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Class: Grade 1 Topic: Art – Main Forms and Proportions

Date: November 22nd, 2022 Lesson Duration: 20 minutes

Preparation Materials
Have video cued to completed acorn How To Draw a Cartoon Acorn video
Whiteboard marker

Learning Objectives
Students will practice how letter shapes can be used to create art.

General Learning Outcome: Specific Learning Outcomes:

Art: Students will learn the shapes of things as All shapes can be reduced to basic shapes.
well as develop decorative styles.

Overview of Lesson
A quick art lesson following an Arthub video for students to practice their art skills and see how the
letter U can be incorporated into an artistic piece.

Essential Question: How can letter shapes be used in art?

Reflection:
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Time The Story

N/A Exposition Differentiation Assessment
Hook

Setting

Table of Contents

Transition

25
Rising Action
min
10 min Action 1
Get students at desks and get students helpers to
hand out paper.
“We’ve got a fun Arthub video for you this
afternoon, make sure we keep our voices off so
everyone can hear the instructions. If you need me to
pause for more time put up a quiet hand.”
Who can see a letter in our acorn?

Relief

10 min Action 2
Pause the video on the completed acorn (without
colour) and ask students what colour they would
use on an acorn. Give them time to colour. Remind
about careful colouring.
If a student finishes, ask them what else they could
add? Where might you find an acorn?
-squirrel nest, on the ground below a tree, still
hanging from a tree?
-maybe draw a second acorn

Transition
Get ready for home time, put pictures on blue desk,
shoes off and standing behind desks.

N/A Denouement
Summary

Moral

Reviews

Transition
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Class: Grade 1 Topic: Art – Main Forms and Proportions

Date: December 13th, 2022 Lesson Duration: 20 minutes

Preparation Materials
Title on board How To Draw a Funny Can of Beans video
Whiteboard marker

Learning Objectives
Students will practice drawing a cylinder to create a can of beans.

General Learning Outcome: Specific Learning Outcomes:

Fine Arts – Art: Students will learn the shapes of Shapes can be depicted as organic or geometric.
things as well as develop decorative styles.
Mathematics: Students interpret shape in two and Familiar three-dimensional shapes include: cubes,
three dimensions. prisms, cylinders, spheres, pyramids, and cones.

Overview of Lesson
A quick art lesson following an Arthub video that covers one of the words form the -an phonic family
learned earlier in the day, as well as an introduction to the cylinder shape that will be covered later in
the year.

Essential Question: How can we draw one of our -an family words?
Reflection:
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Time The Story

Exposition
Differentiation Assessment
Hook

Setting

Table of Contents

Transition

20
Rising Action
min
10 min Action 1
Sit at your desks.
Hand out drawing books.
We learned about the -an family this morning, so I
thought we could practice drawing one of those
words – a can! Don’t worry, this isn’t a boring old
can though, this is a funny can of beans, we’ll have
to see how they make it funny.
Voices off while we’re drawing, if you need me to
pause the video so you can catch up, put a quiet
hand up.
Start video.

Relief

10 min Action 2
Give time to add colour, reminding about careful
colouring.
If a student finishes, ask them what else they could
add?
-bowl of beans
-whatever they like to eat with beans
-another can

Transition
Hand in drawing books, shoes on chair, standing
behind desks, ready for home time.

Denouement
Summary

Moral

Reviews

Transition