Hello again everyone,

Thank you to anyone that has contacted me, it was great to hear from ye and hear about the children and see their great work. Please continue to do so and if anyone hasn’t contacted me yet I am available via email at jamielee.gordon@stjosephsgorey.ie If you need help with anything don’t hesitate to reach out or even just to keep me updated on the kids progress. Please don’t be hard on yourself if you are not getting all work done if you do even a little bit it is Benefiting your child, but whatever you do I would love to see it.

Here is some work for this week:

Maths : Topic : The days of the week

– Children learn and sing the days of the week song below

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3tx0rvuXIRg#menu

– Say all of the days of the week in order

-Answer questions about the days of the week such as: what day comes after Wednesday ? How many days are in a week? What day come before Tuesday? What days are the weekend? You can do the before and after questions for each of the days of the week.
– Practice reading the days of the week. You could write them on individual pieces of paper and hold each one up for children to read. Tuesday and Thursday are the ones they will find most difficult as they both begin with T. Get them to look at each of the days and look at the start and end of them.
– using the days of the week, each on a different piece of paper ,mix them up and ask the children to arrange them in order .
-Write the days of the week themselves. The children can practice writing each day individually or wrote them in order or both. They can do lots of practice of this

– you could write the days like this and have children fill in the blanks s_nd_y etc

– CJ Fallon are allowing free access to their books online if you can access this the pages on this topic are 119-121

– Finish small busy at maths book including going back over any pages not finished

English :

-next 3 pages of handwriting book- go back and make sure all other pages have been completed

– Write their news and talk about what they did at the weekend

-reading : pages 6- 10 of fun on Friday. This book is available online at edco learning which are also giving free access to their books. It is the book called what a box the story in it we are doing is fun on Friday! I will post pictures of pages here in case you cannot access it.

-New trick words : put and saw.  Lots of reading  and writing practice of these words! Write at least 3 sentences with these new words.
-learn the nursery rhyme: Jack and Jill

SPHE :

We are all very special and very different in our senior infants class! Ask the kids to think about what makes them different and special and they can complete the following which is available on twinkl but if not you could draw something similar!

PE:  Practice moving like these animals each day!

Music : Body percussion

Art: this week we can do some Kandinsky inspired art ! You can use paint or colours for this. You just draw lots of circles inside one another and colour or paint them

Gaeilge:  Learn the new words in the pictures given ask them the question and help the children say the answers! The question means what is Liam doing and then they will answer Liam is __ . They could ask you the question am you answer . You can also call out what Liam is doing and they have to draw the picture to match. You could even change liams name to their name for the drawing activity .

SESE: people who help us. Talk about people who help us in our lives. Read the following clues for the children and have them draw who they think it is.

Religion : say and practice the Hail Mary

i hope this is clear for you! Again if you need any help or advice  please let me know ! If you don’t get everything done don’t worry I would be glad if you get any of it done .
I hope to hear from you soon. Stay safe
Ms Gordon

 

Hello everybody,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well. Please tell the children that I miss them so much and can not wait to see them again. I know it is a difficult time so just try your best with the work and it doesn’t matter if it’s just done on sheets of paper and not in copies etc just keep them altogether! Unfortunately a lot of the kids books are in school but we will do the best we can. Just try to use everyday as a learning opportunity with simple things around the home. I have put together some ideas and some work I would recommend you do with them. I would have been doing similar in school. I am available to contact by email on jamielee.gordon@stjosephsgorey.ie .  If you need help with anything don’t hesitate to contact me. I would love for you to keep me updated and send me pictures of the work you are doing and creating.

Maths: Topic Number 10

-complete next 3 pages of busy at maths book

– Learn the following poem to help them learn to write the number 10 : straight line down, then around with a grin that’s how you make the number ten.

– practice counting forward and backwards to ten

-sing the song ten green bottles

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-draw groups of ten objects: circles, squares, cars, cats , flowers anything you like

-make groups of ten: ten pencils, Lego pieces, toys, teddies etc whatever is available

– you could draw a number of objects for your child and have them colour in only ten of them

-write numbers 1-10

-paint a flower with ten petals

-write numbers 1-10

– fill in missing numbers 1-10 – eg 1,2,3,5,- 7,8,9,- and they have to write what’s missing. This can be done orally too

topic 2  : story of ten

– children chant the following daily  :

0+10 =10

1+9=10

2+8=10

3+7=10

4+6=10

5+5 =10

6+4=10

7+3=10

8+2 =10

9+1 =10

10 +0=10

– daily practice for children to complete these sums. You can write them out and children can complete them. They can use objects to help eg 10 Lego, marbles etc or a number line

– play the game making ten: you call out a number for the child and they have to call out the other number that makes 10 eg you call out four and they say six back!
– complete sums of three numbers to make 10 eg 2+3 +5 =10

You can make some of the sums to number smaller than ten so they are not just guessing ten all the time eg 5+4 and 3+3+3

 

English:

-complete next five pages of handwriting Book

-reading : this material can also be accessed on edco.ie for free reading practice 4 and fun on Friday pages 1-5 . Lots of work to be done on page two of fun on Friday

– practice sounds on sound sheet given: call out sounds for them to point to or for them to write down

– Write their news twice weekly

-new Tricky words : other , were , because want . One to be done every two days . Lots of reading and writing practice of the word. Write at least 3 sentences with each of these new words.

– learn the nursery rhyme : two little dickie  birds

– read stories to children and have them sequence it what happened at the start middle and end ! They can draw this and then retell the story back to you . you can draw this if you can’t print it

Irish:

– learn the following weather words

question you ask : Cen sort aimsir ata ann inniu? Means what’s the weather like today

Awnser : Ta se ——— or Ta an aimsir —— insert word from above

-practice asking and answering these with you child ! Point to the weather you want them to say to change it up

– ask them to draw the weather you call out see example below

 

– —revise the following doing words :

-call out the words for the child to mime the actions to and then ask them to say : Ta me ag —— ( whichever action they are doing )

 

Music:

mr Greg’s  musical madness dynamics on YouTube discuss what it means and then listen to some songs and talk about the dynamics in them

https://youtu.be/99kHBXw0_UM

Mr Greg’s musical madness – tempo https://youtu.be/dYgBHpUfQnw

Discuss what it is and listen to music and talk about the tempo

 

Art:

-youtube hot to draw a lady bug

https://youtu.be/ho29DN263QM

Colour decorate and add a back ground to it

– Paint rocks to look like ladybugs ( go on a hunt to find a smooth flat rock)

– YouTube how to draw butterfly

https://youtu.be/pDxtH-OkFxU

– make a toilet roll butterfly

PE :

– Cosmic Yoga for kids

-Joe wicks pe videos

-walk within 2k radius

-fitness fun below can be done everyday

-create an obstacle course in the garden

Sphe:

create a happiness journal where the children draw and write about two things that made them happy each day.

SESE:  light and dark

-Read out  and discuss the following fact cards look at the pictures on

-Ask  them to draw and write bits they remember- they could do a little project if they want

this should keep you going for the next two weeks as I said please send me updates  of the work to date and this new work
thank you

Ms.Gordon

We went on our School Tour on the 24th of May to the chocolate garden of Ireland. We learned all about chocolate and how to make it and we even made our own chocolate dinosaurs. We also had fun playing in the park! We went with the other two senior Infant classes, can you spot any of our friends from them in our pictures?