Lesson Plan: Grade R Life Skills – Art activity

  1. Lesson Plan Title: Grade R Life Skills: Exploring Colours (Artistic Activity)

  2. Materials Required: Coloured paper, child-safe scissors, non-toxic glue, and coloured markers.

  3. 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.
  4. Key Vocabulary: Primary colours, blue, red, yellow, scissors, glue, safety.

  5. Link to Prior Knowledge: Learners have been taught to recognise common colours and to use art materials in a responsible and safe manner.

  6. 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.
  7. Introductory Activities (5 minutes): Begin by recapitulating the concept of primary colours. Have learners identify and name the colours they see in their surroundings.

  8. 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.
  9. 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.

  10. Assessment and Checks for Comprehension: Monitor learners’ understanding through active observation during the art creation and through their explanations during the mini-exhibition.

  11. 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.
  12. 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.