- Lesson Plan Title: Grade R Life Skills: Exploring Colours (Artistic Activity)
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Materials Required: Coloured paper, child-safe scissors, non-toxic glue, and coloured markers.
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Learning Outcomes:
- Outcome1: Identify basic colours and associate them with their names.
- Outcome2: Demonstrate artistic expression through the creation of a basic art piece.
- Outcome3: Improve fine motor skills through tasks which involve cutting and gluing.
- Outcome4: Foster social skills by collaboratively sharing resources and working with peers.
- Key Vocabulary: Primary colours, blue, red, yellow, scissors, glue, safety.
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Link to Prior Knowledge: Learners have been taught to recognise common colours and to use art materials in a responsible and safe manner.
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Potential Hurdles and Solutions:
- Handling Scissors: Some learners may have difficulty using scissors correctly and safely. Preemptively model the safe handling of scissors and supervise their use throughout the activity.
- Maintaining Focus: If learners are easily distracted and struggle to concentrate on their individual work, consistently reinforce the importance of focusing on their projects by acknowledging individual effort and accomplishment.
- Introductory Activities (5 minutes): Begin by recapitulating the concept of primary colours. Have learners identify and name the colours they see in their surroundings.
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Main Activities (30 minutes):
- Introduce the art project, explaining that it entails making a collage by utilising various coloured papers.
- Model the process by cutting shapes from a coloured paper and adhering them to another.
- Guide learners through their own art creation, offering individual assistance where necessary and praising their accomplishments.
- Initiate an interactive conversation about the colours students chose for their project and the reasons behind their choices.
- Concluding Activities (5 minutes): Arrange a mini art exhibition, where learners exhibit their creations and discuss their art with the class, emphasising the colours they chose.
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Assessment and Checks for Comprehension: Monitor learners’ understanding through active observation during the art creation and through their explanations during the mini-exhibition.
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Accommodation Strategies:
- For learners experiencing difficulties, offer further guidance with scissor usage and provide simpler shapes for their collages.
- For more adept learners, motivate them to experiment with colour blending and suggest more intricate shapes for their art project.
- Pedagogical Notes:
- Continuously supervise learners to ensure safe handling of materials.
- Promote originality and creativity in their art creations.
- Reinforce the principles of sharing and respecting the work of others.
- Stay vigilant for learners with potential colour blindness and modify materials where necessary.
- Capitalise on opportunities to forge cross-curricular links: Colour and shape recognition can connect with Mathematics, while the sharing of resources promotes lessons from Social Sciences.