Hello everyone!

Just a little note to say goodbye to our little friends. 😊

We have loved all of your posters you have sent us this week and we have loved seeing all of your sports day activities. Make sure to take a look at our school collage of our positivity posters on our school website and see if you can catch a glimpse of yours! Thank you so much for keeping in touch with us! All of the photos of you guys have kept us smiling and we have loved all of the contact with our little pals.

Once again we would like to say that we feel so lucky to have been a part of your child's journey through their first year at school. They truly are a special bunch and we have enjoyed every second of our year with them - both at home and at school. If you have not already done so, we would love if you could share our little voice message with your child from our blog last week just to say a final goodbye to them. (linked here also - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YNmNVCnb0lcJ3EYnTin4HOCScAJdlFMI/view?usp=sharing )

A special word of thanks to all of the mammies and daddies who have gone above and beyond during this time at home. We know it has not always been easy keeping on top of everything but thank you so much for keeping us updated with all the beautiful pictures and messages etc and know that it was always greatly appreciated. We wish you all the loveliest of summer holidays and we send our biggest and best wishes to your child in their next new adventure in Senior Infants.

Thank you to all of the children in Room 1 and Room 2 for being such wonderful Junior Infants and for making our jobs so enjoyable this year 😊😊

Best Wishes,

Mrs Brady and Mrs McHugh 😎👋

P.S. Don't forget to keep singing along with Mr. Collins in our end of year song 'This is Me'!

Hello everyone in Room One and Room Two!! 😁

We've recorded a little voice message for you all to say hi before we finish up. Click on the following link and we hope it will play for you!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YNmNVCnb0lcJ3EYnTin4HOCScAJdlFMI/view?usp=sharing

Imagine this is our last full week of Junior Infants! Congratulations to you all for completing Junior Infants!!!! We are so proud of you all and all your hard work you have done both at school and at home this year. We have loved teaching you all so much! Every single one of you lit up our classrooms every day with your fabulous smiles and bubbly personalities! Your teachers in Senior Infants are so unbelievably lucky to get such wonderful classes next year! We look forward to seeing you all in September. We will miss you all dearly and hope you have the most amazing summer holidays ☀

Lots of love,

Mrs. Brady and Mrs McHugh x

Our Activities for this week:

• We are asking all children to complete a “Poster of Positivity” this week. As always there is no pressure to complete this – but we really would love as many of you as possible to send us your submissions. Your poster can contain a positive message, slogan or quote and a picture of all the things that make you smile J You can draw anything at all that has brought you happiness during your time at home. Please send us a photo or scan your image and send it to our email at juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie by this Friday June 19^th. Every class is putting their posters together to make one big collage of positivity that truly represents how amazing all our children have been during this time!

• End of year song: Mr. Collins from Room 4 has recorded the most wonderful end of year song for all our students! The words for the song are all attached below in the resources section and the audio recording is attached for you. We would love for you all to sing along!! Well done Mr. Collins . You'll find the audio recording here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OWp8o9pT-6z2KO1whZHD7mzeiIk-8Osy/view?usp=sharing (please note: you may have to download the file to your device in order for the audio to play).

• Virtual Sports Week: Please see the activities linked below.

• Virtual School Tour: We are off to Dublin Zoo! All of you animal lovers and explorers will love this! Please check out the links we have attached:

• https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/animal-webcams/african-savanna/

• https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/animal-webcams/elephants/

• https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/animal-webcams/penguins/

• Teddy Bears Picnic: Why not take your favourite teddy bear out to your garden to have a picnic! Pick the nicest day this week when the sun is shining and some of your favourite snacks and see if you can get your brothers, sisters, mammy or daddy to come with! Maybe you could read a story to teddy or maybe sing them song. :)

As this is our last full week of school we have tried to reflect this in the activities we have given your children to do this week. As always these are just suggested activities – if you feel it suits your house better to continue on with your books at home – please continue to do so. Thank you to all parents that have worked so hard since we left school in March. Your support and all your efforts are so very much appreciated by us both. Thank you all so much for your continued contact throughout this time. We feel very lucky to have gotten the opportunity to teach your child this year and wish them all the best as they begin their new adventures next year in Senior Infants. Enjoy your well-deserved break this Summer.

Kind regards,

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. McHugh

Resources for Week 10

Hello everyone!! 👋

Its Mrs. Brady and Mrs. McHugh here. We hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready for the week ahead!!! The weeks are flying by. We hope you are all keeping well 😀Don’t forget to keep in touch with us via our email address – we really do love hearing from you all and seeing your gorgeous pictures. A big thank you again to all your wonderful mammies and daddies on being the most fabulous teachers at home! Keep up the super work and we look forward to hearing from you J

English:

· Login to Gill Explore as explained previously in blog posts. Click on Skills book Junior Infants and select Unit 9 from drop down list. Then click on Unit 9 Oral Language “The Airport interactive resources. Listen to story mode, then use explore mode with your child. Click on the eye symbol and the question symbol and complete both activities with your child.

· Our new sight words this week are “give” and “live”. You can also revise “come” and “some” with your child. Encourage your child to orally put these words into sentences. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word.

· Complete page 108 - 112 of Over the Moon Skills Book Junior Infants.

· Please continue to complete Sounds make words and the Practice writing copy at your discretion. If these books have already been completed at home, please start completing our Just Handwriting book if you would like some additional work for your child.

Maths:

· The theme this week in Maths is the Numbers 3, 4 & 5.

· This week we will complete pages 87-91 with your child in our Busy at Maths books.

· Please see interactive links to pages 87-91 in the resources section below. You can complete these with your child before completing the pages in the book.

· Please continue to make sets of items in groups of 3, 4 & 5 with your child.

· Encourage your child to identify the numeral along with the set.

Other: S.E.S.E Summer

· Login to Edcolearning.ie with username “primaryedcobooks” and your password is “edco2020”. There is a picture below in the resources section explaining the login details.

· Search for “Explore with me JI 2019”.

· Lesson 1: The Starfish: Go to page 58 of the online book. Watch the video of the about the starfish. Pause after the question: Do you know what it is? And predict with your child. Then watch the rest of the video. Recall the main facts Sparky has told us about the starfish. Then complete page 58 in your child’s workbook.

· Lesson 2: Shadows: Discuss the word shadow with your child. If it’s a sunny day bring your child out to found shadows around them, if possible. Watch the animation on page 59 of your e-book. Discuss with your child the different shadows the little explorers see on the way to granny’s house. Complete page 59 of your child’s workbook.

Other activities:

· Following on from our Over the Moon book an optional other activity for this week is to make a simple fruit smoothie at home. Please see resources for a simple recipe.

· Using instruction card attached below use household objects to create an obstacle course with your child exploring a range of movements J

If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please do not hesitate to email us at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. McHugh

Resources for Week 9

Hello to Everyone in Room 1 & 2!

We hope you are all keeping well and enjoying the beautiful sunshine! We have been so lucky to be able to spend all this time outside. I hope you all had lots of fun in the sun this week 😎 As this is only a three day week we only have a little bit of work for you all to do! Please don’t forget to continue to keep in touch with us!

A reminder our email is juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie.

English:

· Login to Gill Explore as explained previously in blog posts. Click on Skills book Junior Infants and select Unit 8 from drop down list. Then click on Unit 8 Oral Language interactive resources. Listen to story mode, then use explore mode with your child. Click on the eye symbol and the question symbol and complete both activities with your child.

· Revise sight words so & like. Encourage your child to orally put these words into sentences. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word.

· Revision of so and like: Complete page 101 of Over the Moon Skills Book Junior Infants

· Please continue to complete Sounds make words and the Practice writing copy at your discretion. If these books have already been completed at home, please start completing our Just Handwriting book if you would like some additional work for your child.

· Onset and Rhyme: -op words: Please complete page 103 of Over the Moon Skills Book Junior Infants.

· Phonics: Segmenting: Please complete page 107 of Over the Moon Skills Book Junior Infants.

Maths:

· Revise the months of the year with your child.

· The theme this week in Maths is the Number 5.

· This week we will complete pages 85 & 86 with your child in our Busy at Maths books.

· Please see interactive links to pages 85 & 86 in the resources section below. You can complete these with your child before completing the pages in the book.

· You could ask your child the following questions while completing the page;

How many fish are in the first set?

How many frogs are in the middle set?

How many rabbits are there in the last set?

How many sets of five are there?

What colour are they?

How are the sets the same/different?

Other: S.E.S.E Summer

· Login to Edcolearning.ie with username “primaryedcobooks” and your password is “edco2020”. There is a picture below in the resources section explaining the login details.

· Search for “Explore with me JI 2019”.

· Lesson 1: Seán Óg and Fungie: Go to page 56 of the online book. Watch the animation of the online story. Ask the children to recall the main points of the story. Do pupil book page 56: Talk about the picture and finish the sentences.

· Lesson 2: My Summer Holidays: Talk about what children might bring on holidays. Talk about the different places the children have visited and the types of holidays they been on. Discuss travelling at home and abroad, modes of transport, airport, weather in a different places etc. Ask the children what they did on their holidays. Do pupil book page 60. My Summer Holidays.

Virtual Outdoor Activity Challenge:

Usually during the month of June in school we would be spending lots of time outdoors so we have decided to set you all a little fun outdoor challenge! We are going to post two challenges for you all every week and we would love to see some pictures of your taking part in these outside whenever you can. You can even get everyone in your house involved! Enjoy!!😁

Resources available in the resources section below:

· Spell your name P.E

· Body action Simon Says

If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please do not hesitate to email us at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. McHugh

Resources for Virtual Outdoor Activities

Hello boys and girls!

We hope you are all keeping well. We hope everyone got their books and got a chance to show everyone at home all the wonderful work you have done so far this year. We are sure everyone at home couldn’t believe the gorgeous work you all have done! We are very excited for you all to get super busy this week doing some more of your work in your books! Feel free to send any pictures of your work, a little email to say hello or any activity you are completing this week we would love to see!

A reminder of our email juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie.

Please take a moment to complete the “Rainbows moments” form if you have not already done so: https://forms.gle/MFEdk6bGGrHxmPTf7

English:

· Login to Gill Explore as explained previously in blog posts. Click on Skills book Junior Infants and select Unit 8 from drop down list. Then click on Unit 8 Oral Language interactive resources. Listen to story mode, then use explore mode with your child. Click on the eye symbol and the question symbol and complete both activities with your child.

· Over the Moon Skills Book Junior Infants: page 96

Give your child instructions as to how to complete the page. For example; Colour the fireman’s hoses red. Colour the alarm clock blue.

· Revise sight words go, no, so, like. Encourage your child to orally put these words into sentences. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word. We have attached a document that has all the sight words in it if anyone would like to print them off.

· Revision of go and no: Complete page 97 of Over the Moon Skills Book Junior Infants

· Please continue to complete Sounds make words and the Practice writing copy at your discretion. If these books have already been completed at home, please start completing our Just Handwriting book if you would like some additional work for your child.

· Middle Sounds: Over the Moon Skills Book Junior Infants: page 99. Please complete interactive activity before completing the page with you child. See link in resources.

Maths:

· Revise the months of the year with your child.

· Counting activities: Give your child a ball. Put ten seconds on the clock and ask your child to count how many times they bounced the ball in ten seconds. Ask your child to see how many times they can skip in ten seconds. Ask your child to look out the window and time how long it takes for the cloud/car to go out of sight.

· The theme this week in Maths is “Time – Sequencing”.

· This week we will complete pages 82, 83 & 84 with your child in our Busy at Maths books.

· Please see interactive links to pages 82, 83 & 84 in the resources section below. You can complete these with your child before completing the pages in the book.

· Please revise the nursery rhymes “Little Bo Peep”, “Little Miss Muffet” & “Humpty Dumpty” with your child before completing these pages.

· You could ask your child the following questions while completing the page;

What is happening in the first/middle/last picture?

Can you show me the picture next to/that comes before the last picture?

Can you show me the picture that comes after the middle picture?

Why is Little Bo Beep sitting on the rock crying in the middle picture?

Why is Little Bo Peep not crying in the first picture?

What is Little Miss Muffet eating?

What is she sitting on?

What frightened Miss Muffet away?

Where is Humpty Dumpty sitting?

Is there a spider near/on him?

Other: S.E.S.E Summer (Explore With Me Book)

· Login to Edcolearning.ie with username “primaryedcobooks” and your password is “edco2020”. There is a picture below in the resources section explaining the login details.

· Search for “Explore with me JI 2019”.

· Lesson 1: Go to page 55 and click on slideshow video at the top of the page. Talk about other signs of summer that our visible in your local environment. Go through slideshow with your child and complete page 55 of the pupil book.

· Lesson 2: Discuss a time your child may have been at the beach. What time of year was it? What did they see? What did they do there? What did they like/dislike about their trip?

· On page 57 of the online book, click on Interactive activity and complete with your child. Identify all items that you would find on the beach and discuss choices with child.

· Complete page 57 of the pupil book.

If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please do not hesitate to email us at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

Thank you again for all your hard work and efforts at home. We hope that having your child’s books at home will make distant learning a little easier! J Please take care. We look forward to hearing from you. Have a lovely week!

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. McHugh

Resources for Week 7 Blog Post - 25th - 29th May '20

Link to middle sounds activity:

https://www.gillexplore.ie/gill-explore-resources/over-the-moon-junior-infants-skills-book?Chapters=7661&ResourceTypes=0

Interactive activity links for pages 82, 83 and 84 in Busy at Maths book:

• http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19596/activity-82/index.html

• http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19596/activity-83/index2.html

• http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19596/activity-84/index2.html

Explore With Me Resources

Hello Junior Infants!

Thank you so much to everyone who has got in touch with us this week! We were so delighted to see all your little faces and your super work you have been doing at home! We are just so proud of all the hard work you have been doing at home. Well done to you all! Don’t forget to check out your pictures on our Inspiring Infants blog page. 😊 Hopefully next week we will have lots of sunshine again. I hope you all have lots of fun with your families in the sun!

A reminder of our email juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie.

English:

· Please focus on blending the –et family this week:

For example: Practise to blend the following words with your child; get, pet, jet, wet, let, net.

And the –ap family;

Cap, sap, gap, tap, nap.

· Complete online blending game: https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/cvc-word-and-picture-interactive-matching-activity-tg-375

· Here are some more online games you could try: https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/fishy-phonics?phase=2

· https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/index.html

· https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/tg-ga-156-level-2-phonics-game-show

· Our sight words are the same as last week: Please revise “like” “for” and “have”. Encourage your child to orally put these words into sentences. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word. We have attached a document that has all the sight words in it if anyone would like to print them off.

· Please continue to complete Sounds make words and the Practice writing copy at your discretion

· Please complete Phonics read and draw worksheet

· Please complete Phonics read and write worksheet

· Please complete find the words activity sheet

· Please complete match word to picture sheet

Maths:

· Practise the months of the year with your child. Throughout the week try and get your child to remember the first 6 months of the year. Introduce the next 6 months.

· Practise counting 1-10 and counting down from ten.

· The theme this week in Maths is “Maths around the home”. Practise counting things in your house. How many buttons on your child’s shirt? How many forks are needed to set the table? How many oranges are in the fruit bowl? Start small and work your way up as your child is ready.

· Find objects that go together such as cups and saucers, forks and knives, salt and pepper, saucepan and lid, toothbrush and toothpaste etc.

· Play simple board games that involve using dice.

· Identify shapes in the home. Find basic shapes like rectangles in window frames, light switches, circles in clocks etc.

· Make a simple map of your home: Practise using spatial language by helping your child make a map of your house or a room in your home.

· Please compete around the home maths worksheets linked below.

Other: Gaeilge

· Please go to folensonline.ie in order to register to access all online material.

· Step One: Click register.

· Step Two: Select teacher.

· Step Three: Fill in username, email and password.

· Step Four: For roll number use the code Prim20 to access the resources for your child.

· The theme we have selected for this week is “An Phicnic”. First up use the flashcards to revise the vocabulary with your child. If suitable, try to find the pieces of vocabulary in your home (for example: ceapaire, uisce) Allow your child to explore the poster listening to the song, the story, the short conversation and playing the vocabulary games. https://www.folensonline.ie/home/

If you have a minute why not try the Comic Yoga video added below.

If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please do not hesitate to email us at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

Please don’t forget to give parental permission in the email if you agree to allow us to share your child’s work on our blog page.

We have also included the following ‘Rainbow Moments’ Google Form from the ‘Weaving Wellbeing’ programme this week. Please take a moment to complete it here: https://forms.gle/MFEdk6bGGrHxmPTf7

Take care and stay safe,

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. Mc Hugh

Maths Resources

Irish Resources

Other Resources

Hello Everyone! 😊

Mrs. McHugh and Mrs. Brady here! We hope you all enjoyed the gorgeous sunshine we had this week and spent lots of time playing outside. We loved so much hearing from so many of you all and seeing all your beautiful work. We also loved the lovely messages you sent us😁 It made us so happy to chat to so many of you. I hope everyone checked out our “Inspiring Infants” page to see all your wonderful work and fabulous pictures! Ideally we would like to hear from every child in our class every week, with a picture of you completing any activity of your choice or just a little message to say hello.

A reminder of our email juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie.

English:

· Continue with online Gill & Macmillan resources. The theme this month is “Going on holidays”. You will be able to access this month’s reader and a range of interactive activities. Please see our last blog post for login details and link.

· Please focus on blending the –ad family this week:

For example: Practise to blend the following words with your child; bad, dad, had, lad, mad, sad, pad.

And the –an family;

Ban, can, fan, man, pan, ran, tan, van.

· Complete matching word game Powerpoint: See powerpoint attached below

· Complete online blending game: https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/cvc-word-and-picture-interactive-matching-activity-tg-375

· Our sight words for this week are “like” “for” and “have”. Encourage your child to orally put these words into sentences. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word. We have attached a document that has all the sight words in it if anyone would like to print them off.

· Complete pages 19-23 of the CVC Booklet linked below.

· Please complete the blend and colour sheet provided.

· Please complete the match and colour sheet.

· Please continue to complete Sounds make words and the Practice writing copy at your discretion

Maths:

· Oral Maths Ideas: Count up and back from ten. Ask your child: One less from four is? One more than 3 is? What comes after 3? What comes before 4?

· Practise the months of the year with your child. Throughout the week try and get your child to remember the first 6 months of the year. Discuss what month their birthday is.

· Revise Number formation of numerals 1-5 and complete revision worksheet.

· Our topic this week for maths is the addition of numerals 1-5. Some ways to introduce this to your child are; Using anything you have at home (lego, cans of food, cubes, counters, lollipop sticks etc.) Place 5 of the item on your table. Ask your child to partition the 5 items in all possible ways. For example 4 cans on one side of the table 1 can on the other, two cans on one side of the table three cans on the other.

· You then can place two on one side and three on the other, for example, and ask your child: How many are on this side? How many are on the other side? How many have I altogether. Please practise this with a variety of materials over the week with your child.

· Please complete the interactive games linked below. https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/t-t-2547372-minibeasts-counting-to-5-picture-hotspots

https://www.twinkl.ie/go/resource/t-t-2547805-pirate-treasure-counting-picture-hotspots

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

Other: Gaeilge

· Please go to folensonline.ie in order to register to access all online material.

· Step One: Click register.

· Step Two: Select teacher.

· Step Three: Fill in username, email and password.

· Step Four: For roll number use the code Prim20 to access the resources for your child.

· This is the link for the theme we have selected for this week is “Teidí Beag Aláinn”. First up use the flashcards to revise the vocabulary with your child. If suitable, try to find the pieces of vocabulary in your home (for example: leaba) Allow your child to explore the poster listening to the song, the story, the short conversation and playing the vocabulary games.

A note for your parents/guardians:

If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please email us at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

Please don’t forget to give parental permission in the email if you agree to allow us to share your child’s fabulous work on our blog page.

Thank you again for your continued efforts at home. We hope you all have a great week!

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. McHugh

Maths Resources

Gaeilge Resources

Week 4 Blog Post: 6^th May ‘20 – 8^th of May ‘20

Hello Junior Infants!

Mrs. Brady and Mrs. McHugh here. We hope you all enjoyed your extra-long weekend. As per our school calendar we only have three days work for you this week 😊 We are missing you all so much but we were so happy this week to see so many emails from you all with all your beautiful work and gorgeous pictures! Please check out our new tab on your blog page called “Our Inspiring Infants” to see lots of your fabulous work! Thank you so much again to everyone who sent us emails – we really were thrilled to hear from so many of you and to catch up with all of our friends in Junior Infants. Please this week, continue to stay in contact with us. We would love to chat to you all again! If you haven’t yet been in contact we would love to hear from you. Just a reminder of our email juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie. Again a photograph of them doing any activity at home, a little message to say hi or any work sample at all would be just lovely. So looking forward to hearing from you all J. We are so excited to see you all and chat to you.

English:

· Continue with online Gill & Macmillan resources. The theme this month is “Going on holidays”. You will be able to access this month’s reader and a range of interactive activities. Please see our last blog post for login details and link.

· Our new sight words for the next fortnight are “like” “for” and “have”. Encourage your child to orally put these words into sentences. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word. We have attached a document that has all the sight words in it if anyone would like to print them off.

· Complete pages 16-18 of the CVC Booklet linked below.

· Please complete the blend and colour sheet provided.

· Please complete the match and colour sheet.

· Please try out the following simple games with your child:

· https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/games/tm1 - If you sign up to this your child can create their own monster and work their way through lots of games.

· http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/hanging_monkeys_US.swf

· http://vtcpsa.hwb.wales.gov.uk/learn_y4/main.asp?lesson_path=year_4/word_machine_onset/&lesson_file=lesson.swf&language=eng

· http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/garden_leaves_US.swf

*We are aware that printing resources and prolonged internet use may not be feasible in all houses. If this is the case for your family please continue to work on Sounds make words and the Practice writing copy. Anyone who would like to do additional work with your child please feel free to continue with these books also.

Maths:

· This week our theme for Maths is heavy and light.

· Please go through the PowerPoint with your child that is provided below.

· You can gather a range of items from around the house, some heavy, some light. You should have small items that are heavy and large that are light. It is important to make sure that children don’t confuse big and small with heavy and light. Have children sort objects into heavy and light. As an additional activity to challenge your child you could see if children could order three objects from heaviest to lightest or vice versa.

· Complete the heavy and light worksheet provided below.

Other:

· We are sure you have seen some of the beautiful cherry blossom trees that are in bloom at the minute while on your walks. Why not take some inspiration from them and create your own fabulous cherry blossom tree like the picture below! All you need is some paper and pink, purple and white paint/crayons. First trace around your hand on the page and then using your fingerprints/cotton buds dot lots of paint around to create the beautiful leaves. If you do not have paint at home - no problem! Use your crayons to create lots of amazing colours on the tree. Don't forget to send us some pictures of your work - we can't wait to see some of your masterpieces throughout the week

A note for your parents/guardians:

If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please email us at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

Thank you so much again to all parents for your continued support and hard work at home. Please continue to keep in touch with us this week. If you haven’t yet been in touch with us we would really appreciate if you could contact us before Friday, just to check in with us and let us know that you are getting on okay J. Please don’t forget to give parental permission in the email if you agree to allow us to share your child’s fabulous work on our blog page.

Thank you again for your continued efforts at home. We hope you all have a great week!

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. Mc Hugh

Resources for Week 4 - 6th May - 8th May '20

English resources

Maths Resources

Art Resources

Hello to all our Junior Infants!

Mrs. Brady and Mrs. McHugh here again. We thought we would send you all a picture of us in case you are starting to forget what we look like! With the help of your parents, we would love to hear from you all this week. We miss seeing your faces every day and would love so much to see what you are all up to! We hope you are doing lots of fun activities at home and spending lots of time enjoying yourselves outdoors. :)

English:

· Continue to practise sight words and sounds.

Here is a link to the Jolly Phonics songs. Children can sing the songs and do the corresponding action.

https://youtu.be/jvAYUvQUrGo

· Continue to blend three letter words using the sounds. Try sounding out a different word family every day. For example: Monday; hit, sit, fit, kit, lit. Tuesday: tap, map, lap etc.

The following is game to practise blending words with your child:

https://www.starfall.com/h/word-machines/word_machine_a/?

The following link is to practise reading simple sentences with your child:

https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-sv-a/zac-the-rat/?sn=ltr-classic

· Gill and Macmillan are the publishers of the English programme that we are using this year called Over the Moon and all the readers are online on www.gillexplore.ie. There are a huge amount of resources available on this website - every month we have a large interactive oral poster to focus on for the theme of the given month and there are games such as eye spy and questions available on this interactive poster. (We would recommend playing around with this by yourself before starting it with your child just to get familiar with the website etc!) Due to the Easter holidays, this month's theme would have been Unit 9 - Holidays and it was going to be split between April and May. The Fiction reader is available under the fiction e-readers and it is called Going on Holidays. There is also a Genre e-reader that is again linked to the topic that we would usually read altogether in class. If you have any problems accessing this website just let us know but as far as we know they have given access to parents using the link below.

https://www.gillexplore.ie/gill-explore-resources/over-the-moon-junior-infants-skills-book

· Please continue to practise “go”, “so” and “no”. Please write these down and get your child to practise reading them daily. Try and get your child to put these words orally into a sentence. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word.

· Continue to practise letter formation with your child; making letters using playdough, using dry pasta, tracing them in flour, using chalk outside, tracing letters in shaving foam.

· Complete pages 11-15 of the CVC Booklet linked below.

· Please complete the blend and colour and match and colour resource sheets provided below

*We are aware that printing resources and prolonged internet use may not be feasible in all houses. If this is the case for your family please continue to work on Sounds make words and the Practice writing copy. Anyone who would like to do additional work with your child please feel free to continue with these books also.

Maths:

· This week we are focusing on night and day.

· Please go through the PowerPoint with your child that is provided below. Discuss activities completed at night time and those done during the day.

· Please complete the worksheets below based on day and night.

SESE: People who help us

· Please go through the game in the Powerpoint with your child that is provided below.

· Discuss the people in our communities that are helping us during this time.

· Discuss the role of nurse, guard, dentist, vet. How do they help us?

· Complete any of the associated pages provided that are convenient to you.

A note for your parents/guardians:

If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please email us at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

As per the email you all received from our Principal Ms. Jordan, we are asking each child in the school to make contact with your teacher this week via the email address provided above. We both really would love to hear from your child in any way that is possible for you. That may be just a message to say Hi, or a picture of your child doing anything they have enjoyed throughout the week or a photograph of any of the work they have completed. We are so looking forward to hearing from you all and seeing what all our Junior Infants have been getting up to. We can’t wait to have a chat with you all through these emails.

With parental permission in the email, these pieces of work will be added to future blog posts to show off the children’s super efforts.

Thank you so much to all parents for your continued support and hard work at home. We hope you and your loved ones are all well and staying safe. We are so appreciative of everything you are all doing. Please keep in touch via email.

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. McHugh

Resources for Week 3 - 27th April - 1st May '20

English Resources

Maths Resources

People Who Help Us Resources

Hello everyone in Room 1 and Room 2!

Mrs. Brady and Mrs. Mc Hugh here again. We hope you all had a lovely Easter and maybe some of you managed to spot the Easter bunny in your gardens! We have a little bit more work for you to do over the next week at home. We miss you all so much but are hoping that you are enjoying being at home and having lots of fun outside in the sunshine. :)

English:

· Continue to practise sight words and sounds.

· Continue to blend three letter words using the sounds. For example c-a-t.

· Our suggested book for reading this week is “The Gruffalo”. Before reading please discuss the author, title, illustrator with your child. Stop at varying parts of the book to ask your children questions. For example; what do you think will happen next? How do you think the Gruffalo felt when..? Please ask your child to retell the story after the book is finished.

· Our new sight words for the next fortnight are “go”, “so” and “no”. Please write these down and get your child to practise reading them daily. Try and get your child to put these words orally into a sentence. Encourage your child to trace around the shape of the word, write the word in sand, paint or on a tray of shaving foam. Use playdough to form the new word.

· Continue to practise letter formation with your child; making letters using playdough, using dry pasta, tracing them in flour, using chalk outside, tracing letters in shaving foam.

· Complete pages 6-10 of the CVC Booklet linked below.

*We are aware that printing resources and prolonged internet use may not be feasible in all houses. If this is the case for your family please continue to work on Sounds make Words book and the Practise writing copy. Anyone who would like to do additional work with your child please feel free to continue with these books also.

Maths:

· Continue to practise the formation of the numbers 1-5 using the ideas listed above. (Please note as per the Junior Infant curriculum the children only cover the numbers 1-5. 6-10 are completed in Senior Infants so please do not progress past 5 ). Make sets of 1-5 with your child.

· This week we are focusing on revision of 2D Shapes - circle, triangle, square, rectangle. Please go through the 2D Shape PowerPoint with your child that is provided below.

· Practise the Shape song in the link provided below.

· Complete the shape hunt around your house.

· Complete the colour by shape worksheets provided below.

Other:

· Please complete the Outdoor and Indoor scavenger hunt with your child.

A note for Parents/Guardian:

Please continue with the list of other suggested activities we listed in the last blog post. If you have any questions or queries in relation to the work provided please email us with your name and child's name in the subject line at:

juniorinfantsteachers@virginians.ie

Also in order to keep the children motivated while completing their work, we would love if you could email us a picture of any one piece of work the children complete this week via this email address. We would love to see the children’s work and provide some feedback to them about all the hard work they are completing. With parental permission in the email, these pieces of work will be added to future blog posts to show off the children’s super efforts.

Thank you so much to all parents for your continued support and hard work at home. We completely understand that this is a difficult time and as stated in our last blog post there is no obligation to complete all the work provided. As before, do what suits you and your child. We would like to reiterate, please do not hesitate to contact us via the email above with any questions or queries that you may have and we will respond as soon as possible. We hope you are all keeping safe and cannot wait to see all our little friends in Junior Infants very soon.

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. McHugh

Resources for Week 2 - 20th April - 24th April '20

Hello everyone in room 1 and room 2 :)

It's Mrs. Brady and Mrs. Mc Hugh here. We are missing you all lots and we hope you are all having lots of fun at home. We have a little bit of work here for you all to do over the next week to keep you busy. We hope you are not missing school too much and hopefully we will see you all very soon. :)

A note for your parents/guardians:

Suggested Work:

Please use the work provided as a suggested guide over the next week to complete with your children. We want to stress that the work provided is not to put parents under pressure – complete what you can and what you feel is enough for you and your child. You are under no obligation to complete it all!

English:

· Continue to practise sight words and sounds.

· Continue to blend three letter words using the sound cards. For example c-a-t.

· Continue with the next 5 pages of Just handwriting Practice Copy.

· Some ideas for teaching your child letter formation are; making letters using playdough, using dry pasta, tracing them in flour, using chalk outside, tracing letters in shaving foam etc.

· Complete pages 1-5 of the CVC Booklet linked below.

Maths:

· Practise the formation of the numbers 1-5 using the ideas listed above.

· Practise making sets of items 1-5 with your child. For example make a set of 3 using 3 pieces of lego, make a set of four using four pieces of pasta.

· Watch powerpoint (provided below) based on the number 5.

· Complete activity sheet making sets 1-5 (provided below).

· Complete number search 1-5 (provided below).

· Complete number 5 formation sheet (provided below).

Other:

· Please see choice sheet for Junior infants and pick one activity per day to complete with you child.

Other suggested activities that you might like to try are:

1. Continuing to read stories to your children.

2. Some fine motor work e.g. building lego, cutting with scissors, playing with playdough, tidying up small toys etc.

3. Physical exercise everyday while maintaining social distancing.

4. Some art activities e.g. painting, drawing, colouring.

5. Free play e.g. playing with a dolls house, farm, a kitchen, a garage – whatever is available to you in your home.

Thank you all for your co-operation and for all your hard work and efforts at home. Again please don’t feel any pressure – this is only suggested work and we really appreciate everything you are all doing during this difficult time. Please take care and mind yourselves.

Best Wishes,

Mrs. Brady & Mrs. Mc Hugh

Resources for Week 1 - 30th March - 3rd April '20

Resources