Welcome back...... Our theme this week is the Airport....... Hopefully we can look forward to seeing one in the next year! The children love this theme.
We are nearly there! I'm putting up some nice Literacy activities and some practical maths activities for the next 2weeks. If your child likes doing their activity books please continue and do whatever pages are left over the next two weeks. If your child is allergic to the books and writing and colouring just put the books away in a safe place next year. Whatever works best for you both! I would be delighted if they could do a bit of reading and counting each day and anything after that is completely up to you. There are some lovely practical playing ideas based around the theme of the airport that will be just as beneficial to your child as sitting down doing writing work
Here is the link to the Gill website
Monday
Unit 9 ......Oral Language Poster ...... have a good look at the poster. think of the 5 W questions and then listen to the poster in Story Mode
The Interactive Poem ..... Do you like Summer? Try and learn it off for Friday. Can they put actions with it .....
Handwriting: If they want to do a page in their book ..... have a look at the animation going with it
Interactive Resources Games ........ Pick one each day please or play them all each day ...... whatever suits best ......................Complete the sentence ....... Heads Up ....... Sequencing ...... Sorting activity(sound out the words and decide whether they are real or nonsense) Sorting actvity (which word is the odd one out and why) ....... Sorting activity
Read the last Junior Infant Book
I am not giving any new words from now on. If your child would like to read the last book in our scheme for Junior Infants please click on the link below . You may have to fill in your email address. This is a free resource. This has all the words your child has been practising over the past few weeks and is the last book in the Junior Infant series.
Do a page in your Figure it Out If you want!
SESE
Listen to this song and then open up page 55 of your Explore with Me and draw in what you can smell, taste, hear, see and touch during the Summer
Do you know the Months that are in Summer
Tuesday
Oral Language Look at the poster again today, can they name all the different items in the picture and then and use the poster to play the game..... I went to the airport and saw a ......... the next person repeats what the previous person said and adds on their own item. Use the poster to think of extra items. how long can you keep this game going?
Say the poem
Play some of the Interactive games
Read the genre story We're All Going on a Summer Holiday ...... then have a quick chat....... I wonder what 'over the moon' means I wonder what 'hit the road' means and I wonder what 'a stone's throw' means.... what was their favourite part of the story? and why?
SESE
Have a look at the video and then look at Explore with me page 56 and colour the picture!
Wednesday
Oral Language Look at the poster in Explore Mode.... play the I Spy game and then answer the 10 questions
Say the poem again...... can you remember some of it by yourself? What different voices can you use?
Play some of the Interactive Games
Read the Non Fiction Reader .. Packing for My Holidays .. dont forget to have a quick look at the inside front and bak covers
Thursday
Oral Language Look at the poster again and use your senses.... what can you hear, see, smell, touch and taste in this poster
Say the poem can you clap or tap along with it
Play some of the games
Read the Fiction Reader eBook ..... Going on Holidays
STEM ..... this looks like great fun....... build a baloon car!
Friday
We have another very cool book to finish off the week...... it is read here by the author and illustrator Michael Rosen. I love books about bears and especially ones with actions. Can you remember any other books we read about bears this year?
Have a listen about this very cool little creature... I love looking for them at the beach and then do Page 58 of your Explore with Me and draw the missing arms on the star fish
Theme: The Airport
GillExplore downloadables for Unit 9 Aistear plan, ..... if you go into the Aistear section in the All Resources tab you will find some signs to print of or better yet encourage your child to make their own.
• ‘The Airport’ sign
• Signs for check-in desks, gates and flight times
• Passport template
• Luggage tags
Area 1: Socio-dramatic Play
You can set up a role-play airport at home by using the following:
• a desk, keyboard, screen, boarding cards, passports, bags/suitcases, weighing scales and luggage tags for the check-in desk/area.
• tables, chairs, various plastic food items for the café and items to sell in the ‘duty free’ area such as toys, sweets, books, magazines, sunglasses.
You can set up an aeroplane using a row of chairs, attaching wings to two of the chairs. Provide a pilot and a flight attendant’s hat and jacket.
Possible role-play scenarios include:
• checking passengers in: weighing bags, assigning seats, checking passports
• going through security: checking bags and passports
• buying something in duty free
• eating in the coffee shop
• flight attendant serving passengers tea and coffee and passengers paying (add tea set and chairs laid out in an aeroplane style).
Area 2: Construction
Google photos and pictures of airports with control towers and runways. Ask the children to plan and build a control tower for the airport. This will allow them to explore building vertically. Children could be supplied with Hi-Viz jackets, hard hats, tool belts, clipboards and paper for planning. When planning, the children could be asked to estimate how many blocks they may need to use or how high they think the control tower will be; for example, will it be taller or shorter than the library/desk/coat hangers/bin, etc. This can then be further extended by asking pupils to build a long or a short runway.
Area 3: Art
Make a beach collage using white paper, paint and sponges to create a beach scene. First, the children can sponge-paint a sea and sand background. Use green crêpe paper to add seaweed and grey sugar paper for rocks in the sea. Use scraps of fabric to make beach towels and umbrellas. Add sea shells made of pasta shells, sand shell turtles, handprint crabs, collage rainbow fish and so on. The children can add people to the beach scene.
Area 4: Sensory Play
Water play table: Provide a water table or large, shallow plastic boxes of water. Provide shells, toy sea creatures, rocks and pebbles. The children can experiment using a range of junk materials to make boats (lunchboxes, tubs, foil trays, yoghurt cartons, paper, etc.). Pupils can explore if their boats float or sink and they can load the boats to see how much they hold. They can use classroom objects to explore floating and sinking.
Sand play table: The children could use the sand tray to set up a beach scene using small figures, pieces of cloth as beach towels and plastic foods for a picnic. You could add a water tray for the sea.
Area 5: Small World
Supply some sheets of black A3 sugar paper taped together and chalk. Pupils can draw various runways and can use small buildings or Lego to create airport and control towers. Aeroplanes and various vehicles could be added for baggage handlers, etc. This could be further developed by adding small figures to represent different people going on holidays.