Activities to

accompany the
CLIL poster
It’s 5 o’clock! (Math) My day (Health
Ask each child to draw a circle with the numbers and Math)
1–12 around it to represent a clock face. Ask them
to use colored pencils. Ask the children to get a Give each child a piece of paper with a table of two
pencil and an eraser. Divide the class into pairs. One columns and five rows. Ask them to write five times
child draws a time on their clock. The other says the of day in the left column and draw five activities they
correct time. They take turns. do at those times in the right column. You could make
this activity even more challenging by encouraging
This could also be done as a class game. Draw a the children to write these activities if you have a
clock face on the board. Divide the class into two stronger class, for example, 7:00 I wake up.
teams. Draw a time on the clock face. Team One
shouts out the time, It’s two forty-five! If they get it
correct their team wins one point. Now it’s the other
team’s turn. Which team will be the winner? Sing it, dance it! (Art)
Ask the class to think of an English song that they
all know. For example, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle,
The senses (Science) Twinkle Little Star etc. Sing the song through once
together as a class. Then, get the class to come up
Bring a selection of realia or flashcards to class that
with actions for each part of the song. For example:
represent things we can taste, hear, smell, see etc.
For example, an orange (taste) and music (hearing). Itsy Bitsy spider children wiggle their fingers
Review the senses in English with the class, pointing in front of their faces like
to the body parts that are used with each: see/eyes, spider’s legs
hear/ears, touch/hands, taste/mouth, and smell/
Climbed up the children interlink their fingers
nose. Place flashcards of these body parts, or draw
water spout… to climb their hands upwards…
them, on the board at the front of the class.
Ask the children to shout out the sense as you show Once all of the actions have been chosen, sing your
them the objects or flashcards you brought to class. chosen song right through with the actions.
They may shout out two or more senses, as we often
see a lot of objects that we also smell or taste. This
categorisation task also develops children’s critical
thinking skills.

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