Hands-on classroom themed activity – Weather – What clothes to wear
I really like the activity set weather/what clothes to wear as I feel it is can be integrated very well across the curriculum. I am planning this lesson for a junior infant class. I would start the lesson by discussing weather and seasons. I will ask the children what type of weather do we have in Ireland. I will give each group a season to work on. They will have to discuss this season and, with help from myself and our support teacher, fill out a very simple and infant friendly mind map. They can draw pictures or write some small words if they can. Each group will share their mind map with the class and after every group has spoken we will ask the class if they have anything they could add to that mind map. Each group will then be asked to dress our class teddy. Using lots of different materials and perhaps even stuff from out junk art station the children will dress our class teddy for the season their group is working on. We can then check if the clothes are suitable for the weather of that season by checking the mind map again to see what weather that season. We can use a watering can to mimic the rain/ flashlight to mimic the sun/ etc to see if their clothes are suitable. We will fill in a weather chart all week and discuss on Friday which clothes would have suited teddy best this week. This lesson can be linked with SESE/Gaeilge/Aistear/Art.