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The topic of clothes is an appropriate theme for children in first and second classes. It integrates very closely with a number of different subject areas. These are set out in a web format below and can be used for cross-curricular planning.

Clothes

the child should be enabled to:

Science

Materials

  • observe and investigate a range of clothes worn by children

  • identify, describe, compare and group the materials from which these clothes are made

  • Properties of materials

  • Plants and animals

  • recognise that plants and animals provide us with materials with which to make clothes, for example sheep, cows, cotton.

  • recognise that some materials are manufactured and that some are not.

History

Myself

  • explore, discuss and compare the clothes they wore when they were a baby, toddler etc

  • order clothing on a simple time-line

  • When my grandparents were young

  • examine, discuss and compare the type of clothes that their grandparents would have worn

  • Change and continuity in the local environment

  • explore and investigate where clothes were bought and produced in the past

English

  • Listening to, reading, reciting and writing stories, poems written on the theme of clothing
  • Writing letters about clothing worn from a holiday destination
  • Debates- e.g. should we have a school uniform?
  • Favourite clothes poems

Gaeilge

  • Labhairt: Mé Féin agus na héadaí is fearr liom
  • Cur síos a dhéanamh ar eadaí
  • Dathanna
  • Aimsir agus séasúir
  • Comhrá
  • Dearcadh agus tuairimí
  • Comhrá do shiopadóireacht

Visual Arts

  • Looking and responding to works of art featuring clothes

  • Experimenting with fabric and fibre.

  • Make observational drawings of jumpers etc.

  • 3D construction of an item of clothing

Drama

  • Dressing up
  • Guess the weather from the clothing
  • Going on holidays
  • shopping for clothes etc.

SPHE

  • Myself – clothes I like to wear; growing out of clothes;   taking care of new life;   clothes for special occasions
  • Myself and the Wider World – recognising people in our community by the clothes they wear; media and its influences on what we wear; respecting what children choose to wear; bullying; what clothing I need v. what clothing I want;   making decisions about what to wear

Mathematics

  • Classifying, counting, sorting and comparing items of clothing and fabrics according to colour, size, texture, etc.
  • Solve oral problems
  • Looking for shape and patterns in clothes
  • Shopping: for clothes, estimating cost of clothes, rounding prices to nearest €, €10, €100, converting into cents.
  • Measuring clothes
  • Represent and interpret data about clothes using pictograms, bar graphs, and pie charts.