Danny’s Sick Trick
It’s boring, boring, BORING! Danny does NOT want to visit Auntie Bessie: she makes horrible dinners. How can he get out of it? Easy, peasy! Get sick, of course! What will happen to Danny next? This book by Brianóg Brady-Dawson is aimed at younger pupils. These documents for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the book as…
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Danny and Baby Do It All
Danny Brown HATES dolls. All they do is laugh and cry and wet just like his baby sister, Susie. So why does Danny want Susie’s Baby Do-It-All? This can only mean more TROUBLE for poor Danny! This book by Brianóg Brady-Dawson is aimed at younger pupils. This document for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the book…
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Conor’s Cowboy Suit
When Conor’s parents give him a present of a cowboy suit he wants to wear it all the time. At school Conor is teased about his cowboy outfit, but he doesn’t care. Then the other children in his class think it’s great fun and they want to dress up too. So their teacher decides that…
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Barry’s New Bed
Your first real bed is a big adventure – but a little scary too! This book by Una Leavy is aimed at younger pupils. This document for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the book as a cross-curricular resource in the First Class classroom. (.pdf file 48KB) Download File This resource has been made available to Seomra…
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Bad Hair Day
Finn wants to be cool. But what can he do about his wild, frizzy hair? The other children tease him and call him names. So Finn decides to do something drastic. He collects all his mum’s hair products and mixes them up into a potion. But the potion singes his hair and it all falls…
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Amy’s Wonderful Nest
Amy, a little robin, is alone and has to fend for herself. She decides to build a nest, but she doesn’t know how! Amy sets out to find out– with strange results. Her home is an amazing collection of objects, full of interest and surprises. This book by Gordon Snell is aimed at younger pupils. This document for the…
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The Romanian Builder
Joe had so many questions for the new builder: Which tool was the most important? What if you were afraid of heights? How do you put scaffolding together? He is really disappointed when he finds out that Radu doesn’t speak any English. Now he will never find out about building – or will he? A…
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Olanna’s Big Day
There’s great excitement when the school band is chosen to march in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Olanna practises really hard on her tin whistle. At last the big day arrives and they line up with the stilt-walkers, the bagpipers, the dancing leprechauns. Then disaster strikes. But Olanna – and her granny back in Nigeria…
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I Won’t Go to China
Poor Chang-ming! He has been picked for the school team but his family will be in China then, visiting his grandma. It’s not fair. ‘I won’t go to China,’ he decides. But what about Grandma? And isn’t a visit to China the most exciting thing ever? Especially when it’s Chinese new year? Chang-ming doesn’t think…
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Classics for Children
This week’s RTE Guide is giving away a free Classics for Children CD with each copy purchased. The CD contains 22 classic tunes which are suitable for use in the primary school classroom. Composers such as Debussy, Saint Saens, Kodaly, Bizet, Strauss and Haydn are, amongst others, represented on the CD. The tracks may be played for children in the given order or may be grouped according to common themes such as dances, marches, animal tracks etc. The RTE Lyric FM website contains resources to accompany each of the tracks on the CD.
The three strands of the Primary school music curriculum are embraced in the musical activities accompanying the notes for each track. These strands are Listening and Responding, Performing and Composing. The children’s activities reinforce the nine musical elements upon which the music curriculum is based, namely beat, rhythm, pitch, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and style.
All of these resources may be accessed through the RTE Lyric FM website HERE>>>>