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

March
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 o Vikings o Water Cycle today/tomorrow/yesterday
o Comprehension strategy: Summarizing Experiments - Origins o Rainfall o Place Value (TU & HTU); Games
& Questioning - dissolving - Clothes o Rivers o Number Work: Addition
o Diagraphs blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl - mixing liquids - Homes o Water pollution o Number Work: Subtraction
o CVC and CCVC/CVCC words - filtration - Food o Data
o Fry’s List sight words - Weaponry *Tree Week o Capacity
o Rhyming families: short vowels *Engineers Week - Writing – Runes *Water Week o 2D Shapes
o PM Readers; CVC readers *Tree Week - Transport - o Symmetry
o Speaking & active listening skills *Water Week Longships o Angles/Corners
o Spelling – structured lists
o Novel: The Legend of Spud Murphy Theme
o Picture-books: The snail & the whale and
Commotion in the ocean SPHE
o Conjunctions continued: next; then o YCDI: Getting Along
o Have/Has and Had - Taking turns
o Vocab: Water theme - Tolerance
o Verbs: Wash, Swim, Splash, Pour o Roots of Empathy
o Poetry: Row, Row, Row your Boat; o Water Safety
Water; Water, Water, Everywhere - Hazards
o Oral Language: Water theme - Awareness of risks
o Conversation Stations - Link with swimming
o Talk Boost Programme
*Book Week
*Speech and Language Therapy w/SLT
Physical Education: Visual Arts Music Drama Learn Together
o PAWS water safety lessons o Tree Week Tree o ‘Rain’ - Perpetuum Viking Raid o Naming Ceremonies
o Swimming Lessons Rubbings Jazzile - On board ship - Role of water
o Outdoor and Adventure o St Patricks Day o Row, Row, Row, - Attack monastery o Celebrations - St Patrick’s Day, Mother’s
- Travelling o Wave Painting - Your Boat Day; Equinox
- Directions Katsushika o Water Cycle Song
*Water Week
Hokusai o My Bonnie Lies
o Viking Helmet & Over the Ocean
Shield o Roth Mór an tSaoil
PETNS Short Term Planning Templates Teacher: Aoife McGonigle Class: Birch Class (DLD) Month: March 2019