Summer at the beach

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Weather Experts - NEW LOOK Seasonal Change

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Objectives

Art

Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
Understand about the work of a range of artists, describing the differences and similarities between different practices.

Geography

Identify seasonal weather patterns in the UK.

Lesson Planning

Investigate some of the features of Summer. Create a beach scene based on the painting ‘Southwold’ by Stanley Spencer.

Teaching Outcomes
To develop art techniques in using brushstrokes and texture and compare paintings.
To identify and discuss features of summer

Children will:

Develop a wide range of art techniques in using brushstrokes and texture.
Compare the paintings ‘Weatherbeaten’ and ‘Southwold’.
Identify and discuss features of summer.

Planning

Provided Resources

Painting instructions
‘Southwold’ by Stanley Spencer

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Black A3 sugar paper
Masking tape
Toothbrushes
Paint brushes
Paints (yellow, orange, white, black, blue)
Vivaldi’s ‘Summer’

Weblinks

Southwold by Stanley Spencer from artuk.org
Weatherbeaten by Winslow Homer from the-athenaeum.org/