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.

• I would suggest that when your child finishes a piece of work such as a page in their maths book or handwriting, you either take a photo or scan the page and email it to me. I will be able to correct and return their work. This will help me to keep track of how they are getting on and provide different work if I feel they need to work on something.

Using this email you can also:

• ask me questions
• highlight any concerns or struggles your child may be having with the work

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

• Sounds

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.

• Blending

• Tricky words-revise

• Handwriting

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.

• Dictation

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.

• Reading

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:

• Page 29-writing numeral 0.

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.

• Page 30-Counting

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.

• Page 31 and 32-Adding

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.

• Page 33-34-Days of the Week

Say the days of the week, ‘Today is…..’, ‘Yesterday was…..’, ‘Tomorrow will be….’

• Page 35-Vertical Addition

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

• Twinkl is a great website, full of resources that can be used for learning and fun. They are offering a free month to all parents. Follow the instructions below to set up a free account.

• https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-53248-the-farm-oral-language-activity-sheet

Click on this link or search ‘the farm oral language activity sheet’. Look at the picture together and talk about it.

• https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-2546172-exploring-my-world-grandads-farm-story-powerpoint

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.