September
Strands: Drawing;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit:
Differentiation: by learning
Clay Painting
objectives, outcome, grouping, pace,
Looking and Responding:
Wriggly, smudgy, gritty, very light, very dark, crayons, soft pencils,
chalks, textured papers
Exploring the mark-making possibilities of computer drawing tools .
JI
Paint hedgehog
SI
Drawing of my family
Clay Owl
Resources:
Visual Arts
October
Strands: Print;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit
Differentiation: by learning
Strand Units/Lessons:
JI
Colour wheel
Make a spiders body from egg cartons using pipe cleaners for
legs
Resources:
Linkage and Integration:
SI
Visual Arts
November
Resources:
JI
SI
Construct your own scarecrow using fabric and fibre for his
clothes
Visual Arts
Strands: Drawing;
Print;
Clay;
Construction;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Looking and Responding:
Differentiation: by learning
Strands: Print, paint and colour
Strand Units/Lessons:
JI
cotton
Resources:
SI
Visual Arts
January
Assessment: Teacher
Resources:
SI
Visual Arts
February
Strands: Construction;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
JI
SI
CM
Strand Unit:
Looking and Responding:
The child should be enabled to
Look at, investigate and talk about spatial
arrangements and balance in collections of objects
and in photographs of natural and built structures
Dolls house, toy buildings, pop-up structures, birds
nests, model farms, simple furniture in the room,
cutlery trays
Strand construction
Looking and Responding
Strand Units
Look at and talk about structures that are easily
accessible and close at hand, at visually stimulating
structures and at a range of common artefacts
A public building, farm buildings
Deciding how many pieces were used to make a
table, a swing, a seesaw
Linkage and Integration:
Drawing: developing awareness of space through
drawing
Clay: discovering a sense of depth in space through
forming clay
Drama: making an imaginative play structure, using
space and objects.
Differentiation: by
learning objectives,
outcome, grouping, pace,
teaching style, resource,
task, support.
Assessment: Teacher
observation; Teacher
designed tasks and tests;
Work samples, portfolios
and projects; Curriculum
profiles; Diagnostic tests and
Standardised tests.
Resources:
Visual Arts
March
Strands: Clay;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Strand Unit
Differentiation: by learning
JI
card
JI+SI-Easter card
JI+SI-Paint eggs
SI
Assessment: Teacher
observation; Teacher designed tasks
and tests; Work samples, portfolios
and projects; Curriculum profiles;
Diagnostic tests and Standardised
tests.
Resources:
Visual Arts
April
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and
rhythm/space
CM
JI
Strand Unit
Looking and Responding:
Differentiation: by learning
objectives, outcome, grouping,
pace, teaching style, resource, task,
support.
Assessment: Teacher
Linkage and Integration:
SI
Resources:
Strands:
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and
rhythm/space
Strands: Painting
Strand Units/Lessons:
JI
Summer frieze
SI
Differentiation: by learning
CM
Strand Unit
Looking and Responding:
Assessment: Teacher
Resources:
Summer frieze
Visual Arts
June
Junior/Senior Infants
Strands:
Strands: Drawing;
Print;
Clay;
Construction;
Concepts & Skills Development: An awareness of line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/ pattern and rhythm/space
CM Looking and Responding:
Differentiation: by
learning objectives, outcome,
grouping, pace, teaching style,
resource, task, support.
Strand Units/Lessons:
JI
SI
Assessment: Teacher
observation; Teacher designed
tasks and tests; Work samples,
portfolios and projects;
Curriculum profiles;
Diagnostic tests and
Standardised tests.
Resources:
Summer Flowers
Arts Days