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Lesson Two – Shapes and Colours

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe a range of different shapes and colours that can be seen on collected and pressed flowers. The children can select special vocabulary words to describe their flower artwork.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and describe a range of different shapes and colours that can be seen on collected and pressed flowers

Learning Objectives

Know about similarities and differences in relation to living things. Experiment with colour, texture and form to represent objects.

Learning Outcomes

I can say how flowers are the same or different. I can describe shapes, colours and patterns that I can see in different objects.

Shapes and Colours

Teaching sequence to help the children identify and describe a range of different shapes and colours that can be seen on collected and pressed flowers

What Flowers

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify and describe the colours and shapes seen in different flowers

Flower Hunt

Activity to help the children find examples of different common flowers that can be seen around the school grounds or in a local park

Pressed Flower

Template to help the children select and use special vocabulary words to describe a flower collected from the school grounds

Shapes and Colours

Interactive activity to help the children identify and describe a range of different shapes and colours that can be seen on collected and pressed flowers

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and describe a range of different shapes and colours that can be seen on collected and pressed flowers

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