Creative Curriculum - Key Stage 1
Lois Johnson
Paperback
(Hopscotch, Sept. 1, 2011)
Creative Curriculum is flexible series of resources aimed at encouraging a more creative and cross-curricular approach to teaching. By putting a story at the centre of learning a stimulus is provided to a range of learning opportunities, thus increasing children's understanding and adding fun and enjoyment to the lesson. Teachers are provided with practical ways to incorporate the story in a range of cross-curricular activities. How High is the Sky in the Creative Curriculum series is aimed at KS1 children and contains a rhyming story about a caterpillar's quest to find an answer to his question. It is a story about self-confidence, change, growth and achievement. The book contains: fully illustrated story; units covering Literacy, Numeracy, Science, PSHE, Art and Design and Music, Dance and Drama Worksheets; planning sheets; a set of illustrations without text for the children to tell the story in their own words. The CD contains: a colour version of the story for use on the whiteboard; extension activities.