Additional Resources

Senior Infants

There are some additional resources listed below with tips to help your child to develop language & communication skills as well as some advice for developing gross motor skills (strength, balance, ball skills) and fine motor skills (hand strength, pencil grasp, scissors skills).

There are also some readers and a few interactive games in the areas of English and Maths the girls may enjoy.

There is no pressure to do any of these activities.

Take care and stay safe.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the senior infant learning support teachers during regular school hours;

Ms T Mc Carthy TMcCarthy@ursulineps.ie

Ms A Carthy acarthy@ursulineps.ie

Language Tips for Infants

Supporting Reading At Home

Gross Motor Skills / Activities for Home

Fine Motor Skills / Tips for Pencil / Scissors Grip etc.

Language & Communication Tips

Listen to this wonderful story by Dr. Suess called 'The Cat in the Hat'.

Here is another book by the same author called

'Green Eggs and Ham'!

Let's Read...

REMEMBER: Try to find the title, the author, the illustrator...

Make rain sticks

All you need is a cardboard tube, some dry rice, tinfoil, tape and long pipe cleaners or bent up wire hangers. Have your child colour and decorate the tube to their heart’s content. Then coil some pipe cleaners or wire inside the tube and close-up one end with tin foil and tape. Now pour in some rice and secure the other end with more tin foil and tape. That’s it – your kid now has a rain stick they can turn upside down to make lovely rain sounds.

Colour Connections

All you have to do is tell your child a basic colour and challenge them to tell you 20 items that are this colour – get them to name 50 items if they are older. You can make it even more difficult by setting a time limit and make them race against one another!

Kim’s game

Put 10 things from around the house on a tray and ask your child to look at them for a few seconds. Then take them away and ask them to call out what they remember. Another way of playing the game is to cover the items, take one thing away and ask your child to spot what is missing. You can put more things out as they get better.

Don’t say YES or NO

One person asks the other a question to which ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ is the obvious answer. For example, ‘Do you live in a house?’ The other person has to answer the question without saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. If they make a mistake and say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ then they lose and get to ask the questions.