Dear Parents/Guardians,

The work for this week is listed below. I also included a timetable below, which can be used as a guide to complete the work. Again please just complete what you can. My email is sarah.hackett@stjosephsgorey.ie

Kind Regards,

Sarah

English

• Write their first and last name daily
• Practise reading and writing the new sight words: Mr. Mrs. looked

I Spy with my Little Eye..

Look at the instructions below and see can you find the items beginning with the different letters

Handwriting

• Ready to Write p.58 and 59
• Practise writing the new capital letter ‘V’
• How many words can you think of that begin with ‘V’?

Match the upper case letters with the lower case letters

Pick out which sentence matches the picture

Look at the pictures and write the missing sounds (ai, oa, ng, th, sh)

Finish the Sentences

The Club House

The next story in our reader ‘What a Box’ is called ‘The Club House’. Get the children to familiarise themselves with the words below this week and they can then begin to read it next week. Look at five words each day and practise reading and recognising them.

Saturday	yippee	bus	shell	has
bring	spade	laughed	reading	ball
clue	what	beach	gate	clues
club	something	our	had	house
house	read	that	who	do

 

Maths 

Topic: Between

• Ask the children what number comes in between numbers (What number is in between 6 and 8? What number is in between 3 and 5?
• Busy at Maths Workbook p.112, 113
• Busy at Maths Homework book p.38

Topic: Summer

• Recite the four Seasons and identify that it is now the summer time.
• What happens in the summer? (Hot weather, summer clothes, summer holidays, suncream, leaves on the trees, etc.)
• Busy at Maths p.114
• Recite the Summer poem below.

SESE

• Read the story ‘The Cautious Caterpillar’ below

Answer the following questions..

Draw the four different stages of the lifecycle of the butterfly on a sheet or in a copy

Complete the following  sums..

Religion: Baptism

• Discuss what happens when a child is Baptised. (They become a Catholic)
• See pictures below
• Grow in Love p.52, 53

Gaeilge

Read and look at the following pictures everyday

Topic: Bábóg Nua – New doll

Translation

• Bándearg – Pink
• Gúna – Dress
• Gleoite – Cute
• Mamó – Granny
• Bosca – Box
• Am Codlata – Bed time
• Ina suí – Sitting down

• Ask the Questions
• Cá bhfuil Laura? (Where is Laura?)
• Tá sí sa seomra suite (She is in the sitting room)
• Cad a fheiceann tú sa phictúir? (What can you see in the picture)
• Feicim ____  (teilifís-television, urlár-floor, balla-wall, tolg-sofa. fuinneog-window, spéir-sky, scamaill-clouds)

Read the following sentences and point to the correct picture

 

• Tá bronntanas ag Mamó. (Granny has a present)
• Tá Laura sa leaba. (Laura is in bed)
• Tá Laura agus an babóg sa seomra suite. (Laura and the doll are in the sitting room)
• Tá bosca sa phictúr

Practise writing ‘bábóg nua’

Timetable 

Monday

• Write ‘Our News’ (3 sentences about weather, activities, etc.)
• Play ‘I Spy’ Game
• Read and recognise the words (Saturday, bring, club, house, clue)
• Write tricky words: Mr. Mrs. Looked
• Maths p.112

Tuesday

• Handwriting, Match the capital letters and small letters on the caterpillar
• Finish the Sentences
• Read and recognise the words (yippee, spade, what, something, read)
• Write tricky words: Mr. Mrs. Looked
• Read ‘The Cautious Caterpillar’ and discuss the questions
• Maths p.113

Wednesday

• Find and write the ‘ai’ words
• Write tricky words: Mr. Mrs. Looked
• Read and recognise the words (bus, laughed, beach, our, that)
• Draw the 4 stages of a butterfly
• Maths: Homework book p.38
• Gaeilge: Go over the words

Thursday

• Find the sentence that matches the picture (Danny, Zeb)
• Write tricky words: Mr. Mrs. Looked
• Read and recognise the words (shell, reading, gate, had who)
• Maths p.114 and read ‘Summer’ poem
• Gaeilge: Go over the words and practise writing ‘bábóg nua’
• Grow in Love p.52 and discuss ‘Baptism’

Friday

• Write tricky words: Mr. Mrs. Looked
• Read and recognise the words (has, ball, clues, house, do) and go over all the words from throughout the week
• Complete caterpillar sums
• Grow in Love p.53
• Gaeilge: Go over the words and point to the correct picture