Hello to all!
I hope you had a lovely weekend. Well done boys and girls on all the super work you did last week. Parents, thank you for your support and effort. My email address is mkirwanji@hotmail.com if you would like to send on photos of work completed or if you have any questions or concerns.
As you are aware your child’s books are available for collection this Wednesday 10am to 12 noon if you wish to collect them.
For those of you that have a school Dandelion reader at home, I would ask you to put it away safely and you can return it to me in September.
Below is a daily outline of work for the week. Do what you can each day, there is no pressure on anyone to complete everything.
Take care,
Máire Kirwan
Monday:
Phonics – Continue to revise all Jolly Phonics sounds in Sounds Copy
Wordbox 10a – last five words (at end of post)
English reading – introduce sight vocabulary from final book ‘The Spaceship’
We, big, they,
( The word ‘big’ can be sounded out phonetically. However ‘We’ and ‘they’ are tricky words. These words were introduced in previous books – the kids came upon ‘we’ with a small ‘w’ and also ‘They’ with a capital ‘T’. Your child should hopefully remember these tricky words.)
Daily practice of these three words – look and say each word until they are familiar with them and recognise them on sight. Writing or printing each word separately on paper will help when practising them.
English writing – ‘z’ letter formation ( practise on a page or print from the letter formation book on Twinkl )
Start at the dot, go across, slope, then go back across and stop.
Match the rhyme ‘in’ worksheet (cleverlearner.com website)
Maths – Sing/say the days of the week starting with Monday. Oral work: Today is …, Yesterday was …, Tomorrow will be …
Maths – introducing money: 1c, 2c, 5c coins. Give the children a selection of 1c, 2c and 5c coins and get them to sort them into groups. If you don’t have 1c and 2c coins at home use this coins template
Maths interactive game 113, 113a (cjfallons website)
SESE – Cat Family: complete orally (cjfallons website)
Tuesday:
Phonics – Continue to revise all Jolly Phonics sounds in Sounds Copy
Wordbox 11a – first five words
English reading – practise vocabulary: We, big, they
Match the rhyme ‘un’ worksheet
Maths – Sing/say days of the week, Oral Work: Today is.., Yesterday was …, Tomorrow will be …
Maths – concrete work: sorting coins according to their value – 1c, 2c, 5c,
Maths interactive game 114, 114a,
SESE – Water: complete orally
Wednesday:
Phonics – Continue to revise all Jolly Phonics sounds in Sounds Copy
Wordbox 11a – last five words
English reading – practise vocabulary: We, big, they
English writing – ‘e’ letter formation (practise on a page or print from the letter formation book on Twinkl )
Start at the dot, come out and over, make a curve through the dot and stop.
Match the rhyme ‘ag’ worksheet
Maths – Sing/say days of the week, Oral Work: Today is.., Yesterday was …, Tomorrow will be …
Maths: Concrete work: Give children 2/3 coins and get them to figure out how much money they have. The children can often find this concept difficult as they count the number of coins they have rather than the value of each coin. The interactive games below should help.
Maths interactive game 115, 115a,
SESE – Magnets: if you have a magnet at home allow the children to experiment and see what objects are attracted to the magnet.
Thursday:
Phonics – Continue to revise all Jolly Phonics sounds in Sounds Copy
Wordbox 12a – first five words
English reading – practise vocabulary: We, big, they
CVC Short Words set 1 worksheet ( www.cleverlearner.com )
Maths – Sing/say days of the week, Oral Work: Today is.., Yesterday was …, Tomorrow will be …
Maths interactive game 116, 116a,
Complete pg. 37 Busy at Maths
SESE – Old or Modern? : complete orally
Friday:
Phonics – Continue to revise all Jolly Phonics sounds in Sounds Copy
Wordbox 12a – last five words
English reading – practise vocabulary: We, big, they
CVC Short Words set 1 worksheet
Maths – Sing/say days of the week, Oral Work: Today is.., Yesterday was …, Tomorrow will be …
Maths interactive game 117, 117a
Log onto www.cleverlearner.com
In the “reading and writing” section, click on “rhyme: match and trace” and print one worksheet per day.
In the “reading and writing” section, click on “CVC short words set 1” and print the first two worksheets.
If you are unable to print these sheets, complete orally instead.
English Writing:
Download the “Letter Formation Workbook” free from the Twinkl website to revise all letters or just page 27 for ‘z’ and page 6 for ‘e’. Alternatively you may just wish to practise writing in a copy/on a sheet.
www.twinkl.ie/offer : Under “new to Twinkl” create an account and make sure to enter the offer code IRLTWINKLHELPS
Maths Interactive Games:
www.cjfallon.ie : Click parent/student resources, Select level: primary, class: junior infants, subject: Maths, series: Busy at Maths, title: Busy at Maths – Junior Infants, resource: interactive.
To quickly access the games click on last page (page 13) which shows Weblink Activity 117a at the top of the page. Go back one page to page 12 and you will see Weblink Activity 113a listed. Click on the eye icon to access weblink activity 113a. When on this page you will also be able to access interactive game 113.
SESE
www.cjfallon.ie : Click parent/student resources, Select level: primary, class: junior infants, subject: SESE, series: Small World, then click on the eye icon.
Complete pages 49-52 orally.
Extra Work: Optional
- Continue to read/listen to ebooks online. ( Register your own account on www.oxford.co.uk and start with age group 4-5 years. On www.connect.collins.co.uk click on “teacher sign in”, username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk, password: Parents20! Click on Collins Big Cat and start with the pink band. )
- Fine Motor Skills: Continue to exercise your fingers – colouring, cutting and sticking pictures from magazines/the newspaper, playing with lego/playdough/pegboards, making jigsaws/drawing a picture etc.
- Gross Motor Skills: more balance activities this week
Scavenger Hunt
Take care everyone!