Story Time: the Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Term / January - June / Oide / Mary Horgan / Rang / Junior Infants
Strands / Skills and Concept Development
Units / Myself / Story / My family /
/ Working as a Historian
Míonna / Strands / Strand Units / Content
January / Story /
Story Time: The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the 3 bears
- The teacher reads the story allowing the children to prompt the words in the story. The teacher then asks simple question to the children discussing the events in the story e.g. what did the first pig build his house from? Which was the strongest house? Why? etc
- Activity Time: after questioning time the children complete an activity in which they have to sequence the events in the story.
- Act out still images in sequence.
February / Story time: Jack and the beanstalk, Little red riding hood.
- Story is read,
- Children retell,
- Draw pictures of the story,
- Sequence the story in groups,
- Act out images from the story.
Make St Brigids crosses,
Colour a picture of her cloak.
March / Strand: Story
Strand Units: Stories / Strand Unit – Stories: St Patrick, Story of Easter.
Listen to, discuss, retell and record through pictures and other simple writing activities, some stories from the lives of people who have made a contribution to local and/or national life and to the lives of people in other countries in a variety of ways.
Discuss the chronology of events (beginning, middle, end) in a story.
Express or record stories through art work, drama, music, mime and movement and using information and communication technologies.
Display storyline pictures showing episodes in sequence.
Content will include:
Powerpointof St Patrick
St Patricks day art and crafts,
Sequencing stories chronologically using pictures, in groups and pairs.
Recognise that each story has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Discuss the storyline showing pictures in sequence.
Acting scenes of stories through mime and drama activities; freeze frames, hotseating, etc.
April / Strand: Story
Strand Units: Stories /
Long Ago & Now
- Discovery Time: The teacher brings in old objects and asks the children in-groups to guess what they were used for. The teacher then explains about each of them. The class then discusses things that they used long ago that are not used now e.g. wireless/ CD player
- Transport then and now; comparing and contrasting through PPT of images transport from the past.
- Activity Time: The children look at a sheet with vehicles from the past and now and each picture is discussed to show which one is no longer used. The children then colour the old things green and the new things yellow.
May /
- Toys then and now; comparing and contrasting through PPT images of toys from now and from the past.
- Activity Time: The children look at a sheetof toys from now and the past and each picture is discussed to show which one is no longer used. The children then colour the old things green and the new things yellow.
June /
The Elves and the Shoemaker
- Story Time: The teacher reads the story the ‘ The Elves and the Shoemaker’ allowing the children to prompt the words in the story. The teacher then asks simple question to the children discussing the events in the story e.g. what does a shoemaker do? What does he make the shoes from? What did the elves do to help him? etc
- Activity Time: After questioning time the children complete an activity in which they have to select the type of people that would wear the different types of shoes.
The Enormous Turnip
- Story Time: The teacher asks the children have they ever heard the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’. After the children’s responses the teacher asks a few children can they tell the rest of the class what happened in the story. The teacher then read the story with expression allowing the children to predict the next event.
- Questioning Time: After the story the teacher picks a child to be the farmer and the other children ask them questions in a ‘hotseating’ activity. The teacher then calls out the events of the story in reverse order and the children have to put it in the correct order of events.
- Activity Time: The teacher and the children now act out the pulling of the enormous turnip. The children then complete an activity on the lesson.
The hungry caterpillar
- Questioning Time: The teacher asks the children can they describe a caterpillar, what it looks like, what it eats, what it grows up into.
- Talking Time: The teacher now tells the children about the life cycle of the caterpillar and then reverses it’s stages for the children to spot the mistakes. E.g. it is a butterfly first and then it forms a cocoon.
- Story Time: The story of the hungry caterpillar is read and the teacher asks the children simple questions to assess their understanding. The children then complete an activity on the story
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