Ms. O’Halloran 19/20

Dear Junior Infants,

Well done on finishing your first year in BIG SCHOOL!!! We met you as small boys and girls on the 29^th August last year and today the 26^th of June you finish Junior Infants. We have enjoyed every minute of teaching you over the past year. You have been amazing.

It has been a very different and strange end to your first year in school. It wasn’t the year we ever thought would happen but we made the most of it. We did it together.

We haven’t seen you in 15 weeks and this has been the hardest part. We miss teaching you, listening to your stories, playing games and having fun. We are so proud of all the hard work you have been doing at home with your parents. It has not been easy but you always tried your best even when times were hard and the sun was shining.

To all your parents, the biggest thank you for all your support throughout the year. The support, communication and thanks we have received from you over lockdown is really appreciated.

We look forward to seeing you all when we return to school.

Have a great summer boys and girls!😊

Ms. Healy & Ms. O’Halloran.

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Monday 22nd – Friday 26th June

Junior Infants

Good Morning,

I hope everybody had a lovely weekend. This is our last week of school. Well done to all the boys and girls and parents who have worked so hard over the past few months.

This week we will not be posting any academic work to be completed. Children have been working so hard since we closed so this week we would like you to enjoy our virtual sports activities. Have fun and enjoy your last week of school.

We will post a goodbye message on Friday for our favourite small people.

Virtual Sports Activity:

Monday – Running

Today was due to be the date of our annual 5K race so today try to get out there for a walk/run and share your experience on the school’s Facebook page and by e-mail to me!

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MONDAY 15^th – FRIDAY 19^th JUNE

Good Morning,

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Two weeks remaining in the school year. As always, do not put yourself under pressure to complete all of the assigned work. Have a great week!😊

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will finish reading our book The Big Box.

The e-book The Big Box can be accessed online – www.folensonline.com. There are no new words in this book so children should be able to read this book with parental supervision. This will be a great resource to revise the readers we have completed to date.

Monday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 9

Tuesday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 10 & 11

Wednesday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 12 & 13

Thursday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 14 & 15

Friday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 16

Please go through all words with your child before reading each page. Practice sounding out the word, saying the word, putting the word in a sentence, Does the word have a capital letter?, Is it a plural? etc.

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book THE BIG BOX.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will REVISE our TRICKY WORDS.

are	all	you	your	come
some	said	here	there	they

Tricky words need repetition and constant reinforcement to help children remember them.

Practice putting them into sentences orally, ensure they understand the meaning of the words.
Encourage your child to write out the tricky words.

MATHS

This week we will continue to work on Money.

PLANET MATHS BOOK

MONDAY – Colour – Pg 124
TUESDAY – Colour – Pg 125
WEDNESDAY – Shopping – Pg 126 & 127
THURSDAY – Colour – Pg 128
FRIDAY – SMALL PLANET MATHS BOOK – Complete a few pages

PRE-READING ACTIVITY BOOK (WHITE COVER)

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MONDAY 8^th – FRIDAY 12^th JUNE

Good Morning,

Hope everybody had a lovely weekend. Children can complete assigned work in their schoolbooks again this week where possible. Additional material to schoolbooks will have to be printed off.

As the end of the school year is approaching we will begin to reduce the workload being posted on a weekly basis. Children have worked so hard in very difficult circumstances since March. Well done to all the boys and girls and their parents.

As always, do not put yourself under pressure to complete all of the assigned work. Have a great week!😊

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will continue to begin to read our NEW book The Big Box.

READING VIDEO – THE BIG BOX!

Monday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 1 & 2

Tuesday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 3 & 4

Wednesday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 5

Thursday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 6 & 7

Friday – THE BIG BOX – Pg 8

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book THE BIG BOX.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will REVISE with our TRICKY WORDS.

I	the	he	she	me
we	be	was	to	do

Tricky words need repetition and constant reinforcement to help children remember them.

Practice putting them into sentences orally, ensure they understand the meaning of the words.
Encourage your child to write out the tricky words.

Phonics Activity Sheets 1-21

Phonics Activity Sheets 1 – 21

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE WORKSHEETS 19, 20 & 21 THIS WEEK

Read or sound out the words
Find the picture that matches to the word
Cut and Paste the picture
Colour the picture

MATHS

This week we will continue to work on Number & Money.

PLANET MATHS BOOK

MONDAY – Add – Pg 118
TUESDAY – Add – Pg 119
WEDNESDAY – Add – Pg 120
THURSDAY – Add – Pg 121
FRIDAY – MONEY – Pg 122 & 123
SMALL PLANET MATHS BOOK – Complete a few pages

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTIONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

THIS WEEK WE WILL CONTINUE WRITING OUR NEWS – TWO SENTENCES THIS WEEK

Please use lined paper. A copybook would be best so children could keep their writing together and see an improvement.

Please use the videos where possible to ensure letter formation is correct.

Please try your best to help children form their letters correctly. It will be difficult for children to get the sizing of their letters correct so please help them to stay between the lines where possible.

Each day we will write the same sentence changing the day of the week AND a sentence about Summer (see below).

Practice writing each sentence 3 times.

Draw a picture of your news!

News – Monday

Today is Monday

It is June.

News – Tuesday

Today is Tuesday

It is June.

News – Wednesday

Today is Wednesday

It is June.

News – Thursday

Today is Thursday

It is June.

News – Friday.

Today is Friday

It is June.

We would love if you could us a picture of their news at the end of the week or whenever suitable so we can see how the children are doing.

PRE-READING ACTIVITY BOOK (WHITE COVER)

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FRIDAY 5TH JUNE

Good Morning,

Happy Friday Junior Infants. Hope everybody has a lovely weekend. We have made a video to help correct your work this week.😊

JUNIOR INFANTS

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THURSDAY 4^th JUNE

Good Morning,

Hope everybody is having a lovely week. This week we will finish our Grow in Love. Well done boys and girls!😊

GROW IN LOVE

VIDEO

Junior Infants

Summer – Pg 66

Prayers

Prayers

This week we will learn Prayer to Guardian Angel.

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TUESDAY 2^nd – FRIDAY 5^th JUNE

Good Morning,

Hope everybody had a lovely bank holiday weekend. Children can complete assigned works in their schoolbooks again this week where possible. Additional material to schoolbooks will have to be printed off.

As always, do not put yourself under pressure to complete all of the assigned work. Have a great week!😊

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will continue to read our NEW book LITTLE ZACK.

The e-book Finn Jumps In can be accessed online – www.folensonline.com. There are no new words in this book so children should be able to read this book with parental supervision. This will be a great resource to revise the readers we have completed to date.

READING VIDEO

Tuesday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 11

Wednesday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 12

Thursday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 13

Friday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 14

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book LITTLE ZACK.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will CONTINUE with our TRICKY WORDS.

some

said

here

there

they

Tricky words need repetition and constant reinforcement to help children remember them.

Practice putting them into sentences orally, ensure they understand the meaning of the words.
Encourage your child to write out the tricky words.

Phonics Activity Sheets 1-21

Phonics Activity Sheets 1 – 21

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE WORKSHEETS 16, 17 & 18 THIS WEEK

Read or sound out the words
Find the picture that matches to the word
Cut and Paste the picture
Colour the picture

Word List – Group 1,2 & 3 words

Group 1, 2 & 3

Practice reading and writing the word list

Twinkl

Fun and interactive phonics activities for children to complete

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-527169-phase-2-phonics-cvc-blending-powerpoint

MATHS

This week we will continue to work on Number.

PLANET MATHS BOOK

TUESDAY – Add – Pg 114
WEDNESDAY – Add – Pg 115
THURSDAY – Add – Pg 116
FRIDAY – Add – Pg 117

Additional Activities

Practice the Days of the Week. Discuss the words ‘weekdays’and ‘weekend’.
Practice counting to 10 forwards and backwards (Ask questions using before and e.g. ‘What comes before 5?’ ‘What comes after 2?’
Play what is the missing number, have the numbers in order or mixed up, your child has to find which of the numbers are missing
Practice forming the numbers 1-5 using playdough/sand etc
Practice writing numbers 1-5.
Practice using number: Ask your child to draw 2 fish, 1 apple, etc

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTIONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

THIS WEEK WE WILL CONTINUE WRITING OUR NEWS – TWO SENTENCES THIS WEEK

Please use lined paper. A copybook would be best so children could keep their writing together and see an improvement.

Please use the videos where possible to ensure letter formation is correct.

Each day we will write the same sentence changing the day of the week AND a sentence about Summer (see below).

Practice writing each sentence 3 times.

Draw a picture of your news!

NEWS WRITING VIDEO

News – Tuesday

Today is Tuesday.

Summer is here.

News – Wednesday

Today is Wednesday.

Summer is here.

News – Thursday

Today is Thursday.

Summer is here.

News – Friday.

Today is Friday.

Summer is here.

We would love if you could us a picture of their news at the end of the week or whenever suitable so we can see how the children are doing.

ORAL LANGUAGE

TWINKL

Oral Language – BEACH

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-54028-at-the-beach-oral-language-activity-sheet

TOPIC: At the beach

Children will need to look at the picture of the beach during the oral language activity
Discuss the picture
Ask your child the questions in the activity
The aim of Oral Language is to develop your child’s language and vocabulary skills

SESE

This week our GEOGRAPHY lesson is based on Plants. It can be accessed by following the link below.

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/Explorers/ExplorersJI/resources/demonstrations/EX_JI_DEMO_CH02_004/index.html

READING ZONE ACTIVITY BOOK (WHITE COVER)

SPHE – Stay Safe Programme (IMPORTANT: PLEASE COMPLETE)

TOPIC 4: SECRETS & TELLING

This week children are given the opportunity to learn the important message that a touch should NEVER be kept a secret
Children learn how to tell, when to tell and to keep on telling until someone listens.

Activity 1

Discuss GOOD secrets – a good secret might be not telling someone about a surprise or a present for them
Discuss BAD secrets – a bad secret might not be telling someone if you got hurt/if someone touched you and you didn’t like it
Discuss with your child people who are safe to tell – parents/grandparents/teachers
Discuss the what if scenarios with your child – https://staysafe.ispringcloud.eu/acc/nDGWnu03NTM3/s/7537-ktbRy-UkeNG-vwY5p
Colour and decorate the secrets and telling worksheet.

P.E

PE at home with Clare – Youtube channel.
RTE Junior have several 10-minute work outs that the children love to do https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
gonoodle.com for short movement breaks, stretches and dance routines.
Cosmic kids yoga on You Tube
The Body Coach on YouTube channel at 9 am.
7 minute HIT WORKOUT
Practice ball throwing and catching skills. Make it fun: e.g. throwing at a target

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FRIDAY 29^thMAY

Good Morning,

Happy Friday!! We have uploaded some videos to correct the work children have completed throughout the week. Thank you all so much for the hard work you have been putting in at home. It has not been easy. Well done to all the boys and girls who have working even harder.

JUNIOR INFANTS

MATHS

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THURSDAY 28^thMAY

Good Morning,

Hope everybody has been enjoying the sunny weather!😊

JUNIOR INFANTS

NEWS

Today we will write a new sentence about the weather for our news – It is wet.

GROW IN LOVE

STORY VIDEO

Going to mass on Sundays – Pg 52
Thank you God for… – Pg 53

PRAYERS

Prayers

This week we will learn the GRACE AFTER MEALS.

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MONDAY 25^th – FRIDAY 29^th MAY

Good Morning,

Hope everybody had a lovely weekend. Children can complete assigned works in their schoolbooks this week where possible. Additional material to schoolbooks will have to be printed off. We hope this week the work load will be reduced as children have their school books.

As always, do not put yourself under pressure to complete all of the assigned work. Have a great week!😊

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will continue to read our NEW book LITTLE ZACK.

READING VIDEO:

Monday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 6

Tuesday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 7

Wednesday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 8

Thursday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 9

Friday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 10

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book LITTLE ZACK.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will CONTINUE with our TRICKY WORDS.

are

all

you

your

come

Tricky words need repetition and constant reinforcement to help children remember them.

Practice putting them into sentences orally, ensure they understand the meaning of the words.
Encourage your child to write out the tricky words.

Phonics Activity Sheets 1-21

Phonics Activity Sheets 1 – 21

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE WORKSHEETS 13, 14 & 15 THIS WEEK

Read or sound out the words
Find the picture that matches to the word
Cut and Paste the picture
Colour the picture

Word List – Group 1 & 2 words

Group 1 & 2

Practice reading and writing the word list

Twinkl

Fun and interactive sound games for children to complete

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/T-GO-08-name-an-alien-phase-2-phonics

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tg-ga-56-twinkl-green-week-recycling-with-emily-phase-3-phonics-pairing-game

MATHS

This week we will continue to work on Number.

PLANET MATHS BOOK

Make 5 – Pg 110
Make 4 – Pg 111
Add – Pg 112
Add – Pg 113

Additional Activities

PractiCe the Days of the Week. Discuss the words ‘weekdays’and ‘weekend’.
Practice counting to 10 forwards and backwards (Ask questions using before and e.g. ‘What comes before 5?’ ‘What comes after 2?’
Play what is the missing number, have the numbers in order or mixed up, your child has to find which of the numbers are missing
Practice forming the numbers 1-5 using playdough/sand etc
Practice writing numbers 1-5.
Practice using number: Ask your child to draw 2 fish, 1 apple, etc

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

THIS WEEK WE WILL CONTINUE WRITING OUR NEWS – TWO SENTENCES THIS WEEK

Please use lined paper. A copybook would be best so children could keep their writing together and see an improvement.

Please use the videos where possible to ensure letter formation is correct.

Each day we will write the same sentence changing the day of the week AND a sentence about the weather. (see below).

Practice writing each sentence 3 times.

NEWS VIDEO:

News – Monday

Today is Monday.

It is sunny.

News – Tuesday

Today is Tuesday.

It is sunny.

News – Wednesday

Today is Wednesday.

It is sunny.

News – Thursday

Today is Thursday.

It is wet.

News – Friday.

Today is Friday.

It is wet.

We would love if you could us a picture of their news at the end of the week or whenever suitable so we can see how the children are doing.

ORAL LANGUAGE

TWINKL

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-1142-name-5-things-challenge-cards

Name 5 things that are….

This week children will play the game name 5 things that are soft/smell nice/circular/blue etc
Read the cards for your child and ask them to name the 5 things.
Some words might need explanation before your child can start guessing.

SESE

LESSON 7: PLANTS – HISTORY(The Enormous Turnip)

This week’s lesson can be accessed using the link below:

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/Explorers/ExplorersJI/resources/demonstrations/EX_JI_DEMO_CH01_017/index.html

Listen to the story of THE ENORMOUS TURNIP
Complete the online activity
Complete the activity sheet
- Cut out the pictures The Enormous Turnip – Cut out pictures
- Put the pictures in order – first/next/last The Enormous Turnip – Put the pictures in order
- Colour the pictures

If you would like to listen to the story on youtube here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGw5yTOPTSQ

READING ZONE ACTIVITY BOOK (WHITE COVER)

Which jar is the same? – Pg 72 Pre – Reading Pg 72
Tracing – Pg 73 Pre – Reading Pg 73

SPHE – Stay Safe Programme (IMPORTANT: PLEASE COMPLETE)

TOUCHES

This week children are given the opportunity to discuss and value appropriate touches
Children will begin to understand inappropriate touches and that nobody has a right to touch them in a way that makes them feel unsafe
Personal safety strategies are introduced

Activity 1

Discuss with your child what a touch is?
Ask your child to identify touches they like
Ask your child to identify touches they don’t like
Ask your child to identify touches they aren’t sure about

Complete the activity sheet – Touches

Read the touches to your child and ask them to colour either the I like/don’t like/not sure face for each type of touch.

Activity 2

Explain to your child the importance of not keeping touches a secret especially touches they DON’T LIKE
Remind them of the STAY SAFE RULES

Say no
Get away
Tell

It is important that children are aware of the correct anatomical names of body parts – please discuss these with your child

Please follow the link below and complete slides 25 TO 31.

https://staysafe.ispringcloud.eu/acc/nDGWnu03NTM3/s/7537-ktbRy-UkeNG-vwY5p

Some parts of our bodies are private – discuss the names of private body parts
What if scenarios – what would you do if???
The Tickling Game – Part 1 & 2 – Listen to the stories and discuss what happened

P.E

PE at home with Clare – Youtube channel.
RTE Junior have several 10-minute work outs that the children love to do https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
gonoodle.com for short movement breaks, stretches and dance routines.
Cosmic kids yoga on You Tube
The Body Coach on YouTube channel at 9 am.
7 minute HIT WORKOUT
Practice ball throwing and catching skills. Make it fun: e.g. throwing at a target

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FRIDAY 22ND MAY

Good Morning,

We have made two maths videos to correct the work children have completed throughout the week. There is also a short video reading our new book Little Zack.

Hope they are helpful. Have a nice weekend!

JUNIOR INFANTS

Maths

Reading – Little Zack

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THURSDAY 21ST MAY

Good Morning,

We hope everybody is having a lovely week so far. Enjoy completing your Grow in Love. Well done to all the boys and girls for all the hard work they are doing since we had to close. We are so happy and proud of you all. We miss you!

GROW IN LOVE

Story Video:

Please watch the story video and complete the activities below

Mesi’s Meals – Activity 1

Your Meals – Activity 2

PRAYERS

Prayers

This week we will be learning the GRACE BEFORE MEALS.

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MONDAY 18^th – FRIDAY 22^nd MAY

Good Morning,

Hope everybody had an enjoyable weekend. Please keep and safe well throughout this time.

We are available to contact through our emails if you have any questions. If you would like to share any work the children have completed, pictures or just to say hi please send us an email.

As always, do not put yourself under pressure to complete all of the assigned work. Have a great week!😊

MONDAY 18^th – FRIDAY 22^nd MAY

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will begin to read our NEW book LITTLE ZACK.

Monday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 1

Tuesday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 2

Wednesday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 3

Thursday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 4

Friday – LITTLE ZACK – Pg 5

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book LITTLE ZACK.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will CONTINUE with our TRICKY WORDS.

was

Tricky words need repetition and constant reinforcement to help children remember them.

Practice putting them into sentences orally, ensure they understand the meaning of the words.
Encourage your child to write out the tricky words.

Phonics Activity Sheets 1-21

Phonics Activity Sheets 1 – 21

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE WORKSHEETS 10, 11 & 12 THIS WEEK

Read or sound out the words
Find the picture that matches to the word
Cut and Paste the picture
Colour the picture

Word List – Group 1 & 2 words

Group 1 & 2 Words

Practice reading and writing word list

Twinkl

Fun and interactive sound games for children to complete

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tg-ga-156-level-2-phonics-game-show

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/level-2-phonics-matching-bingo-game-tg-ga-201

MATHS

This week we will be begin working on PARTITIONING.

PARENT INFORMATION SHEET – Partitioning – Parents Information

ACTIVITIES

We have made a short video to introduce the topic of partitioning:

Maths – Activity 1

Divide/Seperate/Partition the sets 2/2 just like the example in the first set

Maths – Activity 2

Draw the correct amount of objects in each set

Maths – Activity 3

Divide/Seperate/Partition the sets 2/2 just like the example in the first set

Additional Activities

Practice the Days of the Week. Discuss the words ‘weekdays’and ‘weekend’.
Practice counting to 10 forwards and backwards (Ask questions using before and e.g. ‘What comes before 5?’ ‘What comes after 2?’
Play what is the missing number, have the numbers in order or mixed up, your child has to find which of the numbers are missing
Practice forming the numbers 1-5 using playdough/sand etc
Practice writing numbers 1-5.
Practice using number: Ask your child to draw 2 fish, 1 apple, etc

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

THIS WEEK WE WILL CONTINUE WRITING OUR NEWS

Please use lined paper. A copybook would be best so children could keep their writing together and see an improvement.

We have a short video describing how to write the first sentence of their news – Today is Monday.

Each day we will write the same sentence changing the day of the week. (see below).

Practice writing each sentence 3 times.

News – Monday

Today is Monday.

VIDEO: Today is Monday –

News – Tuesday

Today is Tuesday.

VIDEO: Today is Tuesday –

News – Wednesday

Today is Wednesday.

VIDEO: Today is Wednesday –

News – Thursday

Today is Thursday.

VIDEO: Today is Thursday –

News – Friday.

Today is Friday.

VIDEO: Today is Friday –

We would love if you could us a picture of their news at the end of the week or whenever suitable so we can see how the children are doing.

ORAL LANGUAGE

TWINKL

What am I? – Guessing Game

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-s-892-what-am-i-guessing-game-cards-household-objects

Read the clues aloud for your child
Ask your child to guess what the item is from the clues

GAEILGE

Cad atá teidi ag deanamh? – What is teddy doing?

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-gl-212-cad-ata-teidi-ag-deanamh-caitheamh-aimsire-powerpoint

POWERPOINT: Teidi

Activity – Tarraing Teidí ag siúl/ag ithe/ag ól

Draw a picture of teddy walking/eating/drinking

Additional Activity

Encourage your child to watch one cartoon daily in Irish on TnaG, e.g. PJ Masks is on at 0830 and 15.10.

Reading Zone Activity Book

Listen and watch the story of Little Red Riding Hood – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI4-xfRDGHM&t=337s

RZ – Activity 1

RZ – Activity 2

SPHE – Stay Safe Programme (IMPORTANT: PLEASE COMPLETE)

Friendship & Bullying

The value of friendship/making and keeping friends/how to treat a friend well
Focus on ways to be a good friend
What is a bully?
Bullying can be verbal/physical/emotional
Effects of bullying
Ways of dealing with bullying

Activity 1 – I show friendship when…

Stay Safe Activity 1

Discuss with your child what is a friend?
Ask your child to describe things a good friend does/makes you feel
Ask your child to identify why they are a good friend
Complete Activity sheet – I show friendship when…

Activity 2

Bullying – Read the story of Bella and Georgie to your child

Story Questions

What were Bella and Georgie doing this morning? What did Georgie do? How did Bella feel?
How would you feel if that happened to you?
What happened at small break? How do you think Bella felt?
What happened at big break? How do you think Bella felt?
What other ways could people be bullied?
What should Bella do to stop the bullying? (Remind your child of their tell 5 hand from last week)

When someone hurts you like this on purpose and it happens MORE THAN ONCE, it is called bullying.

Complete Activity sheet – Stay Safe Rules – Stay Safe Activity 2

P.E

Skipping

Skip forwards/slowly/fast/ start slow and get faster

PE at home with Clare; the link to her Youtube channel may be found
RTE Junior have several 10-minute work outs that the children love to do https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
gonoodle.comfor short movement breaks, stretches and dance routines.
Cosmic kids yoga on You Tube
The Body Coach on YouTube channel at 9 am.
7 minute HIT WORKOUT
Practice ball throwing and catching skills. Make it fun: e.g. throwing at a target

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THURSDAY 14TH MAY

Good Morning

Hope everybody is having a nice week. As always please do not be under pressure to complete all of the assigned material. We are available through our email if anybody needs to contact us. Please keep safe and look after yourself. Enjoy the weekend!😊

Grow in Love

This week we are looking at Baptism.

JUNIOR INFANTS

Grow in Love – Junior Infants – Activity 1

PRAYERS

Prayers

This week we will learn the

Night Prayer

Please revise all prayers we have covered.

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MONDAY 11^TH – FRIDAY 15^TH MAY

Good Morning,

Hope everybody had an enjoyable weekend. Please keep and safe well throughout this time.

We are available to contact through our emails if you have any questions. If you would like to share any work the children have completed, pictures or just to say hi please send us an email.

As always, do not put yourself under pressure to complete all of the assigned work.

Have a great week!😊

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will continue to read our book FINN JUMPS IN!

Monday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 13

Tuesday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 14

Wednesday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 15

Thursday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 16

Friday – Finn Jumps In! – Revise all pages

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book Finn Jumps In.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will begin our TRICKY WORDS.

the

she

Tricky words need repetition and constant reinforcement to help children remember them.

Practice putting them into sentences orally, ensure they understand the meaning of the words.
Encourage your child to write out the tricky words.

Phonics Activity Sheets 1-21

Phonics Activity Sheets 1 – 21

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE WORKSHEETS 7, 8 & 9 THIS WEEK

Read or sound out the words
Find the picture that matches to the word
Cut and Paste the picture
Colour the picture

Word List – Group 1

Group 1 Words

Practice reading and writing word list

Twinkl

Fun and interactive sound games for children to complete

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tg-ga-147-level-1-phonics-the-seaside-environmental-sounds-game

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/level-2-phonics-sounds-pairs-game-tg-ga-116-1

MATHS

Activity 1

Junior Infants – Activity 1

How many?
Trace/Write/Colour

Activity 2

Junior Infants – Activity 2

Read/write/draw

Activity 3

Junior Infants – Activity 3 – Part 1

Junior Infants – Activity 3 – Part 2

Part 1 & 2 are used together in the same activity
Discuss the poster (2 pages) – what do you see?/What are the children doing?/Where are the children? Etc
Use the instruction sheet to help your help child complete the poster pages. Poster Instructions

Additional Activities

Practise the Days of the Week. Discuss the words ‘weekdays’and ‘weekend’.
Practise counting to 10 forwards and backwards (Ask questions using before and e.g. ‘What comes before 5?’ ‘What comes after 2?’
Play what is the missing number, have the numbers in order or mixed up, your child has to find which of the numbers are missing
Practise forming the numbers 1-5 using playdough/sand etc
Practise writing numbers 1-5.
Practice using number: Ask your child to draw 2 fish, 1 apple, etc

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

THIS WEEK WE WILL BEGIN WRITING OUR NEWS

Please use lined paper. A copybook would be best so children could keep their writing together and see an improvement.

Each day we will write the same sentence changing the day of the week (see below).

Practice writing each sentence 3 times.

We have made a short video to help you with the writing of your news: https://videos.files.wordpress.com/2JhIQhAB/news-lesson-1_fmt1.ogv

News – Monday

Today is Monday.

News – Tuesday

Today is Tuesday.

News – Wednesday

Today is Wednesday.

News – Thursday

Today is Thursday.

News – Friday.

Today is Friday.

We would love if you could us a picture of their news at the end of the week or whenever suitable so we can see how the children are doing.

ORAL LANGUAGE

TWINKL

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-s-891-what-am-i-guessing-game-cards-food-themed

Food Themed – Guessing game

Read the clues for your child
Child guesses what food they think it is

GAEILGE

Cá bhfuil Niamh? – Where is Niamh?

Powerpoint: Cá bhfuil Niamh

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-gl-297-ca-bhfuil-niamh-powerpoint

cistin – kitchen

seomra codlata – bedroom

seomra suí – sitting room

gairdín – garden

seomra folctha – bathroom

garáiste – garage

seomra bia – dining room

Activity

Draw a picture of your house with your favourite rooms

Additional Activity

Encourage your child to watch one cartoon daily in Irish on TnaG, e.g. PJ Masks is on at 0830 and 15.10.

Reading Zone Activity Book

Activity 1

Pre Reader – Activity 1

Activity 2

Pre Reader – Activity 2

Activity 3

Pre Reader – Activity 3

SPHE

***Stay Safe Programme (IMPORTANT: PLEASE COMPLETE)***

Stay Safe – Letter to Parents

TOPIC: Feeling Safe/Unsafe

Discuss with your child times when they feel safe and unsafe and ask him or her to give you examples from the lessons.
Talk to your child about the rules he or she should follow if lost, if a stranger calls to the door or on the phone.
Encourage your child to tell you about any situation in which he or she could feel unsafe, upset, confused or worried.

Activity 1

Feeling Safe & Unsafe

Discuss the pictures – why is this picture safe/unsafe?
How do you know that the person in the picture is happy/sad/scared/frightened?
Colour the safe pictures green
Colour the unsafe pictures red

Activity 2

Hand – Tell 5

Discuss with your child people who are safe to trust – parents/grandparents/family/teachers
Discuss why these people are safe to trust
Identify people who aren’t safe – strangers
List 5 people that your child could trust on the hand

P.E

7 minute HIT WORKOUT

Practice ball throwing and catching skills. Make it fun: e.g. throwing at a target
RTE Junior have several 10-minute work outs that the children love to do https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
Cosmic kids yoga on You Tube
The Body Coach on YouTube channel

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THURSDAY 7TH MAY

Hi All,

Hope everybody is having a nice week so far. As always please do not be under pressure to complete all of the assigned material. We are available through our email if anybody needs to contact us. Please keep safe and look after yourself. Enjoy the weekend!😊

Grow in Love

This week we are celebrating Mary – May is the month of Mary.

JUNIOR INFANTS

Junior Infants – May is the Month of Mary

Junior Infants – Stories of Mary

SENIOR INFANTS

Senior Infants – May Altar

Senior Infants – May is the Month of Mary

PRAYERS

Prayers

This week we will learn the

Morning Prayer

Please revise the Sign of the Cross and Glory be to the Father from last week.

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MONDAY 4TH MAY

Good Morning,

We hope everybody has enjoyed the Bank Holiday weekend. It has been nearly 8 weeks since we had to close our school for the health and safety of students and staff. The past few weeks have been extremely difficult for everybody. Thank you all for your continued support and we appreciate the hard work you have been putting in at home.

Last Friday, we heard the upsetting news that we will not be returning to school until September. We were so disappointed as our only wish was for us all to return to school and see the boys and girls again. We did not want our school year to finish like this.

As always, we will continue to work with you over the next few months to finish the school year on a positive note.

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will continue to read our new book FINN JUMPS IN!

Wednesday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 10

Thursday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 11

Friday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 12

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book Finn Jumps In.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will continue our work on BLENDING. The next word list to practice blending is below.

drip

miss

rock

back

duck

*** Additional blending list if your child would like extra practice***

pot

gas

fit

stamp

bad

Activities

Phonics Activity Sheets 1-21

Phonics Activity Sheets 1 – 21

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE WORKSHEETS 4, 5 & 6 THIS WEEK

Read or sound out the words
Find the picture that matches to the word
Cut and Paste the picture
Colour the picture

Twinkl

Fun and interactive sound games for children to complete

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tg-ga-148-level-1-phonics-kit-and-sams-band-game

MATHS

Activity 1

Twinkl Powerpoint: 2D Shapes

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-1433-eyfs-every-day-2d-shapes-powerpoint

Watch the powerpoint and discuss the different shapes you see.
How are the shapes different?
How many sides does the shape have?
How many corners does the shape have?

Worksheet

Maths – Shape

Colour the shapes

Circle = blue

Triangle = red

Rectangle = yellow

Square = green

Activity 2

Twinkl: Too many frogs – Counting Game

https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/tg-ga-31-too-many-frogs-counting-up-to-10-game

Worksheet

Maths – Count

Count the red spots on the fish and write the number in the box
Colour the fish

Activity 3

Twinkl Powerpoint: Counting Scenes

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-1238-counting-scenes-powerpoint-1-10

Worksheet

Maths – Count & Draw

Read the number in the box
Draw the correct amount of spots on each butterfly

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

The black dots illustrate where the letter formation is to start. The arrows illustrate the direction in which the letter should be formed.

WEDNESDAY

Writing -Wednesday

THURSDAY

Writing – Thursday

FRIDAY

Writing – Friday

Music & SPHE

TWINKL

Powerpoint: I am special

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-p-9-i-am-special-song-powerpoint

Practice the song with your child using the powerpoint

Activity

Music & SPHE – I am special

What does the word special mean?
How are you special?
Ask your child to draw a picture of what makes them special

Art

Minibeast Pebbles

PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOURSELF UNDER PRESSURE TO COMPLETE ALL OF THE ASSIGNED WORK! 😊

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THURSDAY 30TH APRIL

Good Morning, hope everybody is having a nice week so far. Grow in Love for this week is below.😊

JUNIOR INFANTS

Our topic for this week is WATER

What is water?

Why is water important?

Where do we get water?

Activity 1

JI Activity 1

Match the pictures
Discuss why the objects are matched together
Discuss why each of the pictures need water

Activity 2

JI Activity 2

How do we care for water?
Why can we do to not waste water?
Tracing activity – Thank you God for Water

Prayers

Prayers

This week Junior Infants will practice

Sign of the Cross
Glory be to the Father

Practice these prayers with your child if possible.

Indoor activities for a rainy day

100 Fun Indoor Activities!

Spot the difference

Monsters-Spot-the-Difference-Activity

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MONDAY 27TH APRIL

Good Morning,

Hope everybody had a lovely weekend. Please keep safe and well throughout the week ahead. Enjoy spending time outside, going on walks, playing with your family and doing some work. As always, please do not put yourself under any extra pressure as these times are hard enough. Please contact us through our email addresses if there is anything you need. Have a great week.

JUNIOR INFANTS – MS. HEALY & MS. O’HALLORAN

READING

This week we will continue to read our new book FINN JUMPS IN!

Monday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 5

Tuesday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 6

Wednesday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 7

Thursday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 8

Friday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 9

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book Finn Jumps In.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will continue our work on BLENDING. The next word list to practice blending is below.

kiss

mist

pram

hiss

test

*** Additional blending list if your child would like extra practice***

get

pig

log

fat

bat

Activities

Phonics Activity Sheets

PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE WORKSHEETS 1, 2 & 3 THIS WEEK

Phonics Activity Sheets 1 – 21

Read or sound out the words
Find the picture that matches to the word
Cut and Paste the picture
Colour the picture

Twinkl

Fun and interactive sound games for children to complete

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tg-ga-149-level-1-phonics-the-zoo-environmental-sounds-game

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tg-ga-147-level-1-phonics-the-seaside-environmental-sounds-game

MATHS

ORAL LANGUAGE

TWINKL

Powerpoint: Jungle – What am I?

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-52264-what-am-i-jungle-animal-powerpoint

Watch the powerpoint
Read the clues and let your child figure out the animal

Guessing Game – What am I?

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-s-890-what-am-i-guessing-game-cards-animal-themed

What am I? guessing game

Discuss the cards in detail. Read the clues two to three times for your child.
The aim of any oral language lesson is for the child to TALK and expand their vocabulary where possible.
Draw a picture to illustrate the animals they remember from the What am I? guessing game after the lesson is completed

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

The black dots illustrate where the letter formation is to start. The arrows illustrate the direction in which the letter should be formed.

MONDAY

Writing – Monday

TUESDAY

Writing – Tuesday

WEDNESDAY

Writing – Wednesday

THURSDAY

Writing – Thursday

FRIDAY

Writing – Friday

GAEILGE

Aimsir – The Weather

Powerpoint: Aimsir

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi2-gl-163-cen-sort-aimsire-ata-ann-inniu-powerpoint-gaeilge

Sneachta – snow

Scamallach – cloudy

Gaoth – windy

Ghrian ag taitneamh – sun is shining

Activity – Tarraing an aimsir (Draw the weather)

Tarraing an aimsir

SCIENCE

Our science topic for this week is based on being HEALTHY

Powerpoint – Healthy

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5249-all-about-me-looking-after-yourself-powpoint

Watch the powerpoint
Discuss the slides
Answer the questions

Activity

Looking After Yourself worksheets

Activity 1 – Draw a picture of how you look after yourself

Activity 2 – Read the sentences and ask your child to draw a picture

Activity 3 – Read the sentences and ask your child to draw a picture

RTE School Hub

Everyday next week the RTE School Hub will be checking in with all of their favourite animals in Dublin Zoo. This will be a nice activity and something enjoyable for all the family.

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THURSDAY 23RD APRIL

GROW IN LOVE

JUNIOR INFANTS

The Church

The Church Bells

SENIOR INFANTS

The Church

ART ACTIVITIES

Robots

http://mericherry.com/2014/11/03/make-robots-tinker-trays/

Chalk in nature

http://mericherry.com/2015/08/02/chalk-nature-painting/

Umbrella plates

https://www.learning4kids.net/2015/11/17/paper-plate-umbrella-craft/

INDOOR SCAVENGER HUNT

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MONDAY 20TH APRIL

Happy Monday Everyone,

Welcome back after a very different Easter holidays. We hope everyone had a lovely time over the Easter break. It is beyond strange what is happening, so thank you all for the continued support. Please do not feel under pressure by the workload we are posting. These are suggested activities for you to complete. As always, please contact us if you have any questions or concerns. It is lovely to see the boys and girls and any work/drawings they have completed so don’t hesitate to send an email if you wish to. Have a great week and hopefully we are another day closer to normality!

JUNIOR INFANTS – Ms Healy & Ms O’Halloran

READING

This week we will finish reading SPLASH and start a new book FINN JUMPS IN!

Monday – SPLASH! – Pg 23 & 34

Tuesday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 1

Wednesday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 2

Thursday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 3

Friday – Finn Jumps In! – Pg 4

Discuss the picture on each page

Who is in the picture?
What are the characters doing?
Where are the characters?
What do you see in the picture?
How is Zack/Kitty/Finn/Mum feeling?

Continue to revise all yellow, red and blue words as these will help children with the reading of our new book Finn Jumps In.

PHONICS

Continue to revise all sounds in the sound copy – letter name/sound/action/song.

This week we will be focusing on BLENDING. The next word list to practice blending is below.

1. cat 2. hen 3. can 4. hat 5. neck

*** Additional blending list if your child would like extra practice***

1. camp 2. kick 3. met 4. pen 5. deck

Twinkl

Fun and interactive sound games for children to complete

https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/tg-ga-146-level-1-phonics-the-garden-environmental-sounds-game

https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/level-1-phonics-the-living-room-phonics-environmental-sounds-game-tg-ga-161

ORAL LANGUAGE

Twinkl: Springtime Hotspots is the oral language lesson we will be working on this week.

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/springtime-questions-hotspots-tg-t-88-1

Discuss the picture in detail with your child. The aim of any oral language lesson is for the child to TALK and expand their vocabulary where possible.
Click on each number in order and answer the questions together
Draw a picture to illustrate all the things they remember about Spring after the lesson is completed

WRITING

Children have practiced formation of all letters before the school closure. Please see the picture below for POSTURE/WRITING INSTRUCTONS and PENCIL GRIP before you begin writing with your child.

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

The black dots illustrate where the letter formation is to start. The arrows illustrate the direction in which the letter should be formed.

Additional practice of other letter formations can also be completed if you wish.

MATHS

This week we will be focusing on COUNTING.

Practice counting to 5/Practice counting backwards from 5.
Find objects around the house and make sets of 1/2/3/4/5

Activity sheets to practice and revise counting

Number Search – 1 to 5

Number Line – 1 to 5

Making Sets – 1 to 5

Counting – Under the sea

Counting – Dinosaurs

Count & Colour

A fun scavenger hunt for all the family to complete around the house

GAEILGE

We have the topic of Bia completed in class so this will be a nice revision lesson for children to complete.

Bia – Food powerpoint

BIA – Food

Activity – Colour the Bia(Food)

Bia – Colour

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FRIDAY 3RD APRIL

I hope you are all safe and well. Enjoy the next two weeks of Easter holidays. Take a break from all the hard work you have been doing since we closed. Go for a walk, play in the garden, enjoy some family time and eat loads of chocolate. Happy Easter to Junior Infants.

Easter Basket Craft

Easter dot to dot

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TUESDAY 31ST MARCH

Paper based art activities – Paper, cardboard, paper plates, cereal boxes etc or any materials you may have around the house to use.

Listen/Watch the story of The Rainbow Fish and then complete the art activity if you would like.

Easter is coming – here are a few Easter art ideas for you to start trying out at home. You could start making a few pieces to display on your front windows and on the windowsills next week. Cut out and decorate letters to make a happy message for passers by.

Easter Egg Colouring Sheets

Easter Egg Colouring

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Good Morning Junior Infants,

I hope everybody had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the nice weather. Remember to look after yourself, and to keep safe and healthy during this very challenging time.

We have put together a range of suggested activities for the boys and girls to work on over the coming weeks. As you know we can be contacted via e-mail if there is anything you need.

MONDAY 30TH MARCH

JUNIOR INFANTS – Ms Healy & Ms O’Halloran

Phonics

Please continue to revise all sounds and word lists in the sound copy.

Activities to revise sounds

Word Document – Phonics Worksheets Phonics Worksheets
Group 1 – SATIPN – Bingo/Matching activity SATPIN Bingo-Matching Activity
Group 2 – CKEHRMD – Barrier Game CKHRMD – Barrier Game
Roll a Sound – Phonics Revision games Roll a Sound – 1 Roll a Sound – 2 Roll a Sound – 3

Activities to practice BLENDING

Blending game 1 – SATIPN word blending BLENDING Game 1
Blending game 2 – CKEHRMD word blending BLENDING Game 2
Blending game 3 – Mixture of word blending BLENDING Game 3

Short Ryhming Lesson – Rhyming Lesson

Reading

We have now read to pg 18 of Splash. Continue to revise these pages and all blue words in the word bag.

Please read from pg 19 – 22 of Splash.

The last new word in our book is – Splash.

Discuss the pictures/setting/characters etc as you read through the pages.

BROWN BEAR POWERPOINT – Read and revise the story of brown bear. Brown Bear Story

Children can sequence the characters in the story using the character cut out activity sheet. Brown Bear – Character cut outs

Additional Reading resources:

Online Stories – Getepic.com. Click login and say you do not have an account. Join free for 30 days as a family. Here you can create your account. Click learning to read and choose books for age 4-6 years. There is lots to choose from.
Oxfordowl.co.uk – this is a similar site to getepic.com and also has lots of reading resources online.

Handwriting

The focus of writing this week will be on pencil grip and pattern formation.

Please see the Pencil Control booklet for suggested activities and practice. Pencil Control Booklet Children are working on different patterns in school. This skill can be difficult for children so additional practice in this area will be of benefit.

Easter Egg – Tracing activity Pattern – Easter Egg

Maths

Count and Colour – Activity sheet Count and Colour

2D Shapes – Children can practice drawing

Square
Circle
Rectangle
Oval

2D Shape Activities – Chicken and Rabbit Chicken – 2D Shapes Rabbit – 2D Shapes

Additional Maths Resources

Topmarks.co.uk- in search box- shapes, counting, patterns, number for all different types of games.
NRICH.com https://nrich.maths.org/9084 here are more maths activities you can do with your child. A lot of them are quite practical. Stay within age appropriate games.

Projects

Continue to work on any projects of choice that we posted previously

Below are a list of some topics you can choose to make a project about. This can be done as a little book, poster, painting or any way you like.

All About Me – what you can do, such as – run, swim etc.
Important People to me.
My Favourite Animal.
Spring
Ireland or any country of choice.

Please do not feel under pressure to complete all of these SUGGESTED activities. We will not be posting any new activities until after the Easter break.

HAPPY EASTER to all the boys and girls in JUNIOR INFANTS.

We miss you and look forward to seeing you soon.

Eat loads of chocolate and say hi to the Easter Bunny! 😊

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Happy Friday Everyone,

have a lovely sunny weekend!:-)

Online stories are an excellent resource to use during this time.

Scavenger hunt around the house and in the garden!

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MONDAY 23RD MARCH

Happy Monday everyone,

Please find below some more activities. I can be contacted on email n.ohalloran@upperglanmirens.ie

Miss ye!!

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Dublin Zoo

Dublin Zoo have live webcams to look at the animals at any time during the day – there’s a live
feeding of the Penguins scheduled for 2:30 today

Webcams

Gaeilge

The Irish programme we use in class is called Bua na Cainte. Edco are providing access to their online interactive programme for parents and children to use at home. The themes we have covered to date – Mé Féin, An Scoil, Bia, Caitheamh Aimsire, Éadaí and Sa Bhaile. Children can revise these themes, lessons, songs and games.

Keep Active & Learn

Children can practice spelling their names, names of siblings, names of friends and a range of different words while also keeping active.

Yoga: https://www.cosmickids.com/ choose a lesson and have some fun!

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Hi boys and girls, mums and dads,

I hope this finds you safe and well. First and foremost, we miss you loads and look forward to the day where we can return to school and get back to normal. I know it must be very hard to stay at home and not meet up with all of your friends that you have made here in school, but we have to try our best!!

Parents,
Below is a suggestion of some activities that the children could be completing over the next few weeks. These are just suggestions; we are very conscious of the fact that everyones daily life has been disrupted and we in no way want to add to these pressures. However, the continuation of the children’s learning is very important to us, so we ask that for the most part, we engage collaboratively and collectively to ensure we achieve this.

If you wish to take photos of completed work or email me, I can be contacted on: n.ohalloran@upperglanmirens.ie
We look forward to getting back to school as quickly as possible.

Ms . O’Halloran 🙂

JUNIOR INFANTS

Ms Healy & Ms O’Halloran

Jolly Phonics

We have completed all sounds in our Jolly Phonics. Each child has their sound copy and the free jolly phonics app can be downloaded to help with revision. Letter names, sounds, songs and actions can all be revised in a fun and meaningful way. YouTube songs – What do the Letters Say and Jolly Phonic sound songs are also available online.

Blending word list 1-3 – revise all previous words and continue to practice these words. Rhyming activities can be completed alongside these word lists to extend children’s learning. Children can write these words out using paper, whiteboard, magnetic letters or any materials you may have at home.

Starfall.com – this website has phonic resources that includes blending.

Twinkl – this website is a fantastic resource for teachers and parents to use. They are offering parents one month free membership while children are at home. http://www.twinkl.ie/offer enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS.

Here are some links below and other phonics activities:

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4185-i-can-read-phase-2-words-activity-sheet-pack https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-871-phonics-read-and-write-activity-sheet

This website is also great for online phonics games. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=phonics

Reading

We are currently reading Splash! We have completed pages 1-9. Revision of these pages is important over the coming weeks.

Folens online can be accessed for free where you can look at the class readers we have covered to date (LOOK OUT TEDDY and THE LOST BALL) plus the reader we are currently working on (SPLASH).

NEW WORDS: ME, LOOKS

Please read to PAGE 18 OF SPLASH.

Word bags will be useful at this time. Word revision and sentence formation can be practiced. Red and Yellow word bags can also be revised at this time.

Online Stories – Getepic.com. Click login and say you do not have an account. Join free for 30 days as a family. Here you can create your account. Click learning to read and choose books for age 4-6 years. There is lots to choose from. Oxfordowl.co.uk – this is a similar site to getepic.com and also has lots of reading resources online.

Maths

Topmarks.co.uk- in search box- shapes, counting, patterns, number for all different types of games.

NRICH.com https://nrich.maths.org/9084 here are more maths activities you can do with your child. A lot of them are quite practical. Stay within age appropriate games.

Practice number formation from 0-5, again on paper/whiteboards etc.

WEIGHT – Experiment weighing various objects at home. Encourage appropriate language e.g. heavy/light/heavier/lighter/ heaviest/lightest.

SHAPES – Observe and recognise 2D shapes in environment. Maths is everywhere

TWINKL – twinkl has a number of fun and meaningful resources to aid children’s learning. These activities can be printed for children to complete. (Colour by number etc)

Project Work

Below are a list of some topics you can choose to make a project about. This can be done as a little book, poster, painting or any way you like.

All About Me – what you can do, such as – run, swim etc.
Important People to me.
My Favourite Animal.
Spring
Ireland or any country of choice.

Other suggested activities below

Home Activities

Scoil Naomh Micheál

Upper Glanmire N.S.

Ms. O’Halloran 19/20

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