June 8th to 12th

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

Maths.... can you go find 10 small toys and then 10 big toys...... Now can you put them in order from smallest all the way up to biggest .....

Do a page in your Figure it Out If you want!

Literacy

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?

Literacy

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

Maths .....

can you cut out some pictures from a supermarket catalogues .... find some different items, count them and cut them out. Can you find something that is only 1, can you find 2 things that are the same

SESE ......

#Ask your Mam or Dad or your grandparents what can they remember about their summer holidays? where did they like to go and why. When I was little I loved going to Ballybunion and going swimming every day and having chicken and chips for my dinner from the chipper as a big treat...... and guess what I still love going there except now I like having fish and chips for my tea!

Do page 57 In your Explore With Me

Literacy

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

Maths.......

can you go find and look at all the clocks in your house.... do you see all the numbers,,,,, can you make your own clock or watch and put in all the numbers! Use a paper plate or draw around a dinner plate? What is your favourite time of the day and why?

PE ........ Cosmic Kids Yoga Under the Sea .... its about 30 minutes long

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.