Sukkot-P4

CELEBRATIONS. FIRST STAGE P3. SUKKOT
 * **LEARNING OUTCOMES** || **SUGGESTED PUPIL ACTIVITIES** || **SUGGESTED RESOURCES** || **ASSESSMENT** || **CURRICULAR LINKS** ||
 * . || Use an atlas to locate where deserts are to be found in the world. Talk about what they know about deserts and what grows there. Listen to the story 'Shelters in the Desert'. Participate in recall and sequencing of the story. Discuss what the Jewish people did to make sure everyone had something to eat in the desert. || Atlas, Large World Map. The Story 'Shelters in the Desert' (photocopied) Scholastic Book-'Bright Ideas Festivals' pg 10. || Questioning-understanding of the importance of water to life. Observation-wksheet-ability to plan and design a Sukkot. || ES-People in Place. Language. Science. Mapping. Technology. PSD ||
 * I am able to appreciate how important water is to sustain life. I can use my technology skills to plan and create a Sukkah || Consider what is needed to grow things in the desert. Investigate when the rain falls in the desert. Plan and design a 'Sukkah' using wksheet for criteria. Create a model of a 'Sukkah'. || Wksheet 'Sukkah' design pg 26. Shoe boxes, coloured paper and card, scissors, paint, glue, thread, leaves and straw ||  ||   ||
 * I can express informed personal opinions about the importance of the 'harvest' festival Sukkot. I am becoming more aware that festivals are celebrations of symbolic significance to believers. || Compare the school's own harvest festival to that of Sukkot ||  ||   ||   ||