Summary

• Description:

  Download high-quality, editable Grade 1 Rationalized Creative Activities Term 3 Lesson Plans 2026 - Bookmark prepared in accordance with the Competency-Based Curriculum. The PDF version is also available upon your request. Designed as a comprehensive, classroom-ready MS Word document, this downloadable resource provides structured, step-by-step instructional guidance across 9 full weeks comprising 63 detailed lessons aligned with the Bookmark Creative Activities Grade 1 Teacher's Guide (pages 54–71) and Pupil's Book (pages 76–103).

  The lesson plans cover all prescribed strands and substrands for the term in a progressive sequence:

  • Performing and Display
    • Songs (Action Songs): Identifying age-appropriate action songs, observing demonstrations, imitating body movements, coordinating lyrics with physical gestures, and exploring song messages addressing health, personal hygiene, road safety, and community values.
    • Performance Techniques: Developing musical precision through accuracy of tune and pitch, steady rhythm, clarity of word pronunciation and enunciation, expressive hand/body gestures, facial expressions, and joyful unison performance for self-expression.
    • Modelling (Pinch Method): Identifying pinch-modelled articles, exploring and handling natural clay and plasticine, collecting and preparing materials, rolling clay balls, applying thumb pressing and wall-pinching techniques, creating functional pinch pots, adding surface textures using imprinting sticks, and organizing art exhibitions for peer feedback.
    • Percussion Musical Instruments: Identifying indigenous Kenyan percussion instruments (shakers, jingles, drums), exploring recycled and local materials (tins, plastic bottles, seeds, pebbles, wire), safely collecting and sorting resources, improvising and decorating bottle shakers, and mastering playing techniques including shaking, hitting/striking, and scraping.
  • Appreciation
    • Musical Sounds in the Environment: Keen aural discrimination of environmental sounds from nature (birds), domestic and wild animals, human vocalizations, and mechanical objects.
    • Elements of Music: Exploring pitch (high and low sounds), volume (loud and soft sounds), tempo/speed (fast and slow rhythms), vocal/physical sound imitation, and emotional mood in songs (contrasting happy and sad music).
  • Water Safety Awareness / Water Dangers / Montage
    • Recognizing household water points and outdoor water bodies, identifying dangers including drowning, slip hazards, and deep open wells, formulating safety rules, and collecting pictures from print media to compose an artistic water safety montage.

  Every individual lesson plan follows a standard 40-minute teaching structure divided into clear stages: a 5-minute introduction (warm-ups, rhymes, visual hooks), 25-minute lesson development organized into four numbered delivery steps, a 10-minute conclusion with review questions, practical extended activities for home learning, and dedicated space for teacher self-evaluation.

  Classroom learning integrates core CBC competencies such as communication and collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and imagination, self-efficacy, and digital literacy. Lessons utilize easily accessible resources, including digital audio-visual devices, flashcards, clay, recycled containers, seeds, drums, and picture charts, while reinforcing assessment through formative questioning, peer reviews, practical demonstrations, and exhibition displays.

• File Size:

  182.49 KB
• Length:

  103 pages
• Category:

  Lesson Plans
• Level:

  Grade 1
• Subject:

  Creative Activities
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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