dislikes.
Digital Health- Express preference RfL41
Image and reputation -Express preference for items via symbolic means RfL 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 RfL 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