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Poppies part 2

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Beyond Living Memory: Commemorating History Remembrance Day

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Objectives

History

  • Know where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
  • Use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms.
  • Understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.

Art and Design

  • Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
  • Learn about the work of a range of artists, and make links to their own work.

Lesson Planning

Learn when Remembrance Day takes place. Complete Art work and listen to poem ‘Poppies for Remembrance’. (Continued from Session 3).

Teaching Outcomes
 To recognise the poppy as a symbol representing Remembrance and to begin to understand what is being remembered and why.
To design, paint and model their own creative work.

Children will:

  • Begin to learn about Remembrance Day; why, what and how we remember.
  • Experience different techniques, approaches and tools to create 2D and 3D Art work depicting poppies.
  • Suggest how to display completed work.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Copy of poem Poppies for Remembrance by Moira Andrew
  • Books and poppy items as with Session 3
  • Paper plates
  • Poppy red, green, black tissue paper and crepe paper
  • Green playdough

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