2012 Curriculum

Year 1 - My Olympic friends: "Feeling Continental" ( The Olympic Rings)

Key Skills I can identify the continents I understand that continents are made up of countries; I can name a country in each continent; I can locate my county of origin on a world map and say which continent it is in; I understand the symbol of the Olympic Rings; I can share ideas about weather around the world;

• Create a large scale (if not accurate) map of the world on the hall floor. Children
  play port-starboard type game, moving from continent to continent when the
  continent’s name is called out;

Activities

• Identifying the continents on a world map;
• Labelling countries on a world map;
• Matching game – weather to country, weather to clothing;
  
• Write a sentence about a country and the weather;
  
• Write about the Olympic Rings symbol;
  

• World map class display showing all the children’s country of origins and the
  different types of weather;
• Sentences written by the children about the country;
• Display explaining the significance of the Olympic Rings;
  

- World Maps | Country profiles |