Hello everyone,
Hope you had a good week and are keeping safe. As this would be the second last week of school, the workload will be reduced further as it would have been if we were in school. We have also decided to have wellness as a focus and this will include a fun activity for each day. There will be no work on Friday as the children can create their own “fun Friday”. I would love to see pictures of the children completing the activities and their work. My email is jamielee.gordon@stjosephsgorey.ie if you need anything just contact me. If you cant access anything just let me know. Enjoy your week .
Thanks.
Ms Gordon
Monday:
English:
Reading: Read and discuss Pages 44-45 of “What a box”
Writing: Tricky word: The children write and learn the following tricky word: love. They come up with sentences orally and then they must write at least 3 down.
Oral language: Word Tennis Game: Rules : I will give a list of topics: You and the child must say as many words to go with these topics as possible, passing from one to the other. It is extra fun if you have a ball and tennis rackets to actually play tennis while doing it. Example: Topic farm animals: Child: sheep, Parent cow, child, horse,parent pig etc
Topics:
- Zoo animals
- Sports
- Vegetables
- colours
Wellbeing: Mindful Monday: Think of 3 things you are thankful for: Examples: My family, ice cream, my pet dog. It can be anything. Draw a picture of these and write them down.
Tuesday:
Maths: Topic: Capacity
- Put two empty glasses on the table, pick one of the glasses up and ask is their anything in it. Then fill one glass up with water. Ask them which glass is full and which glass is empty.
- Get the children to go on a hunt around the house to find items that are full and empty. Get them to find three of each.
- Pour out a little bit of the water from the full glass. Ask them the following: Is the glass full of water now? Is it empty? Is it nearly full or nearly empty? Would it take a lot of water to fill the glass.
- Now ask them to go find one thing that is nearly full and one thing that is nearly empty in the house.
- Complete Page 115 of Busy at maths book
Wellbeing: Thoughtful Tuesday: Draw a picture or do an art /craft to give to somebody you love to surprise them and brighten up their day.
Wednesday :
English:
Reading: Read and discuss Pages 46-47 of “What a box”
Rhyming: Complete the following worksheet where the child writes down three words that rhyme with the following words: bed, cat, dog ,pen, man, bun.
Dictation: Call out the following words for the children to use their sounds to write down:
- sport
- loud
- lie
- wool
- sweep
- join
- teeth
- pain
- queen
Wellbeing: Wellness Wednesday: Use toys and objects from your garden to make an obstacle course for you and your family to do.
Thursday:
Maths:
- Give the child five empty bottles, containers, glasses, cups etc. Ask them to arrange them in order of what they think holds the most to what they think holds the least.
- Now check if they are correct by using a measuring jug and some water. Get the child to fill each container with water. Then pour it into the measuring jug to see of they had them in the correct order.
- Ask them the following question: What held the most water? What held the least water?
- Complete Pages 116 and 117 of Busy at maths book.
Wellbeing: Tour Thursday: Sadly we didn’t get to go on our school tour this year so I thought it would be fun if we went on a virtual school tour. The locations is one of my Favourite places in the world: Disneyland!!!
- First watch this 8 minute video of the Magic Happens Parade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR-KP8KH1Ng
- Enjoy singing along and can you say the Disney films the characters are in.
- Here are some ideas to make this extra fun: Chose one or all of them:
- Paint your face or dress up as your favourite Disney character
- Use lego to make your own theme park or castle
- Use your toys to make your own parade.
- Watch a Disney movie.
- Sing your favourite Disney song
- Draw a picture based on Disney.
- Enjoy 🙂
Friday: Have a fun Friday!