Wednesday 06/05/20
Irish: Bua na Cainte – Éadaí Ceacht 7
Click on the yellow speech bubble to hear the comhrá for the vocabulary. Play the song and help the children with the words. Complete the activities to go with the lesson.
English: Jolly Phonics – new sound /ie/
Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raZ23qNpXyM
Story:
Action for /ie/ is: Stand to attention and salute, saying /ie/, /ie/. Oral language possibilities before reading the story: Predict what you think is going to happen. What
can you see in the picture? What is the little boy doing? What kind of clothes does he have on? Where do you think he is going? What is he looking at? Do you remember the name for what you see in the mirror? (reflection), etc.
Clive has been invited to a party. Clive’s dad is a sailor in the navy and he has given Clive a hat from his ship. Clive wants to dress up as a sailor like his dad and wear the hat to the party. His mother makes him a sailor’s outfit. Just before the party, Clive’s dad comes home on leave. Clive insists on wearing his new outfit to meet him off the ship. He waves and waves when he sees his dad and runs up and gives him a big hug. Dad admires his outfit and says, “If you are a sailor, you will have to learn how to salute and say, ‘ie, ie!’ ” When they get home, he shows Clive how to salute. Clive has a go in front of the mirror, saluting and saying, “ie, ie!”
Questions: What is the boy’s name? Where has he been invited? Have you ever been invited to a party? What happened? What was your favourite thing to do at the party? What job does Clive’s Dad have? What does a sailor do? What piece of clothing does his Dad give him? What is that as gaeilge? (hata) What does Clive want to dress up as for the party? Who makes him an outfit? What does Clive do when he sees his Dad? What does Clive’s Dad teach him to do? Can you salute like Clive?
Formation: Same here as with /oa/ and /ai/. The new sound now is /ie/ not /i/ and /e/ on their own but /ie/. Make sure your child knows which letter to write first when forming this new sound. Allow your child time to form the new sound in a wide range of multisensory ways like the previous sounds, i.e. in the air, in sand, on sand paper, in flour, with playdoh, with pasta shapes, with pebbles, etc. Once your satisfied with their /ie/ then let them do their formations with a pencil, marker, etc.
Words containing /ie/ - Ask your children if they know any words that contain /ie/. Maybe they could go around the house and make their own sound basket.
Video: Geraldine Giraffe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoPUHeA0CHA Ask your child to read/sound out these words
tie pie liedie cried friedtried lied tied
Complete worksheet.
Continue on with the Collins readers for paired reading - Stick with the Pink A band section and choose one book this week - https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/Primary/BigCatBookShelf.aspx
Read the words posted out to you in the word wallet and play the game attached. (Many thanks to Mrs O’Brien)
Maths:
Numbers 0 – 8. Mental Maths – Jade has 5 flowers and Clodagh has 3 flowers. How many altogether?, etc. Get your child to put objects into sets for you, i.e. 7 stones in the bucket, 5 sweets on the plate, 8
pasta shells in the cup, 2 colours in the jar, 6 lego blocks in the bowl, etc. Then get them to put the numbers beside each set.
Adding lego towers – Show me a red tower of 5 and a blue tower of 2. How many altogether? Show me a yellow tower of 4 and a white tower of 4. How many altogether, etc.
Do the same as last week with the towers up to 8 (as seen below) Give your child a piece of paper and call out various numbers for them to write (0-8). Next ask them
to write the numbers in order. Then ask them to draw a certain number of objects too, i.e. Draw 3 circles, etc.
Complete Worksheet.
Rory had great fun with his Lego towers.
Geography/Drama/Music/Aistear: People Who Help Us – At the Fire Station
Tell your child that today you’re going to be talking about a very important job. Can they tell you about different jobs that people may have. You could ask questions such as: What is a doctor? What do they do? What is a hairdresser? What is a dentist? What is a builder?, etc. Ask them to guess what job you’re going to be talking about today. Give them some hints! What can they remember from last week about firefighters? Ask them what they would like to be when they grow up, why?
Useful links:Twinkl links -https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-857-what-does-a-firefighter-do-powerpoint https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/the-fire-station-aistear-powerpoint-roi-t-20162917Youtube – A day in the life of a firefighter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwIj6Ap6xZADisney – Handy Manny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P1cV7eUmUSong – Here Comes the Fire Truck - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI6UT82cB_E
Ask your child to list the equipment that a firefighter needs. Worksheet: Match the right equipment to the firefighter and colour. Write two sentences about the
firefighter, i.e. Look at the hose, He drives a fire truck, etc. Aistear/Play this week’s theme is At the Firestation – build firestations out of lego, blocks, etc and
engage in roleplay as firefighters and different rescue scenarios. (Twinkl has a vast amount of resources if you search firestation/firefighter); Water play – extension on last week’s theme for Maths and Science
Thursday 07/05/20
Irish: Bua na Cainte – Ceacht 8
Press on the yellow speech bubble for the comhrá with the new vocabulary. Salach – dirty, Nigh – wash, Croch amach do – Hang it up, Glan – clean.
Play the song.
Do the activities:
English: Jolly Phonics – new sound /ie/
Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raZ23qNpXyM
Action for /ie/ is: Stand to attention and salute, saying /ie/, /ie/.
Story:
Clive has been invited to a party. Clive’s dad is a sailor in the navy and he has given Clive a hat from his ship. Clive wants to dress up as a sailor like his dad and wear the hat to the party. His mother makes him a sailor’s outfit. Just before the party, Clive’s dad comes home on leave. Clive insists on wearing his new outfit to meet him off the ship. He waves and waves when he sees his dad and runs up and gives him a big hug. Dad admires his outfit and says, “If you are a sailor, you will have to learn how to salute and say, ‘ie, ie!’ ” When they get home, he shows Clive how to salute. Clive has a go in front of the mirror, saluting and saying, “ie, ie!”
Questions: What is the boy’s name? Where has he been invited? Have you ever been invited to a party? What happened? What was your favourite thing to do at the party? What job does Clive’s Dad have? What does a sailor do? What piece of clothing does his Dad give him? What is that as gaeilge? (hata) What does Clive want to dress up as for the party? Who makes him an outfit? What does Clive do when he sees his Dad? What does Clive’s Dad teach him to do? Can you salute like Clive?
Formation: Same here as with /oa/ and /ai/. The new sound now is /ie/ not /i/ and /e/ on their own but /ie/. Make sure your child knows which letter to write first when forming this new sound. Allow your child time to form the new sound in a wide range of multisensory ways like the previous sounds, i.e. in the air, in sand, on sand paper, in flour, with playdoh, with pasta shapes, with pebbles, etc. Once your satisfied with their /ie/ then let them do their formations with a pencil, marker, etc.
Words containing /ie/ - Ask your children if they know any words that contain /ie/. Maybe they could go around the house and make their own sound basket.
Video: /ie/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esc6yoAU5yU Ask your child to read/sound out these words:
tie pie liedried cries fliestried lied untied
Read the sentences:
My Dad has a tie.Ted will lie down.My mam bakes pies.The flies float.The boy cries.The girl likes fried eggs.I like fries.I tried so hard.
Complete worksheet below.
Maths:
Revise numbers 0 – 8. Mental Maths. i.e. Lenka has 4 lego blocks and Darragh has 4 lego blocks. How many do they have
altogether? Follow the steps from the lesson yesterday. Incorporate lots of hands-on activities and use multi-sensory ways to form numbers, add numbers,
etc. Complete the two worksheets below.
Religion: All about Water
We will come back to the Church topic at a later date. Go to the Grow in Love website (free access from last week) and click on theme 8 Water.
https://app.growinlove.ie/en/user/book-themes/4 Go into the Water is Wonderful Section - https://app.growinlove.ie/en/user/lesson-resources/57 You can spend the few days on the different stories and songs in this section. Discussion points beforehand – What do you know about water? Where does our water come from? After Enestina’s video – How does Enestina and her family get water? Is it the same as us? Would
you like to have to get water this way? How would that make you feel?, etc.
Friday 08/05/20
Irish: Bua na Cainte Ceacht 9.1
Click on the yellow speech bubble for 9.1 to hear the comhrá and the new vocabulary; Cé leis ___? – Who owns ____?, Is liomsa ___ - I own ___.
Comple the game for ceacht 9.1.
English: Onset and Rime – at words.
Dictation work – give your child a page and a pencil. Ask them to fold their arms or put hands on head while listening to your instructions. Today you are looking at works ending in /at/.
Call out words such as hat. Sound out each word very carefully: h-a-t. Children will clap out each sound they hear and then count out the sounds using their fingers. Do this a good few times until you are certain they are getting each sound in the word. Then let them write the word.
Words – hat, cat, mat, bat, rat, sat, fat, pat. If you had time. You could write /at/ on a piece of card/paper. And have all the individual starting
sounds cut out. The children will add a new initial sound at a time to /at/ and see if they can read the new words they create.
Read these sentences:
The cat sits on the mat.I have a hat.The bat flies.I sat on the pie!The rat got fat.The cat gets the rat.I will pat the cake.The cat has a hat.She likes cats.He likes rats.You have a hat.I am sitting on the mat.
Maths: Weight – Heavy and Light
Ask your child if they know what the words heavy and light mean? Yes that’s right something that is heavy weighs a lot. An object that is light doesn’t weight that much. Use a seesaw as an example. The heavier person/object would be sitting on the ground whereas the lighter person or object would be in the air.
Ask them how they would weigh themselves? Show them a weighing scales and ask them to weigh themselves (if you have one).
How do you weigh food like flour for a recipe? Show them your food weighing scales. Why is it important to know how much flour, etc, goes into a recipe? Yes that’s right you need the exact measurements of ingredients when baking so the food tastes nice and everything turns out right!
Show your child a picture of the balancing scales below and tell them that is how we measure heavy and light objects in school. The object in the basket that is heavier falls to bottom and the basket with the lighter object rises in the air.
Weighing Activity : Get a clothes hanger, some twine and two containers like below. Hang up the hanger on a door knob. Objects to weigh – apple, small juice carton/yoghurt, two teddies – small and big, pencil case and a lunch box. (If you don’t have some of these use alternatives). Get your child to estimate which object is going to be lighter. The hanger should go up and down like the above balancing scales.
I would love a few pictures if anyone is able to try the hanger activity!
Or
Human weighing scales activity: Use your two arms as the weighing scales. The heavier object will make your arm fall by your side while the lighter object will make your arm rise up in the air.
Video links:The Elephant mass song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjPApFuGLMWhat’s heavier than a lunch box - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QUHONch0-4
SPHE/Art/Maths/English: There’s a good bit of cross curricular linkage here!!
Health and well-being; Decorating; Measuring (link to weight in Maths); Recipe for ‘choccy apples’ (makes 6) – see below.
You will need: Tray, baking paper, scales/measuring cups, 6 lollipop sticks, microwave-safe bowl, spoon, 6 small sweet apples, 400g of cooking chocolate, 100g of sprinkles, nuts, mini marshmallows or your favourite toppings!Instructions: 1. Push a lollipop stick into each apple. 2. Melt the chocolate, then dip the apple into the chocolate and make sure it is completely covered. 3. Shake any drips back into the bowl, wait 5 seconds then dip the coated apple into your favourite toppings and leave on the tray to dry. 4. Enjoy!
I would love to see your marvellous creations! ([email protected])
Suggestions to keep you busy (not that you aren’t busy enough!!)
RTE school hub are doing a new segment on Dublin Zoo next week, watch if you get a chance. (We might look closer at this the next week)
Draw a picture and write a few sentences for a loved one that you haven’t seen in a while. Post or send a picture to their phone.
Some children are working away in their gardens. Help water the flowers/ vegetables. Plant new flowers. Help create nice window boxes, etc.
Watch a new movie or a show. Talk about the characters in it. Discuss what happened in the beginning, middle and end. What was your favourite part? Did you like the ending? Would you like a different ending? Why/why not?
Children’s Work
Well Done to all my Junior Infant children at home doing their best in completing their school work!Here are a few pictures that parents kindly sent on. Thank you very much. I really appreciate all the effort that you have gone to. Best of luck for the week ahead and take care! Anna O’Hanlon.
