Hello again everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well and having fun at home. Thank you again to all those parents who have contacted me via email. It really helps me to keep track of the children’s learning and offer further support where necessary. I also really enjoyed seeing the children’s artwork and photos.

My email address is katiedoylestjosephs@gmail.com for anyone who wants to contact/continue to contact me.

Below you will find school work for this week. As always do not put yourself under pressure to do all of the work; do as much as you and your child have time for.

There is a timetable included at the end of the post.

Have a great week,

Miss Doyle

English:

Handwriting

• Book-f and s

• Access the online book and use the ‘draw’ tool to practice the letters

-go to www.edcolearning.ie

-log in with the following details: username: primaryedcobooks. Password: edco2020.

-Search for and click on ‘Ready to Write A1’. (Letter f-pg. 65, letter s-pg. 66)

Reading

• ‘My Little Box of Books’ book 9 ‘Please’
• Flashcard games

Flashcards

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’.

Tricky words

• Tricky words: new tricky words this week ‘said’ and ‘here’
• Flashcards and tricky word games : Tricky word flashcards ‘said’ and ‘here’
• Tricky word worksheets: Tricky word worksheets ‘said’ and ‘here’

Said:

1. First sound out the word phonetically and point out that when we sound out the word like this it sounds funny, it is not a real word. Therefore it is a tricky word.
2. Tell the child that in this word the letters ‘a’ and ‘i’ are tricking us by joining together to make the sound /e/; s-e-d ‘said’

Here:

• First sound out the word phonetically and point out that when we sound out the word like this it sounds funny, it is not a real word. Therefore it is a tricky word.
• Tell the child that in this words the letters ‘e’ in the middle is tricking us by saying /ee/ and the ‘e’ at the end stays silent; h-ee-r ‘here’

Games:

-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.

• Blending-wordbox 10

• Dictation sentences: Call out one full word at a time (without sounding it out yourself) and see if your child can sound out and write the letters independently.

1. This is a peg.
2. This is a cup.
3. This is a box.
4. The tree is green.
5. The coat has a zip.

Maths:

• Busy at Maths interactive activity 120

Access interactive maths activities by going to https://www.cjfallon.ie/. On the right of the page click ‘parent/student resources’ then click ‘student resources’. On the page that appears select the following boxes: Primary-Junior infants-Maths-Busy at Maths-Busy at Maths Junior Infants-Interactive then go to the 6th page to find activity 120.

• Online game: https://ie.ixl.com/math/jr-infants/coin-values-1c-2c-5c-and-10c

• Worksheet: Money addition worksheet

• Bingo Money bingo

-Call out a money value up to 5c. If your child has this amount in coins on their bingo card they cover it with a counter.

-Show your child a selection of coins up to 5c, ask them to figure out the value and cover up that number on the bingo card.

SESE:

• The first aeroplane

-Learn about the invention of the first aeroplane and the timeline from the hot air balloon to the first flight to space.

• Flight timeline

-Cut out and glue the pictures in the correct order

Art:

• Use items outside (or in your house if it is raining) to make the shape of a rocket ship.

(Photos of outdoor art below as an example)

Gaeilge: This is optional-one or two words a day if you have time

• Read the words to your child
• Call out a word and ask them to point out that word
• Play games e.g. ‘what am I?’

1. Ainmhithe [an-vi-ha]=animals
2. Béar mór [bear moore]=big bear
3. Moncaí beag [monkey bee-ug]=small monkey
4. Tíogar [teegar]=tiger
5. Ag luascadh [egg loos-ca]=swinging/climbing

Sample timetable: Add in the ‘fun’ activities if you have time

Monday:

1. Handwriting book ‘f’
2. Reading-revise sight words ‘can’ ‘we’ ‘please’ ‘home’
3. Tricky words-figure out the word ‘said’ and complete worksheet
4. Maths-CJ Fallon Busy at Maths interactive page 120
5. Dictation-1 sentence
6. Gaeilge-1/2 words

Tuesday:

1. Handwriting interactive page 65 on edcolearning
2. Reading-book 9 ‘Please’
3. Tricky words-revise previous tricky words and ‘said’; tricky word games
4. Blending-5 words
5. Dictation-1 sentence
6. Gaeilge-1/2 words

Wednesday:

1. Handwriting book ‘s’
2. Reading-revise sight words
3. Tricky word ‘here’-figure out and complete worksheet
4. Maths worksheet
5. Dictation-1 sentence
6. Gaeilge-1/2 words

Thursday:

1. Reading-book 9
2. Tricky word games
3. Blending-5 words
4. Dictation-1 sentence
5. Maths-bingo
6. SESE-‘The First Aeroplane’ and timeline worksheet
7. Gaeilge-1/2 words

Friday:

1. Handwriting interactive page 66 on edcolearning
2. Art-nature art
3. Tricky word games
4. Dictation-1 sentence
5. Maths-https://ie.ixl.com/math/jr-infants/coin-values-1c-2c-5c-and-10c
6. Blending-all words

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.

English:

• Handwriting booklet-z and e

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)

• Reading; Little book 9 ‘Please’. Keywords: ‘can’ ‘we’ ‘please’ ‘home’

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.

Flashcards

• Tricky words: new tricky words this week ‘come’ ‘some’

1. First sound out the word phonetically and point out that when we sound out the word like this it sounds funny, it is not a real word. Therefore it is a tricky word.
2. Tell the child that in these words the letter ‘o’ is tricking us by making an ‘u’ sound instead and the letter ‘e’ is tricking us by staying silent.

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.

• Blending:

• Dictation sentences:Call out one full word at a time (without sounding it out yourself) and see if your child can sound out and write the letters independently.

1. I can see a bat.
2. I can see the sun.
3. I can see a net.
4. I can see a ten.
5. This is a cat.

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.

Writing paper

Maths:

• Busy at Maths pg. 38
• Busy at Maths pg. 39
• Access interactive maths activities by going to https://www.cjfallon.ie/. On the right of the page click ‘parent/student resources’ then click ‘student resources’. On the page that appears select the following boxes: Primary-Junior infants-Maths-Busy at Maths-Busy at Maths Junior Infants-Interactive then go to the 6th page to find activities 117, 118 and 119.
• Below I have attached two pages; one with coins to be cut out, the other with a picture of a money box. Your child could cut out the coins and sort them by value. Then you could call out a value up top 5c and they can select the coins to make that amount and put them in the money box.
• Play ‘shop’ by giving your child real coins or those cut out from the page below. You can be the shopkeeper and they can select the correct coins to ‘buy’ given objects (up to 5c)

Coins and money box

For Fun:

SESE:

• AU-T2-E-231-Apollo-11-Moon-Landing-Report-Information-Powerpoint_ver_2

Use the powerpoint above to tell the story of the first moon landing.

• You could also watch the following short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCt1BwWE2gA
• Moon picture-draw what they think they would see if they went to the moon.

Art:

• Colour, paint or collage the astronaut and give him/her a face.

Astronaut

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

1. Handwriting booklet /z/
2. Reading-practice the key words ‘can’ ‘we’ ‘please’ ‘home’ using flashcards.
3. Tricky word-come; figure out the word as explained above.
4. Maths interactive activity 117/118; follow the instructions above
5. Dictation-1 sentence

Tuesday:

1. Handwriting online book pg. 63 (follow instructions above)
2. Reading-practice the key words again using the flashcards
3. Tricky word-revise the word ‘come’; you could play one of the tricky word games with the new word and previous words
4. Blending-5 words
5. Dictation-1 sentence

Wednesday:

1. Handwriting booklet /e/
2. Reading-Little book 9, pg. 2-4 (follow instructions above to access)
3. Tricky word-some; figure out the word as explained above
4. Busy at Maths pg. 38
5. Dictation-1 sentence

Thursday:

1. Reading-Little book 9, pg. 5-8 (follow instructions above to access)
2. Tricky words; revise ‘come’ and ‘some’ ; you could play one of the tricky word games
3. Blending-5 words
4. Dictation-1 sentence
5. Maths interactive activity 119; follow the instructions above

Friday:

1. Handwriting online book pg. 64 (follow instructions above)
2. Tricky words; revise
3. Dictation; 1 sentence
4. Maths; money box activity or play shop
5. Blending; a selection of the words above

Again, please do not feel under pressure to complete everything. Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.