Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• make imaginative structures

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• make imaginative structures

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• make imaginative structures

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• make imaginative structures

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• make imaginative structures

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• explore and experiment with the properties and characteristics of materials in making structures
• make imaginative structures

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• experiment with more complex printmaking techniques
• make prints for functional uses (as well as for their own sake)
• use more complex print-making techniques to make theme-based or non-representational prints

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• engage in personal reading
• read aloud to share a text with an audience

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• choose to write for himself/herself only
• decide, after conferring with the teacher and others, who the audience for a piece of writing should be
• develop his/her ability to write using information technology 
• engage with the writing of one piece over a period
• give sequence to ideas and events in stories
• learn to revise and re-draft writing
• learn to use a wider range of punctuation marks with greater accuracy as part of the revision and editing process
• learn to use questions as a mechanism for expanding and developing a story
• learn to write with increasing grammatical accuracy through the process of revision and editing
• use a range of aids and strategies, including the use of approximate spelling, to improve his/her command of spelling
• write in a legible joined script with confidence and fluency
• write regularly, and gradually extend the period over which a writing effort is sustained

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• listen to, learn and recite rhymes, including nonsense rhymes

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• develop awareness of how he/she, as part of a group, helps to maintain focus in the dramatic action
• develop the ability to play in role as an integral part of the action
• experience how the use of space and objects can help to create the reality of the make-believe world

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• invent and perform pieces that show an increasing awareness and control of musical elements
• select from a wide variety of sound sources (voice, body percussion, untuned and tuned percussion, melodic instruments and technology) for a range of musical purposes

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• know how to treat people with dignity and respect

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• observe the effects of static electricity on everyday things in the environment

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• estimate the likelihood of occurrence of events; order on a scale from 0 to 100%, 0 to 1
• estimate the likelihood of occurrence of events

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• develop an understanding of subtraction as deducting, as complementing and as difference
• develop an understanding of subtraction as deducting, as complementing and as difference 0-20
• develop and recall mental strategies for subtraction 0-20
• develop and/or recall mental strategies for subtraction 0-20
• subtract numbers without renaming within 99

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• develop an understanding of multiplication as repeated addition and vice versa.
• develop an understanding of multiplication as repeated addition and vice versa
• develop and recall multiplication facts within 100
• develop and/or recall multiplication facts within 100
• multiply a one-digit or two-digit number by 0-10

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• read time in one-hour intervals

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• match equivalent and non-equivalent sets using one-to-one correspondence

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• combine sets of objects, totals to 10
• combine sets of objects, totals to 5
• develop an understanding of the conservation of number, 0-10
• develop an understanding of the conservation of number, 1-5
• explore the components of number, 1-10
• explore the components of number, 1-5
• read, write and order numerals, 0-10
• read, write and order numerals, 1-5
• solve simple oral and pictorial problems, 0-10
• use the symbols + and = to construct word sentences involving addition

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• match equivalent and non-equivalent sets using one-to-one correspondence

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events
• initiate and sustain a conversation on a particular topic

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• focus on the subject under discussion and sustain a conversation on it

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events
• initiate and sustain a conversation on a particular topic

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• count the number of objects in a set, 0-20

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• develop an understanding of subtraction as deducting, as complementing and as difference
• develop an understanding of subtraction as deducting, as complementing and as difference 0-20
• develop and recall mental strategies for subtraction 0-20
• develop and/or recall mental strategies for subtraction 0-20
• subtract numbers without renaming within 99

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• develop an understanding of multiplication as repeated addition and vice versa.
• develop an understanding of multiplication as repeated addition and vice versa
• develop and recall multiplication facts within 100
• develop and/or recall multiplication facts within 100
• multiply a one-digit or two-digit number by 0-10

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• read time in one-hour intervals

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• engage in personal reading
• read aloud to share a text with an audience

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• choose topics for writing after conferring with the teacher
• decide whether or not to re-draft a piece of writing
• write notes and messages to different audiences

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events
• initiate and sustain a conversation on a particular topic

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• focus on the subject under discussion and sustain a conversation on it

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• express in writing likes and dislikes about events and characters in stories and poems

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• express his/her reactions to particular experiences in writing
• write about favourite moments, characters and events in stories

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• become an increasingly independent reader
• continue to self-correct reading errors
• identify unfamiliar words by reference to word parts, prefixes and suffixes

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• clap the rhythms of poems and rhymes
• listen to, learn and tell riddles and jokes
• listen to, read, learn and recite a varied and appropriate repertoire of rhymes and poems

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• begin to develop a sense of belonging to local, county, national, European and global communities
• develop an awareness of the interdependence of these people and people in Ireland
• study some aspects of the environments and lives of people in one location in Europe and one location in another part of the world

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• become aware of his/her own culture and recognise traditions, festivals and celebrations that are unique to the locality, region or country
• begin to develop an awareness of the lives and culture of some people in the European Union

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• become aware of his/her own culture and recognise traditions, festivals and celebrations that are unique to the locality, region or country
• begin to develop an awareness of the lives and culture of some people in the European Union

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• become familiar with the origins and traditions associated with some common festivals in Ireland and other countries
• explore, discuss and record some of the ceremonies, stories, legends, poetry, music, dances and games associated with these feasts and festivals