Dear Parents,
I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend and the fabulous weather. Here is suggested work for this week. Please email any pictures of work to gfitzgibbonnickerns@gmail.com.
Kind Regards,
Ms. Fitzgibbon.
Senior Infants
English
Reading– If you are out of books, there are plenty of free ebooks on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/. Look in the ebook library on this website.
Phonics Workbook: (1 page daily)
Pg. 22, 23, 26, 27
Writing Activities
- Handwriting book
- Write their “news” one / two days.
- Shopping lists
- Write a letter to a friend/grandparent/ cousin.
- Free writing – let the child write on any topic of their choice.
Oral Language
Rainbow Oral Language book – pg. 36-39
This book is all about enhancing children’s vocabulary. Spend a few minutes discussing the picture on pg. 36/37. What can you see at the cinema? – the box office, posters, popcorn, food stall, usher, torch, big screen etc.
Maths
Figure it Out– This is a supplementary maths book to the Busy at Maths which you would be more familiar with. I would have been using it quite a bit the last few months of school for revision. I mainly used it as an early finisher prior to school shutting, so some children may have pages outlined here finished already. A page a day is plenty. Don’t feel under pressure to get all pages done.
Complete any pages not finished pgs. 21-25
Maths Games: I have included some maths games you could try with your child that support their learning on the pages outlined above. We normally would do concrete work such as this at school before doing our workbooks.
Making sets: Place a small number of objects that are normally around the house on the table. Ask your child to make a set (group) of 1 ,2 ,3 etc. objects.
Combining objects: Place two objects e.g. clothes pegs on the kitchen table, add five more, and ask “How many pegs had we at the start? How many more did we add to the set of two pegs? How many do we have altogether? This illustrates that 2 and 5 make 7
Playing Card Stories
Take a standard pack of playing cards and remove all the picture cards. Ask your child to make number stories with the remaining cards, e.g. 3+5=8. Write the + and = signs on Post-it notes or slips of paper.
Partitioning Objects
Place seven objects on the table and ask: How many objects are in this set? Break up the st by putting a pencil through the set to show 3 and 4 make 7.
Gaeilge
Look at the video “An bhfuil peata agat?” This is a short clip from the Bua na Cainte programme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQsxGlnJRA
Listen to the clip a few times and ask your child to repeat some of the sentences. Practice asking and answering the questions in the video.
An bhfuil peata agat? – Do you have a pet?
Tá peata agam – I have a pet.
Cén saghas peata atá agat – What type of pet do you have?
Tá ___________ agam – I have a ______
madra- dog
cat- cat
coinín – rabbit
iasc – fish.
An maith leat é? – Do you like it?
Is breá liom é – I love it.
SESE
Irish Wildflowers.
Go on a hunt for 3 or 4 wildflowers native to Ireland and find out their name. See if you can find some of the following: daisy, buttercup, cowslip, bluebell, clover, dandelion
Here’s a link to a useful website for identifying Irish wild-flowers http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plants_by_colour.php?id_group=2&colour=%20Pink%20Wildflowers
Take a picture of/ draw and label your flowers.
If your child is looking at flowers beware of giant hogweed and foxglove which are blooming in some places this time of the year and can be poisonous/ cause irritation.
First Class
English
- Reading – If you’re out of books, there are plenty of free ebooks on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
- Just Phonics- pg. 60, 61 aw makes the sound awwww as in paw, raw, caw, see-saw.
“au” and “al” can sometimes make an aww sound too. E.g. taught, astronaut and chalk, talk
- Treasury- Read pg. 60. Answer Qs pg. 61.
Pg. 63, 64,
Pg. 86 (this is more work on words with “aw” “au” and “al”)
- Rainbow Oral Language book – 36-39
This book is all about enhancing children’s vocabulary. Spend a few minutes discussing the picture on pg. 36/37. What can you see at the cinema? – the box office, posters, popcorn, food stall, usher, torch, big screen etc.
Maths:
Busy at Maths pg. 120, 130, 141
Maths shadow book pg. 47- revise counting in 2, 5, 10s
Gaeilge
Look at the video “An bhfuil peata agat?” This is a short clip from the Bua na Cainte programme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQsxGlnJRA
Listen to the clip a few times and ask your child to repeat some of the sentences. Practise asking and answering the questions in the video.
An bhfuil peata agat? – Do you have a pet?
Tá peata agam – I have a pet.
Cén saghas peata atá agat – What type of pet do you have?
Tá ___________ agam – I have a ______
madra- dog
cat- cat
coinín – rabbit
iasc – fish.
An maith leat é? – Do you like it?
Is breá liom é – I love it.
Draw your pet. Write sentence “Tá _____ agam”
SESE- Irish Wildflowers
Smallworld pg. 84
See if you can spot some of the following: daisy, buttercup, cowslip, bluebell, clover, dandelion
Here’s a link to a useful website for identifying Irish wild-flowers http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plants_by_colour.php?id_group=2&colour=%20Pink%20Wildflowers
Take a picture of/ draw and label your flowers.
If your child is looking at flowers beware of giant hogweed and foxglove which are blooming in some places this time of the year and can be poisonous/ cause irritation.