Suggested Activities 6 th -8 th May and – 11 th -15 th May 2020

Hello again everyone!

We hope you all enjoyed the May Bank holiday weekend. Here is the next Menu of activities we suggest you complete between Wednesday 6 th May and Friday 15 th May . As before, please do not feel under any pressure to complete all of it. Just do what you can. We know you are all doing a great job already – well done!

Just a remimnder from last week: Creating a plan for your child’s day

The best way to ensure some schoolwork is done over the time we are apart is to make it a regular part of your child’s day. There are lots of other important and valuable activities your child can do alongside schoolwork each day. You and your child are probably doing some or all of these things already! The Department of Education and Skills document “A Guide for Parents on supporting children and young people with daily routines while schools are closed” provides some good advice on creating a flexible plan for the day with your child which might include some of the following:

1. Normal Daily Routines – drinking lots of water, eating regular meals, establishing a bedtime routine, etc.

2. Physical Activities & Housework – physical activity like playing outside or following a workout routine like Joe Wicks, tidying up their bedroom, etc.

3. Social Activities – keeping in contact with friends and family (using technology or writing letters/ cards), family activities such as board games, watching a film together, etc.

4. Enjoyable/Creative Activities – playing, baking, cooking, painting, drawing, etc.

5. Schoolwork – not just pen and paper activities! Children also learn by playing, making, discussing, watching, listening and having fun!

Children are learning key skills and knowledge by engaging in any of the above five activities, not just by doing the schoolwork we set. Providing your child with some choices can also help to get them engaged e.g. “Would you prefer to do a Joe Wicks workout or a Cosmic Kids yoga workout?”, “Would you prefer to start with some reading or some writing today?” etc.

Books / Online Resources Over the Moon Resources (English)

To access, please follow this link:

https://www.gillexplore.ie/products?Type=1&SubjectList=0&LevelList=0

-Click on Skills Book Senior Infants

-To access an online version of the children’s book – click on “General Skills Book eBook Senior Infant Skills Book”

-To access oral language elements (posters, poems, etc.) – go to the scroll down menu named “All Chapters” and access the relevant unit e.g. unit 8. You will see a green circle with a computer labelled “Unit 8 Oral Language and Interactive Resources” – that will give you access to posters, poems, games, etc. that are relevant to the topic/unit.

Folens {Handwriting (All Write Now), Maths (Planet Maths), Gaeilge (Abair Liom), SESE (Explorers)}

To access parents can follow the steps below:

1. Go to FolensOnline.ie and click register2. Select Teacher3. Fill in a username, email and password4. For Roll Number use the code:  Prim20

When you gain access to the site, you can choose the class groups that are relevant to your family e.g. Senior Infants. Please see the relevant Folens books above (Irish, SESE, Handwriting and Maths).

You can choose eBook (which shows you a digital copy of your child’s book) or resources which gives you access to resources which may support your child’s learning. You can make the amount of resources you see more specific by clicking on Topic/Lesson.

Twinkl

Twinkl is a fantastic resource and you can find a great number of extra resources (worksheets, stories, crafts, activities, etc) to support your child’s learning at home. To access:

1. Go to www. twinkl .ie/offer

2. Enter IRLTWINKLHELPS 

English

Workbook – Over the Moon

We are still working on our theme of The Zoo so Click on Unit 8 . Click on the Interactive Poem. You can hear it being read aloud. Listen to it a few times and listen out for all the animals in the poem. We have practised in class telling our news using the words First, Next, Then,

Finally. This helps us to put our thoughts in the correct order. Think about what you did at home one of the days and see can you tell someone about it using First, Next, Then, Finally.Here’s my example: First I ate my breakfast, Next I looked at my emails, Then I did some baking, Finally I went for a walk.Some questions about the poem – why do you think the monkeys made them laugh? Why do you think the elephants are the author’s favourite animal?

Can you find the rhyming words in the poem?Now go to Page 109 – You have to put the animals from the poem in the correct order. Write the word First, Next etc under the animal as they appear in the poem.Part B – Look at the picture of the bear/cage/zoo – can you name the pictures that rhyme with bear/cage/zoo. Cross out the picture that does not rhyme in each line! You could colour the rhyming pictures if you like.

Next Go to Page 110 – We are still practising those Tricky Digraph sounds!! This time we are revising oo, ng and or. Look at the pictures and say the word. Can you trace over the letters and write the missing sound. Don’t forget to choose a word from the list and write your own sentence.

Time for a story! – Our story is called Dear Greenpeace by Simon James. We are talking about Visualising. Visualising while reading is like having a movie in your head of what is happening in the story. Good readers can have a picture in their head, but other senses such as sounds, smells and feelings are also used.

You could make a handsign like a movie camera to show that you’re visualising. Can you start your sentence ‘I can picture…, In my head I can see…, I am imagining…The movie in my head shows…, I can smell…, I can taste…, I can hear…

Before reading the book at all I want you to close your eyes, imagine a girl called Emily, she has a garden, there is a pond in her garden. Can you make a picture in your mind of the pond and garden. Emily has a WHALE in her pond. Can you see the whale in your head? What does it look like? What is he doing? What does he smell like?!Before reading – What is Greenpeace? Look at the front cover – Why do people write letters? Why do we need a stamp? How do you start a letter or a card? Why do you think Emily is writing to Greenpeace

Click on the link for Dear Greenpeace. Maybe some of you have this book at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJbEtAthaPk

Make connections – Have you ever seen a whale before? Do you know something about whales already?

Listen to the story! Go to Page 111 in your book. Can you write some words in the speech bubble to describe the whale – is he big or

small, does he feel smooth, rough, soft, hot, cold, slimy. What do you think he smells like!! Write the words in the speech bubble.Imagine an animal appeared in your house or your garden!!! Write about the animal, where he was and then draw the animal.

Imagine if you found a penguin in the fridge or a dolphin in the bath or an elephant in your garden!!!

Click on Unit 8 Digital Library – there are Matching activities – words that rhyme, animals and their food and a Memory Match animal game. There are Flashcards for more reading practice with the tricky digraphs eg ai, oo, or, ng. Sort real and nonsense words into boxes.

Handwriting – All Write Now (Folens)

Page 51 – Yy – Think of words that have “y” in them e.g. hay, day, stay, yellow, yo-yo, you, your, yesterday etc. Point out how capital Y looks different to lower case y. The capital letter starts at the top line whereas lower case letter starts at the dotted line. Practise the letters, write a sentence and draw a matching picture!

Write some extra sentences in your copybook/on a piece of paper using the “y” letter.

Youtube – Alphablocks episode based on “y” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_LjqrhMbNk

Small Handwriting book Page 35 – letter Y

When writing, please remember:

1. Lower case letters – c,a,d,o,g,q, - these all begin at the top and go around; just like letter ‘c’

2. Lower case letters – b,f,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,p,r,t,u,v,y, - these all begin with a downward stroke like writing a number 1

3. Some exceptions to these are - e,s,v,w,x,zSpellings

The words to learn for this week are (it’s a week and a half’s work so a few extra spellings):

1. me2. be3. you4. we5. are6. go

Remember to use the Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check method for learning spellings

Look at the word Say the word Cover up the word Write the word yourself Check that what you have written is correct.

Reading

Continue to practice reading tricky words – This document provides you with some ideas to teach your child new words or words they find tricky. In Senior Infants, we mainly focus on learning the first 100 words (page 12) but if your child has mastered this, try the second hundred (pg 14). https://www.education.ie/en/Education-Staff/Information/NEPS-Literacy-Resource/NEPS-Resource-Precision-Teaching-Approach.pdf

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Use this resource to find some levelled readers (like the ones we send home from school). You have to register but it’s free.

Maths

Our new topic this week is Money. There is a lot of preparation work to do before we open our Maths book at all! Set up a Shop at home and play shop. Children learn lots through Play! For example the language of Money – buying, selling, how much, what does it cost, expensive, dear, cheap, Sale price. Make sure your child knows what these words mean and encourage them to use these words. Please try and do this beforehand to make sure your child is very familiar with all the coins and notes too e.g 5 euro/ 10 euro/20 euro. You can ask someone at home to get some coins/notes for you to look at. Look out for the colour of the coins – are they all the same? Look out for the size of the coins – which coins are small/big? Look at the number on the front of the coin – this tells you its value/what coin it is. Remember with money we have to use the word cent after the number e.g 5 cent, 10 cent etc. Look at the back of the coins – what types of picture do you see?? These tell us which countries the coins were made. How do you know when a coin has been made in Ireland – what is our picture?Coin Rubbings -Get a piece of paper and place a coin underneath and using a crayon/twistable/colouring pencil, can you make a coin rubbing of the back and front of the coin. Some colours work better than others for this. Don’t choose a colour that is too dark!

Planet Maths Big Workbook – pg 108 – Match the coins to the correct amount of cent.

Pg 109 – How much is the lollipop/apple/banana/bar of chocolate? Which is the dearest/most expensive? Which is the cheapest/least expensive? Colour the correct amount of coins to make 2 cent/ 4 cent etc. Use real coins and count out the right amount before you colour in.There are some piggy banks at the end of the page – Draw the correct amount. Children can draw a circle for the coin and write the number with the letter ‘c’ beside it to show that it is ‘cent’. Some children may find it easier to stick with 1 cent coins for now. Other children may be able to work out how to use a combination of 1 cent, 2 cent, 5 cent coins.Remember – there is no such thing as a 3 cent coin or a 6 cent coin etc!!! Some children get a bit mixed up at first because we are talking about Money and not Number!

Page 110 – Look at the piggy banks. How much money is in each one? When adding the coins, remember it is just like ordinary addition. Look at the number and add it to the next number etc.

Page 111 – The Shop. Look at the Sweet Shop. Name all the things for sale and say how much they are. Which item is the dearest/cheapest? 4 children have bought things in the shop – can you add the shopping bills? Who spent the most/least money?

Can you look at the sweet shop and make up your own shopping bills and add them up!

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-n-5561-money-piggybanks-activity-sheet

Gaeilge

This week we are looking at the Lesson An Lá Spóirt. Go into Folens then Abair Liom and click on Lesson, then click on

No. 26 An Lá Spóirt. Click on the Luaschártaí (Flashcards) to learn the vocabulary.The

children will be familiar with some of the phrases e.g. ag léim (jumping), ag rith (running), ag scipeáil (skipping), ag siúl (walking)New Vocabulary – rás trí chos (three legged race, rá ubh agus spúnóg (egg and spoon race), liathróid peile (football), liathróid chispheile (basketball), húlahúp (hoola hoop), go mall (slow), go tapa (fast), uachtar reoite (ice cream), ag imirt cispheile (playing basket ball).

Click on Póstaer (poster) and then on Scéal (story). This poster is all about Sports Day in school. You can click play to hear the story:An Lá Spóirt (The Sports Day) Tá na páistí ar scoil (The children are at school)An Lá spóirt atá ann. (It is Sports Day)Tá na páistí go léir ag súgradh. (The children are all playing)Tá Seán agus Síofra sa rás trí chos. (Seán and Síofra are in the three legged race)Tá feadóg ag an múinteoir. (The teacher has a whistle).

The children could try to do some actions and say what they’re doing – Tá mé ag rith (I am running). Tá mé ag siúl (I am walking)Tá me ag léim (I am jumping)

Tá mé ag ithe (I am eating)Tá mé ag ól (I am drinking)Tá mé ag imirt peile (I am playing football)Tá mé ag imirt sacair (I am playing soccer)

Look at the poster and make up your own sentence.Tá buachaill ag léim (A boy is jumping)Tá cailín ag caoineadh (A girl is crying)Tá Seán ag rith (Seán is running)Tá Síofra ag rith (Síofra is running)Feicim húlahúp sa phictiúr (I see a hoola hoop in the picture)

Keep practising the Flashcard vocabulary for the poster.

Click on Amhrán (song) and listen to the song all about walking, running and jumping – It’s called Is maith liom é – I like it!

Irish Workbook Page 90 – A. Ciorcal nó cearnóg (circle or square) Abair (say)

o Cuir méar ar na pictiúir. (Put your finger on the pictures). Call out the following to see if they know which picture is which – ag siúl (walking), ag rith (running), rás trí chos (three legged race), uachtar reoite (ice cream), liathróid peile (football) hula húp (hoola hoop), liathróid cispheile (basketball).

o ‘Tarraingígí ciorcal timpeall ar an bpictiúr den rás trí chos. (Draw a circle around the three legged race)

o Tarraingígí cearnóg timpeall ar an bpictiúr den rás ubh agus spúnóg (Draw a square around the egg and spoon race)

o Tarraingígí ciorcal timpeall ar an liathróid chispheile. (Draw a circle around the basketball)

o Tarraingígí ciorcal timpeall ar an duine atá ag rith go tapa. (Draw a circle around the person running fast)

o Tarraingígí cearnóg timpeall ar an uachtar reoite.’ (Draw a square around the ice cream)

Page 90 – B. Tarraing X ar an gceann atá difriúil. (Put an X on the odd one out)Abair (Say) ‘Cuirigí méar ar uimhir a haon. Cén ceann atá difriúil? Put your finger on number/line 1. Which one is different?Cuirigí méar ar uimhir a dó. (Put your finger on number 2. Which one is different?) Cén ceann atá difriúil? Cuirigí méar ar uimhir a trí. Cén ceann atá difriúil? Put your finger on number 3. Which one is different? Cuirigí méar ar uimhir a ceathair. Cén ceann atá difriúil?’ Put your finger on number 4. Which one is different?

SESE

History – What were clothes like in the olden days? Children talk about their favourite item of clothing and say why they like it.

Discuss: What are clothes made of? What do they feel like? Go to Folens Online and Click on Explorers then Theme and Click

on No. 9 Materials. Click on History Tab.Clothes: Old and Modern: Questions Click the numbered buttons. Answer questions about the old clothes the children are wearing in the picture.

Sorting Old and Modern Clothes – Click on the digital tab

Listen to the question and decide whether the clothes are old or modern.

Which of the clothes do you like? Why? Which of the clothes do you not like? Why?Gather a selection of the children’s coats/clothes. Check the tags. Where were they made? Find those countries on Google Maps.

Geography – Clothes around the world . Make a list of all of the countries that the children know or have visited.

Clothes Around the World: StoryListen to the story about clothing worn around the world – e.g. Spain, Tanzania, Scotland, Japan etcUse Google Maps or a globe to identify the countries mentioned.

Recap the traditional dress from each country. Click the link for more traditional dress pictures.https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-g-087-traditonal-clothes-from-around-the-world-display-postershttps://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-5305-clothes-from-around-the-world-video-powerpointClick on Georgraphy/Clothes Around the World/ Label tagClick on the words to move the label to the clothes. Clothes Around the World: QuestionsClick the numbered buttons. Answer questions about the clothes in the picture.

Draw and write about your country of choice (from the poster) and the traditional clothes from that country.Design your own type of clothes that you like to wear.

RE

Water is Fun

This week’s lesson is about water being fun, whether it’s a beach visit, playing in the water or having fun with water at home. The Bible story this week is a story Jesus told about two builders. There is a link to a video version of the story too. Saying thank you to God for water is important.

Resources: The song The Wise man built his house upon a rock is found here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5bBDRpzPM

The story of the wise and foolish builders is here:

https://request.org.uk/restart/2014/12/10/story-time-wise-foolish-builders/

You could make lego houses and retell the story.

This story is also about water and the fishermen got an amazing catch of fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYmiGu2BlY

Art / Music

Design and make an item of clothing using coloured paper or pieces of fabric or paint a picture of your design

Draw, colour, paint or make items for your own Toy Shop or Sweet Shop. Make a price tag for each item to show how many cent it costs.

Draw the things you like to do in the waterMusic with Myleene Klass https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ

o Click the link below for several week’s worth of songs and activities.https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ootam-at-home/

PE

Here is a nice resource with some activity ideas that can be integrated into your child’s play at home to continue to support their gross motor skills development. This pack contains activities to support core strength, balance, bilateral integration (using both left and right sides of the body and upper and lower body together in a coordinated way) and ball skills.

https://ncse.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gross-Motor-skills-Parent-Booklet-Primary.pdf

Click on the link below from the GAA and there are 4 lesson plans for ideas for Infants https://learning.gaa.ie/PECeim

Youtube o Joe Wickso Cosmic Kids Yogao Go Noodle (dancing)

Here are some cards you could print out or make yourself to create different fitness stations in your back garden or indoors. The whole family could get involved! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/pe-from-the-home-fitness-station-activity-cards-t-mov-500

Set up your own “Lá Spóirt” using some of the activities and vocabulary you learned in Irish this week!

SPHE (Social Personal and Health Education)

Keep washing those hands! Here’s a powerpoint you could show your child to remind them what to do:https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5332-eyfs-all-about-washing-your-hands-powerpoint

Here is an activity where you must cut and paste the steps of washing your hands in the correct order https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5353-eyfs-washing-your-hands-sequencing-activity-sheet

Get your child to think about what makes them feel happy and draw some pictures https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5194-things-that-make-me-happy-activity-sheet

Encourage your child to express how they are feeling regularly – pictures and words can often help! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-s-1056-how-do-you-feel-today-emotions-chart

If you would like to send us photos of work you have completed or activities you have been working on, please email them to us!

Take care everyone,

Tanya Sewell and Ruth Bennett