PETNS Monthly Template: January Teacher: Shauna & Ronan Class: 3rd Month: January Language and Literacy SESE Mathematics and Numeracy Revision: Explanation / Questions and interviews Science History Geography Money ​ Explicit: Procedural / giving instructions and procedures • Brainstorm -what do I already know about money? -why is ​ History KWL chart on clothes (review at end of the topic) it important to understand money? examples in real-life; ​ ​ Oral Language: • Pair work: Write down on a post-it as many items of -what words do we use when we're dealing with money? list ● oral presentations SESE / weather forecast clothing as you can in 2 mins! vocabulary on board. ● Discussion; weather, news, relevant topics in class • Discuss all brainstormed items- what they are, part(s) of • Discuss the euro coin number line ● Stations the body they cover. • Name which coin has the highest/lowest value from a ● Discuss New Year/ Resolutions • Clothes worn on special occasions: when do you wear group of coins something special? link to L.T. cultural celebrations, e.g. veil, • Match pictures of coins to correct value in euro/cents Poems: Do I Look Mad?/ My Shoelace Blues/ Put on Your communion dress, head dress, etc. • Cut out coins and stick the correct amount into a piggy Coat / My Shirt • Name times we wear specific clothes: swim suit, wetsuit, bank ● Discuss the contents and images of the sports gear. • Brainstorm in groups -what can I buy for x amount? poems. • Name different types of clothes: leisure wear, uniform, • Set up a classroom shop ● Identifying rhyming words underwear, formal, etc. • Paying and giving change using least amount of coins ● Finding and defining new words in the • Examine personal photos: children bring in photos from • Play euro money bingo/ loop card game when they were younger. • Plan a birthday party or shopping list on a budget dictionary and drawing images to represent • Identify changes in clothes they wore then & now, fashion, Children calculate small shopping bills in the supermarket or new vocabulary. eg babygrow; styles, etc. shop ● Adding words to word wall - discuss the • Examine family photos - discuss clothes worn in the past by • Children pay for items and check correct change meaning and put into sentences. parents,grandparents. • Ask children to use exact coins when paying for something ● Link information found in poetry to things • Relate clothes worn to the activities people did every day • Encourage children to count money in their money learned in SESE through oral discussion. & what life was like. box/pocket money ● Draw a response to the poem • Relate clothes worn today to the activities people do in • Complete word problems relating to money from Planet them (designed for...) Maths text book, write into their copies • Weather: relate clothes worn to the temperature & Reading: climate Fractions ● Continued development of word wall, • Explore when it was worn, eg.- is it a special occassion or a •Fractions song regular day? -why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTce7f6KGE0 organising words into nouns, verbs, adjectives • Discuss what evidence a historian can gather about an era -Cutting the cake activity - halves, thirds, sixths, ninths, and adverbs. from the clothing. eighteenths ● Reading their own work, the work of others’ • View family photos of mine from 1950's Ireland & discuss -PM book ; equivalent fractions/ fraction number line and that of their project groups during difference with now: people had less amount of clothes, -Draw fraction wall presentations. took great care of special outfits, dressed up for a photo to -PM activities ● Reading websites and information books be taken • Cutting and dividing real objects: pizza/ chocolate bar during research time. -Class timeline on clothes & their development over time: • Cooking/baking – cut pizza, pour half the mixture, share ● Reading lots of examples of explanation and construct & discuss amounts • Heritage Week intro: brainstorm topic & vocab: how was • What time is it? Half past, quarter past or to? procedural texts ​ ​ life different long ago? How • How many examples of half & quarter can you find? Half hour/moon, half-time, half litre, PETNS Monthly Template: January Teacher: Shauna & Ronan Class: 3rd Month: January Guided Reading & Spelling; can we find out about life long ago? Where can we find half a kilo, half a kilometre, half a dozen, half-back, half ● Yellow Group; Level 23 PM book and clues? Who can we ask? board, half bottle, half brother/sister, ​ comprehension. List 3/4 • Explore newspapers, photos & artefacts to search for clues half door, half price, half-hearted, half landing, half light, ● Green Group; Level 27 PM books and about life long ago half measure, half term, half-yearly, ​ • State if an item is a primary or a secondary source halfway, halfway line, half length, half pay, half-century. comprehension. List 3/4 • View photo from 1950's Ireland & discuss differences with Quarter of an orange, first/second/ ● Orange Group; Level 15 PM books and ​ now (google images) third quarter, quarterback, quarterly, quarters (lodgings), comprehension. List 2. HFW list 6 (shopkeepers wore white coats, old Irish money, style of quarter note(crotchet), quarter tone, ● Red Group ; Level 5 PM books and ​ clothes worn & cars) quarter-hour, quarterdeck comprehension. HFW lists • View newspapers from the 1950's, review & discuss adverts (fur coats, clothing of the Decimals time, hoovers, Nivea cream & sun protection, different • Brainstorm use of decimals Writing: Explanation fashion-clothes & cars) • Deadly decimal game (see Planet Maths teachers manual) ● Revise the features of explanation writing & create • Explore artefacts, predict what they were used for and • Children make a list of all the places they find a decimal a poster for the wall to remind us of the features explain why point over the course of a week ● present children with lots of examples of the genre • Write about my favourite item in the mini-museum • Use a 100 square to introduce the idea of one tenth. (PDST website) (material it's made from, it's use, age, adjectives to describe Divide the 100 square into 10 rows, each ● Shared writing: children dictate and teacher writes it, draw picture, how is the modern version different?) of which will be one tenth of the whole an explanation linked to SESE (the water cycle) • Encourage children to bring in photos from when they • Division Bingo ● Independent writing: children choose what they were younger to continue • Look at the household meters: Does the display have a what to explain and write about Projects decimal point? Examine the milometer -work in groups and research an era of clothes using in the car: does it show 1 tenth of a kilometre (sometimes in Procedural chromebooks ( clothes from 20’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s) a different colour)? ● Direct teaching of the features of procedural -Questions: What did clothes from the time look like? What writing; goal, materials, method, evaluation materials were they made multiplication & division ​ ● Children make a list of procedures they already from? How did the clothes reflect what life was like then? ● continue to learn division tables -websites: Vintage Dancer, The People History, Fifties ● stations know ​ ● Create a class reminder poster including features Web, Retro Waste, Fashion History, Timetoast, Ask About ● word problems about tying our shoe laces (Shared writing) Ireland-Clothes our ● Create a class recipe (Shared writing) Grandparents Wore, Costume, Local Histories, Soft Schools ● Independent writing: How to dress myself -Discuss what evidence a historian can gather about an era ● How to ____ , the children choose the topic. from the clothing -present evidence found in groups -Make predictions as to the clothes of the future -Interview questions: orally prepare questions for an ● Writing goals for January ​ ​ ● writing down homework interview with a fashion designer from the given era in ● writing science experiments; prediction/ method / groups. results ● writing tasks during SPHE/ SESE / Gaeilge / Maths Geography • Name the four seasons & what happens in each one • Explain what clothes could be worn or weather expected in each season PETNS Monthly Template: January Teacher: Shauna & Ronan Class: 3rd Month: January • Talk about a given season for 30 seconds: how much can you say about it? • Vocabulary brainstorm in groups: how many different words can you think of relating to weather in 1 minute? Competition between the groups • Direct Teaching: Explicitly teach how Ireland is a maritime climate. What does this mean? • Find out what the weather forecast is for the week: online sources, newspaper, iphone • Present it using a map of Ireland- use the correct terminology when speaking about the forecast (Oral Language) • Record class weather chart over the course of the week • Introduce symbols for sun, wind, rain, heavy rain • Talk about a given season for 30 seconds: how much can you say about it? • Vocabulary brainstorm in groups: how many different words can you think of relating to weather in 1 minute? Competition between the groups • Discuss sayings relating to the weather: eg.red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning & see if they're true. Write sayings into SESE copy • Find out what the weather forecast is for the week: view online sources, newspaper, iphone & discuss what infographics and data shown mean • View RTE weather forecast on RTE player & discuss terminology & symbols used • Role- Play: In groups, present the weather forecast using a map of Ireland- use the correct terminology when speaking about the forecast (Oral Language) Science: Materials: • Recap on what we learned last week- make a comprehensive class list of all the materials we can that are used in clothing (suede, leather, polyester, acrylic, wool, cotton, velvet, etc.) • View & feel a range of different materials, cut it into sections, stick onto chart paper & write descriptions around it (properties, texture, use, colour, if they like it) PETNS Monthly Template: January Teacher: Shauna & Ronan Class: 3rd Month: January • Investigate which fabric is best to use for a raincoat.