Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

Junior Infants Room 2: Human Rights Month/Math

This week is human rights month. In room 2, the children are beginning to discuss this topic at an age appropriate level. This week, the children started their discussion on human rights by comparing wants and needs.

Initially, the children were asked to identify the things they would bring with them on a holiday. As you can see from the picture below, mostly toys and pets were mentioned.

 

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However, when the children were told that they could only bring one or two things with them, they began to discuss which things were more important than others.

Finally, the children were invited to participate in a classroom survey during which they would each decide which one of three things they really needed to take on holiday. They were asked to choose between clothes, their pet, or a suitcase.

SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURESMost of the children chose to bring clothes, and moved away from the need to bring their pets and toys. It was so wonderful to see the progression in their ideas from the beginning to the end of the lesson, and how well they started to distinguish between wants and needs. This lesson also allowed us to integrate our learning with maths, where we are focusing on data.