The topic of clothes is a very appropriate theme for children in first and second classes to explore. It integrates very closely with a number of different subject areas:
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 eg: water resistance.
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.
Geography
Living in the local community
- become aware of and identify where clothes are bought and produced in the local environment.
- identify professions and origin of people based on their clothes
Weather
- discuss the suitability of different clothes for different weather conditions
Planet Earth in space
- recognise the difference between day and night and associate different clothes with day and night.
English
- Listening to, reading, reciting and writing stories, poems
- The language of clothes
- Debates.
Gaeilge
- Cur síos a dhéanamh ar eadaí
- Nuacht m.sh. "Tá brógaí nua agam"
- Lipéidí le haghaidh eadaí sa seomra ranga
- Pictiúir a tharraingt bunaithe ar eadaí
- Éisteacht agus leanúint treoracha m.sh. "Cuir dath gorm ar an ngúna".
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
- Dramatising issues pertaining to clothes e.g. peer pressure, shopping for clothes etc.
SPHE
Myself
- clothes I like to wear
- developing skills in dressing
- how families take care and support each other
- how to care of my body
- 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
- peer pressure and clothes
- what I need versus what 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 €1, €10, €100, converting into cents
- Measuring clothes
- Represent and interpret data about clothes using pictograms, bar graphs, pie charts.