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How are boats and ships used?

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Oceans and Seas Boats and Ships

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Objectives

Art

  • Use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination,
  • Learn about the work of a range of artists and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

English

  • Say sentences out loud before writing them.
  • Re-read what they have written to check that it makes sense.
  • Write for different purposes.
  • Use simple connectives to join clauses.

Lesson Planning

Look at the different design features of boats and ships; Use watercolours to paint a picture of a ship with a specific purpose.

Teaching Outcomes
 To explore design features of boats with specific functions; To paint a boat using watercolours.
To write a clue card to accompany their paintings.

Children will:

  • Match the design features of boats to their functions.
  • Paint a ship or boat with a specific purpose, using watercolours.
  • Write a clue card about their painting.

Provided Resources

  • Artwork of ships and boats
  • Ink & watercolour paintings

You Will Need

  • Boat and ship images (from session 1)
  • Art paper
  • Ink pens
  • Watercolour paints and brushes
  • Sticky labels

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