Senior Infants: Week of April 20 th - 24 th Dear Parents, We hope that you and your families had a peaceful Easter. Outlined below is some suggested work that you can work on with your child over the coming week. Included is a suggested timetable.

Below we have included some work in the pupils textbooks. If you do not have their books that is no problem. If some of the pages below are completed you can revise the activity. Their textbooks can be found online and you can go through the same activitiy with them orally or write out a similar activity.

To access Busy at Maths go to www.my.cjfallon.ie . Select Senior Infants, maths, Busy at maths, Busy at maths online book

Sounds like Phonics B: go to www.my.cjfallon.ie Select Senior Infants, english, Sounds like Phonics B.

Just handwriting: www.educateplus.ie/homestudy Select primary. Select Senior Infants. Select Just handwriting pre cursive

Please check your emails for information regarding reader books for this week.

Subject Suggested activity Website/ Powerpoint link

D.E.A.R. time Drop everything and read Children are very used to D.E.A.R. time from school. Provide them with picture books and they ‘read’ through the book themselves. Let them settle down with cushions and a blanket. Going on a picture walk, predicting what they think the

book will be about, finding letters/ words in the book that they know.D.E.A.W. time Drop everything and write Children are familiar with this from school. This is an opportunity for children to

draw something of their choosing and write some words if they wish.Phonics Words with -ain, -ail https://slp.cjfallon.ie/

1. click the above link. 2. Click Sounds like Phonics B.3. Click unit 1- the park.4. Click ai5. Complete the various interactive activities on the page.

Sounds like phonics book: complete pages 30 + 31. If you do not have the book this can be accessed online via the cj fallon website.www.my.cjfallon.ie Select Senior Infants, english, Sounds like Phonics B.

Handwriting Practise lowercase and capital c,C,o,O,s,S,z,Z

Do next page in small handwriting copy.

Do page 25 + 26 in their Just

Using pencil, paper, paint, use chalk and write outside.

handwriting book. To access this online if you do not have the book go to : www.educateplus.ie/homestudy Select primary. Select Senior Infants. Select Just handwriting pre cursivee.

Reading Continue with class reader Magic in the Sky pages 14-24

Story time Story: When a Dragon Moves in.

Discuss their favourite part of the story. Discuss what happened at the beginning, the middle and the end.

Draw 3 moments from the story

Before listening to the story ask your child to make a prediction as to what they think the story will be about. Go to www.storylineonline.net and search for the book ‘When a Dragon Moves In’.

Divide a page into 3 boxes.In each box pupils draw a picture to do with the story- this helps them to retell parts of the story.

Dictation Call out the 8 words, one at a time and the child writes the words on a whiteboard, paper (whatever is convenient for you).Adult calls out a word, puts it in a sentence and then says the word on its own again. e.g. log, a frog was on a log, log

1. Log2. Jam 3. Rug 4. Net 5. Step 6. Pram 7. Damp 8. Mist

Poem: Little Bird I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop.So I said to the bird won’t you stop, stop, stop.

And was going to the window to say how do you do?When he shook his little tail and far away he flew.

Maths 3D shapes- cube, cuboid, cylinder, sphere

Discuss the different shapes- how many straight edges does a cube have? How many straight edges does a cuboid have? How many corners do they have? How many flat faces does a cube, cuboid, cylinder have? How many curved faces does a sphere and a cylinder have? More ideas attached below.

3D shape hunt Go on a 3D shape hunt around the house/ garden. Pupils could take a photo of the 3D shapes they find.

3D shape construction Collect different 3D shapes e.g. cereal boxes, toilet roll etc. and give pupils the opportunity to create and build something.

3D shapes song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A

P.E. Go noodle app is fantastic for breaks between activities.

Cosmic yoga- Tiny the T-Rex Scavenger hunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlDBKD2S78 Go on a walk around the house/ garden and see if you can complete the

scavenger hunt below.

S.E.S.E. Revising their nature walk.

Learn about ladybugs

Do you remember your nature walk before Easter? Ask pupils to write two sentences about their nature walk. E.g. I went with _____. I saw ______. Pupils could then draw some pictures to go with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl7KqpqoN9oMusic Song singing: Hey Ladybug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ajMMFO28

10 Little Dinosaurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjmGTbNLj6Q

Religion Grow In Love- There are three lessons on Easter week.

https://app.growinlove.ie/en/user/theme-lessons/12 1. Click the above link and you will be asked to log in.2. Username: trial@growinlove.ie Password: growinlove (all lowercase)3. Select book grow in love Senior Infants4. Select 7 The Church 5. Select a Place to Gather, a place to pray

Art How to draw a ladybug See below

To access the Irish resources: please follow the steps below: 1. Go to Website: www.folensonline.ie/registration/?r=t2. this will bring you to a page for creating an account. For roll number you can enter Prim20.3. You will be sent email to activate your account. Follow the instructions.4. For logging in after that go to www.folensonline.ie and click sign in.5. This will bring you to a page that looks something like this.

7. Click on the word lesson and from the list choose number 18 Mála Nua6. You can select abair liom b resources. Click on

resources. 9. In the next page you will find a scéal, dán, amhrán agus foclóir. You could do one activity per day if you wish.

Words to focus on: mála, airgead, leabhar, sparán,

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday9.00-9.30

Exercise- Joe Wicks Exercise- Go Noodle Exercise- Joe Wicks Exercise- Joe Wicks Exercise- Cosmic Yoga

9.30-10.00

Phonics- aim, ail https://slp.cjfallon.ie/

1. click the above link.

2. Click Sounds like Phonics B.

3. Click unit 1- the park.

4. Click ai5. Complete the

various interactive activities on the page.

6. Do page 30 in their Sounds Like Phonics

Dictation: 1. Log2. Jam 3. Rug 4. Net 5. Step 6. Pram 7. Damp 8. Mist

Class reader: Magic in the Sky

Reading list: complete 1 new list

Next page in small handwriting copy

Class reader: Magic in the Sky

Sounds like Phonics: pg. 31

New reading list

Class reader: Magic in the Sky

Do page 25 in their Just handwriting book.

Class reader: Magic in the Sky

Phonics game: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/tellATRex/index.html select ai for the activity initially.

Do page 26 in their Just handwriting book.

10.00-10.30

3D shapes- cube, cuboid, cylinder, sphere. Discuss straight edges, flat faces, corners and curved faces.Busy at maths: pg. 32http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-32/index.html

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/

3D shape hunt around the house

Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A

Busy at Math: pg. 33- matching 3D shapes to real life objects.

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-33/index.html

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-33/index2.html

3D shapes construction

Busy at Maths pg. 34

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19602/activity-34/index.html

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/

7. Click on the word lesson and from the list choose number 18 Mála Nua6. You can select abair liom b resources. Click on

resources.

activity-32/index2.html 19602/activity-34/index2.html

10.30-10.50

Small break- snack and run around

Small Break- snack and run around

Small break- snack and run around

Small break- snack and run around

Small break- snack and run around

10.50-11.00

Reader book in email Reader book in email Reader book in email Reader book in email Reader book in email

11.00- 11.30

D.E.A.W. (Drop everything and write/ draw)

Irish: Scéal and Foclóir

D.E.A.R. time (Drop everything and read)

Play time

S.E.S.E- learn about ladybugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl7KqpqoN9o

Story time: When a Dragon moves in Go to www.storylineonline.net and search for the book ‘When a Dragon Moves In’.

Draw 3 pictures to do with the story from yesterday.

11.30-12.00

Music: song- Hey Ladybughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ajMMFO28

Grow in Love- The Church- a place to gather, watch video called A house of prayer

S.E.S.E: writing about their nature walk and drawing pictures of what they saw.

Grow in Love: The Church- a place of prayer, watch video of the church parts 1,2,3

Music: song- Hey Ladybughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ajMMFO28

Irish: Amhrán

Music: Song 1- little Dinosaurs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjmGTbNLj6Q

Irish: Dán/ Foclóir12.00-12.30

Play time PE: Scavenger hunt Art: how to draw a ladybug

Play time Play time

12.30 on

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Free time and Lunch