Activity 8: Design your own Sun Resources


Square sheets of paper Black wax crayons Pastels Drawing ink Small paintbrushes Water bottles


Remediation


Encourage your learners to use simple shapes to create their design ie squares, circles, triangles. Keep reminding them that they need to repeat the shape


Extension


Encourage your learner to use more than one shape to create a pattern, and to use related shapes ie shapes within shapes


Week 1: Creative Arts: Performing Arts Activity 9 Echo across the kloof


Focus: Creative games and skills: Warming up the voice: using songs, singing vowels, rhymes and tongue twisters; Interactive storytelling activities: listen and respond to partners, telling stories in pairs on accumulation stories, echo stories Time: 1 hour


1. Explain what an echo is. 2. Let the learners warm up their voices by copying you: go through all the vowel sounds, making a very short sound and stretching your mouth to exaggerate the sounds, for example EEE with a wide smile and open mouth. After all the vowels, make a puffy “p” and “t” sound, pressing the air out of your mouth when you make it. Make ten p’s and t’s.


2. Call four learners to the front of the class and divide them into two pairs. The fi rst pair must imagine that they are lost in a mountainous area and calling across a deep kloof to two of their friends on the other side. The friends reply with an echo of what they have heard. The calls are: “We need water!” “We need food!” “Call for help!” They can make up a melody with these four sentences, but sing it as call-and-response with each sentence repeated.


3. Now they can add a footbeat or stamp in time to the song. Then they can work out a clapping rhythm, also in a call-and-response pattern.


Resources


Large sheets (A2) of white paper Wax crayons Drawing ink Cardboard Scissors Pastels


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Week 2: Creative Arts: Visual Arts Activity 10: Design a tablecloth


Focus: Create in 2D: Create patterns using geometric shapes; talk about rhythm and repetition; talk about cool and warm colours


Time: 1 hour + 1 hour


LB p. 6


Focus: Create in 2D: Create patterns using geometric shapes; talk about rhythm and repetition; talk about cool and warm colours


1. Discuss why the Sun is important (why we need it to live). 2. Teach your learners a pattern is a shape that is repeated. Refer that to Learner’s Book page 6. They will be using geometric shapes to create their pattern. Explain to your learners that they will be creating a radiating pattern (a pattern that starts in the middle of a circle and grows outwards, like the Sun).


3. Hand out sheets of paper. Ask your learners to start with a small shape in the middle of their page. They then choose another shape and repeat it around the fi rst shape. The shapes should touch each other. The pattern will grow toward the edges from the middle shape.


4. Once the page is almost full, your learners can add a fi nal circle and create rays for the Sun.


5. Discuss the difference between hot and cool colours. Hand out the pastels. Ask your learners to choose any hot colours to add colour to their pattern.


6. This exercise can be completed entirely with pastel, or when about half of the patterns have been completed with pastel, you can hand out the drawing inks and small brushes and your learners can fi ll in the rest of the shapes with ink. The drawing inks should also be hot colours.


Time: 1 hour


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