Junior Infants Work-Week beginning Tuesday 5 th May

Hi everyone, I hope last week went well and hope you had a nice restful Bank Holiday weekend. Thanks for the lovely photographs this weekend, again you have outdone yourselves with all the fantastic work being done! Don’t forget to take plenty of breaks and play outside lots, if the weather allows! I’ve attached this week’s work below, but again, only do what you are able for and don’t stress about what you don’t get done.

As always, if you don’t have access to the internet, you can still work on the workbook pages, your non-fiction and fiction readers, and work on lots and lots of practicing of your sight words and sounds. And don’t forget to Read, Read, Read!!! Paired Reading with a parent is a very effective way at increasing reading enjoyment and motivation. Bedtime stories are a fantastic way to incorporate Paired Reading into daily life.

Please pick and choose from the below activities and ONLY DO WHAT SUITS YOUR FAMILY , don’t feel that you have to do it all, and remember, TAKE LOTS OF BREAKS to avoid frustration and increase motivation.

I’ve added the flyer for an art competition below, if you would like to enter. There is more information on the website here. Also, check out the Stay Home Superheroes story I’ve uploaded onto our class page if you haven’t already seen it. It’s a lovely story which might help ease some fears hopefully. Have a good week everyone and as always, any questions or concerns, please ask!

Work for week beginning Tuesday 5 th May

English-Over the Moon Unit 8Reader: Emergency ServicesGenre Story: Who Will Save the Day?-Skills book page 98

Maths-Days of the WeekBusy at Maths pgs.

Gaeilge: Abair Liom B, An Lá Spóirt, pages 88-91

Writing: Write a poem and Our NewsOral Language: I went to the fire station and I saw…game.Phonics: Revision of sounds: Group 1-s, a, t, i, p, n, Medial Sounds Skills book page 99Sight Words: Revision of tricky words 1-4 Skills Book page 97Aistear: The Zoo

106 & 107

Home-School Links pages 33&34

Handwriting: Choose an activity from the Letter Formation and Writing Activities on the class page on school website/do the next page in your handwriting workbook.

PE: Choose from the list of ‘PE At Home’ activities on the class page on school website. The ‘Indoor PE and movement breaks’ section might be needed if the rain keeps up!

Fine Motor: Some fine motor skills activities from the list on the class page of school website

Below I have explained how to go about doing the above work with your child. However, this is just a guide, if you wish to go about it a different way, please do. This is just to help anyone who would like it. If you can email on photos by Friday evening I’d really appreciate it, if this is not possible, don’t worry.

Junior Infants Week beginning Tuesday 5th May

English Literacy: Over the Moon Programme

Unit 08Theme: Emergency Services

Oral Language: Game: I went to the Fire Station and I saw…

The child lists off as many things as they can remember from the oral language poster 8, the Fire Station. See how many items they can list that you would find in the fire station. The game can be extended by playing ‘I went to the zoo/park/farm/shop/…….

So much of the Junior and Senior Infants Curriculum is based on oral language, so also keep up plenty of chatting and look for new words and vocabulary.

Reading : (Continue with reader from last week) Non-fiction reader: Emergency ServicesThis reader is a non-fiction text. It aims to develop both reading skills and speaking and listening skills. Each page contains a sentence for the children to read. Through a sharing of the reader you can help your child build important literacy skills. Allow your child to read the book at their own pace, there is no rush. If your child is having any difficulty with reading, please let me know and I will advise on how to help.

Reading and Writing:Genre Story: Who Will Save the Day?Narrative genre.

Back to the story Who Will Save the Day? PProblem and ResolutionSkills Book page 98.Ring the image that shows the problem from the story.Discurss the emergency services that were called in the

Writing /Poetry :

Become a poet! Can you write your own poem? Check out the ideas under the ‘Poetry Day Ireland 2020’ post on our class page of the school website, or simply choose your own topic and type of poem. Remember, it doesn’t have to rhyme and it can be just a few lines long. It can be about anything: your favourite animal, your family, school, a pet, toys,

story. Talk about how the firefighters solved the problem. Encourage child to ring the image that shows the person who solved the problem in the story.

Discuss how the story ended. Child can select and colour the picture which shows how the story ended. Challenge the child to create an alternative solution and an alternative ending to the story.

football, unicorns, dinosaurs, the summer-anything at all! Maybe you could decorate the poem afterwards and read it to your family. I’d love to read it too if you’d like to take a photo of it!

My News/Diary: Writing simple personal ‘news’ is useful for helping practice handwriting, basic sight words spelling, and conventions of writing such as sentence structure and grammar. Capital letters and full stops are what we concentrate on in Junior Infants, as well as sizing of the letters and using ‘finger spaces’ between words.

Tip: Use a lollipop stick or similar sized piece of card ‘Spaceman’ as a spacer between words can help children with this concept. Your child could decorate it themselves.

Phonics and Sight Words:Phonics:Revision of Junior Infant sounds, beginning with Group 1:

s a t i p n

Try out this powerpoint game to help you revise: https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526970-s-a-t-p-i-n-initial-sounds-powerpoint-game

Or test your reading skills with this Read and Race game:https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526929-satpin-read-and-race-

game

Letter formation :https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-504-letter-formation-worksheets-phase-2Or try out some of the worksheets at the end of this document.

Sight Words: Over the next few weeks we are going to revise all of our sight words from Junior Infants, just a few words every week. This week’s words are Junior Infants Sight Words 1-4:

You can revise them by printing and cutting out the words above, or making your own flashcards, or using the flashcards you already

have. You could play Go Fish with them, try to remember how to spell them or try to find rhyming words for them.

It’s very important to keep revising sounds, to practice blending the letters to make words-eg- “c-a-t” says “cat” and practice the sight words and sounds mat which Ms. O’Toole sent home.

For the next 3 weeks , our Aistear theme is ‘The Zoo’.

Aistear Ideas:Over the Moon Aister Resources for The Zoo: https://gmcontent.affino.com/AcuCustom/Sitename/DAM/150/OSI_AP_08.pdf

Our Aistear theme for the fortnight would have been ‘The Fire Station’. If you’d like to, here are some ideas for at home:Socio-dramatic play: Zoo Role-play Set up a zoo using stuffed toy animals, baskets, boxes with straw or shredded paper for bedding Sand buckets, plastic fruit and vegetables and bowls could be used for pretend play for feeding time Toy wheelbarrow, brush, spade, old hose could be used to ‘clean out’ the animal enclosures or transport food to

the animals White coat or shirt, vet’s bag, clipboard could be incorporated for a role-play on a vet’s visit The zoo roleplay pack from Twinkl:https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-1900-zoo-role-play-pack includes zoo tickets,

opening times, display banner, animal masks, display times, enclosure signs, but you could make your own! You could make a map of the zoo also!

Role-play scenarios: Zoo vet using a doctor’s kit to check the animals’ health Zoo tour guide giving visitors information about the animals Zookeeper feeding and cleaning the animals and their enclosures Visitors studying the map to see which animals they will visit Visitors looking throught the binoculars to see the animals Tickets attendant taking the entrance fee and giving people tickets (practice using pretend money)

Construction/Junk art/Sensory Play: Design and build a lego zoo Look at photos of various zoo enclosures and ask children to plan a zoo. Give consideration to what animals they

will include, where best to place them and how to house them. Next, build your zoo using junk materials and recyclable objects. Children could also create signs for the animals such as ‘Do Not Feed’, and information posters, drawing and labelling various zoo animals.

Make animal masks Make toilet roll binoculars Paint/draw your favourite animals Make a zoo enclosure

Desert sensory tub: using sand, small stones, twigs, succulent or cactus plants, plastic desert animals, eg, snake, hyena, camel, lizard, coyote (alternatively, print/draw a picture of the animal and stick it to a lollipop stick to make a puppet)

Aquarium: Create your own aquarium using a tub filled with cold water, and blue cellophane, pebbles, variety of sea creature figurines or toys, sand

Small world: Set up a small world zoo scene using plastic or wooden animals, trees, pieces of green and blue paper, figurines

could be used for zookeeper, vet, visitors, etc.Have fun!

Phonics Worksheets

Cut out the pictures below and glue them under the correct sound!

Ss Aa Tt Ii Pp Nn

Junior Infants Work-Week beginning Tuesday 5 th May

Hi everyone, I hope last week went well and hope you had a nice restful Bank Holiday weekend. Thanks for the lovely photographs this weekend, again you have outdone yourselves with all the fantastic work being done! Don’t forget to take plenty of breaks and play outside lots, if the weather allows! I’ve attached this week’s work below, but again, only do what you are able for and don’t stress about what you don’t get done.

As always, if you don’t have access to the internet, you can still work on the workbook pages, your non-fiction and fiction readers, and work on lots and lots of practicing of your sight words and sounds. And don’t forget to Read, Read, Read!!! Paired Reading with a parent is a very effective way at increasing reading enjoyment and motivation. Bedtime stories are a fantastic way to incorporate Paired Reading into daily life.

Please pick and choose from the below activities and ONLY DO WHAT SUITS YOUR FAMILY , don’t feel that you have to do it all, and remember, TAKE LOTS OF BREAKS to avoid frustration and increase motivation.

I’ve added the flyer for an art competition below, if you would like to enter. There is more information on the website here. Also, check out the Stay Home Superheroes story I’ve uploaded onto our class page if you haven’t already seen it. It’s a lovely story which might help ease some fears hopefully. Have a good week everyone and as always, any questions or concerns, please ask!

Work for week beginning Tuesday 5 th May

English-Over the Moon Unit 8Reader: Emergency ServicesGenre Story: Who Will Save the Day?-Skills book page 98

Maths-Days of the WeekBusy at Maths pgs.

Gaeilge: Abair Liom B, An Lá Spóirt, pages 88-91

Writing: Write a poem and Our NewsOral Language: I went to the fire station and I saw…game.Phonics: Revision of sounds: Group 1-s, a, t, i, p, n, Medial Sounds Skills book page 99Sight Words: Revision of tricky words 1-4 Skills Book page 97Aistear: The Zoo

106 & 107

Home-School Links pages 33&34

Handwriting: Choose an activity from the Letter Formation and Writing Activities on the class page on school website/do the next page in your handwriting workbook.

PE: Choose from the list of ‘PE At Home’ activities on the class page on school website. The ‘Indoor PE and movement breaks’ section might be needed if the rain keeps up!

Fine Motor: Some fine motor skills activities from the list on the class page of school website

Below I have explained how to go about doing the above work with your child. However, this is just a guide, if you wish to go about it a different way, please do. This is just to help anyone who would like it. If you can email on photos by Friday evening I’d really appreciate it, if this is not possible, don’t worry.

Junior Infants Week beginning Tuesday 5th May

English Literacy: Over the Moon Programme

Unit 08Theme: Emergency Services

Oral Language: Game: I went to the Fire Station and I saw…

The child lists off as many things as they can remember from the oral language poster 8, the Fire Station. See how many items they can list that you would find in the fire station. The game can be extended by playing ‘I went to the zoo/park/farm/shop/…….

So much of the Junior and Senior Infants Curriculum is based on oral language, so also keep up plenty of chatting and look for new words and vocabulary.

Reading : (Continue with reader from last week) Non-fiction reader: Emergency ServicesThis reader is a non-fiction text. It aims to develop both reading skills and speaking and listening skills. Each page contains a sentence for the children to read. Through a sharing of the reader you can help your child build important literacy skills. Allow your child to read the book at their own pace, there is no rush. If your child is having any difficulty with reading, please let me know and I will advise on how to help.

Reading and Writing:Genre Story: Who Will Save the Day?Narrative genre.

Back to the story Who Will Save the Day? PProblem and ResolutionSkills Book page 98.Ring the image that shows the problem from the story.Discurss the emergency services that were called in the

Writing /Poetry :

Become a poet! Can you write your own poem? Check out the ideas under the ‘Poetry Day Ireland 2020’ post on our class page of the school website, or simply choose your own topic and type of poem. Remember, it doesn’t have to rhyme and it can be just a few lines long. It can be about anything: your favourite animal, your family, school, a pet, toys,

story. Talk about how the firefighters solved the problem. Encourage child to ring the image that shows the person who solved the problem in the story.

Discuss how the story ended. Child can select and colour the picture which shows how the story ended. Challenge the child to create an alternative solution and an alternative ending to the story.

football, unicorns, dinosaurs, the summer-anything at all! Maybe you could decorate the poem afterwards and read it to your family. I’d love to read it too if you’d like to take a photo of it!

My News/Diary: Writing simple personal ‘news’ is useful for helping practice handwriting, basic sight words spelling, and conventions of writing such as sentence structure and grammar. Capital letters and full stops are what we concentrate on in Junior Infants, as well as sizing of the letters and using ‘finger spaces’ between words.

Tip: Use a lollipop stick or similar sized piece of card ‘Spaceman’ as a spacer between words can help children with this concept. Your child could decorate it themselves.

Phonics and Sight Words:Phonics:Revision of Junior Infant sounds, beginning with Group 1:

s a t i p n

Try out this powerpoint game to help you revise: https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526970-s-a-t-p-i-n-initial-sounds-powerpoint-game

Or test your reading skills with this Read and Race game:https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526929-satpin-read-and-race-

game

Letter formation :https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-504-letter-formation-worksheets-phase-2Or try out some of the worksheets at the end of this document.

Sight Words: Revision of Junior Infants Sight Words 1-4

It’s very important to keep revising sounds, to practice blending the letters to make words-eg- “c-a-t” says “cat” and practice the sight words and sounds mat which Ms. O’Toole sent home.

For the next 3 weeks , our Aistear theme is ‘The Zoo’.

Aistear Ideas:Over the Moon Aister Resources for The Zoo: https://gmcontent.affino.com/AcuCustom/Sitename/DAM/150/OSI_AP_08.pdf

Our Aistear theme for the fortnight would have been ‘The Fire Station’. If you’d like to, here are some ideas for at home:Socio-dramatic play: Zoo Role-play Set up a zoo using stuffed toy animals, baskets, boxes with straw or shredded paper for bedding Sand buckets, plastic fruit and vegetables and bowls could be used for pretend play for feeding time Toy wheelbarrow, brush, spade, old hose could be used to ‘clean out’ the animal enclosures or transport food to

the animals White coat or shirt, vet’s bag, clipboard could be incorporated for a role-play on a vet’s visit The zoo roleplay pack from Twinkl:https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-1900-zoo-role-play-pack includes zoo tickets,

opening times, display banner, animal masks, display times, enclosure signs, but you could make your own! You could make a map of the zoo also!

Role-play scenarios: Zoo vet using a doctor’s kit to check the animals’ health Zoo tour guide giving visitors information about the animals Zookeeper feeding and cleaning the animals and their enclosures Visitors studying the map to see which animals they will visit Visitors looking throught the binoculars to see the animals Tickets attendant taking the entrance fee and giving people tickets (practice using pretend money)

Construction/Junk art/Sensory Play: Design and build a lego zoo Look at photos of various zoo enclosures and ask children to plan a zoo. Give consideration to what animals they

will include, where best to place them and how to house them. Next, build your zoo using junk materials and recyclable objects. Children could also create signs for the animals such as ‘Do Not Feed’, and information posters, drawing and labelling various zoo animals.

Make animal masks Make toilet roll binoculars Paint/draw your favourite animals Make a zoo enclosure Desert sensory tub: using sand, small stones, twigs, succulent or cactus plants, plastic desert animals, eg, snake,

hyena, camel, lizard, coyote (alternatively, print/draw a picture of the animal and stick it to a lollipop stick to

make a puppet) Aquarium: Create your own aquarium using a tub filled with cold water, and blue cellophane, pebbles, variety of

sea creature figurines or toys, sand

Small world: Set up a small world zoo scene using plastic or wooden animals, trees, pieces of green and blue paper, figurines

could be used for zookeeper, vet, visitors, etc.Have fun!