Hello everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed the break! Here’s some work for the coming week. Don’t feel pressure to get everything done! I know many parents are busy working from home as well during this time.
Once again, I’ve included some activities on twinkl. You can sign up for twinkl for free by going to www.twinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS.
Listed below are links to some phonics and e-book websites that you might like to try out.
- https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
- http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qs3c0ehDvZkbiEbOj6Drg
- https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
- https://www.vooks.com/-
- https://www.starfall.com/h/
- https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html
If you have any questions you can email me at gfitzgibbonnickerns@gmail.com. Even if you would like to send pictures of any completed work/ let me know how you’re getting on I’d be delighted.
Stay safe,
Miss Fitzgibbon.
Senior Infants
English
Continue with the sounds book, revising sounds and blending words on the blending pages.
Parent can call out one or two words a day and child can try their best to write the word.
Continue practising writing in the green writing copy.
Write their “news” one / two days.
Spend a few minutes playing phonics games on one of the websites listed above.
Here’s a link to a story called “The Bear Who Came to Babysit ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7qSpVWUS8
Ask your child to retell the story in their own words.
Draw a picture of what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story!
Maths
Revising Time:
Your child needs to know the language of time- hands, clock, face, long/short hand, o’clock, numbers 1-12. In senior infants children learn the time on the hour e.g. 5 O’ clock, 6 O’clock, 10 O’ clock (half past is introduced in 1st class)
Make and decorate a clock!
Your child can cut out a circle from card or paper, and write the numerals 1-12 in the correct places (they might need to be able to see a real clock to help, this could be a little tricky). They could cut out two strips to act as hands, one long, and one short. Practice telling the time by putting the hands at different times on the clock (make sure the minute hand is always on 12) and asking your child to tell you the time. Ask your child to show you a time you call out with the hands of the clock.
The days of the week:
Your child will need to know the language of the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, weekday, weekend, yesterday, tomorrow. If you could, write out Monday to Sunday and ask your child to trace/ copy your writing.
Write the words on slips of paper and ask your child to put the days in the right order.
Busy at Maths Homework Book- pg. 34.
For more written activities, see Busy at Maths online at https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources/?levels=0&classes=0&subjects=0&serieses=0&booktitles=0&types%5B0%5D=Book+Sample
Select Senior Infants, maths, Busy at Maths, to view an ebook version of the school book. Pg. 97-99 deal with time.
Gaeilge
Look at the video on colours as Gaeilge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUO1bmbIug, try to repeat the words as they are called out on the video.
bán (white)
dearg (red)
buí (yellow)
bán-dearg (pink)
glas (green)
corcra( purple)
oráiste (orange)
gorm (blue)
liath (grey)
donn (brown)
dubh (black)
Geography:
All about the weather!
Discuss the different types of weather, rainy, sunny, cloudy, stormy, hail, snow etc.
Ask your child to keep a weather diary where they record what the weather is like every- day. Draw a picture and write a sentence about the weather.
Search “My Weather Record Worksheet” or “My Weather Diary Booklet Template” on Twinkl for worksheets.
If they like they can pretend to be a weather reporter and record themselves giving a weather report.
First Class
English
Continue with spelling booklet.
Spend a few minutes playing phonics games on one of the websites listed above.
Here’s a link to a story called “The Bear Who Came to Babysit ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7qSpVWUS8
Ask your child to retell the story in their own words.
Activity 1. Here’s some vocabulary from the story. Find the words in the story. Put these words into a sentence:
shrugged
growled
bubbles
sticky
chuckled
laundry
whispered
rushed
Activity 2: Draw a picture of what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story!
Activity 3: Pick out the words and phrases that describe the bear from the words below:
furry, scary, enormous, brown, tiny, friendly, orange, small ears, huge ears, black nose, pink nose, little eyes, big eyes.
Describe the bear in sentences using the words that you have picked out.
Activity 4: (if needed) Search “What is the bear thinking worksheet” on Twinkl for a worksheet on the story.
Maths:
Continue with Master Your Maths.
Here are some activities that revise time. In 1st class, we learn about the clock in one-hour and half-hour intervals as well as the days of the week. Your child needs to know the language of time, hands, clock-face, long/short hand, O’clock, numbers 1-12, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Make and decorate a clock!
Your child can cut out a circle from card or paper, and write the numerals 1-12 in the correct places (they might need to be able to see a real clock to help, this could be a little tricky). They could cut out two strips to act as hands, one long, and one short.
Show your child a time, e.g. 7 O’ clock and ask: What time is it? Why is it 7 O’ clock. We hope to get an answer something like Because the long hand points to 12 and the short hand points to 7. Do the same with a number of other hour times.
Now show your child a time where the half-hour is introduced, e.g. half past five. Emphasise to your child that to show half past five, the long hand points to 6 and the short hand points between 5 and 6.
The days of the week:
Your child will need to know the language of the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, weekday, weekend, yesterday, tomorrow. If you could, write out Monday to Sunday and ask your child to trace/ copy your writing.
Write the words on slips of paper and ask your child to put the days in the right order.
Gaeilge
Look at the video on colours as Gaeilge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUO1bmbIug, try to repeat the words as they are called out on the video.
Write and colour with the right colours beside the following words
bán (white)
dearg (red)
buí (yellow)
bán-dearg (pink)
glas (green)
corcra( purple)
oráiste (orange)
gorm (blue)
liath (grey)
donn (brown)
dubh (black)
Geography:
All about the weather!
Discuss the different types of weather, rainy, sunny, cloudy, stormy, hail, snow etc.
Ask your child to keep a weather diary where they record what the weather is like every- day. Draw a picture and write a sentence about the weather.
Search “My weather record worksheet” or “My Weather Diary Booklet Template” on Twinkl for worksheets.
If they like they can pretend to be a weather reporter and record themselves giving a weather report.