Email: [email protected]Dear parents, This week, we continue with the changed format of work. For June, together with some written work in English, Irish and Maths, we will send some activity based learning and some links for some online learning. This week we continue to explore narrative writing. We will begin to explore how there is always a problem and a resolution (solution) in every story. We will also discuss the beginning, middle and end of different stories. We hope that you and your child enjoy this topic. Regards Mary and Maresa SPHE & PE. Water Safety This is a topic which is important for children, especially those who live in coastal areas to explore and learn about each year. Some of the information on the given websites, especially if you come across videos, while educational, can be a little frightening for children in infants and it is important to become familiar yourself with the content and choose what you feel is suitable for your child. Your child should not work through this topic independently, they will need a parent/guardian working with them. If you would like to get some background information and do some exploring of the topic yourself this link may be of use to you before you discuss the topic with your child.
Dear parents,This week, we continue with the changed format of work. For June, together with some written work in English, Irish and Maths, we will send some activity based learning and some links for some online learning. This week we continue to explore narrative writing. We will begin to explore how there is always a problem and a resolution (solution) in every story. We will also discuss the beginning, middle and end of different stories. We hope that you and your child enjoy this topic.RegardsMary and Maresa
SPHE & PE.
Water SafetyThis is a topic which is important for children, especially those who live in coastal areas to explore and learn about each year. Some of the information on the given websites, especially if you come across videos, while educational, can be a little frightening for children in infants and it is important to become familiar yourself with the content and choose what you feel is suitable for your child. Your child should not work through this topic independently, they will need a parent/guardian working with them.
If you would like to get some background information and do some exploring of the topic yourself this link may be of use to you before you discuss the topic with your child.
LiteracyFor literacy Ms. Doyle’s group are to continue working on the packs she has supplied as well as engaging with the oral language section below.Ms. Kehoe’s group is to continue using the packs she has supplied as well as the work listed below.
1. ‘Parts of a Story’ song, see link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTpTB4fxigQ
2. Ask your child to identify the various characters and settings below.3. Play the ‘Who goes Where’ game (see below) in which they place the
characters in a setting and construct a simple sentence which includes when it happened; for example, ‘The princess went to the shopping centre last Tuesday’.
4. Get your child to elaborate and extend the sentence by adding suitable adjectives (we called these describing words in class this year) for the character and setting; for example, ‘The beautiful princess went to the busy shopping centre last Tuesday’.
5. Problem and resolution (solution) – this is new language for your child.- Discuss each problem with your child. Encourage them to match each
problem to the correct resolution.- Is there an alternative resolution for each problem?
6. Use the settings and characters from the pictures provided for part 4 or the characters and settings from last week. Do one of these each day this week.-Together invent a problem and resolution for a story using the selected character and setting, for example: ‘The fairy was skipping through the forest, when suddenly she saw a fire breathing dragon flying towards her. She sprinkles her magic fairy dust on the dragon and turned him into a mouse’
Problem: the dragonResolution: the fairy dust
Tuesday: Use of ‘Estate Agent to the Rescue’ to explore parts of a narrative.
2. Listen to the song ‘Parts of a Story’ again and then identify parts of a narrative within this genre story, ‘Estate Agent to the Rescue!’Characters: The estate agent Jack, Mam, Dad , Callum and Kim.Setting: The Old House, the car and the new house.Problem: The house is too small and the family have to move far away. Callum leaves his art set in his old house.Solution: The estate agent sold their house and they moved into a new one. The estate agent remembered to bring Callum’s art set for him.
3. Use of page 62 of ‘Over the Moon’ to explore the story.A. Encourage your child to think about the steps that happened in the story to solve the problem. B. Discuss how the setting changed from the old house to the new house.
Wednesday: Pick a fairy tale
1. Pick any fairy tale and discuss the characters and the setting (there may be more than one setting).
2. What are the problems and resolutions?3. Draw illustrations to match the beginning, middle and end of the story on
1. Listen to Herman’s Holiday by Tom Percival being read (see link above).
2. Identify the characters, setting, problems and resolutions (solutions).
3. Answer page 127 of Over the Moon.4. Draw a picture of the main characters, include the setting in your
picture. The link below shows the author illustrating Herman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nysBd3Q-qm4
Please note we will be doing further work based on this book over the next two weeks.
Friday: Pick a fairy tale
1. Pick any fairy tale and discuss the characters and the setting (there may be more than one setting).
2. What are the problems and resolutions?3. Draw illustrations to match the beginning, middle and end of the story on
page 65 of Over the Moon (do it like this page on a blank page or use the link below for a template).https://www.twinkl.ie/search?term=story+review+writing+frames
P123 You could use a page with two large empty circles drawn on it if your child finds this difficult. For the first box of sums, take out four counters. Now, put one of the four counters in the first circle on the page, how many go in the other circle? That`s right 3, so 1+3+4 , fill in the 3. Keep the four counters to do the other sums in this box and then use 5 counters for the next box.
P124 Part A Use the number line to add these sums. Remember to start with the bigger number and only to count when you move. Write the answers in the boxes.
Part B As above, start with the bigger number, use the number line and write the answer in the box under the line.
P125 Part A Add three numbers using the number line. If you want to circle the biggest number and start with that you can, but make sure you include all three numbers. Only count when you move. Write the answers in the boxes.
Part B Use the number line above to add the sum on each part of the picture, then check which colour to use for the total. Colour the picture.
P94 In each picture, the green number is the total and the red numbers add up to give that total. Use ten frames or a page with two large circles as above to help.
P32 Operation Maths at home book
Part A – Firstly, write the number in the red box. Then write the number before and after that number.
Part B – In the first section, each of the three balloons should have 7 dots. The dots can be pink, yellow and green. Make each balloon different, even though they each total 7 dots. In the second section, each balloon should have 10 dots.
Irish
Ag Siopadóireacht 2https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/AbairLiom/SI/resources/Dialogue/AL_SI_ACT_Comhra_L18_002/index.html
4. Junk Art – make a prop from a story (Cinderella`s carriage / one of the Three Little Pig`s houses / the broom from Room on the Broom).
5. Build something from one of your favourite stories or fairytales.6. Shop/ ticket sales - cash register, children to create price tags for
food and drinks etc.
ReligionGo to www.growinlove.ie and login with [email protected] as email address and growinlove as password.Click on Senior Infants/P2 book. Now click on 9. Baptism, then click on 2.John Baptises the People. In this section, look in particular at John the Baptist. Children`s book p54,55 have some activities based on this theme.
We have been working our way through the list of tricky words this year. If you’re your child knows all of these words they can start learning the Dolch words (some children will already have Dolch words in their hardback copies).Tricky words
