For this module, I would use the lesson ideas for What Clothes to Wear (ESERO)/Investigating Children’s Coats (Curious Minds) in my own classroom.
The lesson plan suggests using the Colour the Seasons activity, but you could use pictures of clothes or actual clothes and put them into categories according to whichever season they might be worn. You could have a discussion about the type of material, how heavy the clothes item is? Would it keep you warm/dry/cool. Where you might wear the clothes item and why would you choose one item above another?
I really liked the What Clothes to Wear? activity. This involves the children choosing appropriate clothes for each season from the dress-up box and using teacher questioning to informally assess understanding. For example – Why do we wear fewer clothes in summer? Do you need to put your coat on to go outside in the winter? Why?
When teaching about the seasons you could link this to other curricular areas. The obvious one being Geography-Hot countries/Cold Countries. What animals would we find in each different environment.
Maths- Money and shopping- How much would you need to buy this coat for Winter/ What change would you get out of a set amount of money? Data-drawing graphs –How many people prefer winter/summer/spring/autumn? Ditterent clothes during different seasons
Music –Listening to ‘the Four Seasons’- Linkage to Art draw how the picture makes them feel/ Describe different emotions
PE – Playground games –If you are wearing blue you can cross the river, if you are wearing a jumper….etc
Gaeilge –An Aimsir and the new vocabulary to be learned about this topic.
Art – I have also linked this topic in with art lessons where the children divide a blank piece of paper into four sections and draw in all four seasons. I have found this great for discussions on the different colours that we associate with the four different seasons.