MONTH: April CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants

MONTH: April CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants

MONTH: April CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants

SESE / CONTENT/OBJECTIVES: / METHODOLOGIES / RESOURCES
HISTORY Strand/s:
Story / Strand Unit/s: Stories
Listen to, discuss, retell and record through pictures
Junior Infants:
Senior Infants: Look what blew into the Zoo / Story
Guest speaker
Artefacts
Pictures and photographs
Written activity
Listening and responding / Books
GEOGRAPHY
Strand:
Environmental awareness and care / Strand Unit/s:
JI
Living in the Local Community: Discuss the work of the farmer and vet in the countryside nearby and become aware of the places they work Caring for my locality
SI
Observe discuss and appreciate the attributes of the local environment- beauty and diversity of plants and animals in a variety of habitats- appreciate that people share the environment with plant and animal life- develop a sense of responsibility for taking care of and enhancing the environment / Concrete materials
Environment/ Field work
Hands on
Group work
Active learning
Investigative approach / What a Wonderful World – poster 7
Materials outside
Worksheets
SCIENCE Strand/s:
Living Things
Properties / Strand Unit/s:
New life in Spring
Plants and Animals
develop an awareness of new life and birth in Spring – birds, animals, trees
Observe discuss and identify a variety of plants and animals in different habitats
JI The Daffodil
sort and group living things into sets, farm animals, pets, wild aninals
SI The thrush
  • Recognise and identify the external parts of living things – parts of a bird: beak, wing etc.
/ Hands on
Observation and curiosity
Worksheet / Worksheet – match mother to baby
Bird’s nest
Spring flowers
Environment
RSE manual
Story: Emma’s lamb

MONTH: May CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants

SESE / CONTENT/OBJECTIVES: / METHODOLOGIES / RESOURCES
HISTORY
Strand: My Family / JI
Become aware of and identify members of the family
Explore and discuss how family members care for each other
SI
Discuss developments in the life of the family and things which have stayed the same eg living in the same home, getting a new car
GEOGRAPHY
Strand:
Human
Environments / Strand Unit/s: Living in the local community
Homes: the child should be enabled to
JI
  • Recognise that people live in homes
  • Describe areas within the home
  • Associate activities with areas within/outside the home
  • Make simple drawing of home and map of bedroom
SI
  • Acquire some awareness of different types of homes
  • Make simple drawing of homes immediate surroundings and journeys to and from home
  • Begin to appreciate the need for shelter and for a family
  • Make simple drawing immediate surroundings and journeys to and from home a map of house
/ Field work
Environment
Pictures and photographs
Evidence
Looking and responding
Investigative approach / Worksheets
Blank paper for mapping
School grounds
Environment
Play mat and toy cars
Poster 7: Homes
Dolls House
Video: The 3 Little Pigs
Construction materials e.g. Lego, blocks etc.
Story: Let’s build a house
SCIENCE Strand/s:
Materials / Strand Unit
Forces
Investigate how forces act on objects
  • Through experimenting with different materials
  • Group objects that will float and sink
  • Push objects into water
/ Active learning
Concrete materials
Observation and curiosity
Group work
Co-operative learning
Hands on
Looking and responding / RSE manual
Bath worksheet
Poster of body
Magnet packs
Worksheets
Floating and sinking pack
Prim – Ed – Primary Science (Jun. and Snr. Infants)

MONTH: June CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants

SESE / CONTENT/OBJECTIVES: / METHODOLOGIES / RESOURCES
HISTORY Strand/s:
Story / Strand Unit/s: Stories
Discuss the chronology of events in a story
Theme: Holidays/ Airport
JI:Express or record stories through art work, drama, music, mime and movement and/or information and communication technologies
SI:Display storyline pictures showing episodes in sequence / Story
Drama
Listening and responding
GEOGRAPHY
Strand:
Human Environments / Strand Unit: People and Places
  • Develop an awareness of people living in other areas
  • Become aware of some links between school and people in other places – friends, relatives living in other places, places and people I visit on holidays
/ Active learning
Environment
Guided discovery
Field work
Co-operative learning
SCIENCE Strand/s:
Living Things / Strand Unit/s:
Summer
  • Observe, discuss and identify the butterfly, daisy and a variety of minibeasts under a log
  • Recognise and identify the external parts of a daisy(JI) and rose (SI) – flower, leaf, stem, root
  • Observe growth and change in some living things
  • Become aware that plants and animals undergo seasonal change in appearance and behaviour
/ Field work
Environment
Looking and observing
Group work
Observation and curiosity
Theme based
Talk and discussion