PETNS Short Term Planning Templates Teacher: Aoife McGonigle Class: Birch Class (DLD) Month: April 2019

April
Language and Literacy SESE Mathematics and Numeracy
o Cursive handwriting; Free-Writing Science History Geography o Days of the week &
o First Steps Writing Genre: Report o Water pollution o Irish myths and o Water pollution today/tomorrow/yesterday
o Comprehension strategy: Questioning o Pollution legends o Preventing water o Place Value (TU & HTU); Games
o Diagraphs blends: br, cr experiment o Oisín and Tír na pollution o Number Work: Addition
o CVC and CCVC/CVCC words - filtration nÓg o Number Work: Subtraction
o Fry’s List sight words o 2D Shapes
o Rhyming families: short vowels o Symmetry
o PM Readers; CVC readers Theme o Angles/Corners
o Speaking & active listening skills
o Spelling – structured lists
SPHE
o Factual Picture-books: Water pollution
o YCDI: Persistence
o Conjunctions continued: or, for
- Giving Effort
o Vocab: Environment theme
- Determination
o Verbs: Pollute, clean, save, recycle
- Giving Up
o Poetry: Earth Day
- Story: ‘Stuck’ – Oliver Jeffers
o Oral Language: Environment theme
o Roots of Empathy
o Conversation Stations
o Talk Boost Programme
*Speech and Language Therapy w/SLT
Physical Education: Visual Arts Music Drama Learn Together
o Swimming Lessons o Symmetry paint o Song study ‘What o Charades o School Garden and Forest School
o Outdoor and Adventure and print a wonderful o Oisín and Tír na o Sounds in the Environment
- Following instructions o Bird Feeders World’ – vocab re nÓg o Planting watercress
- Locate objects/information Construction environment o Bird Hunt
- Collecting information o “Annie” Songs o Bird Feeders
 Tomorrow o Spring Clean
 Maybe o Earth Day
 Hard Knock Life

Contact Time: 2 weeks due to Spring Break Holidays from 15th – 26th April