1. Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Fallow Class Topic:
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
MUSIC
Charanga music, music for different weathers ~ e.g. thunderstorm, ice, wind.
MATHS
SCIENCE
Seasons ~ Winter. Investigate ice and snow ~ create ice mountains, freeze different objects in ice cubes, make our own snow for a snowy village. Investigate other types of weather ~ rain, wind Animals ~ mammals, what is special about Arctic animals?
ART
Winter art ~ painting & printing winter trees,
ice hangings, arctic animal chalk drawings/
collage pictures. Paint pictures
of ourselves in winter clothes.
Easter/spring art ~ investigating colour
and texture compared with our winter art
work.
THE WORLD
What is it like to live in a cold place? Investigate the Arctic ~ animals, clothes, homes. Set up a weather station for measuring different types of weather in our outdoor area. What can we use to measure weather? (weather vane, rain catchers, wind sock). Weather vocabulary. Compass points, simple mapping, Beebot maps.
RE/PSHE
Christian value ~ courage,
RE – Was it always easy for Jesus to show friendship?and Easter
PSHE – Looking forward. Learning about money and how to use it. PE
Real PE ~ developing core skills ~
balance, directions and
swimming.
ENGLISH
Story ~ Rosie’s Hat,
Information texts about Winter and Artic animals, Poetry about the Winter season.
Collecting weather vocabulary for weather reporting/forecasting. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ~ Compare DVD with the text.
Place value, ½ , ¼ of shapes and amounts, money, addition and subtraction, measures ~ length & weight. Multiplication. Days of the week/months of the year as related to weather forecasts. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ~ use Venn diagrams to compare book weather and real weather.