I have chosen hands-on classroom themed activities for this assignment. I haven chosen this as in September I will be stepping into the Junior Infant classroom, so I believe that hands-on activities is most suited to this age group.
Aistear is one of the main areas where I would choose to focus on the theme of weather. I would create one area for the children to focus on being a weather reporter. This would entail a background of a weather map and a microphone. I would use another area for art where children have to draw pictures based on. the clothing that they see suited to each weather forecast – e.g. raincoat for rain. I would also create an area of dress up where the children create their own play using clothing associated to summer/winter (sun hat, sunglasses, wool hat, scarf, gloves). I would create another station where the children have an activity based on weather – perhaps a colouring activity or join the dots of different weather scenarios.