1. Year 1: Extreme Weather – Role play
English texts/video stimulus:
Rosie’s Hat – Julia Donaldson
Feel the wind – Arthur Dorros
Hurricane – David Wiesner
What will the weather be? - Lynda DeWitt
Hide and seek fog – Alvin Tresselt
Come on rain! Karen Hesse
Rain – Peter Spiers
Cloudette – Tom Lichtenheld
Kipper’s book of weather – Mick Inkpen
Elmer’s weather – David McKee
English Writing Opportunities:
Writing play scripts
Retelling of traditional tales with a weather twist.
Letters as characters – to and from story characters.
Art and Design:
Designing costumes for characters.
Exploring different textures and fabrics to represent characters from stories.
What would the characters wear in the story?
Would that change if the story was set in a different climate?
Which materials or fabrics would you use?
Design and Technology:
Designing and making props fro story retelling.
How might a story we know end differently?
What would happen if you changed the characters?
What would a character from one of the stories write a letter about?
Who would they write it to?
Which character would you write a letter to? Why?
Year 1: Extreme Weather – Role play
Geography:
To consider where different stories are set.
To consider climates of different stories and where they are set.
Music:
To create music to accompany story retelling.
To create music to represent the different characters from stories.
To create music and songs to represent weather from stories.
To create music and songs to represent different weathers.
Social, Moral, Spiritual and cultural links:
Discuss how characters behave in stories.
How characters could change their behaviour
Next steps:
Where is your favourite story set?
How do you know – what tells you this?
Do you know any stories that are set in different places/climates?
What would happen if you changed the location of a story?
How would the characters change or stay the same?
What could you use to make music with?
Can you make an instrument that will play music? How could you change the sound?
Can you create a song to sing about your story? Will your instruments help you?