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
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.