More Arthurian Legends Activity ideas Contributed by Lynne Outhwaite

Lynne writes: 'Thanks for the brilliant ideas about using the legends of King Arthur as the focus for Literacy work. I have a Year 5 class and I've put all the 'Myths & Legends' aspects of the literacy strategy together to make a 1/2 term topic. My class loved it. I'm just about to finish the topic and my class were very enthusiatic about letting you know what a great time they had this term with this focus. We used the idea of guided sessions to produce a story as a group but in addition...

Literacy

•     wrote extended sentences using theme of King Arthur.......give the class a basic sentence i.e  Arthur picked up his sword, then roll dice & amend sentence as follows:

• wrote pure description paragraphs based on the knight - incorporating simile/metaphor
• wrote description paragraphs based on a knight approaching Camelot for the first time and used one of these as the opening paragraph in the story
• wrote and illustrated a bestiary

• area and perimeter work based upon the shields and flags of the knights. Draw flags and split into rectangles or compound shapes including 1/2 squares (SEN to have simple rectangles only). Give rectangle 'flags' and divide into 2 equal halves so each knight has a different design (on squared paper)
• area and perimeter investigation (Click here for the powerpoint of this investigation)

• water color pictures of the knights, Camelot etc
• large scale collage of a knight
• water colour of shield designs which were then covered with a OHP transparency with cm squares printed to estimate area of the different colours
• make a papier mache box to hold the treasure from a quest