Mrs Murphy – Week beginning 30 th March 2020

Hello everybody! I hope you are all well and enjoying this time at home. I am missing you all.

Please choose activities from the list below; you do not have to get everything done. The main things to focus on are your reading, tables and some writing.

Enjoy!

1st Class - Literacy

Spellings – Learn week 26 – What sound is common in each word? Highlight it. Do you understand the meaning of each word? Do a spelling test at the end of the week.

Reading – continue on as per your reading record, read the next four pages. Identify any words you are finding tricky and make a list of them. Aim to know these words by the end of the week. Make flashcards. Play Splat with the fly swatter or shoot the words with your Nerf Gun!!!

If you need more reading material, choose some books from home and read them or visit the following website where you can access more eBooks to read. www.oxfordowl.co.uk or complete some fun activities on www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

Kahoot! – Tricky Words - Download the app or play it on a computer. Practice your tricky words by doing my challenge on Kahoot. Enter this PIN to access it 029426. Enter your name correctly so that I can see how you got on.

Handwriting/Independent Writing - Keep a diary – write a few sentences about what you have done every day. You could try and write it in joint handwriting. You might find this interesting to read when you are older. Remember to sound out all words carefully. See example below.

Jolly Phonics Book – page 26 – read the sentence and add the correct word. Colour the pictures using the colours mentioned in the sentences.

Listening and Auditory Processing Skills – Download Hear Builder app or play on the computer https://www.hearbuilder.com Great activities to help children improve their listening and memory skills. An enjoyable and worthwhile activity.

Dear Diary, 25-3-20

Today was amazing. First we did some school work. I played Kahoot.

After that we went on a long walk. I took some pictures of signs of spring. I saw some lovely yellow daffodils.

When we got home we played Tip the can. It was fun.

Finally, we went inside to watch a movie. We got some popcorn as a treat. It was delicious.

I am really enjoying spending time with my family but I am missing all the boys and girls in school too.

Mrs Murphy.

1st Class – Maths

Weight – link to baking at home Heavy and Light Name 3 light/heavy animals. � Name 3 light/heavy types of fruit. � Name 3 light/heavy vegetables. � Name an animal which is lighter/much lighter than a dog. � Name an animal which is heavier/much heavier than a dog. � Name 2 heavy things in the kitchen � Name 2 light things in this kitchen Which is heavier a golf ball or a tennis ball? � Are heavy things always big? � Can you name an object that is small and heavy and an object that is big and light? � KILOGRAM Discuss examples of when we use weight in everyday life. For example: We buy meat, sugar, flour, rice, butter and breakfast cereals by weight.

We weigh a lot when baking. The farmer weighs feed for cattle, fertiliser for land. Farm animals are sold by weight. Farm animals are sold by weight. Builders buy sand, concrete by weight. Gardener buys compost, soil by weight.

Introduce the child to a KG – a bag of sugar or weigh out a kg of flour and put it in a sandwich bag.

Go on a hunt in the kitchen cupboards. Find things that weigh a kg and things that weigh less than a kg.

Make a poster – draw items and label them. See table below. Lighter than a KG Around a KG Heavier than a KG

Tables – Revise +1, +2, +3, +4

Play ‘Hit the Button’ online to help revise addition and subtraction facts. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Or Visit Topmarks for some more games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years

Table Toppers Book– Complete pages 62 and + 63

**More activities for Gaeilge, SESE, art, music and PE down under Senior Infants work. Keep scrolling.

Senior Infants - Maths

Planet Maths pgs. 34 & 37 Revise Story of 1 and Story of 2 Weight – link to baking at home – heavy and light – find heavy and light objects around

the home. – order according to weight (heaviest to lightest or lightest to heaviest) Name 3 light/heavy animals. � Name 3 light/heavy types of fruit. � Name 3 light/heavy vegetables. � Name an animal which is lighter/much lighter than a dog. �

Name an animal which is heavier/much heavier than a dog. � Name 2 heavy things in this classroom. � Name 2 light things in this classroom. � Name something heavier/lighter/about the same as this book. Which is heavier a golf ball or a tennis ball? � Are heavy things always big? � Can you name an object that is small and heavy and an object that is big and light? � How can we discover the correct weight of an object? www.folensonline.com – free access to parents – Register as teacher using code Prim20

for Roll Number. Click library tab along the top and look for planet maths Senior Infants. Click eBook and go to page 126. Complete the page online .

Senior Infants - Literacy

Spellings – Continue to learn Week 25 and write them into your spelling copy. Have a spelling test; can you get 10/10?

Handwriting – pages 66 & 67

Jolly Phonics Book – pg. 25 - Write some sentences about the picture.

My Sound Workbook – ie, ee, or, ng page. - English games Forest Phonics, Little Bird Spelling Year 1

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html- In spare time encourage children to pick a picture from another book and write about it. -

Reading - continue on as per your reading record, read another 4 pages. Keep a list of words that you are finding tricky. Revise them every day.

Keywords – revise all keywords in booklet. Do you know them all? Make a game with the words you are finding hard. For example, write them out twice like the table below, cut them up into flashcards, place them upside down on the table and play a matching memory game. OR Make flashcards. Play ‘Splat’ with the fly swatter or shoot the words an adult calls with your Nerf Gun!!!

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Kahoot! – Tricky Words - Download the app or play it on a computer. Practice your tricky words by doing my challenge on Kahoot. Enter this PIN to access it 029426. Enter your name correctly so that I can see your result. You might need some help to read the sentence.

Listening and Auditory Processing Skills – Download Hear Builder app or play on the computer https://www.hearbuilder.com Great activities to help children improve their listening and memory skills. An enjoyable and worthwhile activity.

Gaeilge – 1 st Class & Senior Infants

Abair Liom C - www.folensonline.com – free access to parents – Register as teacher using code Prim20 for Roll Number.

Click library tab along the top and look for Abair Liom C. Using the filters choose the Theme éadaí and the Lesson éadaí scoile. The children will be familiar with this process and this website. Children can the play Pléasc an balún. They can click on the Póstaer and complete the various activites and poem and songs. After this revision they can go to the póstaer and see can they construct some sentences orally about the picture?

SESE -1 st Class & Senior Infants

https://padlet.com/mull/spring1 - Tell me all of the signs of Spring

Take some photographs of the signs of spring near your house and post them on the Padlet.

Spring Hunt - https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Adfef0408-b258-4668-8b83-bd52431cb344

Make a bird feeder and see what birds come to visit. See picture below of a simple Cheerio bird feeder.

Can you spot any of the following birds eating at your house?

History –1st Class & Senior Infants - Ring your Granny or Grandad or an older neighbour and interview them using the questions below.

Draw a picture of you and your grandparents or older neighbour.

Music/Science – 1st Class and Senior Infants

Twinkl have some more science at home experiments - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-8917-science-experiments-at-home

PE – Keep active – Go outside and play.

If the weather is bad use ‘Go Noodle’ or ‘Joe Wicks PE Lessons’ on YouTube.

Art – Design an Easter wreath – open link below and print or draw your own eggs.

Design the eggs, colour them in brightly, practice cutting skills by cutting them out carefully, assembly them in a circular shape – a paper plate might help, finally hang your wreath up for all to admire.

https://www.cleverpatch.com.au/documents/ideatemplates/92016L_2.pdf

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Additional activities that you might enjoy.

Padlet

https://padlet.com/mull/mexico - tell me all you know about Mexico.

YouTube

Watch Barnaby Bear’s visit to Mexico City video on YouTube.

Apps

Download the following free apps - Beebot, Scratch Junior – we have used them in class.

ART COMPETITION – Design a Spring Poster – include all of the signs of Spring.

Get Cooking/Baking – Write a Procedure

Remember – Title, Needs, Steps and a picture or photo!!

Get Creative – Make an Easter Decoration – maybe use an old cereal box or toilet roll tube or paper plates.

Paint a Rainbow and put it in your window to cheer up all who pass by and see it. Remember your rainbow colours;

Richard - Red

Of - Orange

York - Yellow

Gave - Green

Battle - Blue

In - Indigo

Vain – Violet

Cutting skills – draw shapes, lines – straight, curved, wavy and allow your child with supervision to cut along the lines.

Other ideas

SET Mrs Murphy’s Room – Week beginning 30th MarchLiteracy

Spellings - Week 25Phonics – Continue to revise all letter names and soundsKeywords – Revise keywords 1-4 in booklet.

Writing – continue mark making sentences – Child writes the sentence and you scribe for her underneath. Rainbow writing – wavy lines/zigzag lines/letters c, o, a – do this standing up as per OT diet. Child traces over the letters several times using different colours. Spelling of her name – Assembling letters on Velcro sheet and recalling it orally Recalling her name and address.Reading - Ella Goes to the Airport – visit http://wonderland.cjfallon.ie/ for games and activities based on this book. Continue with matching and Velcro activities related to the book Ella Goes to the Airport. Continue with decodable readers also if time allows. My Sound Workbook – ie, ee, or, ng page.

- English games Forest Phonics, Little Bird Spelling Year 1https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.htmlMemory Game – lay out 5 objects – spoon, key, mug, ball, pen – Child closes her eyes and you remove one object. Can Child tell you what is missing. Then you take a turn and let Child remove the object.

Maths

Weight - As per Senior Infants work on website. Numbers 1-10 continue to revise using household objects – Child to get me 6 spoons, get me 7 plastic cups etcAddition – continue to use plastic boxes to revise addition – 2 and 3 makes 5. Use household objects. 2 spoons and 3 spoons makes 5 spoons altogether.

Numicon –