Dear parents,
We would like to express our sincere thanks for your continued support in guiding your child’s learning. Please find below a suggested programme of work to assist you with progressing their learning from home.
Please remember there is no expectation to cover all of these activities, it is simply a guide.
English
New sound: o (octopus, orange, October, on, off, ostrich)
Revision of s, a , t, p, i, n ,c k, e, h, r, m, d, g
The new letter can be introduced and supported by using you tube videos of Geraldine giraffe, the Jolly phonics app, Starfall and Alphablocks.
A new website to consider this week could be www.epicphonics.com. They have a lovely alphabet song that can be used for revision and also specific tasks based on the sound and formation of the letter o.
Reading
www.epicphonics.com also has a video’s on tricky words that we have encountered in our nursery rhyme folders and shared reading books
The stage 1 video revises the words; I, the, to, go, no, he, she, and we.
Can your child read all of these words? Can they put them in a sentence? If your child is confident with these words perhaps move on to the next set of tricky words
Phase 3 Tricky Words say Hello: me, be, you, are, was, all, they, my. After watching the video several times mute the sound and see can your child read the words by themselves.
Writing
Formation of the letter o.
Writing the tricky words. Children could make their own word wall at home like teachers for daily practice.
Words and sentences based on the theme of summer.
Using sentence starters such as I see a _____. Here is a _____. I like the ______.
Maths
Learn the rhyme 10 sleepy fingers and create your own actions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJ4jdeTqw. Ensure your child is holding up the correct number of fingers throughout.
Estimation games. Fill a jar/bowl with a set of objects, ask your child to guess how many without counting them. Open the jar and count. Had they made a clever guess?
Counting games: Ladybird spots is a lovely game based on counting, matching and ordering. Find it at http://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/ladybird-spots
Gaeilge
This week we will focus on summer clothes
bríste snámha (swimming shorts), t-léine (t-shirt), spéaclaí gréine (sun glasses), caipín (cap), culaith snámha (swimming togs), gúna samhraidh (summer dress), hata gréine (sun hat), bríste gearr (shorts)
The sentence you need is: Tá (choose a word from above) orm. This means I am wearing _____ or Níl _______ orm.
To introduce the new vocabulary you could make a bingo game or perhaps collect the items from the wardrobe and ask you child to
Taispeáin dom _____. Show me
www. twinkl.ie have other games and pictures that would help with these lessons.
SESE
Ebook: The Cautious Caterpillar. This can be found on www.twinkl.ie or youtube directly.
Life cycle of the ladybird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlhfHsjURSs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlbZ5fFsOg
Outdoor Activity: A Minibeast Hunt in the garden
As your child learns about different minibeasts they could draw and label them to make a little book or checklist for their garden hunt. The minibeasts we usually focus on in school are spiders, butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, ants, bees, ladybirds, and wasps.Don’t worry if you don’t know much about these creatures there is loads of information online specifically for children. CBeebies have some lovely video’s on minibeasts, twinkl.co.uk has great powerpoints and kids.national geographic.com has loads of info and pictures.
PE
Animal Movements: (can be done independently or in a race with other siblings) Slide like a Snail, Flutter like a Butterfly, Wriggle like a Caterpillar, March like an Ant, Zoom like a Fly, Creep like a Beetle.
Music/Art
Listen to Vivaldi’s Summer from the Four Seasons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT!M) Listen to the music and discuss how it makes them feel and what they think of when listening to the piece. As they listen they could also draw or paint an picture to represent their thoughts.
Should you have any questions regarding any of the above work or would like to share samples of your child’s work please feel free to contact the class teacher by email and we will reply as soon as possible
Many thanks,
Junior Infant teachers