The whole first lesson, as your class sees it. No sign-in needed.
Everything a teacher needs to teach SEE for Senior Infants this year.
The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.
Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 12 of the 12 outcomes for this class.
Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.
72 lessons in 6 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.
The first six weeks of a second year in school, starting again from where the child stands: what changes when a child moves up a class, the school on its own map, the natural and built things in two parts of the grounds, finding the way, the people who work near the school, and the languages a street like ours might hear. Autumn arrives in the grounds, the rain is followed from the roof, two old paintings show the farm work of late summer and autumn, and the first legend is Oisín's.
The middle of October to the end of November: birds that leave, stay or arrive, the trees of the grounds named by their leaves, the ground underfoot, a hedgehog's year, and darker evenings measured against the school's own sunrise and sunset. Halloween is set beside what a writer saw in 1783, and Diwali is met through a made-up family and the story it tells. A made-up granny's kitchen, the people who work at night, an old Irish story of a boy and four animals, a story from Germany and a children's festival in Japan complete it.
December to the middle of January. Day and night and the moon's changing shape are worked on the model of the sun, the Earth and the moon, and the shortest day is met in the school's own sunrise and sunset. Hanukkah, Christmas and St Stephen's Day, and three new years people in Ireland keep, are met as what people do. In January the class watches ice in three places, compares an evergreen with a bare tree, meets the workers who put a town right after a storm and what children do in January in Mongolia and in Australia, and hears how Setanta got his name.
The end of January to the middle of March. The class counts winter birds, compares the wind in two places, looks out to both sides of the school gate and counts the signs of spring, and meets lambing time and frogspawn. St Brigid's Day is set beside what a writer saw in 1889; Chinese New Year comes through families getting ready for it, and Eid through a made-up family. A fable from Greece, the places people in a town like ours gather, and a street long ago complete it.
The middle of March to the start of May. St Patrick's Day is set beside what a traveller wrote in 1681, and the young Patrick is met on Slemish; Easter, which moves with the moon, works in whichever week it lands; May Day is set beside what a writer saw in 1682. The class compares minibeasts in two places, counts the bees on a tree in blossom and asks somebody who works in the school about their day; it hears an old cuckoo rhyme, a story from the Philippines and the legend of St Kevin and the blackbird, meets three made-up families welcoming a new baby, and helps a made-up family find its way on the school's own map.
May and June. The Earth's year-long trip round the sun and the planets come first; a shadow is marked at the start and at the end of the time outside, sun and shade are compared, and a tree is set against its whole year. Children's lives in other countries come through kites in Botswana and Indonesia, Vesak in Sri Lanka, and a very wet place and a very dry one; summer work comes through two old paintings, the sun, the clouds and the wind through a story from India, and the longest day through the school's own sunrise and sunset and the bonfires of St John's Eve. The year ends on the class's own milestone: getting ready for First Class.
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