Week Beginning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 17th April 2017 N/A – Bank Hol PPA RE – KH planning N/A – Jungle Book performance History – Introduction to the topic – Step into the Stone Age. Discuss the Stone Age – when was it ? What year? What significance is it? BC – Starter – create a whole class time line – pictures for books – topic wall. Activity - Look at images related to the age – chn stick the pictures in their books and write questions about each image they would like to find out through the topic. PE – Games N/A – Space Day – Planetarium 40 mins 24th April 2017 Guided Reading – Stone age related Guided Reading. – Art – Cave Art – Introduction to cave at. Show chn pictures of Stone Art – ask the chn what it is of, discuss PPA RE – KH Planning Art – Cave Art – Recap cave art – why would they use this? How would they draw it? What messages would they write? Topic – History/Science – How did people in the stone age get their food? What did they eat? Discuss these questions with the chn and mind map ideas. Discuss ppt ‘stone age food’. Starter – chn use ‘spears (javelins) to – History – Stone Age Tools – Talk about what tools may they have needed in the stone age? Talk about tools now, what do we need them for? What are the differences? Discuss that archaeologists have Science – Animals in the stone age – discuss animals do we know about already? Thinking back to food the people would hunt? What do animals look like in the stone age? What do they look like now? Are they
different ideas, how do they do cave art? What equipment do they use? Go through PPT of cave art, Carving and ornaments – why would they draw these things? Starter - Play a game drawing on whiteboard in style of cave drawings – partner guess what it was. Main – Provide chn with a list of locations, chn research cave art for the next session. Starter – In Groups of 4 – study cave art pictures (preprinted) and chn work out the message/meaning of the cave art on their paper – photocopied for books. Main - Chn draw their own ‘cave art’ telling a short message/story using wax crayons. ‘hunt’ food around the field and playground. Main – Chn write a short paragraph with labelled picture of how people caught their food. PSHE – Relationships – living in a community – intro - what makes a good friend? Circle time discussing. Use large sugar paper and draw around someone in the class – post it notes – what makes a good friend? Photos for topic books. fond evidence of tools – the first human to use a stone. Starter – Show images of stone age tools, how were they used? What were they used for? How were they made? What tools do we recognise that we may still use today? How have they changed/impacted the tools we have now? Chn work in groups of 4 to make predictions about pictures of stone age tools – what were they used for, what were they made from. Main – Chn work in mixed ability pairs to research stone age tools – from books and pre printed information. Chn order tools from earliest to latest – then write short bullet point facts about each tool. LAP – pre printed pictures different? Discuss in groups (possibly on sugar paper) Discuss habitats – what do animals need to survive – what kind of habitats would they live in? Activity – Use laptops to research stone age animals (link on paper planning) or printed information if laptops not working. Chn create a leaflet / poster / information powerpoint about a stone age animal in mixed ability pairs.
rather than drawing pictures. Topic – DT – Disucss what materials would have been avliable in the stone age – what could we have used to make a tool – make a short list on the board. children design their own stone age tool detailing what it would be made of and what it would be used for. 1st May 2017 Guided Reading – Stone age related guided reading groups. Topic – Stone Age Homes – discusses what is shelter? Why is shelter important? What do houses look like today? What are they made from? How are they different around the world? Picture prompt on whiteboard. Starter – Look at pictures of 4 houses – PPA RE – KH Planning Cave painting – research cave painting – is it similar to cave art? What it have been used for? Starter – chn use sand tray / mud tray to carousel and draw pictures using a stick – like in the stone age! Photo evidence for art books. Topic – History – Stone age food - reference back to last week – how did they catch their food in the stone age? How did they cook it? What did they eat? Who can remember a food chain? Starter – Discuss that we are going to be making a stone age menu. Look at some stone age food – particularly stewed fruit. Work in groups of 4 to create a stone age PE – Games Topic – Geography – Exploring the stone age village – Skara Brae. Show image of Skara Brae – What do you think this is? Starter – Use a large picture of SKara Brae – Chn write questions on postit notes that they want to learn. Watch youtube video (link in paper planning) - chn carosel around the tables with red pens – can they answer any of Science – animals – Food chains – discussing animals from the previous week . Chn create a large food chain (outdoors) in groups of 8, what animals would eat what? What would humans hunt? Would anyone hunt the other humans? Activity – chn create a food chain of animals in their books using the correct vocab – consumer, herbivore,
was so important – clips if possible. Chn create a newspaper report about the discovery of bronze! 15th May 2017 Guided Reading – Stone Age Based Guided Reading Topic – Geography – introduction to Stone Henge. Show image of Stone Henge – what is this? Has anyone seen it before? How long has it been there? Who could have built it? Starter – explain when the henge was built during the bronze age – around 5000 years ago – no one knows why it was built. Discuss what historians thought it was built for. ‘Movement of sun and moon, to creatr a special meeting place, for spititual worship. PPA RE – KH Planning Art – Stone Henge sketching – discussing using sketching pencils –what are the techniques – discuss how to use them properly. Chn sketch a drawing of the Henge. PSHE – Getting on and falling out – using an apple (prebruised) pass it round the circle and ask the chn to say something ‘mean’ to the apple – what does the apple look like on the inside? The same. Cut the apple open and show the chn the inside – what does it look like inside? Bruised. Discuss how words can hurt someone on the inside that doesn’t show. Main – Draw round someone in the class – discuss what makes a good friend – with examples – and write this inside the person. Science – Introduction to and soil. What Topic – Geography – Researching different UK Monuments located in different countries and cities. Using a map to locate key locations as a class – where have chn been – starter – use the large map outside (playground) and put their name tag on a place they have visited. Discuss what they saw in those locations – famous landmarks? Discuss landmarks in the uk and monuments special to the uk. Main – chn research a UK landmark and create a poster with bullet points about the landmark. PE – Cricket Science – Rocks and Soils - To understand that rocks are formed in 3 different ways. To devise comparative tests for rocks, record and evaluate observations and results. Hamilton Trust – Rocks and Soils – Lesson 2
Watch a clip on the stone henge – bbc learning zone. Main – Research information about the stone henge and find (possible) answers to three areas. Physical Appearance - What does Stone Henge look like now? What did it used to look like. Geographical location – where is Stonehenge? What is it like around Stonehenge? Spiritual significance – why was Stonehenge built, what do we think they did there? Chn write notes / sentences under these three headings. are rocks and soilsand what are they used for? Look at different rocks and soils and come up with investigatory questions about each one – phot evidence in books. Main – work together to group different rocks and soils – what questions could we used to group them? How could we differ between them? Hamilton Trust – Rocks and Soils – Lesson 1 22nd May 2017 Guided Reading – Bronze Age Related PPA RE – KH Planning Science – Rock investigation around the ground – Hamilton PE – Games Topic – Computing – Work in MAP to create PE – Cricket Science – Rocks and Soil – Introduction to
Topic – History – Bronze Age Tools – look at a video (youtube – link in paper planning). Starter – Look at images of new tools and weapons and ask chn to compare with those made of stone – show chn an image of stone axe and bronze axe – ask them to compare with their TP. Do you think it would be easier or harder to make a bronze axe? Would you need more or fewer resources. Art – Create a stone henge out of clay. Trust – Rocks and Soil – Lesson 3 a powerpoint on the differences between the stone age and the bronze age. fossils – Hamilton Trust – Rocks and Soil – Lesson 4