A Day at the Country Show

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Explore a country show using our cross-curricular activities. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 5- to 7-year-olds, covering subjects including English, science and design and technology.

Lesson highlights:

  • Conduct a taste test on different types of apples
  • Measure how tall you are in hands
  • Learn how potatoes are grown
  • Find out about sheep shearing

Curriculum

England

Spoken Language

  • Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
  • Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary
  • Maintain attention and participate actively
in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesizing, imagining and exploring ideas

Writing

  • Develop positive attitudes towards and stamina
for writing by writing for different purposes

Science

  • Observe changes across the four seasons
  • Identify and name a variety of common animals including birds
  • Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals
  • Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made
  • Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants 

Mathematics

  • Measure and begin to record lengths and heights
  • Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction

History

  • Changes within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life

Physical Education

  • Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to use these in a range of activities

Art and Design

  • To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space 
Scotland

Spoken Language

  • I can show my understanding of what
I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions

Writing

  • I can describe and share my experiences and how they made me feel.

Science

  • I can distinguish between living and non living things. I can sort living things into groups and explain my decisions.
  • Through exploring properties and sources
of materials, I can choose appropriate materials to solve practical challenges.
  • I can help to design experiments to find out what plants need in order to grow and develop. I can observe and record my findings and from what I have learned I can grow healthy plants in school.

Mathematics

  • I can estimate how long or heavy an object is, or what amount it holds, using everyday things as a guide, then measure or weigh it using appropriate instruments and units

History

  • I can compare aspects of people’s daily lives in the past with my own by using historical evidence or the experience of recreating an historical setting

Physical Education

  • I am discovering ways that I can link actions and skills to create movement patterns and sequences. This has motivated me to practise and improve my skills to develop control and flow.
  • I am developing my movement skills through practice and energetic play

Art and Design

  • Inspired by a range of stimuli, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design

 

Wales

Spoken Language

  • Listen and respond appropriately and effectively with growing attention and concentration
  • Extend their vocabulary through activities that encourage their interest in words

Writing

  • Play with language, as a means of developing their interest in language

Science

  • Identify the effects the different seasons have on some animals and plants
  • Observe differences between animals and plants, different animals, and different plants in order to group them
  • Develop an awareness of, and be able to distinguish between, made and natural materials

Mathematics

  • I can estimate how long or heavy an object is, or what amount it holds, using everyday things as a guide, then measure or weigh it using appropriate instruments and units

History

  • Sequence events, routines and changes
  • Recognize the changes caused by time
  • Begin to identify differences between ways of life at different times

Physical Education

  • Being involved in physical activities that allow them to work as individuals, with a partner and in small groups, sharing ideas and helping each other to improve their work
  • Practicing different types of games play

Art and Design

  • Explore and experiment with a variety of techniques and materials 
Northern Ireland

Spoken Language

  • Express thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to personal experiences, imaginary situations, literature, media and curricular topics and activities
  • Present ideas and information with some structure and sequence
  • Devise and ask questions to find information in social situations and across the curriculum

Writing

  • Understand and use a range of vocabulary by investigating and experimenting with language

Science

  • Ways in which change occurs in the natural world
  • How place influences plant and animal life
  • Interdependence of people, plants, animals and place

Mathematics

  • Choose and use simple measuring instruments, reading and interpreting them with reasonable accuracy

History

  • How people and places have changed over time

Physical Education

  • Create, practise, remember and perform simple movement sequences
  • Develop the skills relevant to games, including running, stopping, jumping and skipping

Art and Design

  • Explore the visual elements of colour, tone, line, shape, form, space, texture and pattern to express ideas

 

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