Ms. Dunne's Senior Infants 22-26 June

Hello to all my super Senior Infants!

I hope you all had a great week!

Well done on all your hard work learning at home, you are doing a brilliant job and I am so proud of all of you!

Thank you to all the parents for all of the fantastic work you have been doing at home with your children over the past few months!

This will be the last week of home learning.

Have a lovely summer and take a well earned break!

As usual this work is just a guideline, there is no pressure to complete all the work.

** If your child works with Ms.Doherty, Ms. Staunton, Ms. Hanrahan, Mr. Cullen, Ms. Lindon, Ms. O’Rourke or Ms. de Forge please check their page on the website for more home learning activities for your child. **

Extra activities and challenges will be posted on our ClassDojo page so make sure to have a look there too!

If you would like to send me a picture of your child's work you can upload it to their portfolio on ClassDojo or send it in a message to me and I will look at it. I would love to hear from you!

If you wish to contact me you can message me on ClassDojo or email me at kathy.dunne@warrenmountprimary.com

Take care

Ms. Dunne

Phonics

CJ Fallon Sounds Like Phonics has a great website. You can find it at this link: https://slp.cjfallon.ie/

Choose the Sounds Like Phonics C book and go to Unit 2: The Doctor's Surgery.

Monday:/ai/ sound: ay ai a_e

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Tuesday: /ue/ sound: ew ue u_e

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Wednesday: /oa/ sound: ow oa o_e

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Thursday: /ie/ sound: igh ie i_e

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Friday: /oo/ sound: oo

Reading

For reading books, Oxford Owl has a great website with free ebooks, you just need to create a login and password first at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/user/sign_up.html

When you are logged in you can then access free ebooks which are grouped in levels. The ebook library can be found at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=#

On that page there is a simple test you can complete with your child to see which level of books is most suitable for them. I would suggest starting with a book from age 4-5 or 5-6. You are also welcome to message me on ClassDojo and I will suggest a suitable book for your child.

When you click on a book a small box will appear, click read ebook and the ebook should open in a new tab. There should also be a triangle play button at the bottom of the page. If you click that you can listen to the pages being read aloud.

If you're looking for more reading books, Folens, as an exclusive partner with Collins Big Cat, have joined with Collins in offering free access to hundreds of book-banded readers during school closures.

Follow this link to access 330+ free Collins Big Cat eBooks and a selection of downloadable worksheets to use alongside the books at home https://collins.co.uk/pages/big-cat-ebooks

Follow the instructions (additional link redirects to Collins Connect) and sign in as a teacher.

Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk

Password: Parents20!

The books are grouped by colours with pink being the first level and lime being the last level. Start with a pink level book and if you feel it is too easy for your child, move up a level or two to find a suitable book. You can send me a message on ClassDojo or an email if you would like me to suggest a suitable level of books for your child.

Questions to ask your child when reading

Before reading the book:

Can you point to the title? or What is this? (pointing to the title)
What do you think this story will be about? What might happen in the story?
What do we call the writing on the back of the book? (Blurb) or What does the blurb tell us?

During the reading of the book:

What is happening in the pictures?
What has happened so far? Is it what you expected to happen?
What might happen next? How do you think the story might end?
What sort of character is….? Is he/she friendly/ mean/ nice…?

At the end of the book:

Did you like this book? Why? (Encourage children to develop their opinion about books by encouraging them to explain their reasons)
What was your favourite part? Why?
What was the most interesting/ exciting part of the book? Can you find it?
What sort of character was….?
Why did that character do … (give a situation/ event from the story)?
What happened in the story?

Dolch Words

Dolch or sight words are words that are the most common words in the English language. Therefore, it is important for children to be thoroughly aware of these words for more fluid reading.

We asking asking parents to work on 5 each day with your child:

Monday: use, fast, say, light, pick

Tuesday: hurt, pull, cut, kind, both

Wednesday: sit, which, fall, carry, small

Thursday: under, read, why, own, found

Friday: Revision of all list 10 dolch words.

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This is a great site for amazing ways to introduce sight words to your children and make it fun for them also: https://sightwords.com/sight-words/lessons/

Writing

For handwriting this week, the children can work on Capital Letters. For this week they can practice the capital letters F G H I J

Here is a link to some handwriting worksheets Handwriting Worksheets 22-26 June.pdf

There are 5 worksheets, the children can do one each day. If you do not have access to a printer, they can practice a letter per day on a page.

Spellings

In their Spellbound book the children can complete pages 69, 70 and 71.

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Monday : Exercise 2 - pg 69

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Tuesday : Exercise 1 - pg 70

Wednesday : Exercise 2 - pg 70

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Thursday : Exercise 3 - pg 71

Friday : Exercise 4 - pg 71

These are revision weeks in the workbook so there is no need to give a spelling test this week.

Maths

Every day in school we practice counting forwards and backwards to 20. Keep this up at home with your child.

Count forwards from 1-20 and backwards from 20-1. Ask your child to stand up and sit down for each number, touch their head then their shoulders for each number or shoulders and knees. They should be used to doing this as we do it every day in school!
Pick a different number to start and end each time. For example: start at 8 and count forwards to 18. Start at 15 and count backwards to 4. Keep the starting and ending numbers between 1 and 20.
Number sequence: Parent says two numbers and the child says the next number. For example: 12, 13, ? 7, 6, ?

For maths this week we are doing some more work on money and capacity.

Here are some online games to work on money and capacity.

Monday: Put the Coins in the Piggy Bank (1c) http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-108/index2.html

Tuesday: Put the Coins in the Piggy Bank (mixed coins) http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-109/index2.html

Wednesday: Which container holds more? http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-115/index2.html

Thursday: Which container is empty? http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-116/index2.html

Friday: Most and least http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-117/index2.html

If your child has their Cracking Maths book at home they can do pages 137-140 this week.

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Splashlearn Maths

I have set up Splashlearn Maths accounts for the children in my Ready Set Go maths group. (Areej, Devon, Marwah, Leo, Faria, Shirish) I will be setting new activities and games every week. I have emailed you the class code and your child’s password. If you did not get the email or you need any help with accessing the activities please email me kathy.dunne@warrenmountprimary.com

Ms. Hanrahan has set up accounts for her group. (Fergus, Amelia, Anum, Jan, Fatima, Oliver) Please email her norma.hanrahan@warrenmountprimary.com for your child’s login details if they are in Ms. Hanrahan’s group.

Ms. de Forge has set up accounts for her group. (Aysha, Eabha, Lennox, Rayaan, Suhaira, Alanna) Please email her colette.deforge@warrenmountprimary.com for your child’s login details if they are in Ms. de Forge’s group.

I know that some of you have been working so hard on Splashlearn and you are making great progress! Well done! Keep up the good work this week!

Gaeilge - Irish

Bua na Cainte is the interactive programme we use to teach Gaeilge in the classroom.

During the school closures, Edco has offered free access to Bua na Cainte for parents, however you will need a computer or laptop to install the software.

To access this excellent resource, do the following:

Go to http://www.edco.ie/bua

Click on the folder that matches the device you are installing it onto – mac or PC.
Choose Senior Infants and click on the setup icon to install it on your device. It takes about 15 minutes to install.
Once it is installed, you can open up the programme and enter the login details

Password: trial Username: trial

The children are very familiar with the characters and the layout so they should be able to navigate through it to find stories, lessons, games and songs.

If you have downloaded and installed Bua na Cainte on your computer you can access the following Irish lessons. If not, you can still teach the vocabulary and play some word games!

This week we are working on the theme Mé Féin (Myself).

Monday: Ceacht 3 (Lesson 3) Click on the yellow speech bubble to watch a video, click on the green music note for a song and then click on the grey game controller for some games.

Tuesday: Ceacht 4 (Lesson 4) Click on the yellow speech bubble to watch a video and then click on the grey game controller for some games.

Wednesday: Ceacht 5 (Lesson 5) Click on the yellow speech bubble to watch a video, click on the green music note for a song and then click on the grey game controller for some games.

Thursday: Ceacht 6 (Lesson 6) Click on the yellow speech bubble to watch a video, click on the green music note for a song and then click on the grey game controller for some games.

Friday: Ceacht 7 (Lesson 7) Click on the yellow speech bubble to watch 2 videos, click on the green music note for a song and then click on the grey game controller for some games.

The new words for this week are:

Cluasa (cloo-uh-sah) ears
Súile (soo-lah) eyes
Glúine (gloo-nah) knees
Cosa (cuss-ah) feet/legs
Ceann (kee-ann) head
Srón (sh-rown) nose
Béal (bail) mouth
Smig (smig) chin
Fiacla (fee-uh-kla) teeth
Ag léim (egg lay-um) jumping
Ag siúl (egg sh-ool) walking
Ag rith (egg rih) running
Ag súgradh (egg soo-grah) playing
Ag gol (egg gull) crying
Ag gáire (egg goy-rah) laughing

Resources:

Here is PDF with some flashcards for the theme Mé Féin Mé Féin Flashcards 2.pdf

Tips :

It would be great to print the flashcards out if you can, or write these words (with pictures if you can) on paper / card and play some simple games in order to help the children remember the words.
You could play a scavenger hunt with the flash cards and get them to go find it e.g. "Ba mhaith liom ..." (I would like...) and they must go find it
Playing memory games with the flashcards are great too. Lay out 3 or 4 of the cards, let them memorise where they are, close their eyes and take away one. Ask “Cad atá imithe?”Cod a-taw im-ee-ha? (What is missing?) They must remember the missing word and answer “Tá ________ imithe!” Ask them to challenge you too!
You could print or make 2 sets of the cards and play ‘Pairs’ with your child. Lay the cards out upside down. Turn a card over and say the word on it, turn another card over and say the word. If the 2 cards match you can keep them. If they don’t match, the cards are turned upside down again and it’s the next player’s turn. The trick is to remember which cards are where. The person with the most matching pairs at the end of the game wins.

You can play a guessing game with the flashcards. Hide a flashcard behind your back and get your child to guess what it is by asking “An __________ é? On _______ ay? If they are correct you can answer “Sea” Sh-ah , if they do not guess correctly you can answer “Ní hea” nee hah. You can also let your child hide the flashcard while you guess what it is!

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