Suggested List of Work For Week of 8th June 2020 Class: Senior Infants
Note: Hello everyone. Hope you enjoyed the activities from last week’s grid. This week will be a similar layout. Below is a list of suggested work for Literacy and Maths as well as lots of lovely activities in the below grid. This week’s theme is ‘Transport’. Try as many of the activities as you like and don’t forget to post your videos and pictures on your Classdojo portfolio. We love seeing all your work. We have a new ‘Beat the Teacher’ challenge this week! Post a video on your portfolio to be in with a chance of winning a €10 voucher!Have fun!
Ms Leonard & Mrs O’Regan Monday Reading: Stop that Dog p.16 Question: Why were they calling Finn back?
Writing unscramble the sentence (below - if you are unable to print the worksheets, please write into a copy)Word Family: “ad” read and add four words using the alphabet strip. Try to think of words that you haven’t used beforeMaths: Planet Maths Number Practice Book p.40 (last page!)
Tuesday Reading: Stop that Dog p.17+18. New words: him. Word work: Can you think of any other words for the word ‘big’. Write a list of them in your copy.Writing: unscramble the sentenceWord Family: “ump” read and add four new words using the alphabet stripMaths: Planet Maths p.122. Extra ideas: Use household items to allow for free play involving filling and emptying many different sized and different shaped containers (egg cups, mugs, jugs, empty bottles, jars, pots, buckets etc.). Encourage words like ‘full’, ‘empty’ and ‘level’.
Wednesday Reading: Stop that Dog p.19. Word work: the word “mess” ends in ‘ss’ (double s) Can you think of any other words that end in ‘ss’. Write a list of them in your copy.Writing: unscramble the sentenceWord Family: “ill” read and add four new words using the alphabet stripMaths: Planet Maths p.123 Extra ideas: Capacity game https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PMSI/resources/activitya/pm_si_122/index.html
Thursday Reading: Stop that Dog p.20+21. New Words: holds, ladder, top. Word work: Find as many smaller words as you can from the word ‘cannot’ e.g. no, can, not. Writing: unscramble the sentenceWord Family: “ing” read and add four new words using the alphabet stripMaths: Planet Maths p.124 + 125 Extra ideas: Questioning based on the Jungle scene. How many fish are in the river? If the butterfly’s four friends came along, how many butterflies would there be? How do you know this is a jungle picture? Is it daytime or night-time in this picture? How do you know? Are there more crocodiles than snakes? Are there more snakes than fish? How many creatures can you see
altogether? If each fish has 4 spots how many spots will 2 fish have altogether?Friday Reading: Stop that Dog p.16-21 & enjoy a story on: storylineonline.net OR theliteracyshed.com
Writing: Write three lines in your copy about your news from this week. Word Family: Child reads reading list first, mom or dad then calls out the words for child to write in copy.Maths: Plants and flowers pictogram worksheet below.
Word Families(use the alphabet strip to help you find new words - go along each letter looking for real/silly words. Write down some real words
that you find.)a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Reading List
-adsad
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-umpbump____________________________
-illfill
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-ingsing
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bad fillmad hillsad millbump singdump wing
(**families are intentionally repeated from week to week – to help embed the trickier patterns into long term memory**)
Unscramble the sentences and re-write(please try to put the punctuation marks in the correct places - capital letters, full stops, commas, quotation
marks and explanation marks)
Monday Zack. ‘Get here, says back Finn,’
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Tuesday dog The market. runs little into the
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Wednesday Finn flowers. pulls He out the of
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Thursday cannot onto lead. Dad the hold
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8th - 12th June (Transport)
All activities to be carried out in a safe space with parental permission first.
Listen to and learn the Transport song
https://youtu.be/B1yNgKeYM3k
Transport tracing and colouring
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-025-new-aistear-transport-
Make some vehicles using 2D shapes
Make some Playdough vehicles
Play traffic lights game - green=fast, orange= slow and
red =stop (walk, run, skip, jog)
Sort your transport toys into land, sea or air
tracing-activity-sheets
Build ramps for your toy cars and race them- measure which car travelled the furthest
Create traffic lights using empty toilet rolls
Make a paper plane and fly it outside
Build a bridge for your toy cars
Water Play (Car wash)-fill a tub with warm soapy water. Wash all your cars/trucks using a sponge.
Beat the Teacher challenge!!- How many squats can you do in 100 seconds? (Upload your video to classdojo to be in with a chance of winning a €10 voucher)
Covid capsule – Paint/draw a picture to represent you time at home during this time. Write a sentence or two explaining your picture.
5 photos of things that will remind you of lockdown and a sentence or two explaining why
Take a virtual school tour to Dublin Zoo
https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/animal-webcams/
Virtual Tour to San Diego Zoo https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams
Launch the virtual Tour and explore Áras an Uachtaráin. Learn all about the president
https://president.ie/en/childrens-section
Tour the International Space Station like astronauts
https://www.google.com/maps/space/iss/@29.5604638,-95.0852936,2a,75y,222.31h,81.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stbwl7TvVSqgAAAQvxgbyLA!2e0!7i10000!8i5000
Cut and glue school bus activity
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2547247-shapes-bus-cut-and-paste-activity
Draw/Paint pictures of your transport toys
Senior Infants Small World P54+55 Serengeti Safari
Senior Infants Small World P56 Ireland or Far Away?
Ice Cream sundae challenge! Make your perfect ice cream sundae (what flavours of ice-cream? fruit? toppings? sauce?). Ms. Daly put together a powerpoint with some suggestions and instructions on what to do. It is available on our school website.
Work on your skipping skills
https://www.scoilnet.ie/pdst/physlit/beyond/
Plants and Flowers Block Diagram
Colour a box for each plant or flower that you find.
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