Maidin mhaith gach duine and welcome to Week 7 of learning from home.
Morning meeting
Today is a very special day for another student in our class as they turn 6 years old!
Can guess who our birthday student is? I'll give you three clues.
1. Our birthday student is a girl.
2. She loves tabby cats and kittens.
3. Her name begins with /e/
Happy birthday Missus!
We hope you have a brilliant day.
Let's get bright eyed and bushy tailed with this special morning warm up It's your birthday .
Gaeilge
We are continuing to explore the theme of television this week. Please watch the lesson Ag feachaint ar scannán.
Follow the link to access the Luascartaí. Practice the vocabulary by clicking the flashcard and displaying the picture.
- Students should repeat each term as it is introduced.
- Students and parents should assign a simple action to each word.
- Play the matching game by clicking the 'match' icon in the left hand column
Maths
Follow the link to practise your counting. Bubble count game
Today's maths task involves creating a number obstacle course.
The criteria are as follows :
- Each course must feature 5 tasks or actions
- Junior Infants should incorporate numbers between 1 and 10.
- Senior Infants should incorporate numbers 1 and 15.
- The course can take place either indoors or outdoors.
Have a look at Ms McDermott's number obstacle course.
Fruit break - Take a ten minute break and grab a healthy snack.
Phonics
Uppercase and lowercase letter match
Junior infants :
We are revising the /ch/, /sh/ and /th/ sounds all this week.
Listen to the Jolly Phonics 42 sounds song from 9:42 to revise each of the three sounds and to practise their corresponding actions.
Junior infants worksheet:
1. Find the first 'Digraph-just dot it' 2. Encourage your child to consider whether
worksheet. the sound is missing from the start, middle
or end of the word.
Ask your child to name the item shown before
identifying the missing sound at the start,
middle or end.
3. Circle or dot the missing sound and
write it into the available space.
Senior infants:
Watch Magic e in action!
Please watch today's phonic lesson.
Pause the video at various points to seek answers or a response from your child. Each student should practice reading the /o_e/ words in the video.
Senior infants worksheet:
1. Find the /o_e/ colouring worksheet. 2. Colour the /o_e/ sounds.
Tricky words
Junior infants :
- Teach new 'Little' and 'Down'
- Revise all the blue tricky words so far by playing a matching game.
Senior infants:
- Practice your second set of tricky word balls.
Reading
Junior infants:
- Begin reading The Dragon Balloon and revise it until Wednesday.
- Junior infants should read a minimum of three pages per day.
Senior infants group 1:
- Begin reading your first reader Paris Adventure and revise it throughout the week.
- Senior infants should read a minimum of five pages per day.
Senior infants group 2:
- Begin reading your first reader The Scarf and revise it until Wednesday
- Senior infants should read a minimum of five pages per day.
Lunch - Have your lunch and get some fresh air.
Survey
Please provide feedback on today's learning. Daily Parent Feedback
Parents and guardians can take pictures of the children's work and forward them to the School email address . I will correct any work and provide feedback via the Aladdin App noticeboard.
