KS1 Topic: HOUSES AND HOMES – same-coloured sessions are blocked DOWN a Theme

THEME 1
Homes in many contextsArt/Eng/Sci / THEME 2
Houses: then & now History/D & T / THEME 3
Houses: here & away Geog/D & T / THEME 4
Creature homes
Science
1 / The Hill and the Rock. Shared reading. Look at neighbourhood. / Inside our homes: now & then. Sort, classify & organise household items. / Travelling to school. Record journey. Poem: Walking to school. [2] / Shared reading of that pesky rat.Letter from a pet. What pets need. [2]
2 / Drawings of our homes. Discuss homes & describe diff features. / Planning & designing a room (1). Draw floor plan. Furniture then & now. / Paintings of our homes. Looking at our homes – noting small details. / Rats: writing descriptions/ labels. Identify main features. Label a rat.
3 / The Hill and the Rock (2). The rock’s story. What’s that noise? [2] / Make wallpaper, design a room (2). Explore diff paint techniques. / Types of houses in our locality. Noting features & materials. / Living on earth, sea or air. Make washes for land, sea, sky.
4 / House materials – making rubbings. Explore materials. / Design/make a shoebox room. Make a model room using own plans. / Agents describing homes. Writing own descriptions. / Study our own local environment.Look at local amenities. Express views.
5 / House facades – clay models. Look at building structures. / Poem: Houses – descriptive language. Write own versions. / Personal addresses. Reading and writing postcards. / Fieldwork looking for animals. Look for animals/evidence.
6 / Poem: Cat Next Door - neighbours. Write own lines. / Comparing new and old local houses. Field trip looking at buildings. / Walk around local area. Record observations of buildings. / About bats: Boris (AT). Retell story. Bat habitats/lives.
7 / The Day the Numbers Spoke. Poem. Glue painting shape homes. / Homes – rich and poor in the past. Effects of poverty on health. / Homes elsewhere in the world. Animated Facts. Compare with own locality. / Bat homes and baby bats. Research using web/non-fiction texts.
8 / Noah’s Ark & paired pictures. Role play. Create symmetrical watercolours. / Day in the life of a poor child in 1900. Compare with today. Comparative sentences. / What needs does a home fulfil? Shelter, water, warmth etc. / More about bats (AF). Discover and present more bat facts.
9 / Animal bedding & making nests. Study materials. Make bedding book. / How artists see homes – Klee. Abstract houses. Cold & warm colours. / Homes for hot and cold places.Use Animated fact. / Making a bat collage. Layered tissue paper background.
10 / Old Noah’s Arkark plates. Read & write poem.Make Noah’s Ark. / Day in the life of a rich child in 1900. Aspects of life. Role-play. / Three Little Pigs: Build houses. Study materials. / Owl Babies & all about owls. Write speech bubbles. Study owl babies.
11 / Noah’s Ark - floating and sinking. Which materials float? / Living in the Iron Age. How we know what life was like. / Planning junk model homes. Challenges in designing and creating. / Learn about barn owls. Similarity and diffs to people.
12 / River barges and houseboats. Life on canals and in Victorian times. / Intro to chronology: Iron Age on a timeline. Make personal timeline. / Making junk model homes. / Owl Babies & other creatures. Web research. Creatures in the locality.
13 / Traditional barge painting.Use enamels. Decorating in the past. / Build an Iron Age roundhouse. Study features. List features. / Homes in India: same/ different. Compare with own locality. / Our animal neighbours. Study animals in gardens (fox, mice, hedgehogs…).
14 / Pet homes: Big Fat Budgie. Look at needs of pet animals. / Build an Iron Age roundhouse (2). Construct model. / Living in India: dramatic role play. / Plan & design a model owl and nest. List materials needed. Draw a model.
15 / Fantasy pet home. Design own pet home. Look at pet animal needs. / Diary of an Iron Age child. Make own picture book. / Lowry study – wax-resist rubbings. Study Lowry, compare his pictures. / Make papier mâché owl & nest. Read/learn rhymes about owls.
16 / Fantasy homes in the world. Dragged paint pictures. / Cave painting – replicating this!Paint own cave painting. / Lowry-style terrace class-painting. / Complete & decorate model owl nest. Using a variety of materials.

Curriculum Areas

English: Black
Mathematics: Blue
Science: Orange / Humanities: Purple
Creative Arts: Pink
Technologies: Green

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Topic sessions planning sheet: Block title:

Day and time of session / Subjects covered / Key objectives / Session title/description / Resources including websites
Write day/time of session here. Because some sessions are long, you may want to write two times (e.g. Tues 1:30 – 3:00 and Wed: 11:00 – 12:00) / Write the subjects covered – highlight according to whether each is ‘skills’ or ‘content’ / Write/paste (from session-plans) the key objectives here – sometimes these are ‘skills-based’ (e.g. create pencil or charcoal drawings of old clocks…) and sometimes these are ‘content-based’ (e.g. put old clocks in order on a timeline). / Either write your own, very slightly expanded, session title that makes it clear what this session is basically about, or you can (if the school insists!) copy and paste the description from the word document of Themesession descriptions. / Write/paste ALL the resources you need here – you can copy and paste from the Hamilton Topic Resources document which is provided in WORD format).
You should highlight anything important about the session that you need to remember. E.g. ‘Ask some parents to help with this…’ or ‘Needs the computer room…’ Also highlight any texts required, e.g. needs Hamilton Animated Tale Time Machine Mark III.

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