Hello everyone.
I hope that you are keeping well that and you and your families are safe and healthy at this strange time. I am just adding some updated ideas below to help keep you in touch with a little bit of school work over the week. Parents, please remember these are merely guidelines and I must stress how it is not imperative that your daughter completes all of this work. I understand that for many reasons this may not be possible and keeping safe and healthy is the priority at the moment.
Reading
Sounds
Oral Language:
Login to Folens as described above.
Writing
Keep up the letter formation and activities mentioned previously. Don't forget that cutting, sticking, painting, colouring and drawing are all important, worthwhile activities to help your child's pencil and scissor grip and help improve their fine motor skills.
Maths
Number Time is a good educational show you can watch. Each episode is dedicated to a number and is a fun way to reinforce their learning. It can be found on youtube. The following is the link for Number 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apb7dvLl5Yo
Rhymes for number formation:
Other Ideas:
As stated previously, the priority right now is that we all remain safe and well. These are all suggestions to help you if you wish to use them. Ultimately, at this age the children learn through play, experiences and opportunities to practice their language and learning in practical ways. Getting your child to help make a pizza or pancakes herself while talking about these activities is as rich a learning experience as any classroom discussion! Play is her work and if that is all she needs to keep her happy and well at this time then that is plenty! However if you feel your daughter would benefit from a little feeling of responsibility by doing some work for teacher then these ideas may help. This is an unprecedented time for us all and we are all trying to navigate our way as best we can.
Thank you very much for your continued help and support with your child's learning. Wishing you all good health and a lovely Easter.
I hope that you are keeping well that and you and your families are safe and healthy at this strange time. I am just adding some updated ideas below to help keep you in touch with a little bit of school work over the week. Parents, please remember these are merely guidelines and I must stress how it is not imperative that your daughter completes all of this work. I understand that for many reasons this may not be possible and keeping safe and healthy is the priority at the moment.
Reading
- Go to FolensOnline.ie and click register and select teacher. Fill in a username, email and password. For Roll Number use 'Prim20'. Then find the Starlight Resources for Junior Infants.
- Go to Unit 13 Pizza and Pancakes.
- Locate the Big Book ' Let's make Pizza!' Play the story and discuss with your child. Scroll back through the pages and click on the headphone icon in the top corner of each page. Have your child answer the questions.
- Locate Core Reader 3 - 'Let's make Pancakes' Listen to the story and discuss. There is a sight words balloon popping game here that the girls really enjoy doing on the whiteboard in class. Play this with your child. Also there is a flashcards section which your child can go through
- Revise all the Sight Words your child has covered so far. Have fun spotting them in books, on cereal packets etc. Focus on reinforcing these and don't worry about any extra ones at this stage .
- Remember, Oxford Owls have a free eBook library which is very good for supplementary reading www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Sounds
- Keep revising the letter names and sounds and practicing sounding out the short words suggested earlier.
Oral Language:
Login to Folens as described above.
- Locate Poster 13 - Pizza and Pancakes- Listen to Story 1 and discuss.
- Complete labelling activity.
- Listen to Story 2.
- Answer Questions and complete activity.
- Listen to poem: Dad's Cooking Pancakes by John Foster
- Discuss and pick out rhyming words
Writing
Keep up the letter formation and activities mentioned previously. Don't forget that cutting, sticking, painting, colouring and drawing are all important, worthwhile activities to help your child's pencil and scissor grip and help improve their fine motor skills.
Maths
- Practice counting 0-10 and backwards from 10-0.
- So far we have been making sets of 1s, 2s and 3s and have had lots of discussion on where we see these numbers and how we use them ( to find pages in books etc) and how to form them.
- Below, I will put the little rhymes we use to help remember their formation and will add 4 and 5 if you wish to help your daughter with them. 5 tends to be a super important number for Junior Infants so relating numbers to their ages always makes Maths more exciting!!
Number Time is a good educational show you can watch. Each episode is dedicated to a number and is a fun way to reinforce their learning. It can be found on youtube. The following is the link for Number 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apb7dvLl5Yo
Rhymes for number formation:
- Number one is like a stick. A line straight down, that's very quick!
- For number 2 go right around and draw a line across the ground.
- All the way around, what do you see? Around again... it's the number 3!
- Down and over and down once more...That's how you make the number 4.
- Down around and then you stop. finish 5 with a line on top.
Other Ideas:
- PE: The girls have been really enjoying yoga lessons from Cosmic Yoga... You can find lots of nice follow along routines on U Tube.
- Music: Dabbledoo, the interactive music programme we began using this year, have offered parents a free subscription. Go to https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access/?product_id=1122889&coupon_code=18767N
- The Learning Station also has some great action songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YbSxMhsQ0
- Sesame Street do nice podcasts for each of the letters
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwdL6gC7kVQ
- Peep and the Big Wide World- nice cartoons based on Science topics. The Spring themed ones might be nice for this time of year. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peep+and+the+big+wide+world+spring
As stated previously, the priority right now is that we all remain safe and well. These are all suggestions to help you if you wish to use them. Ultimately, at this age the children learn through play, experiences and opportunities to practice their language and learning in practical ways. Getting your child to help make a pizza or pancakes herself while talking about these activities is as rich a learning experience as any classroom discussion! Play is her work and if that is all she needs to keep her happy and well at this time then that is plenty! However if you feel your daughter would benefit from a little feeling of responsibility by doing some work for teacher then these ideas may help. This is an unprecedented time for us all and we are all trying to navigate our way as best we can.
Thank you very much for your continued help and support with your child's learning. Wishing you all good health and a lovely Easter.