Topic 1 Unit 1 What we need to live Core concepts and skills


Beginning Knowledge and Personal and Social Wellbeing


• Different types of food – for growth, energy, health • Water – why we need water, sources of water we use • Air – clean air


• Sunlight – include protection from the Sun


Creative Arts: Visual Arts Create in 2D


• Paint pictures of self with others in action (running, jumping, dancing, etc) and talk about primary and secondary colours, cool and warm colours, shape and line • Create patterns using geometric shapes; talk about rhythm and repetition; talk about cool and warm colours


Creative Arts: Performing Arts


Creative games and skills • Warming up the voice: using songs, singing vowels, rhymes and tongue twisters • Interactive storytelling activities: listen and respond appropriately to partners, telling stories in pairs, accumulation stories and echo stories


Physical Education Co-ordination


• Throwing beanbags to a partner Rhythm


• Rope skipping Balance • Work in pairs facing one another with legs stretched out and feet touching, holding hands, pull and push forwards and backwards soles of feet together • Repeat standing up using hands to push against one another with feet flat on the ground


Locomotor


• Play an indigenous game, for example Upuca Perceptual motor


• Throwing and hitting balls in pairs Introduction


In this topic, the learners will find out about what need to live – food, water, air and sunlight. They will talk about different types of food and what they do. They will discuss water sources and the importance of water. The learners will conduct an experiment on air. They will discuss the importance of the Sun and protection from the Sun. In Visual Arts, the learners will create patterns and draw a picture of the body in


action using warm and cool colours. In Physical Education, the learners will play skipping games, share indigenous


games and do balancing and breathing exercises. Time has been allowed for consolidating skills, free play and classroom routines.


Term 1, Topic 1, Unit 1, What we need to live


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