Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Listen carefully to instructions to build correct sequences of three to four colour blocks.
- Show their understanding by correctly identifying a described shape, drawing it in the air or pointing on the board.
- Recognise cognates, finding shapes that they are asked for.
- Use please and thank you.
- Describe some of the shapes in their work using language of colour, size or shape.
- Correctly select a decoration described to them by its colour.
- Use software to produce artwork in the style of Matisse.
Suggested prior learning
Y3/4 (A): Unit 1: French greetings with puppets
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Lessons
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 1: Colours in French
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 2: Sizes and shapes in French
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 3: Using shapes like the French artist, Matisse
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 4: In the style of the French artist, Matisse
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 5: Inspired by Matisse’s French ‘Christmas Night’ window
Key skills
Year 3
- Asking and/or answering
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Key knowledge
- To know that a
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Key vocabulary
rouge – red
bleu – blue
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Resources
Unit resources
French
Knowledge organiser: French Y3 – Adjectives of colour, size and shape
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit "French adjectives of colour, size and shape".
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Vocabulary display: French adjectives of colour, size and shape
A display version of the key vocabulary from the French adjectives of colour, size and shape unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Art & design
‘Pupils should be taught:
- about great artists, architects and designers in history.’
Build on the learning
Y3/4 (A): Unit 3: Playground games – numbers and age
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