2 nd Class English Learning Support 11 th – 15 th May

Hi everyone,

I hope you, your family and neighbourhood are keeping well and are in good spirits. We heard our Taoiseach make it official that we will not be returning to school before the summer. This is unfortunate as I am sure you miss seeing all your friends at school. However, our leader has to prioritise the health of the nation and not going back to school till after the summer is the best decision in that regard.

As I have said before, do what you can in relation to support your child’s reading, we appreciate things may not be easy at home at this time. Here are some resources to help and support your child’s reading if you have the time. The best way to promote your child’s reading and understanding skills is to take part in reading together. This might be looking at a recipe together, whatever interests your child. Choose a book of interest, look at the front cover, ask your child what they think the book will be about. Do they think it will be a funny, sad, happy, informative or an adventure story? As you read through the book, look at the illustrations and engage with the text as much as possible. Would you like that to happen to you? How would you feel? What would you do? What do you think will happen next? Did you like the ending? How would you have liked the story the end?

Take care,

Ms Lynch

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CJ Fallon Online Access

If you do not have the next reader in the Rainbow Stage 2 Series – ‘Bedtime Stories’ at home here is how you can access it online for free. ‘The Wise Girl’ is the first story in this book, followed by the ‘Camping Fun’ story.

1. Go on to the CJFallon Website Click on the ‘Click Here’ in the yellow box.

2. This page will come up. Under ‘All Resources’ Select these boxes in each column: Primary - 2nd Class – English - Rainbow Stage 2 –Bedtime Stories Core Reader 6

3. This will then come up, click on the eye icon under ‘Actions’ on the bottom right.

4. This page will then come up. Enter in your name and email and select user type and tick to say you have read the terms and conditions and this will give you full access to their reader, page by page.

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‘Camping Fun’ New Words

Well done on all your hard work with the words for the ‘The Wise Girl’ story. I have included the resources for the ‘The Wise Girl’ at the end of this document including the Kahoot! Quiz should you wish to check them out.

Below are some of the new words in your next story in your 2nd Class reader, ‘Camping Fun’. We will learn all these words over the next few weeks. I have also made a Kahoot! Quiz to help make the learning of these words more fun and engaging. It can also give you an idea of how well your child knows the words too and hopefully it will build up their confidence. It is live to play up to 9pm on Sunday 17th May. Also, find a wordsearch below that I created using these new words. Wordsearches are great fun and are a great way of helping to revise a word, keep saying each word as you search for them. Have fun!

Kahoot! Quiz on ‘Camping Fun’ Set 1 Words Click on the link here. If it does not work try copying and pasting into Google. Good luck and enjoy! https://kahoot.it/challenge/01695661?challenge-id=6bec51da-3ff8-4e77-b649-8dd0b88db92a_1588775182567 Game PIN: 01695661

camping practicingBeavers leadergained Scoutsstation rescuedbadge skills

lifeboat whale3

Beavers are the youngest Scouts group.

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Scouts leader

Beavers

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camping

badge

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Answer Sheet

Have a Good Weekend

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‘The Wise Girl’ Resources

Here are all the new words that are coming up in your class reader story, ‘The Wise Girl’. I have included all the words below. I have also made a Kahoot! Quiz using a lot of these words. It will make the learning a bit more fun and engaging and is a great way of seeing how well your child is doing too! Good luck and enjoy!

https://kahoot.it/challenge/08700108?challenge-id=6bec51da-3ff8-4e77-b649-8dd0b88db92a_1588258175645 

Game PIN: 08700108

If you are not able to play the Kahoot! Quiz you can make up your own quiz. Make simple sentences with a word missing. The word missing can be one of 4 words from the Wise Girl word bank. Ask your child to choose the correct missing word. Do this a few times making up different sentences and choosing from different words.

stories Wicklowspecial mountainswise Thomas

Ballybracken Williamvillage PatrickCounty youngestsimple

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Ballybracken village

County Wicklow

stories

special

wise girl

simple sum

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ThomasWilliam

Patrick

mountains

youngest

Spring was the busiest time.

During lambing season, they had to make sure all the mother sheep were comfortable and help them give birth.

Some newborn lambs needed to be bottle-fed to help them grow healthy.

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cotton distance challenge

circled

circled

flock farmyard

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sheared market nodded

agreement examined foolish

travelled success answered

understood exactly brought

yawned marry merchant

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Have a Good Weekend

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