Junior Infants

Weekly outline of Work.

Monday 18th January-Friday 22nd January.

MONDAY

1.Gaeilge/ Irish

Please help your child to revise the following actions/movements. Your child might remember doing this rhyme is school so encourage him/her to sing along with it and do the actions.

A voice recording of these actions are available on Microsoft Teams under the heading ‘Irish Action Rhyme’.

Haileo a pháistí seasaigí suas lámha suas lámha síos

1,2,3, 1,2,3, 1, 2,3

Hello children stand up hands up hands down

Lámha amach lámha istaech lámha síos slán

1,2,3, 1,2,3 1,2,3,

hands out hands in hands down Bye

2.Jolly Phonics

( Please remember your child is not saying the name of the sound. He/she is only saying the sound that the letter makes.) 

(a) Revise each sound in the Sound bag.      New sound for week: ‘d'  

(b)Cut out the ‘d’ sounds and put it into the ‘Sounds bag’ along with the sounds that we have already learnt in school    

(c)Encourage your child to think of words which begin with the ‘d’ sound e.g., door, drum, dragon 

https://youtu.be/xNDgRMBrXC0 (Jolly Phonics d, sound, vocabulary and blending).

Action: Beat hands up and down as if playing a drum and say d, d, d

 

3.Tricky Words  –

(These words need to be learnt as a sight word i.e., when your child sees these words, he/she needs to say these words immediately. These words cannot be sounded out.)

(a) Revise all words learnt to date in the Tricky Word Bag. ‘I, the, he, she, me, we be’

(b) New  word ‘was’   (Jack Hartmann and Jan Richardson ‘was’ sight word song)

https://youtu.be/T0QryZmO2t4

(c) Cut out the word ‘was’ and put it into the Tricky Word Bag. 

(d) Encourage your child to look at and say this word without sounding it out. Think of different sentences with the word ‘was’ e.g. ‘I was colouring with my crayons… ... ‘The jigsaw was broken etc. 

4. Blending Folder:  (Please read note at front of this folder)

  Pg. 1 Words:  spat, pit

Blend (run the sounds together): s-p-a-t Segment word (stretch it out) s-p-a-t

Blend (run the sounds together): p- i-t Segment word (stretch it out) p- i-t

Encourage your child to use the sounds from their Sound Bag to make the words ‘spat’ and ‘pit’.

5.Nursery Rhyme : Continue to revise nursery rhymes. Which rhyme was about a cat, a cow and a dog? What was the cat/cow/dog doing? Can you clap this rhyme? Can you tap the rhyme? Can you stamp the rhyme? Can you whisper the rhyme? Can you say the rhyme out loud? Can you say the rhyme in a happy, sad, excited, grumpy voice? What is your favourite part of the rhyme? Why is this part your favourite? Are there any words that sound alike? diddle and fiddle/ moon and spoon.

These words rhyme.

5. 5.Cracking Maths Home/School Link Book pg. 8  Number 2. Draw sets of 2. Write 2.

(The children love saying this rhyme at school)

Rhyme:

Two little dickie birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, the other named Paul! Fly away Peter, Fly away Paul! Come back Peter! Come back Paul!

How many fingers can you count on the page? How many squares on the grid are coloured in at the top of the page? Count the foot balls/Teddies/lady birds? dogs? How many? Draw a set of any 2 things you want at the bottom of the page!

Number 2 formation rhyme: Around and back on a railroad track, two, two, two!

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6.Pre Reading Activity Book pg. 44 (Mrs. Browne’s Class)

Draw the spikes on the dinosaurs. Remember to hold your pencil properly! Colour in the dinosaurs using different colours!

Pg. 47 (Ms. Weafer’s Class)

What is missing? Finish the house and finish the teddy. Colour in the house and teddy using different colours!

Well-being Activity: Cosmic Kids Yoga Sonic the Hedgehog

 

TUESDAY

1. Gaeilge/Irish  Sneachta sa ghairdín (snow in the garden)

Help your child learn the following Irish words. A voice recording of this section is available on Microsoft Teams under the heading ‘Voice recording vocabulary’. After each word is said there will be a pause so that your child can repeat the word. Lots of repetition is important.

Seáinín Sioc ag cur sneachta ag déanamh fear sneachta Isteach libh anois!

Jack Frost snowing making a snowman In ye go now!

2. Jolly Phonics  

(a) Revise all sounds in the sounds bag.  Focus on the ‘d’ sound.

(b) Look at the pictures on the ‘d’ page of your child’s Sound Booklet. Say them together e.g., dragon, dinner, dog, drum, doctor…. Can you hear the ‘d’ sound? Is it at the beginning, middle or end of the word?

(c) I spy! Looking around your home can you find things that begin with the ‘d’ sound. e.g., door, dress, etc.

Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘d’ sound https://youtu.be/65b3vEfskZ4

 

3. Tricky Words  

(a)Revise all Tricky Words in the Tricky Word bag : ‘I, the, he, she, me, we, be’

(b) Continue to focus on new tricky word: ‘was’

https://youtu.be/ukWsRp0m0Iw (Miss Molly Songs! The ‘was’ song)

(c). Encourage your child to look at and say the word ‘was' without sounding it out. Think of more sentences with the word was e.g. ‘I was outside cycling my bike’ or I was tidying my room etc.

4. Blending Folder:  (Please read note at front of this folder)

  Pg. 1 Words:  spat, pit

Blend (run the sounds together): s-p-a-t Segment word (stretch it out) s-p-a-t

Blend (run the sounds together): p- i-t Segment word (stretch it out) p- i-t

Encourage your child to use the sounds from their Sound Bag to make the words ‘spat’ and ‘pit’.

 

5.Nursery Rhyme: We will revisit the rhyme ‘Hey Diddle Diddle this week’ (Please read note for term 2 inside Nursery Rhyme Booklet). Share read ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ with your child. Model good reading by encouraging and showing your child how to put his/her finger under the words as you read together. Are there any words he/she knows? Maybe a tricky word we have learnt e.g., the word ‘the’. Encourage your child to colour in this word wherever he/she can find it. Maybe you could pick out simple words like ran, cat, and. With your child encourage him/her to sound (blend) some of these words r-a-n, c-a-t, a-n-d. He/she can colour in these words.

6.Just Handwriting (bigger book) pg. 10: Writing the letter a.

What pictures do you see? ant, apple, astronaut.

Time to write! (Tick each box on the top left of the page)

· Are you ready? Give me a thumb up!

· Are you sitting properly? Two feet down, back straight, chair pushed in!

· Are you holding your pencil properly? Between Tommy Thumb, Peter Pointer, Middle Man helping! Ruby Ring and Baby Small go to sleep!

(Tick each box on the top left of the page)

a When we are forming the letter ‘a’ we say

‘up, around like a ‘c’, up, down and a tail’.

7. Cracking Maths pg. 46 Number 3: Write the number 3.  

How many tortoises at the top of the page? How many fingers do you see? Look at the grid at the bottom of the page. How many are coloured in green? Can you count three fingers? Can you clap three times? Can you do three jumps? Can you do three hops? Can you do three star jumps?

Number 3 formation rhyme: (say the rhyme while making number three with your finger in the air, on the table or with play doh)

Around the tree, around the tree, that’s the way we make a three.

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Well-being Activity: https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/

 

WEDNESDAY

1. Gaeilge/Irish: Sneachta sa ghairdín (snow in the garden)

Please go to Microsoft Teams

(a) Under the heading ‘Voice recording vocabulary- Foclóir’. Revise vocabulary. After each word is said there will be a pause so that your child can repeat the word. Lots of repetition is important.

(b) Find the voice recording saying ‘Irish Story (scéal). Listen to the story. After each sentence is said there will be a pause so that your child can repeat the sentence. Lots of repetition is important.

2. Jolly Phonics:   

(c) Revise each sound in the Sound Bag.  

(d) Focus on ‘d’ sound. Can your child remember the jolly phonics ‘d’ song and action?

Beat hands up and down as if playing a drum and say d, d, d

https://youtu.be/xNDgRMBrXC0 (Jolly Phonics d, sound, vocabulary and blending).

(e) Can your child remember any of the words beginning with ‘d’ which were in our sound's booklet e.g., duck ,donkey, doll, dress etc.

(f) Encourage your child to put some of the sounds from sound bag together and try to make some short words e.g., den, sand, and

Where is the‘d’ sound? Is it at the beginning, middle or end of the word?

(g) Encourage your child to air trace the correct formation of the letter‘d’ using his/her Peter Pointer finger. (Refer to handwriting sheet in Homework Folder for correct formation and words to use when forming the letter ‘d’).

We say ‘up, around like a ‘c’ ,up to the top, down and a tail when making the letter ‘d’

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3.Tricky Words  

(h) Revise all Tricky Words in the Tricky Word bag : ‘I, the, he, she, me, we, be’

(i) Continue to focus on new tricky word: ‘was’

https://youtu.be/ukWsRp0m0Iw (Miss Molly Songs! The ‘was’ song)

https://youtu.be/T0QryZmO2t4 (Jack Hartmann & Jan Richardson ‘was’ sight word song)

(c) Continue to encourage your child to think of more sentences with the word ‘was’.

4. Blending Folder: Blending Folder:  (Please read note at front of this folder)

  Pg. 1 Words:  tip, pip

Blend (run the sounds together): t-i-p Segment word (stretch it out) t-i-p

Blend (run the sounds together): p-i-p Segment word (stretch it out) p- i-p

Encourage your child to use the sounds from their Sound Bag to make the words

‘tip’ and ‘pip’.

5. Nursery Rhyme: We will revisit the rhyme. Continue to share read ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ with your child. Model good reading by encouraging and showing your child how to put his/her finger under the words as you read together. Are there any words he/she knows? Maybe a tricky word we have learnt e.g., the word ‘the’. Encourage your child to colour in this word wherever he/she can find it. Maybe you could pick out simple words like ran, cat, and. With your child encourage him/her to sound (blend) some of these words r-a-n, c-a-t, a-n-d. He/she can colour in these words.

6. Cracking Maths pg. 47: Number 3. Write .Ring. Match.

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Don’t forget our rhyme! ‘Around the tree and around the tree, that’s the way we make a three! (air trace it/finger trace it, make it with your play doh)

Can you count sets of three in your home? E.g. Maybe 3 spoons, 3 cushions, 3 building blocks or any 3 toys you have? Put 3 spoons/building blocks on the table. Count them! Spread them out a little. How many? Still 3! Spread them out some more? How many now? Still 3! Spread them out some more! Count- Still 3! It doesn’t matter how much we spread them out there are still 3!

(Parent: a good way to test your child’s understanding of the number 3 is to put three objects on the table/floor close together and nearby put three more objects spread out. Ask your child which set has more? He/she should tell you the two sets are the same. If he/she tells you that the set which has the objects which are spread out has more then, he/she may need more practice at the above activity)

7. Just Handwriting (bigger book) pg. 11: Writing the letter a.

What pictures do you see? anchor, ambulance

· Look at the picture of the man- Let’s stretch it out m-a-n Where is the ‘a’ sound? Yes it is in the middle!

· Where is the cat? Yes, the cat is on the mat! Look at the word cat. Let’s stretch it out. c-a-t-Where is the ‘a’ sound?

· What about the word mat. Let’s stretch it out. m-a-t- Where is the ‘a’ sound?

a When we are writing the letter ‘a’ we say

‘up, around like a ‘c’, up, down and a tail’.

(a) It important we touch the two blue lines when we are writing the letter ‘a’.

(b) Encourage your child to practice writing the letter in the air first using their ‘Peter Pointer Finger’. 

(c) If you have play doh at home, your child can use it to make the letter ‘a’.  .

(d) Continue to encourage your child to hold his/her pencil properly ‘Between Tommy Thumb and Peter Pointer with Middle Man helping! Ruby Ring and Baby Small go to sleep! Hold down the page with the hand not being used.  

Well-being Activity: Cosmic Kids - Winter wonderland

 

THURSDAY 

1. Gaeilge/Irish: Sneachta sa ghairdín (snow in the garden)

Please go to Microsoft Teams

(a) Under the heading ‘Poems and songs- Dánta agus amhráin’. Listen to the poem for the week. It is called ‘Sneachta, Sneachta. Your child will get the opportunity to repeat this poem. Lots of repetition is important.

Sneachta, Sneachta (Snow, Snow)

Sneachta, sneachta (Snow, snow)

Ag titim, ag titim, (Falling, falling)

Sneachta ag titim (Snow falling)

Anuas ón spéir. (Down from the sky)

2. Jolly Phonics   

(a)Revise all sounds in the sounds in sound bag. 

(b)Put some sounds together to make words e.g., p-i-n, r-a-t, m-a-t-, m-a-p

(c)Focus on‘d’ sound. Can you think of any words with ‘d’ sound at the beginning?

(d)Can you think of any words where‘d’ sound is at the end? E.g. mad, fed, lid etc.

(e) Continue to encourage your child to air trace the correct formation of the letter ‘d’ using his/her Peter Pointer finger. We say ‘up, around like a ‘c’, up to the top, down and a tail when making the letter‘d’

https://youtu.be/yKVUjAefNAk (AlphaBlocks the letter d-Learn to read)

 

3.Tricky Words  

a. Revise all Tricky Words in the Tricky Word bag : ‘I, the, he, she, me, we, be’

b. Continue to focus on new tricky word: ‘was’

https://youtu.be/ukWsRp0m0Iw (Miss Molly Songs! The ‘was’ song)

https://youtu.be/T0QryZmO2t4 (Jack Hartmann & Jan Richardson ‘was’ sight word song)

(c) Continue to encourage your child to think of more sentences with the word ‘was’.

 . 4.  Blending Folder: Blending Folder:  (Please read note at front of this folder)

  Pg. 1 Words:  tip, pip

Blend (run the sounds together): t-i-p- Segment word (stretch it out) t-i-p-

Blend (run the sounds together): p- i-p Segment word (stretch it out) p- i-p

Encourage your child to use the sounds from their Sound Bag to make the words ‘tip’ and ‘pip’.

5. Nursery Rhyme: We will revisit the rhyme. Continue to share read ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ with your child. Model good reading by encouraging and showing your child how to put his/her finger under the words as you read together. Are there any words he/she knows? Maybe a tricky word we have learnt e.g., the word ‘the’. Encourage your child to colour in this word wherever he/she can find it. Maybe you could pick out simple words like ran, cat, and. With your child encourage him/her to sound (blend) some of these words r-a-n, c-a-t, a-n-d. He/she can colour in these words.

 

6.Grow in Love ‘At Home’ pg. 27 How did Mary and Joseph feel when they found Jesus? Colour the correct faces. 

Our lesson this week is: Theme 4, Week 2: The Holy Family visited Jerusalem.

To access the online material log on to: www.growinlove.ie   with the following details: 

Email:  trial@growinlove.ie  Password: growinlove 

In this website there is a video telling the story about ‘The Boy Jesus in the Temple’

There is also a recording of a song called ‘Quiet and Still’ which the children love singing in school.

(If your child wishes he/she may complete the ‘In school’ page 26). On the way…. Colour the things that the Holy Family will need for their journey.

7.Small World pg. 25 Polar Bears Spot six differences between these two pictures . Circle them on the bottom picture.

https://youtu.be/--xEE7K67Xo Polar Bears for kids.

Well-being Activity: P.E with Joe Wicks https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBsXs1WmPcektsQyFbXTf9FO

 

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FRIDAY 

1. Gaeilge/Irish: Sneachta sa ghairdín (snow in the garden)

Céim ar Chéim pg. 34.

Please go to Microsoft Teams and the teacher will explain and talk through this activity.

You will find it under ‘Written activity page 34- Leathanach 34’

2. Jolly Phonics Sounds  

(a) Revise all sounds in the Sounds Bag. 

(b) Revise some of the pictures which go with any sounds completed in Sound Booklet.

https://youtu.be/T4fvEl8MIvs (Phonics letter sounds sound set 1: s, a, t, i, p ,n)

https://youtu.be/daOv3apd78s (Phonics letter sounds sound set 2: c, k, e, h, r, m, d)

 

3. Tricky Words 

Revise all words in the Tricky Word Bag. ‘I, the, he, she, me, we, be, was’

4. Blending Folder:  Revise blending and segmenting the following words:

a.  Page 1, words  sit, it, pan, tap, spat, pit

b. Encourage your child to use their sounds from their Sound Bag to make the above words. 

5. Nursery Rhyme: Hey Diddle Diddle: Continue to share read the rhyme ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ finding and focusing on the words ‘the and ran, cat, and’.

 

6. Sounds Make Words page 36. (d)  Say the ‘d’ words. Write the letter ‘d’. Draw a ‘d’ word.

 

 

Well-being: Go Noodle - Trolls

 

OTHER POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES 

1. Rhyme for this week:  

(a) Last week we learnt will learn part 1 of a rhyme called Bubble Bubble‘. This week we will learn part 2.

Bubble, Bubble

1.

Bubble, bubble, turn around.

Bubble, bubble, land on the ground.

Bubble, bubble, float up high.

Bubble, bubble, float towards the sky!

2

Bubble, bubble float down low,

Bubble, bubble and on my toe.

Bubble, bubble stop, stop, stop!

Bubble, bubble now go pop!

(b) Have you ever blown bubbles? Were the bubbles big or small? Do you like it?  Where did the bubbles go? Did you pop any of the bubbles? How did you do it?

2.Number Rhyme

Three Blind Mice

Three blind mice, Three blind mice.

See how they run, See how they run.

They all run after the farmer’s wife,

Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.

Did you ever see such a sight in your life,

As three blind mice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJR9ladarls

  

3. Oral Maths: 

· Count up to 3 and back from 3.

· -Use fingers , lego, bricks, teddies etc to make sets of 3.

· -If your child has play doh at home , make the number 3 using the playdoh.

· -Trace the number 3 in the air and on the table /floor before writing it on a sheet of paper in different colour

‘Around the tree and around the tree, that’s the way we make a three!’

· -Match the number cards to sets of 1 , 2 , 3

e.g. 1 teddy – put number 1 card near it

2 cars – put the number 2 card here, 3 spoons – put the number 3 card here; this is where we put the number 3 card.

· Game Simon Says - play the games doing 3 of each activity e.g. Simon says do 3 star jumps / 3 hops / 3 claps / 3 jumps / 3 taps on your head...etc

 

3.Grow in Love 

Dear Parents. It would be wonderful if you had a look at what your child would have been learning in ‘Grow in Love’ at this time. By following the link below, you will be able to see fantastic engaging videos, art ideas and music that go with each lesson. To access the online material log on to: www.growinlove.ie   with the following details: 

Email:  trial@growinlove.ie 

Password: growinlove 

Junior Infants: Theme 4: The Holy Family     Lesson 1. The Holy Family lived in Nazareth.

Grow in Love pg. 26 On the way…. Colour the things that the Holy Family will need for their journey.

4.Oral Language: Vocabulary: toys, doll, teddy bear, cars, plane, bicycle, paint, till, toyshop, Lego, whizzing, imagination, trampoline, rollerblades, shop assistant, smoothly, forwards, backwards

(a) Ask your child what is their favourite toy? Describe the toy; What colour is it? Is it noisy or quiet? Does the toy move? He/she might draw a picture of their favourite toy in their yellow news copy (Blank yellow copy book where the children draw pictures)

(b) Who works in a toyshop?

(c) How are the toys in the shop displayed? 

(d) If you had a toyshop, what would you name it?

(e) What section of the toyshop is the best? Why do you think that?

(f) Would you like to be a shopkeeper in a toyshop? Why?

(g) Activity: Guess the toy. Give your child descriptions of a toy e.g. It is cuddly. It is an animal. It is brown with a red bow (a teddy bear). Your child will guess what the toy is. Then they can give clues to you of a toy.

 

 

If you need to contact us at any time or if we can offer assistance in any way, please send us an email at any time and we will get back to you 

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