Dear Parents, Guardians and Children,

Spring is here! (According to the Irish calendar) Weekly plan called Distance Learning 1st- 5th February. This week we celebrate St Brigid on the 1st February. Hopefully, we’ll see some signs of Spring soon. We’ll continue our theme the farm this week. Reminder: 1/2hr a day is the recommended time for remote learning for Senior Infants. Keep in touch. Do what you can. Post on seesaw or email missroweonline@gmail.com. Bonus activities are only if you have managed to cover all of the work in the weekly plan. Please take care and continue to mind yourselves. Kind regards, Ms Rowe

Theme: The Farm

English- (SEESAW LINK) Oral Language- Story- “What if?” by A.H. Benjamin & Jane Chapman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuGPxr4hfu8

1. Listen to story "What if?". 2. Identify baby farm animals and match. Record the names. 3. What a wonderful world pg 34 Mother and Babies

Reading:

New Sight Words: picture of under money when wakes couch magic remote control Ideas for sight word games.

(SEESAW LINK) Core Reader 5 Magic in the Sky. Read the story “Luke’s Wobbly Tooth” pg 7-9. Record your child reading pg 7-9 and send the audio to missroweonline@gmail.com or on seesaw. They do not have a Core reader 5 in their hw folder. All Core Readers are available on this link. https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources. Click Senior Infants/ English/ Rainbow Stage 1/ Magic in the sky Core Reader 5

English- Reading & Writing- (SEE SEESAW ACTIVITY READING & WRITING AP WORD FAMILY)

Reading & Writing- ap word family

1. Read the poem "Winchilla's Nap" with your adult. Find and circle all the words ending in -ap e.g. cap.2. Handwriting- ap worksheet (red folder). Take and submit. If you do not have this booklet. I can email it to you.

English Phonics- digraphs-oi- (SEE SEESAW ACTIVITY). 1. Get alphablocks letter (red folder). Listen to video. Read and build oi words with teacher. 2. Listen to Ms Rowe. Write oi words with your alphablocks letters independently. You can pause video for extra time. 3. Dictation of sentences (parent calls out the sentence and the pupils must try to remember the sentence and stretch out/ chop up each word to spell and write it down. Use a lined page if possible. In Senior Infants, we want a capital letter at the start of the sentence, tall letters touching top line, all letters sitting on the line, spaces between words, and full stop at the end. Parents can call out the sentence again if they forget. Let pupils write independently. Every word in these sentences can be sounded out. Correct together at the end. Draw a picture to go with the sentence.

1. “Boil the kettle” said Torin. 2. “Get the tinfoil” said Amy.

Handwriting: Lowercase & capital Kk (SEE SEESAW ACTIVITY) Froggy fingers- pencil grip. Tripod grip. Neat and tidy. Slow and steady. Between the lines. Draw 3 or more things starting with k at the top of the page kite, king, key.

Colour and label. Let them try sound out words and write them down independently. Don’t worry if some of these are spelt incorrectly. Handwriting is the main focus of this activity not spelling.

Extra online resource for phonics. https://slp.cjfallon.ie/

Click: Activity Book A. Unit 2 Market. k

Maths- Topic- 3D Shapes (SEESAW ACTIVITY)

3D Shape Investigation. Can a cone/ cylinder/sphere / cube roll/ slide/ stack? Record you answers in the seesaw activity. Smiley face= yes. Sad face= no.-Try some 3D Shapes Hands On Activities: Building 3D shapes with toothpicks/ lollypop sticks/ matchsticks/ dry spaghetti & playdough/ bluetack. Wooden blocks. Sculpting Playdough. Build a robot.

Find and count: The Sheep Farm & Baby Animals (SEESAW LINK)

Count and circle the farm animals/ objects listed.

Gaeilge. (SEESAW ACTIVITY LINK) Lá Sneachta

Foclóir (Vocab): Tá sé ag cur sneachta ( it is snowing), ar an talamh ( on the ground), ar an gcrann ( on the tree), fear sneachta (snowman), liathróidí sneachta (snowball).

Céim ar chéim workbook at home. Complete pg 34 & 35 with the help of Irish Videos uploaded on seesaw.

Singalong: Tá mé fuar. Fuar (cold), geimhreidh (Winter), lámha (hands), cluasa (ears), cosa (feet)

PE: Exercise inside. Skill development. Kicking. Use a beanbag or a pair of rolled up socks.

• Arrange the pupils in pairs. Pupil A flicks the beanbag for pupil B to catch, and visa versa.• Invite pupils to try to catch the beanbag on the front of the same or opposite foot, before flicking it up again. (Like keepie uppies!)

Science- What a wonderful world. Woolly Jumper pg 48 Sheep grow wool to stay warm in Autumn and Winter. In Springtime, the farmer shears the sheep so they are cooler for Spring and Summer. The wool is used for knitting and making hats, jumpers, blankets, gloves and mittens. Sometimes, the farmer may add spray paint to their sheep so they know one flock of sheep from another. See the picture of the sheep farm from Maths.

Music- Nursery Rhyme “Mary had a little lamb”. Sing along with the recorder playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XfslOWXzI

SPHE- Farm Safety (SEESAW ACTIVITY LINK)Slurry pits. Farm machinery, equipment and buildings. Approaching Animals safely and understanding their body language. Aggressive animals-like bulls. Electric fences and wires.

https://www.loom.com/share/f758479c7bc64994a05efa149dfc8476?sharedAppSource=personal_library

Religion-(SEESAW LINK) – St Brigid. Kindness. Can you remember a time recently when someone was kind to you? What did that person do? How did it make you feel? Was there a time when you were kind to someone else? How did it make you feel? Is it difficult being kind? Why? Do you find it difficult to be kind to some people? Why? Holy woman called Brigid who was very kind. She became a patron Saint of Ireland and County Kildare. Symbols of St Brigid include St Brigid’s Cross, fire and water.Grow in love pg 30 & 31.Song “We sing a song to Brigid”: https://vimeo.com/134632483 Traditional Folklore Story about St Brigid’s Cloak and the King of Leinster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP99Q3eVgmQ&ab_channel=MichaelFortune

Art/ Craft- Make a St Brigid Cross. Different ways to make them: reeds, pipe cleaners, paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq0ci42PnLc

http://blog.susangaylord.com/2015/01/make-paper-st-brigids-cross.html

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-St-Brigid's-Cross-with-Pipe-Cleaners?amp=1