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3/30/2020 0 Comments

Sight Word Learning Update

Tips:
  • Give your child 5 seconds to identify the word. After 5 seconds, say the word for them and ask them to repeat it after you. Then, move on to the next word. 
  • Use the full group of words to play sight word bingo and sight word matching game. This will help to develop your child's visual discrimination skills as they are  learning how to differentiate between words, their shapes and sizes. It is ok if they don't know all of the words in the bingo game, they are becoming more familiar with them by playing the game with you and by repeating the words after you. 
  • 10-15 minutes a day working on sight words is plenty of time! 

Choose three words from the sight word group(she, he, can, call, little, like, what, where, new, me, we) that your child isn't sure of yet to focus on for this week. For example: she, like and me 

Here are some more hands-on/fun activities to do with the three sight words you have chosen for this week - you could try a different activity each day if you like! 
  • Design your own sight word carpark or print the attached template. Write the 3 sight words in the car parking spaces. Ask your child to take out their favourite toy vehicle. Call out a word and your child must park their car into the space with that word.
  • Go large! Make an outdoor sight word carpark using chalk. When you call the word, your child can park their gokart/bike/skateboard/remote control car in the correct space. 
  • Sight word bowling: Stick the 3 sight words on to plastic bottles. Call out a word for your child to knock over using a ball (see picture below) 
  • Build a word: Stick each letter of a word on a different block. Use the blocks to build the words (see picture) 

It is hard to believe we are on week three already. I hope you are all keeping safe and well. I hope you are finding the updates useful and easy to access. There is no pressure to complete everything, just do the activities that work for you and your family. If you need anything or have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me: misstansey2020@gmail.com. You are all doing a brilliant job and your child will have such lovely memories of spending this extra time with you at home. 

Have a good week everyone, stay safe and well! 

Ms Tansey 

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3/29/2020 0 Comments

Week beginning 30th March - A Menu of Activities for the Week

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Menu of activities for this week: 
English
Sight words: Continue to revise she, he, can, call, little, like, what, where, new, me, we  using the cereal box sight word matching game from last week and the bingo game in the homework folders.
**This is a big group of words, to simplify, choose two or three words from this group to focus on this week**
​Additional activity:
  • Use paint to make 11 hand prints (or two or three, depending on how many words you are focusing on this week). When the paint has dried, write each sight word with marker on a hand print. Stick them up on the fridge or on the wall. Your child must then say each word while giving it a high five any time they pass the words during the day. 
Reader: Follow this link to access our next reader 'The New Pet' online: https://my.cjfallon.ie/preview/student/32999 .
First, read the story to your child. Ask them to point out any words they recognise. Talk about the pictures. Read the story together, following each word with your finger. When ready, your child can read the story on their own, pointing to each word as they read. 
Additional activities:
  • Call out words for your child to find in the story
  • Extra challenge: Write out one or two sentences from the story and cut them up. Ask your child to put them into the correct order. They can use the book to help them while ordering the sentences or use the book to check if their ordering is correct when they are finished. Keep the cut up sentences safe so that you can use them again another day.
Phonics and Blending: 
  • Make a sound string (see video below) using sounds s,a,t,i,p,n,c,k,e,r,m,h,d,g,o,u,l
  • See video below for activities to do using the sound strings. 
  • Listen to the Jolly Phonics songs on YouTube and practise saying each sound in the mirror while doing the action. 
  • Cut out and play the word and picture game from your new work folder: Cut out all of the words and pictures and lay them out on the table. Work with an adult to sound out and blend the words and then match the words to the correct picture. Make sure you follow the blending steps from the back of your small red copy in your homework folder when blending. 
Oral Language: 
  • Ask an adult to help you to call one of your older relatives, neighbours or friends and ask them how they are getting on at home. Ask them if they have any news and ask them about what they have been doing to keep busy at home. Make sure you share your news too! They will be so happy to hear from you. When you have finished your phone call, go and share the conversation with someone in your house. This will test your listening skills!​
  • Listen to stories read by older siblings or an adult. Talk about the characters in the stories and what your favourite part was. Make predictions about what will happen next. You can do the same with cartoons and movies! 
Writing: 
  • Big Just Handwriting book: Complete pages 42 and 43 (Letter L pages) 
  • Little Just Handwriting book: Complete g page 'g starts at the dot and goes around like an apple, down and into a swing' Don't lift the pencil from the page until you have finished the letter and make sure you are using the correct pencil grip. 
  • Purple copy: Complete activities in the copy at your own pace.
  • To develop strength in your hands: play with PlayDough, Lego, cutting, colouring, pinching clothes pegs to hang clothes on the line, baking, make necklaces using beads and string, make a daisy chain and draw with chalk on the ground outside. 
Maths

Make Five: In class we call it 'Match Five'. Cut out the fish cards from your new work folder. Place the face down on the table. On your turn, turn over two cards. Do they add together to make five? If they make 5, keep the cards. If they don't make 5, turn them back over. The player with the most cards at the end wins. 
What's Behind my Back? If it is a nice day, go outside and find five leaves, five stones or five twigs. Find a partner to play with. Keep some leaves/twigs/stones behind your back and show your partner the rest. Your partner must use their counting skills to figure out how many twigs/leaves/stones are behind your back. Now swap places! (If you have 5 twigs and your partner shows you one twig, you know your partner has 4 twigs behind their back because 1 and 4 makes 5). Try this game with 4 twigs, 3 twigs and 2 twigs. If you would like an extra challenge - try it with 6 or 7 twigs!  
Busy at Maths book: Complete pages 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 (one page per day this week)
Other activities: Jigsaws, sorting clothes into colours/darks/whites for the wash, setting the table for dinner, matching pairs of gloves and pairs of socks, writing numbers 1 - 5, making numbers 1 - 5 from PlayDough 

Gaeilge
We have covered lessons 1 - 21 in Abair Liom A 
To revise and access games: https://www.kilkerleyns.com/school-blog/free-access-to-abair-liom-online-for-all-classes 

Junior Infants are also very good at singing our traditional Irish song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3aQqsW2G8I
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And saying our Feis poem: 

Cáca
Rínne mamaí cáca,
Cáca deas mór,
Cailín maith í Nóra,
Píosa duit, a stór.
 
Rinne Mamaí cáca,
Cáca deas mór,
Buachaill maith é Pádraig,
Píosa duit, a stór.

Religion
We always start our school day with our morning prayer: 
Father in heaven, you love me, you’re with me night and day.  I want to love you always, in all I do and say. I’ll try to please you, Father, bless me through this day. Amen.

And we end our school day with our evening prayer: 
​God our Father, I come to say, thank you for your love today.
Thank you for my family and all the friends you gave to me.
Guard me in the dark of night and in the morning send your light. Amen.


Grow in Love: We are on Theme 6: Holy Week and Easter 
To access videos, songs and activities, simply login on the www.growinlove.ie website with the following details:
Email:  trial@growinlove.ie
Password:  growinlove
Workbook pages: complete pages 36 - 41 

Easter-themed activities: 
  1. Set up an Easter letter or word hunt in your garden: On one page - write out all the letters of the alphabet, this will be your letter mat (see picture below). Hide magnetic letters or letters written on little cards around the garden. When your child finds a letter, they must come back and place it on top of the matching letter on the letter mat before they go looking for the next letter. 
  2. Make an Easter Egg collage (see picture below) 
  3. Easter printing with potatoes! (See picture below) 
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3/25/2020 0 Comments

Lots of ideas in this video for working with sounds and blending.

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3/24/2020 0 Comments

Our Junior Infants are keeping busy and learning lots! Well done to all the Parents and Guardians for their hard work during this time!

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I just love getting your pictures and hearing what you have been up to! 

Malachy Óg and Emily have set up school in their kitchen, it looks like they have been working very hard (and Annie!). Well done everyone! 

Conall made his cereal box sight word game and his big sister Róise hid them around the garden and Conall had great fun finding them! Now Conall is hiding them for his Daddy Seán to find! 
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3/23/2020 0 Comments

Monday 23rd March

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well and that you enjoyed a lovely Mother's Day yesterday. If there is anything you would find helpful that you don't currently have - please let me know: misstansey2020@gmail.com

Please don't feel under any pressure to use these activities or to get everything covered, you are your child's primary educator and any activities you can do with them will be beneficial. Junior and Senior Infants' school days consist of playful and game based learning, along with an hour of play a day. Playing outdoors, learning life skills like gardening and cooking, creating junk art, building constructions and make believe play are all brilliant for the development of language, problem solving skills, social skills, creativity...the list goes on! 

Here is some content and ideas for literacy and numeracy this week, the activities can be spread out over the course of the week!  

1. Sight Words 
At school we had just started working on this group of sight words in preparation for our next reader 'The New Pet': she, he, can, call, little, like, what, where, new, me, we
I have attached a video of how the children can make their own sight word game from a cereal box, you can keep the cards and use them every day to revise this group of sight words. 
**Some of these words are new to the children, if they are unsure or having difficulty - reduce the number of words in the set or they can repeat the words after you** 

2. Phonics 
Junior Infants: New sound: L 
- Jolly Phonics songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qpn2839Kro&list=RD1Qpn2839Kro&start_radio=1 'l' song is 3mins 30secs into the video 
- How to make the sound: It is important that the children learn the correct pronunciation of the sound. I have attached a video clip to this post. Get the children to look at themselves in the mirror while making the l sound. What does your mouth do to make the sound? 
- Sounds like Phonics is now free to access online - lots of nice games on this site, many of the activities are similar to what we do in class. To access: https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ click into activity book A -> unit 2: The Market -> Letter l (or any letter you wish to revise) 
- If you want to avoid screen time: search the house/garden for items that start with l, make a poster and draw pictures of things that start with l, writing capital L and lowercase l, making L and l out of PlayDough or out of stickers, finding L and l in books and in the newspaper. 


3. Weekly Readers - Attached to this post 
Junior Infants 

1. Decodable reading to revise phonics and blending: Get the Pets 
2. Sight word reader: Where They Hid  
Make sure the children point to each word as they read. Discuss the pictures.
After a couple of days reading the books, if you want an extra challenge - print off the book and cut the sentences off the pictures, see if your child can match the sentences to the pictures, or choose one sentence to cut up and mix it up and ask your child to put it into the correct order. 


4. Maths
- Mental maths: counting 1 - 10 and 10 - 1, sums to 5 (What is 2 +3?, 3 +1? and so on), starting at different numbers and counting on to 10 (start at 3: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), counting to ten and skip no, 2 (1, __, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) 
- Jigsaws 


5. Gaeilge
​We have covered lessons 1 - 21 in Abair Liom A 
To revise and access games: https://www.kilkerleyns.com/school-blog/free-access-to-abair-liom-online-for-all-classes 

6. Exercise
The Body Coach Tv on Youtube: Joe Wicks PE videos every day at 9am (can watch later on too!) 
Make your own obstacle course outside 
Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube 

Most importantly, I hope you are all keeping safe and well. I am missing you all! 

Take care, 

Ms Tansey 


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3/20/2020 0 Comments

Friday 20th March - activities and ideas

Good morning!

Well done everyone on finishing week one of learning at home! I hope you are all keeping safe and well and enjoy a well deserved rest this weekend! If you have any questions or would like to send on any pictures for sharing on the blog my email is misstansey2020@gmail.com. 

Here are a couple of ideas for you: 
1. Make a time capsule with an adult or older sibling (See picture) 
2. Read sight word reader and decodable reader from Wednesday's post 
3. Play 'What's Behind my Back?'  Using a set of colours (five colours for Juniors, nine colours for Seniors) the children hide a selection behind their back and show the rest to their partner. Their partner must use their knowledge of sums and numbers to identify how many colours are behind the child's back. Here is a clip of us playing earlier this year: ​https://twitter.com/KilkerleySchool/status/1219943617177047040
Extra challenge: the children must write down the number of colours behind their partner's back instead of saying the number. 
4. Follow this link to access our Gaeilge programme online - Abair Liom. The children are very familiar with the games and activities on this site. https://www.kilkerleyns.com/school-blog/free-access-to-abair-liom-online-for-all-classes 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Ms Tansey 

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3/19/2020 0 Comments

Story time: Have you Filled a Bucket Today?

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3/18/2020 2 Comments

Readers for Juniors and Seniors

I hope you all enjoyed a lovely St. Patrick's Day and that you are all keeping safe and well. 

Two resources here that might be useful: 
1. Sight word readers:  'Clean Not Clean'(Juniors)  'At the Library' (Seniors) -Revises reading and sight words
2. Decodable readers: 'A Nap and a Map' (Juniors) Have you Ever Seen a Fox? (Seniors) - Revises sounds and blending 

What to do with them: 
These could be used daily as readers while the children are not at school. I will upload new readers each week if you would like to use them. No need to print - the readers can be viewed and read from your device. 
Other activity ideas: 
Print the readers and colour, cut the sentences from the pictures and see if you can match the sentences to the correct picture. 
Copy the sentences from the reader to practice handwriting. 
Make your own book by copying the sentences and drawing your own illustrations. 
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3/18/2020 0 Comments

Fantastic Leprechaun Traps and an Amazing St. Patrick's Day Parade!

Look at this fantastic work, you are all so creative! The children designed and made their own leprechaun traps, they are absolutely brilliant! Tom and Harry McElroy planned their own St. Patrick's Day Parade. They made a plan, masks and posters and then performed the parade for their family. Well done boys - it looked like a wonderful parade! 
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3/16/2020 0 Comments

Monday 16th March

Good morning everyone,

I will be regularly checking in on the blog with ideas and activities based on the plans set out for Junior and Senior Infants. I hope this will be helpful for you all.

​Here are some St. Patricks Day inspired activities
​1. Maths, set up a rainbow hunt. Place small bundles of 1c coins for junior infants and 1c, 2c and 5c coins for senior infants in bowls around the house or outside. The children must find the bowls and count how much money the leprechaun left in the bowls.
2. Design and make a leprechaun trap using recycled materials or outdoor materials. See pictures below.

​If you make a leprechaun trap, please send a picture to misstansey2020@gmail.com and I will upload the pictures to Twitter and the blog so you can see what your friends are up to.

​Keep safe everyone and enjoy St Patricks Day tomorrow.

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