Lesson video

Hi team, and welcome to your lesson this week with me, Mrs. Garrard.

Now, in today's lesson, we're going to think about things that we can see outside in winter.

Let's share my screen.

The first thing we're going to do is think about hot and cold colours.

Then we're going to go on a winter walk and look to see what we can see outside in winter.

And then we're going to draw a winter landscape.

For this lesson, you will need your looking eyes to look around you while you're walking and see what you can see outside in winter.

Because it's winter, you'll need to wear some warm clothes.

You'll need a coat.

Maybe it's cold enough that you'll need a hat and a scarf and gloves.

You'll need some things to do some creating at the end of our lesson.

You'll need some paper, some coloured pencils, some glitter, and some glue.

Pause the video now and gather the things that you'll need to do our creating.

Now you're back, we can get started with thinking about hot and cold colours.

So we have got a slide with some colours on there.

Some of the colours are hot colours, and some of the colours are cold.

And I need you to think about which section you would put them in.

Would they be hot colours or cold colours? Hot colours are colours that you would see on a hot summer's day.

So think about things like the sunshine.

What colour would sunshine be? What other hot things like fire, what colour would they be? And cold colours are colours that you would associate with a cold day, like, hmm, the colour of the mist, grey mist.

Maybe grey is a cold colour, and other colours that you would see on a cold day.

Have a go at sorting the colours.

Tell the screen where you think yellow will go.

Is it a hot colour or a cold colour? You think hot? Shall we go to the next slide and see if you were right? Oh, you were right.

Yellow and red and orange are all hot colours or warm colours, and blue and purple, or lilac, and grey are all cold colours.

So we'll need to remember those hot and cold colours when we're drawing our picture, because we're drawing a winter landscape, so we'll need to make sure that we use cold colours.

So, we'll have to go on our winter walk and have a think about things that you might see.

I've put some ideas together about what you might see if you go on a winter walk.

Look at the picture.

What do you notice about this picture? Tell the screen one thing that you notice.

Great, some brilliant ideas.

I noticed that this picture is misty.

Do you see the mist? It's grey.

It's misty.

I notice that the trees are bare.

There are no leaves on the trees.

And the colours that I notice are greys and blues.

That's what I notice about that picture.

Let's have a look at another one.

Hmm, this is something that you might see on a winter's walk.

I notice that there are some fallen leaves on the floor and they have ice on them.

It's so cold that there is ice on the leaves.

So in this picture, I notice ice and fallen leaves.

What colour do you notice in this picture? Tell the screen.

Oh yeah, you notice brown.

You notice brown.

The leaves are brown because they've fallen from the trees.

Let's have a look at this picture.

Tell me one thing that you notice.

Great job, you noticed it was snowing.

I noticed it was snowing too.

And I noticed that there's a river in the picture, and I noticed there are some ducks and geese on the river or the pond.

I'm not sure if it's a river or a pond.

But it's snowing, and I see that the picture is very white.

There are lots of whites.

There is lots of white in this picture.

This is the last picture.

This is something else that you might see outside in the wintertime.

There's a little robin.

A robin is a type of bird.

He has a red breast.

Do you see it? Can just see a little bit under his beak of his red breast.

He's a robin, and he's sitting on a bird feeder because birds find it really tricky to find food in the winter because the ground is often frozen and they can't get to the worms and little insects that they like to eat.

So in the winter, people often put bird feeders out with food on to help the birds through the winter.

So if you go on a walk in the winter, you might see some birds.

Maybe you'll see a robin.

You might see some other types of birds.

You might see a bird feeder.

And if it's really cold, you might see frost or icicles.

Now it's time for us to draw our winter picture.

We've thought about some things that we might see in the wintertime on a walk.

Now it's time for us to draw our picture.

Watch the video and listen carefully to my instructions.

So because the winter is cold, I'm using a cold colour.

Remember, we decided that blue was a cold colour, so I'm colouring all of my paper in blue so that the background of my picture is blue.

Now I'm going to add some grey.

That's another cold colour.

Adding some grey, a bit like the mist.

Do you remember in the picture that we saw there was some mist? This is what I'm trying to replicate.

My background is a bit misty.

Now I'm using a brown felt-tip pen to draw the trunk of a tree, because in winter you see bare trees.

So I'm going to draw a tree with lots of branches but no leaves on.

We know that in winter, the leaves have fallen from the trees and the trees are bare, so we'll just draw some branches.

This is just an idea of something that you could draw from your winter's walk.

If you saw something else that you'd like to draw, you could do that too.

Some branches on my tree.

Then I'm going to use a brown colouring pencil to colour the trunk and the branches of my tree.

I'm going to try really hard to stay in the lines.

And it's a bit tricky, but I'm going to try.

Now, in the winter, the grass is still green, but often it's a little bit muddy.

And often you'll see leaves on top of the grass where they've fallen from the trees.

So that's what I've tried to draw.

My drawing is not great, but I've drawn some grass and some fallen leaves.

Now, this is the best bit about this creation.

I'm going to put some glue on the branches of my tree, and then I'm going to sprinkle glitter on it so that it looks like the frost, so that it looks like frost on the tree and maybe even some icicles hanging down.

If it's a super cold day, you might get icicles.

But you often get frost in the winter.

Do you see how I'm shaking the glitter all over? I've put another piece of paper underneath my paper so that when I'm done, I can tip the excess glitter onto the second piece of paper and then I can put it back into the pot and it won't make a big mess all over my house.

I'm using silver glitter and some white glitter to make the frost.

Let's have a look at my finished picture.

There it is.

That's my winter tree with frost on the branches and maybe some icicles too.

I can see where the glue has dripped.

It does look a little bit like icicles.

But I haven't got a lot of details in my picture.

I've just got a bare tree.

I wonder what else I could add, hmm.

Maybe I could draw some of the birds that I saw out on my winter's walk.

Hmm, what else could I add? Have a think.

Tell the screen if you have an idea.

Wow, such amazing ideas.

Maybe I could go back to my picture and improve it.

Team, that's the end of our lesson today.

If you would like to share your work with us at Oak National, you can ask your parent or your carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational under the hashtag LearnwithOak.

And that way, we'll get to see your wonderful winter scenes.

I bet you could add more details than me.

Team, it's now time for me to go.

I'll see you again soon in our next lesson.

Bye for now.