KS1. Key Stage 1 Lesson ideas

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1 KS1 Key Stage 1 Lesson ideas

2 Theme 1: There s No Place Like Home KS1 Lesson Idea Activities Links to KS1 curriculum In someone else s shoes... To have a heart... Oz in clay Read to the class the paragraph where Dorothy discovers she is away from home. Get the class to think about what it would be like if they were in Dorothy s shoes. How would they feel? How does Dorothy feel? Get them to think of as many adjectives as they can to describe how they would feel if they discovered they were away from home. Ask the children to draw a giant shoe and ask them to write one adjective in it. Introduce WellChild and what we do. [WellChild assembly template] What are feelings? Describe Good Witch Glinda and the Wicked Witch. What s different/similar about them? Get your class on their feet one side of the room is good, and one side is bad. Read out a description or an action of each character in the book. Ask the children to move according to whether the character s actions are good or bad. Ask students to design a heart template and each make a pledge of how they should treat other people. Collate the hearts, and make a wall of pledges. You could even design a Tin Man to go with it! Make your own clay characters...get imaginative! Reading only the descriptions of the characters (no pictures!) to give them inspiration, get the class to think of how their character might look get them to sketch their character and label how it is going to look. Create your characters!! Use lollipop sticks to create patterns or modelling tools if you have them! Once completed, do a tour of the room, asking students to describe their characters (appearance, favourite/worst thing, name, feelings, how they usually move and where the character would live). Dress up with Dorothy Art good and not so good feelings, a vocabulary to describe their feelings to others and explain the range and intensity of their feelings to others change and loss and the associated feelings communicate their feelings to others reading comprehension - being encouraged to link what they hear read to their own experiences formation of adjectives to recognise what is fair and unfair, kind and unkind, what is right and wrong to identify and respect the differences and similarities between people Listening comprehension to recognise what they like and dislike to use drawing and sculpture to develop and share ideas, experiences and imagination to develop a wide range of art and design techniques Transform your school into the Wizard of Oz! Ask children (and more importantly teachers!) to dress up as a character for a suggested 2 donation. Hold a school assembly to show everyone that by dressing up, they are raising vital funds to help seriously ill children get home with their families! [WellChild assembly template]

3 Theme 2: Help Dorothy home KS1 Lesson idea Actvities Links to KS1 curriculum Which way to Oz? Dorothy is lost in Oz!! Direct her out! Using your Interactive Whiteboard, get your students to use directions to help Dorothy and her friends get out of Oz, avoiding her enemies along the way... [Interactive Map of Oz] Transform your classroom into Oz. Geography Directions Locational and directional language Describe features and routes on a map Maths Basic directions Choose two volunteers to guide each other through your make believe Oz. Oz comes to us One needs to cover their eyes. The other needs to direct the blindfolded student around the class, using directions. Maths Basic directions You might even want to use some mask templates to transform your students into the characters! My map of Oz Now it s time for the students to come up with their own Oz... Using a map template, get your class to design their own map. Don t forget they can choose their characters and create a key. [Design your own Oz] Then, when they ve finished, ask them to create a set of directions to guide their characters, using simple compass directions. Wizard of Oz Fete Geography Devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key use simple compass directions Bring your students maps to life at your school fete with a treasure hunt! Break down the directions that your students created into clues... students will use these clues to find the hidden treasure!

4 Theme 3: Play in a Day KS1 Lesson idea Activities Links to KS1 curriculum Story time Story time: The Wizard of Oz Read the story out to the children. Turn off the lights and get them to make shadow puppets of each of the characters with their hands to retell what they heard. You could even get them to design their own paper shadow puppets! retelling key stories, listening to stories Preparation for the grand opening of the Wizard of Oz play... Masquerade mayhem Get your class showcasing their artistic talents! Create masks, scenery and costumes reading for your Wizard of Oz play. [Mask template] Remember to chat to other classes to find out what they re doing for the play and share out tasks between classes. Art to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products Choreograph your Oz dance Dance! Get your class on their feet and create your own dance routine for your part in the school play. PE perform dances using simple movement patterns. Write a short story Creative Writing Hold a school storytelling competition. Using inspiration from the book, get your class to write their own Oz style story. Get them to think about characters, scenery, feelings, and moods. [Story Competition template] composition in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot Remember to get a prize for the winners! Wizard of Oz Play Invite parents to the performance and enjoy yourselves! Ask for a 2 donation per ticket. Ask parents if they could make cakes for a bake sale. Offer refreshments on the night lemonade booth, cake stand, tea and coffee and perhaps do a raffle too. [Letter to parents]

5 KS1 Theme 4: Rainbows Lesson idea Activities Links to KS1 curriculum Disappearing rainbow Make a colour wheel spinning top Give each student a paper plate, and get them to draw six equal parts. Then colour in each part in the following order (purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red). Help the children to make a hole in the centre and get them to push their pencil into the hole. Get spinning and see what happens! Art to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour Get them to think about why the wheel looks white. Perhaps talk about the colours of the Rainbow and how they can use the colour wheel in their artwork. Rainbow Ask students to draw a drop of rain on an A5 piece of paper. Rainbow pledge As a class, have a think about what the students might be able to do to help other people. Discuss what some of the characters in the Wizard of Oz do to help or hinder others. Talk about what our WellChild families and get the children to think about what they could do to help. to think about themselves, to recognise and celebrate their strengths and set simple but challenging goals Ask each student to write 3 words on their droplet to describe themselves and a short pledge on the rainbow I will... on how they are going to help WellChild. Create your own Rainbow Wall Display, presenting the class s pledges. [Please take a photo and upload it on our Pinterest Schools Board] Rainbow Run Organise a sponsored Rainbow Run!!! Get your students to dress up in all the colours of the Rainbow!!! Rainbow Bracelets Planning a school fete! Get the class designing their own jewellery and make Rainbow bracelets for donations...

6 KS1 Theme 5: Broomsticks! Lesson idea Activities Links to KS1 curriculum The broomstick inventors Get the class to imagine the Wicked Witch of the West. What does every witch need to travel around? A broomstick. Design your own broomstick. [Design your own broomstick] Things for the class to think about: materials, speed, colour, dimensions, special features, specification and a sketch. Most important of all, don t forget the customer the witch! Design and Technology: design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mockups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology Art and Design to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination Make it fly! The broomstick maker Broomstick sale How can we make our broomsticks fly? Explore the force of gravity! How can you defy gravity? How we can make something more aerodynamic. Get creative! Make your broomsticks! Using design specifications/sketch, create your broomsticks! Get your class to collect different objects to use...maybe even explore outside in the school garden to see if you can find any natural objects. Now for the fun part...go outside and test the broomsticks! Broomstick sale Price up those broomsticks and get selling them to classmates! Get the children to vote on their favourite broomstick. Science The pupil can describe the effects of simple forces (magnetic forces and gravity). Design and Technology Build structures, thinking about how things can be made more stable Maths Flight of the Broomsticks Sponsored Broomstick Race [Sponsorship form] Evaluate against design criteria Money