MONTH: January CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants
SESE / CONTENT/OBJECTIVES: / METHODOLOGIES / RESOURCESHISTORY Strand/s:
Story / Strand Unit/s:
Stories: discuss the chronology of events (beg., middle, end) in a story
JI The child should be enabled to display pictures showing daily activities in sequence
SI The child should be enabled to display pictures showing weekly weather patterns in sequence highlighting yesterday, today, tomorrow.
Junior Infants – Someone Bigger (kite story)
Senior Infants – Noah’s Ark
T / Story,
Listening and responding
Active Learning
Pictures and Photographs
Worksheets
Talk and Discussion / Story: Laura’s Star
What a Wondeful World: My Weather Book
Weather chart and symbols
GEOGRAPHY
Strand:
Natural Environment / Strand Unit/s:
Weather
JI
· Observe and discuss a variety of weather conditions and the suitability of different kinds of clothes for different weather conditions
· Recognise that some weather patterns are associated with seasonal change and distinguish Summer and Winter
SI
· Record weather observations on a weather chart
· Become aware of the effects of different weather conditions on human and plant life
· Observe, discuss and investigate water in the local environment – rainfall, puddles
· Local Natural Environment: the child should be enabled to become aware of natural environments in the immediate locality of the school / Environment
pictures/photographs
Problem solving
Active Learning
Guided Discovery
Co-operative learning
Theme based
Looking and responding
Environment: observation and curiosity
Fieldwork
Active learning
Discovery learning
Guided discovery approach
Hands on approach
Looking and responding / Weather chart and symbols (same symbols used throughout school)
Clothes box
Worksheets, copies
Poster 4: Day and Night
Poster 5: Weather “My Winter Book”
Pictures of waterfalls, sea side, rivers
Poetry – Water everywhere, water
Noah’s Ark
Magic Emerald – Oral language poster
SCIENCE Strand/s:
Materials
Energy and Forces / Strand Unit/s
Materials and Change
Explore the effects of water on a variety of materials
· JI Observe and describe materials when they are wet and dry (soil, paper)
· SI Identify some materials that are waterproof
Heat
JI Recognise the difference between hot and cold
SI Identify ways of keeping objects and substances warm and cold / Group work
Problem solving
Active learning
Concrete materials
Observation and curiosity
Co-operative learning / Poster 10: Materials
Variety of materials to explore effect of water
Soil, paper, tissues, umbrellas, wellies, raincoats
MONTH: February CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants
SESE / CONTENT/OBJECTIVES: / METHODOLOGIES / RESOURCESHISTORY
Myself and my family / Strand Unit/s:
Myself
JI
Compare photograps /real toysl and clothes used at different ages
SI
Investigate how clothes and toys have changed through time / Story
Drama
Talk and discussion / Topmarks
GEOGRAPHY
Strand:
Natural
Environments / Strand Unit/s:
The local natural environment
JI Observe, collect and investigate a variety of natural materials in the local environment eg mud, sand, pebbles
SI Investigate, compare and contrast natural and man made materials in the local environment / Oral presentations
Children’s ideas
Role play
Work sheet
Pictures and photographs
Vocabulary development
SCIENCE Strand/s:
Materials
Energy and Forces / Strand Unit/s
Materials and change
JI
Observe and investigate a range of familiar materials in the immediate environment ( link with materials found in shop items) noting the differences in colour, shape and texture
Senior Infants -Explore the effects of heating and cooling on everyday objects –make Pancakes
Forces
JI
Explore through informal activity with toys forces such as pushing and pulling
SI
Explore how the shape of objects can be changed by squashing, pulling and other forces / Topmarks.co.uk
MONTH: March CLASS: Junior/Senior Infants
SESE / CONTENT/OBJECTIVES: / METHODOLOGIES / RESOURCESHISTORY Strand/s:
Story / Strand Unit/s:
Stories: Listen to, discuss, retell and record through pictures and other simple writing activities some stories from the lives of others who made a contribution to national life in a variety of ways.
JI TV personalities
SI Local /national/international personalities/ celebrities / Artefacts
Looking and observing
Pictures and photographs
Talk and discussion
Story
Pair work
Evidence / Photos
Story of St. Patrick
Shamrock
Flag
GEOGRAPHY
Strand:
Human Environments / Strand Unit/s:
Living in the local community
JI
Become aware of and discuss play spaces at home, at school etc
SI
Suggest ways in which these places may be kept clean and safe
Make simple drawings of these places and journeys to and from these places / Role play
Written activity
Worksheets
Pictures and posters / Pictures
Posters
SCIENCE Strand/s:
Energy and Forces / Strand Unit/s: Magnetism and Electricity
JI and SI
Use magnets of different shapes and sizes in purposeful play to explore their effects on different materials
Investigate the fact that magnets attract certain materials / Observation and curiosity
Environment
Pictures
Worksheet
Evidence / Magnets