COLOUR - THE

LITTLE RED HEN

 MATHEMATICS.
LANGUAGE ARTS.
1. Old MacDonald had a farm, number.
1. Identify and Label colour groups
2. Concepts positioning
2. Wall story - label. Characters and happenings.
3. Shape - types and names.
3. Recipe - use structure for an innovation.

4. Word Study - adjectives for character type, bread

and structures.

5. Poetry - printed verse and own

SOCIAL STUDIES
THEME

Colour

MUSIC

I can sing a Rainbow - words

- beats
- notation SCIENCE

Brown Cow

ART AND CRAFT

Painting Circuit Stained Glass Windows
Value of Colour Australian Flag
Colour Equations P.E. HEALTH

Main Idea 3

1. Food groups
ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES. 2. Functions of food.
3. Relationship of food and age and
lifestyle.
4. Digestive process
 LANGUAGE PLANNING OVERVIEW YEAR:
LANGUAGE UNIT / THEME
PURPOSE
Describing Colour - The little Red Hen and activities
Explaining
Requesting
Informing
Retelling
Socialising Reviewing 1. More activities
COMMENTS ON for
UNITS
SPOKEN the lower grades
Listening
GENRESIntroductionDiscussionExplanations
Composing Speaking
CommentariesLecturesBook reportsRadio
2. Middle to upper
Observing have trouble
commercialsInquireBrief reportShort with the
Moving
storyShort playsRadio playWRITTENof
features & skill
Reading language
GENRESPicture / CaptionObservation
3.
/
Writing
CommentRecountNarrativeProceduresReports
Viewing
ExplanationsExpositionVerseTransactionDesc
Shaping
ription 4.

INTERACTING
SITUATIONS 5.
Child / Teacher
Child / Child 6.
Visitors
Aides
Parents 7.

CELEBRATING 8.
Publishing
Sharing
Performing
Displaying
 LANGUAGE PLANNING SHEET

ORAL COMMUNICATION VOCABULARY WRITING

SENTENCE
1. Re - tell the story FORMS 1. Descriptions LITERATURE
- adjectives and synonyms. READING
1. Write (label) colour words.
HANDWRITING
Little
1.
2. Modernise old to
Order a recipe sentence
record structures. 2. Character Webs 1.
2. Read the book
Wall story and walland
- characters story.
happenings
Red
See program
3. Discussion - how and why is co - 3. Types of Bread Hen 2.
3. Read
Recipepoem
reconstruction and innovation
operation important.
3.
4. Recognise all verse
Poetry - own colour words
4. Tape story
4. Innovated story
SOCIAL SKILLS ATTITUDES
1. Peer tutoring

2. Co - operation

3. Acceptance of another’s ideas

 Lesson Teaching Strategy Resource Evaluation
One The Little Red Hen The CHN
Read the Story and discuss Re-read Story should be
the story together. able to:
Teacher questions are Hens only Red?
Brainstorm Paper
Children draw a picture eg. fire truck Identify
apple specific

Peer tutoring to spell the word F. Cards colour type

Label and present on wall.

Two Children in groups - Blue, Yellow Balloons Label the

Brainstorm pictures by
Children draw a picture (eg) Sun using spelling
Blueberries Paper skills.
Spell cards
Display F. Cards

Three Re -read the story together Story

Children discuss character types and
sentence structure.
Define adjectives are describing words define
Children in 2 groups describing
words.

One word for each F Cards of old Animal bubbles Change

animal (eg) mad sentence which sentence
Add synonyms need to be modern F Cards structure

Four Teacher displays wall story Wall story

Develop a verbal story Verbalise
Label characters and happenings a story.
Record on tape Tape
Read the book. Compare the Contrast compare
contrast.

Five Children in 2 groups

 Lesson Teaching Strategy Resources Evaluation

CHN label the Two story Cards Adopt

“Vat 1” cards innovations Yellow A known
CHN label the and blue hen Paper structure
Hens words Recall a
Read the structure.
wall story

Six CHN in 2 groups

and seven

CHN use the Continue working Own story write their

Wall story on Story stencils own story
to complete innovations to
the word publish and share Innovations take on
bubbles in their idea through
story to a publish
story

Eight Discuss and what was the Hen making..

to make something we need.... extract
Define recipe Recipe the main
Use story structure to write a ideas.
recipe
Compare and contrast with a books paper
recipe

Nine Make bread Ingredients use the

Ask questions like, who’ll get Utensils printed
form
the...

Ten Class story - innovation

The Little Red Teacher said... Paper recall a
‘Yes, I will’ said .... series of
events.
Lesson Teaching strategy Resource Evaluation
Eleven CHD illustrate and publish class compete
innovation a book.

Twelve Revise story and bread

Our bread is Damper, other breads Wrappers Identify
are ....... List. Bread type
Display Bread Wrappers. Label F. Cards
Taste test and discuss. List Bread
descriptive words tastes

Thirteen CHN invent their own type of invent

bread and make an advertisement Card and sell
to sell the bread an item

Fourteen Revise and read ALL displays read the

and work story
read their
own stories

Fifteen Display day

Purpose: to explain how something is made

Role: children

Relationship: children and teacher

Mode: written and spoken

Medium: book and demonstration

Recipe

(Procedural)
INSTRUCTIONS

SOCIAL FUNCTION

To tell people how to do or how to make something.

TEXTUAL FEATURES - WRITTEN TEXT

GENERIC STRUCTURE - a sequence of action to be followed and consists of

Goal - name, heading or diagram
Materials - listed in order of use
Method - steps sequenced to complete the task

VOCABULARY - generalised participants referring to a whole class of things

(ingredients, pets) as well as specific ones (eggs, goldfish)

COHESION - many actions verbs (put, twist, shake, hold)

liking words to do with time (first, then, next)
tense is timeless

PARAGRAPHING - use of headings, labels, diagrams and numbered steps.

WOMBAT
STEW
RECIPE

YOU WILL NEED

* 1 Large pot
* water
* wombat
* blobs of mud
* crunchy flies
* lots of gumnuts
* finest feathers
* creepy crawlies
* one roaring fire

Combine all of these ingredients, except for the wombat into a large
pot and stir gradually.
 SCIENCE

KNOWLEDGE THINKING SKILLS ATTITUDES

Observing the variety of colours
How to mix colours
classifying colours
identify the primary colours

name the primary colours

The children should be able to identify

the primary colours, hues and how to mix
and classify colours.
MAIN IDEA I
The primary colours and their hues

ACADEMIC SKILLS
MAIN IDEA II SOCIAL SKILLS
New colours are produced when Communicate their inferences and
colours are mixed. knowledge
Working in a group
MAIN IDEA III
A Art Area: Painting

R Activity: A Painting Circuit Straw blowing, spray, bubble,

splatter, string, cotton bud

T Materials: Newspaper, White paper, straws, toothbrushes, cups, detergents,

squirrel containers, string, cotton buds, margarine containers, paint.

Theme:

P 1. Teacher explains watch activity using the activity cards

Lesson: 2. Children revise
3. In groups rotate around each activity (approx 10mins)

L Display / Use Room

Integration

A
Evaluation: 1. Listening skills
2. Group work skills
3. Creativity.

N
S
S traw blowing

What you need:

drinking straw
paper
ink or runny paint

What to do:

1. Using the straw, drop a few

colours onto your page in a
variety of places.

2. Holding the straw approximately

1 cm from the page, blow through
the straw in the direction you want
the paint to go.

3. Allow this to dry flat.

C otton bud painting

What you will need:

cotton buds
paint
paper

What to do:

1. Decide on a design which is suitable

for your page.

2. Dip the cotton bud into the paint and

draw with it as you would with a pencil.

3. Make sure you keep your cotton buds

separate in colours.
Spray Painting
1. Cut out your shape out of paper.

2. Lay this on a larger, blank page.

3. Now hold the spray bottle and squirt, all over the page until you are pleased with
the coverage.

4. Now lift up the shape and expose your pattern.

Bubble Pictures
1. Using a straw, blow into the container
until bubbles rise about 3 cm over the edge.

2. When the bubbles begin to fall over

the side, stop blowing and roll your paper gently
over the top.

3. Continue in this manner with as many colours

as you like and lay flat to dry so as not to burst the
bubbles.
S patter work

What you need:

Old toothbrushes
paint
paper

What to do:

1. Cut your shape out of paper.

2. Lay this on a larger, blank page.

3. Load your toothbrush with paint.

4. Now flick the paint all over the page

until you are pleased with the coverage.

5. This can also be done with a spray - can.

6. Now lift up the shape and expose your pattern.

A Art Area:
Textiles
R Activity: Paper Weaving - a square a paper weaving used in an innovative way

T Large paper square, thin coloured paper strips.

Materials:
Glue. Larger paper square.

P
Theme:

L Lesson: 1.
2.
Teacher asks children to move under desk / over desk. Chant under / over.
Give out materials - step by step follow
3. After first 2 strips complete on own.
4. When finished glue onto paper and decorate.

A Integration: Display / Use Select 10

N Evaluation: Ability to follow directions.

Colours used for effect
S Type of decoration used.
A Art Area: Printing

R Activity: A Printing Circuit Foam - pencil a picture, roll over paint and print
Sponge - Cut out holes, Leaf Object Vegies

T Materials: Paper, paint, trays, paint, foam trays, rollers, sponges, leaves, buckets, objects and vegetables.

Theme:

P
Lesson: 1. Teacher explains the circuit, movement, signals used. Revise

L 2. Children try to explain the activities. Revise

3. Cucullate

Room hangings
Display / use

A Integration:

N Children’s Behaviour
Evaluation:
Listen to discussion.
S
Bread Wrappers
 Bread

White
Bread

Pocket
 Bread

Milti - grain
Bread

Fruit
Loaf

Brown
Bread
Bread
 Rolls

Bread
Crumbs
Game
1. Place the cards, at random, in the pockets.

2. Put a pile of coloured tokens in a container.

3. Each player needs a marker.

4. First player spins the spinner and moves the number of spaces shown.

5. If he lands on a square with a card in it, he reads aloud the contents of the card. He carries out the
instruction on the card.

6. If he lands on a blank square he simply passes the spinner to the next player.

7. Second and other players continue in this way.

8. At the end of the game players count the number of tokens they have.

The game may be extended by having the

players go along the track more than once.
A goal of a certain number of tokens
could be set.
You and the You helped the
lazy duck swam little red hen
on the pond. eat the bread.
Put back one Take three tokens
token.

You helped the For finding You and the For sleeping
little red hen the wheat have lazy cat slept in in the sun,
eat the bread. another turn. the sun. miss one turn.
Take three tokens Put back one token.
For helping the
little red hen, You helped the The little red hen
have another turn. little red hen will not let you
cut the wheat eat the bread. Put
Take one token. back two tokens.

You helped the You helped the

little red hen little red hen
take the flour do the work in
to the mill. the house. Take
Take three tokens. one token.

You did not help

the little red
hen bake the
bread.
Put back two
tokens.
FELT STORY
WALL STORY & CARDS
 The
Little Red
Hen

it do it
Cat

Duck Goose
 Not I

Cat Dog

Pig Hen
 Not I

Not I

Not I Not I