Ms.Tolan's Senior Infants June 22nd - 26th

Ms.Tolan's Senior Infants

♥♥♥Hello everyone!!♥♥♥

Great work once again from everyone last week!

This week is our last week of home learning!

I want to thank all parents for putting in incredible work with their little ones over the past few months! I have seen many improvements since lockdown in your children's work and thats all thanks to you!! Well done!

I also have to thank the wonderful Senior Infants! It was a momentous pleasure to have the opportunity to be your teacher this year. I had so much fun with you all!! You are a wonderful bunch all round! I only wish we could have had the whole year together!

Enjoy the sunshine , have fun with your friends and family and ENJOY YOUR SUMMER!!

Best of luck in 1st class next year everyone, I've no doubt you will be brilliant ♥

Work assigned is a guideline , there is no pressure to complete all tasks!!

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

Tuesday: /ue/ sound: ew ue u_e

Wednesday: /oa/ sound: ow oa o_e

Thursday: /ie/ sound: igh ie i_e

Friday: /oo/ sound: oo

READING

Reading every day/ night with your child is fundamental at this age in order to foster effective independent reading! 😊

An amazing site to avail of many free ebooks is:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ .

Just simply sign up with a username and password. Then pick an appropriate level book for your child from their library here : 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.

As an exclusive partner with Collins Big Cat, Folens 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 login 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.

It would be brilliant to try and ask children comprehension questions about the story / text. I have attached some comprehension questions that may be useful!...

Questions to ask your child when reading –

1. 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?

2. 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…?

3. 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?

Some other ideas include:

• get your children to retell the story in their own words, sequence events in the story e.g. First, the mouse talked to the fox; Then, the mouse met the owl in his treetop house etc; draw and talk about their favourite character or create an alternative ending to 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:

1. Monday: use, fast, say, light, pick
2. Tuesday: hurt, pull, cut, kind, both
3. Wednesday: sit, which, fall, carry, small
4. Thursday: under, read, why, own, found
5. Friday: Revision of all list 10 dolch words.

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.

Monday : Exercise 2 - pg 69

Tuesday : Exercise 1 - pg 70

Wednesday : Exercise 2 - pg 70

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.

1. Monday: Put the Coins in the Piggy Bank (1c) http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-108/index2.html
2. Tuesday: Put the Coins in the Piggy Bank (mixed coins) http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-109/index2.html
3. Wednesday: Which container holds more? http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-115/index2.html
4. Thursday: Which container is empty? http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-116/index2.html
5. 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 137-140this 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

1. Click on the folder that matches the device you are installing it onto – mac or PC.
2. Choose Senior Infants and click on the setup icon to install it on your device. It takes about 15 minutes to install.
3. 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).

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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!

SESE

1) My favourite memory from Senior Infants.

Small World pg 60

2) Summer!!!

Big Book : 'And then comes Summer ' by Tom Brenner

Read aloud of the Book :

All about Summer powerpoint :

All about Summer

Summer , What can you see Powerpoint :

See and Name Summer Vocabulary Powerpoint Game

Press Link ⇒Summer Activities Folder

Additional Activities :

Create your own sunglasses

Design Your Own Sunglasses.pdf

Summer Holiday Hopes Worksheet :

Summer Holiday Hopes Pdf

My Favourite Moments from this year :

My Favourite Memories from this year pdf

Summer Colouring Pages :

Summer Colouring Pages Pack

Summer Songs :

'In Summer' from Frozen

Summer Songs by the Singing Walrus

Mr. Sun , Sun , Mr. Golden Sun

Summer poems :

Art

Choose from any of these arts and crafts options :

Drawing :

How to draw an island :

How to draw a cute ice cream :

How to draw a cute sun :