The Seasons - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Gaeilge
Aimsir
Weather in Ireland vs Abroad
Seasons - agus North, South, East, West
Weather Forecast daily - CULA 4
Laethanta Saoire
Art
Starry Night - Van gough
3d Flowers - Construction - spring Theme
Autumn Leaves stensil - make a large tree in the room
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Music
Thunderstorm - Body Percussion
Drama
Narrative Mime about weather report or storm
English
Poetry
Newspaper headline or article based on seasons or weather e.g. Storm Ophelia, heatwave etc.
Poem about the seasons and then students write their own
WINTER
Eadaí
Clothes you wear for different seasons
Teach verbs like Caill and Tóg
Get the children to close their eyes and take one item away
Ask cad a chaill me? or cad a thog me amach?
Bring in items for the beach related to eadaí
Make a comic about a piece of clothes they lost
Clothes you wear on your summer holidays
Winter holidays
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Winter Animals
Artic
Antarctica
Hibernation
Summer Season:
Act out coming off a plane in a hot place
Act out role pilot
Act out airhost
Act out airplane going through turbulance
Act out check in desk/ missing luggage/ delay
Flight of the Bees
Time Travel Machine
Class act out getting into a time travel machine ( table with a sheet over it crawl under table out the other side you move in time) cardboard box etc.
Act out packing for their trip back in time to summer, what clothes do you bring, why?
When they arrive in summer act out exploring what they might see/do during the summer
Children make a freeze frame before travelling, discuss the freeze before travelling back to classroom.
Create their own drama or narrative mime on their time travel machine story.
Tom Crean
Sketch the antartic and ship