Monday 30th March - Friday 3rd April 2020
Dear Parents/Guardians,
I hope that you and your families are continuing to keep safe and well. Here are some additional homework arrangements that you can do with your child to keep her up to date during this school closure. These are merely guidelines and I must stress how it is not imperative that your daughter completes all of this work. I understand that for many reasons this may not be possible and keeping safe and healthy is by all means priority at the moment.
Reading:
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in a username, email, and password. For 'Roll Number' use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight Senior Infants resources for Unit 11: Sea Creatures.
Oral Language:
Login to FolensOnline.ie as described above.
Digraphs:
Writing:
Maths:
Science:
More water play!
Resources:
Songs:
‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive’ song
Play and sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BhTBXdc1o
‘A Sailor went to Sea, Sea, Sea’
Sing this version of the song ‘A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea’ to revise the names of the sea creatures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFxAiWkSePk
‘Under the Sea’
Listen and dance to the song ‘Under the Sea’ (from Disney’s The Little Mermaid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH-7A3NVQbY
Videos:
Watch the online video clip of:
Storytime:
Hooray for Fish!
Play the story Hooray for Fish! By Lucy Cousins: https://vimeo.com/52877670
Other suggestions:
Make an ocean-related item at home
Have your child make one of the following ocean-related items at home, giving them the following guidelines:
Picture Books
See ‘School News’ page on the school website for a full list of suggested activities.
Thank you very much for your continued help and support with your child's homework. Stay safe and healthy.
Ms Duffy :)
Dear Parents/Guardians,
I hope that you and your families are continuing to keep safe and well. Here are some additional homework arrangements that you can do with your child to keep her up to date during this school closure. These are merely guidelines and I must stress how it is not imperative that your daughter completes all of this work. I understand that for many reasons this may not be possible and keeping safe and healthy is by all means priority at the moment.
Reading:
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in a username, email, and password. For 'Roll Number' use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight Senior Infants resources for Unit 11: Sea Creatures.
- Locate Big Book 11 - Under the Sea and play the story. Discuss. Scroll back through the pages and click on the headphone icon on the top corner of each page. Have your child answer the questions.
- Locate Core Reader Three - All About Whales. Go through the flashcards. Your child can play the sight word game. Then, listen to the story and discuss.
- Begin reading the third story in blue Starlight reader: All About Whales.
- Sight words for next week: from know other use
- Revise word lists 1-10.
- Begin learning word list 11.
- Play sight word games.
- Encourage your child to put all of these words into sentences.
- Oxford Owls have a free e-book library which is very good for supplementary reading www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Oral Language:
Login to FolensOnline.ie as described above.
- Locate Poster 11 - Sea Creatures. Listen to Story 1 and discuss.
- Complete 'Labelling' activity.
- Listen to Story 2.
- Answer 'Questions' and complete 'Activity'.
- Listen to Poem: Ocean Travel by Jennifer Tweedie.
- Discuss and pick out the rhyming words.
Digraphs:
- Revise all digraph sounds learned last term: sh, qu, ch, th, ai, oa, ng, ie, oo, oi, ou, ue, er, ar, ee, or
- Ask your child for examples of words containing these sounds (some examples can be found in her spelling notebook)
- Have your child write some of these words sounding them out as she does.
- Jolly Phonics songs to accompany each digraph sound can be found on YouTube.
Writing:
- Revise the formation of lowercase and capital letters covered. Begin to learn the formation of capital 'U'
- data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/letter/index.html?dataFile=GWTF_B_LF_U_up.json&referrer=http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/1/section-groups/1/group/2/
- Your child should engage in free-writing.
- Sea creature fact file
Encourage your child to write a fact file report. Ask her to write four facts on a chosen sea creature. Give her the following prompts: - This is a: (crab/seahorse/shark/starfish/jellyfish/octopus/blue whale…)
- It lives: (close to the shore; under the sea …)
- It is: (colourful, clear, big, small, amazing …)
- It can: (move, catch food, bite, walk on its side, smell from far away …)
Maths:
- Recite days of the week, seasons and months of the year. Talk about what comes before/after/in between.
- Your child should engage in water play. Have her fill and empty containers of various sizes e.g. bottles, jugs, scoops, spoons, pots, cups etc.
- Discuss which (from a selection of two) holds 'the most' and which holds 'the least'.
- Compare and order a number of containers from which holds the least to which holds the most.
- Estimate which container holds the most/least and investigate this by measuring.
- Estimate and then measure how many smaller containers will be required to fill a larger container.
Science:
More water play!
- Have your child name some items that they think will float or sink in water.
- Carry out an experiment to investigate if certain objects float or sink (pebble, cotton wool, pencil, coins, cardboard, full and empty bottles, yogurt pots, plastic counters)
- Don't forget to have your child make a prediction prior to investigating.
Resources:
Songs:
‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive’ song
Play and sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BhTBXdc1o
‘A Sailor went to Sea, Sea, Sea’
Sing this version of the song ‘A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea’ to revise the names of the sea creatures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFxAiWkSePk
‘Under the Sea’
Listen and dance to the song ‘Under the Sea’ (from Disney’s The Little Mermaid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH-7A3NVQbY
Videos:
Watch the online video clip of:
- the blue whale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dciLg3Zm1hI
- Fungi the Dolphin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w8HRSoVTI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK-LeeGslMA
- Ocean habitats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YtofuJ-TL4
Storytime:
Hooray for Fish!
Play the story Hooray for Fish! By Lucy Cousins: https://vimeo.com/52877670
Other suggestions:
Make an ocean-related item at home
Have your child make one of the following ocean-related items at home, giving them the following guidelines:
- Shoe box ocean scene: Get an old shoe box and decorate with paint, crepe paper, sand, shells, cut out fish, etc. Talk about what you’d expect to see in the ocean.
- ‘Under the Sea’ sensory jar: Put water, blue dye sand, small shells, plastic fish, glitter and baby oil in a small plastic container. Discuss what happens if the jar is put on one side. Try simulating the motion of waves; finding an object that will float on the top of the oil; counting shells, etc.
Picture Books
- Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoqxhIi4HbQ
- Tiddler by Julia Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTQADUywZY
- The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mJq3TPrSo
- Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRhgZ8Jffs
See ‘School News’ page on the school website for a full list of suggested activities.
Thank you very much for your continued help and support with your child's homework. Stay safe and healthy.
Ms Duffy :)