Senior Infants work 25th May 2020 The Theme is Summer! Do something for a few minutes every day. Send messages, work or photos to your teacher if you like by email to kids@stphilipsjns.ie. You can finish any page not done in the Just Write Book first. Then move on to any page in Sounds in Action. I recommend one page of English a day but they can do more if they want to. Do two pages (marked in the pink box In School and At Home) of Grow in Love a week. In the small Maths book do one page a day until it's finished. In the big maths book you can do one extra if you want on Number. We will be assigning other topics in our notes under Home Learning. This work is optional pick and choose what you and your child want to do and how much.
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English
- Read books and share stories as much as possible.
Click on the link to listen to the story Sharing a Shell
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sharing+a+shell
- Keep a diary – draw pictures and write a sentence about what you did or your favourite part of that day/week.
- Pretend you are the Hermit Crab Write an invitation to your friend/ the bristleworm or the anemone to come share a shell with you in the rockpool at the beach
To ____ Please come to my shell in the rockpool at the beach at ____ From ____
- Write a list of the things you will need for a trip to the beach
(towel, ball, suncream, hat, bucket, spade, water bottle, snacks, etc.)
- Poem – Summer (Say in high/low, fast/slow, angry/kind voice)
Summer, summer Time for fun We run all day in the hot, hot sun Summer, summer Jump in the pool Eat a lot of ice cream to keep cool (Find the rhyme!)
Try write an acrostic poem with the word SUMMER One letter starts each line such as S is for Sunny days, U is for Umbrellas on the beach, M is for May
- Kitchen Memory Game. Two players. Put lots of 6 things on your kitchen table (eg. spoon, plate, knife, fork, salt, butter) One person cover your eyes. The other person take one away, what’s missing? Use more items each time you play 7/8/910.
Tricky Words
- Write these words twice each on a piece of paper or card (a cereal box will do if you haven’t got materials at home) big, went, are, come, long, no
- Jigsaw: Cut the words into separate letters such as b, i, g. Mix up the letters. Say ready, set, go. See who can make it correctly the fastest.
- Go fish: Divide the letters equally between you and your parent/brother/sister/teddy. Put them all the right side up on the table. One person says a word such as went. The other person makes it.
- Spelling: Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check Challenge
- Pick a tricky word
- Look at and say the word
- Cover the tricky word and have a go writing it again
- Check to see if it’s right or wrong.
Phonic Spelling Challenges
Choose the ones your child can do. If your child can’t do it, you write it and let them copy. Do it every day that you have time.
- Say the sound ing and write ing. Draw some pictures that start with ing like: king, swing, ring, wing, sing. Label them.
- Put the words in sentences The birds like to __. I got a new ___. The ___ lives in a castle. The bird has a __. I play on the ___.
- Useful videos – the following video revises all songs on youtube.com and are a fun way to reinforce the children’s phonic knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IfiKiQ-3I
Maths
- Weight- Choose 8 of your favourite toys. Which toy do you think is the heaviest? How heavy do you think it is? Can you weigh it to find out? Compare each to and put them in order from heaviest to lightest. Is the heaviest toy the biggest? How can you find this out? Planet Maths pages 126 & 127 Video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCPYaTx2v0w
- Number 10- Can you find the number nine in your house? Make the number ten with your fingers. Describe it. Get out 5 knives and 5 forks. Count them. How many are there all together? Divide them in two groups as many ways as you can (8&2 6&4 9&1 5&5 7&3)
- 3D Shapes-Look around your house for things that are 3D shaped (sphere, cube, cuboid, cylidnder. What did you find? How many faces/corners did they have? How many did you find? Can you draw them. What was the most common 3D shape you found?
- Directions- Put a blindfold on your parent. (A scarf will do) Now direct them from one room to another. For example “forward 2 steps, stop, turn left, forward 10 steps, turn left, forward 2 steps, turn right)
- Bingo – classic number recognition game. Children could make their own game cards to help with numeral formation with the numbers 1-10 or 1-20 on them
- Active Counting: Children can take a trip to the number gym.
- Pick a starting number and finishing number (either counting backwards or forwards)
- Pick an activity e.g. jogging on the spot, star jumps, “weight-lifting”, squats etc. Children count while engaging in the physical activity.
Gaeilge
- Look at programmes on TG4 and in particular, Cúla 4 online
- LOG INTO BUA NA CAINTE – SEE WEBPAGE FOR GUIDE TO LOGGING ON.
- Learn the dán (poem) Bogha Báistí (Rainbow) Dearg agus glas (Red and green, gorm agus buí (blue and yellow), Féach sa spéir (Look in the sky), An bogha báistí ( The rainbow)
Tarring Bogha Báistí (Draw a rainbow) Dathaigh é (Colour it)
Music: Watch this song, sing along and do the actions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsaywRY5iP0
Art & Crafts/ Science:
- Make a Daisy Chain: Go for a summer walk. Notice the changes, trees full of big green leaves, grass growing and daisies. Pick lots of daisies. When you get home count them. Choose 6 to make a bracelet or 10 to make a necklace. Make a slit in the stalk and thread them through.
- Make an Air Ram: You will need a plastic bottle, scissors, balloon, tape, light objects to blow (cotton ball, popcorn). Blow up balloon and let it down. Tie a knot in the balloon. Cut the bottom off the bottle and recycle it. Cut the balloon open and stretch it around the the middle of the bottle. Stick it with tape. Pull back knot and release to blow.
Physical Activity
- Do actions to go with the poem: Summer, summer (swing arms around in a circle) Time for fun (jump up in the air hands pointed at the ceiling) We run all day (run around) in the hot, hot sun (wave hands at face) Summer, summer (swing arms around in a circle) Jump in the pool (jump down to the ground in a ball shape) Eat a lot of ice cream to keep cool (pretend to lick ice cream)
- Throwing and Catching: Throw a beanbag (you can make one by filling a sock with rice and tying a knot in it) underarm to a partner, into a circle, do it high, low, medium height. Do it with a ball. How many can you do without dropping it.
- Races: Race to the end of the garden. Say ready, set, go. Try starting in different positions (sitting, lying, backwards). Try different types of moving (crawling, hopping).
- 10@10 - daily 10minute exercise videos. (https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/)
Other Activities: The following are activities that are excellent for developing the children’s logic skills, creativity as well as aiding with academic development.
- Jigsaws
- Water and Sand-play
- Building with Lego and blocks
- Learn to tie your laces
- Nature walk/Scavenger walk:
- Make a list of things to look out for on a walk. (children could help to write the list)
- Take a photo of what you find or draw pictures when you come home.
- Make a GingerBread Men
- 350g plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 100gr butter
- 175gr light muscovado sugar
- 4 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 large egg
Oven 180C
Mix plain flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger. Chop butter. Mix in. Add sugar first then golden syrup. Add egg and mix. Roll out dough. Cut out shapes, place on a baking tray and put in the oven for 10-12 minutes til brown.
