Last week some of the children in junior infants got creative, making rocket ships, colouring, drawing and even making their own games to practice sorting coins in maths. Have a look at the photos below to see what all your friends have been up to. Thank you to the parents for sharing these masterpieces!
Hi everyone!
I hope you all had a great weekend. It was lovely hearing from so many of you last week and seeing all your photos and work. I am very proud of you all for working so hard at home!
For those parents who would like to send me the children’s work to correct or who have questions or concerns my email address is katiedoylestjosephs@gmail.com. I would love to hear from you.
Below I have listed further work for the coming week. I have also included a sample timetable for those of you who wish to spread out the work in this way. As always do not feel under pressure to complete every piece of work, do as much as you can and don’t worry about the rest. As long as the children practice a little reading, writing and maths they will be ok.
You can access the online book and use the ‘draw’ tool to do some further handwriting practice by following the instructions below:
-go to www.edcolearning.ie
-log in with he following details: username: primaryedcobooks. Password: edco2020.
-Search for and click on ‘Ready to Write A1’. (Letter z-pg. 63, letter e-pg. 64)
The reader can be accessed by following the instructions below:
-go to www.edcolearning.ie
-log in with the following details: username: primaryedcobooks. Password: edco2020.
-Search for and click on ‘My Little Box of Books’ and then book 9 ‘Please’.
For the key words; the children can sound out and blend the word ‘can’ and will know the word ‘we’ as it is one of the tricky words. The other two words are new words which cannot be sounded out and so must be learned by sight. I have attached a page below with flashcards of the sight words and tricky words which can be used to play matching games and other activities.
There are flashcards of these words on the page above. Below I have given some ideas for games to practice the words:
-snap
-matching; take turns turning over two cards and reading the words aloud. If you find a matching pair you keep those cards. You could encourage your child to ‘help’ you read the words on your turn.
-paper cups; write or stick the words on the bottom of paper cups. Take turns turning over a cup, reading the word then building the cups into a tower or castle.
-Splat; lay out flashcards with the words. Call out a word and have your child ‘splat’ the word by tapping it with a fly swatter, pencil or stick.
-Car park; draw lines on a piece of paper and write tricky words between the lines as shown below. Give your child a toy car and call out a tricky word. They must ‘drive’ their car to the tricky word. You could then swap over and let them call out words for you.
I have attached a writing template below which has wide lines with a centre dotted line. This helps the children to write the letters at the correct size; small letters sitting on the bottom line and stretching up to the middle line. Tall letters from bottom to top line. You can print this off, draw out lines on blank paper yourself or just use any copy or pages you have at home.
SESE:
Use the powerpoint above to tell the story of the first moon landing.
Art:
PE:
-follow the actions in the video
Sample timetable:
You could do some of the SESE, art or PE activities too when you have time.
Monday
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Again, please do not feel under pressure to complete everything. Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.
Hi boys and girls,
I hope that you are all doing well and having fun spending time at home with your family. I miss you all and am really looking forward to seeing you again soon.
Please remember to do a little bit of homework everyday, get some exercise and wash your hands as much as you can.
There is no need to worry, we will all be ok and we will be back in school soon having lots of fun again!
Miss Doyle
Parents, below you will find additional work to cover the next two weeks. Please do not feel that you have to complete every piece of this work. All I ask is that you try to do a little each day. I understand that you are all under pressure taking care of your families and dealing with the huge changes going on around us. Please be assured that I am here to support and help as much as possible, I am thinking of all the children and will do my best to help them to catch up and continue their learning when the school reopens.
If you wish to get in contact with me my email address is katiedoylestjosephs@gmail.com.
Using this email you can also:
If you are happy to do so I would suggest that you send me an email this week so that I can make contact with individual parents to check in on how your child is doing and to suggest different work to what I have given below if I feel that is necessary.
Wishing you all the best!
English
Below you will see a selection of flashcards of sounds with two letters in them. These can be used to revise the sound and also to practice blending words with these sounds in them.
Handwriting book letters ‘v’ and ‘y’
If they want to the children can practice the new letters and letters learned before by using the website www.edcolearning.ie and signing in for free using the username ‘primaryedcobooks’ and password ‘edco2020’. Then search for and click on the book ‘Ready to Write A1’ and navigate to any page. If you click the ‘draw’ tool at the top you can select the pencil and practice the letters on the screen. Please note that on Friday evening some of the books were not available on the website but I have contacted Edco and hope this will be sorted out soon.
Call out the following words for your child to write down. Remind them to ‘stretch out’ the words to help them to identify the individual sounds. If you wish to do more you could use the words from the flashcards above: set, hit, it, dip, mum, bet, yes, hut, zip, lap.
On the edcolearning website (instructions above) you will find ‘My Little Box of Books’. Practice reading book 8 ‘Up and Down’. The key words are ‘went’ ‘up’ ‘down’. The children will be able to sound out the words ‘up’ and ‘went’ but will have to learn the word ‘down’ by sight. Prompt them with the word at first and with repetition they will become familiar with it.
Maths
Busy at Maths:
Say this rhyme while writing the number ’round and round and round we go, when we stop we make a zero’
Other ideas:
-Practice writing numbers 1-5 in sand, rice, in the air.
-Make the numbers 1-5 using play dough.
-Write numbers 1-5 with crayons, markers, finger-painting etc.
Other ideas:
-Go on a number hunt around your house; find numbers written on different objects.
-Have a treasure hunt: find 1 banana, 2 teddies, 3 shoes etc.
Other ideas:
-Parent could draw a template like this and use objects around the house to practice more addition sums up to 5, including 0. You could make it reusable by writing out numbers 0-5 on small pieces of paper.
Say the days of the week, ‘Today is…..’, ‘Yesterday was…..’, ‘Tomorrow will be….’
In the previous post I explained how to use the CJ Fallon online resources to practice the skills from the maths book.
SESE
Topic: On the Farm
Click on this link or search ‘the farm oral language activity sheet’. Look at the picture together and talk about it.
Click on this link or search ‘Grandad’s Farm Story’. Read the powerpoint story together and talk about it.
If you have trouble accessing these resources send me an email and I will help.
As I said do not feel you have to do all of this work. This is a guide and I have provided lots of ideas for you to pick and choose from. Just do the best you can in the time you have! The handwriting, blending and maths book could be done first and the rest used if you have time.
CJ Fallon, the publisher of our maths programme, have now made all of their interactive resources free to parents and students. I strongly recommend that you make use of these resources for your child.
Instructions:
On page 2 go to activities 25, 26, 27 and 28.
Gaeilge: