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Seedlings Lessons  Plans

SCIENCE

STRAND - PLANTS 

  • Variety and characteristics of living things
  • Identify common trees and other plants.
  • Develop some awareness of plants from wider environments.
  • Recognise and describe the parts of some plants - root, leaf, stem, trunk, branch,
  • flower, petal etc.
  • Recognise that trees are plants.
  • Group and sort plants into plants we eat and plants we don't eat.

Processes of life

  • Appreciate that plants have essential needs for growth.
  • Explore through the growing of seeds, the needs of plants for water and heat.
  • Design, make or adapt a suitable container for growing seeds.
  • Investigate how plants respond to light.
  • Understand that seasonal changes occur in living things.
  • Become familiar with the lifecycles of common plants.

ENGLISH

STRAND - RECEPTIVENESS TO LANGUAGE

  • Listen to a story or description and respond to it.
  • Hear, repeat and elaborate words, phrases and sentences modelled by the teacher.
  • Developing cognitive abilities through oral language
  • Listen to a story or narrative and ask questions about it.
  • Focus on descriptive detail and begin to be explicit in relation to people, places, times, colours, processes, events, colour, shape, size etc.
  • Developing emotional and imaginative life through oral language
  • Listen to, learn and retell a rich variety of stories, rhymes and songs.
  • Respond through discussion to stories, rhymes and songs heard and learned.

SPHE

STRAND - TAKING CARE OF MY BODY


Food and nutrition

  • Become aware of the importance of food for growth and development.
  • Explore food preferences and their role in a balanced diet.
  • Discuss and explore some qualities and categories of food.
  • Realise the importance of good hygiene in relation to food preparation.
  • Environmental care
  • Appreciate the environment and realise that each individual has a community and individual responsibility for protecting and caring for the environment (i.e. in this lesson, the classroom).

ART

STRAND - MAKING CONSTRUCTIONS 

  • Look at, investigate and talk about spatial arrangements and balance in collections of objects.
  • Explore and experiment with the properties and characteristics of materials in making structures.
  • Grouping, balancing and building with components that allow free play.
  • Discovering the tallest, widest, lowest parts of the arrangement.

STRAND – PAINT AND COLOUR

  • Discover colour in the visual environment to help develop sensitivity to colour.
  • Discover colour, pattern and rhythm in colourful objects.
  • Discover the relationship between how things feel and how they look.

METHODOLOGIES
The methodologies used will include:

  • Discovery learning
  • Teacher guided learning
  • Poetry reading
  • Talk and discussion
  • Interpreting through art (drawing).
  • SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
  • Skills developed will include:

Working scientifically and imaginatively
Imagining – what is possible in an imaginary world and in the ‘scientific’ world
Questioning, predicting, sorting and classifying, investigating and experimenting, recording and communicating.
ASSESSMENT

  • Teacher observation.
  • Teacher designed tasks (carrying out, recording results of experiment).
  • Oral response in discussion.

THE CALENDAR
Fill in the children’s birthdays and write in the various ‘Special Days’.

DISCUSSION

  • How many seasons are there?
  • What are their names?
  • The characteristics of each season – what season has most sunlight, is coldest, has Christmas in it, has Halloween in it, has Easter etc.
  • What season are we in now?
  • What season comes next?
  • What season is your birthday in?