Ms O’Bryne, Ms Hayden, Ms Ryan & Ms Flynn
2nd – 12th June
This 2 week plan applies to all boys in Ms O’Bryne and Ms Hayden’s Junior Infants and Ms Ryan and Ms Flynn’s Senior Infants from Tuesday June 2nd – Friday June 12th .
Ms O’Bryne can be contacted during school hours by emailing aobryne@scoillorcain.com
Ms Hayden can be contacted during school hours by emailing ehayden@scoillorcain.com
Ms Ryan can be contacted during school hours by emailing sryan@scoillorcain.com
Ms Flynn can be contacted during school hours by emailing dflynn@scoillorcain.com
Dear Parents/Guardians,
We hope you and all the boys are all keeping well and enjoying the sunshine. As we make our way into what would have been our last few weeks in school, we hope the boys will enjoy doing some of the activities listed below. However, do not feel under pressure to complete this work. As Mr. Flynn stated to us in our online staff meeting; “Our kitchens are not classrooms, and our homes are not schools. And you, parents, are not expected to be teachers. We will ensure your child catches up on everything when we finally return to school. As you have collected your son’s books last week, you can choose to do some activities listed below or finish off any of your son’s workbooks or copy books.
Below are some suggestions of what you could do with the boys from June 2nd – June 12th. The theme for this fortnight is ‘Summer Time’.
This work includes Youtube Stories, Powerpoints and worksheets on Twinkl and other activities.
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Literacy in Junior and Senior Infants is most important so if you are going to pick one thing to do with your child, literacy is a great place to start.
Again, please do not feel under any pressure to get this work done, these are only suggestions! Reading a book, playing a game and having a conversation with your child is just as good so make the most of this time with your child and stay safe.
If you have any questions at all big or small please contact us at the email addresses given, we are more than happy to help and if you would like to send pictures of work / activities that the boys are doing at home we’d love to see them and reply to the boys.
P.S. Say hello to all the boys from us.
– Infant Teachers
* Please note – Boys that go to learning support or language support – The learning and language support teachers have put work separately on the website for the boys they take. Please check the website for work specifically aimed at these boys.
** There is a jollyphonics app parents can download at a cost of €5.49. Again this is optional, do not feel obliged to purchase it.
Week 1 –
June 2nd – 5th – Suggested Activities
Literacy
Story time
Sharing a shell by Julia Donaldson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJumAZx1t8&t=72s
Rhyme –
Humpty Dumpty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SOhhhffN-Q – listen to the rhyme and try to learn it – the boys could make up their own actions
Sounds/ words – please take the time to revise the sounds / words covered as they will really help with the boy’s reading.
• Revise all sounds – s,a,t,I,p,n,c,k,e,h,r,m,d,g,o,u,l,f,b,j,w,x,y,z,qu,ck (junior infants) – using sound copy
• Revise all sounds – ai, ee, or, ie, ng, oo, ch, sh, th, ou, oi, ue, er, ar, qu, ck. (senior infants)
• Pick a sound and write/draw a picture of five things that start with that sound on your whiteboard.
Extra worksheets for sounds
Junior Infants
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-871-phonics-read-and-write-activity-sheet
Senior Infants
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4499-phase-2-pictures-and-captions-matching-worksheets
Tricky / dolch words
• Practice tricky/dolch words – lots of different games for these can be found on the website –www.sightwords.com
• Put tricky/dolch words into sentence
A nice idea is to choose a word from the dolch list e.g. the, and – then when reading the book online / or books you might have at home ask your child to go on a word hunt and find the word as many times as they can in the book.
Junior Infants: Reading
Starfall Website
Mox’s Shop
https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-sv-o/moxs-shop/?sn=ltr-classic
Word machine game
https://www.starfall.com/h/word-machines/word_machine_i/?
https://www.starfall.com/h/word-machines/word_machine_u/?
Senior Infants: Reading
Reading Website
There are different levelled reading books on this website which are great for reading. Start at the level from the link below and work your way up or down to find a book that your child finds easy to read.
https://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/?lbFilter[level-C]
Handwriting
– please continue to practice the formation of all 26 letters- see worksheets here https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-068-letter-formation-workbook
Writing
Ask the boys to write or draw a picture of their favourite part or favourite animal in the ‘Sharing a Shell’ story by Julia Donaldson.
Numeracy
– Practice writing and recognising all numbers 1 – 5 Junior Infants & 1-10 Senior Infants on your whiteboards.
– Practice numbers that come before and after. For example, What number comes after 5 ? What number comes after 9? What number comes before 6? What number comes before 8?
Junior infants:
Cracking maths book. – Zero – p.81-84
3D shapes p. 85 – 86
Ordinal Number p. 87 – 88
Data p. 89 – 90
Senior Infants:
Cracking Maths book – Data p. 109 – 112
SESE – Summer
PowerPoints
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-11650-summer-themed-what-can-you-see-powerpoint
Oral language activities
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-829-summer-oral-language-activity-sheet
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-1036-summer-word-mat
Writing
– https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-8351-in-the-summer-i-see-writing-frame
There are Summer pages stuck into the boy’s scrapbooks which you collected last week. The boys can complete these pages this week.
Music
Song – Mr sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzvrEfyL2Y
Week 2
June 8th – 12th – Suggested Activities
Literacy
Story time
Pip and Posy The new Friend by Julia Donaldson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQV2S6Xx2Q8
Rhyme / song
I’m a little teapot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qTsVYiETJ4
Sounds/ words – please take the time to revise the sounds / words covered as they will really help with the boy’s reading
• Revise all sounds – s,a,t,I,p,n,c,k,e,h,r,m,d,g,o,u,l,f,b,j,w,x,y,z,qu,ck (junior infants) using your sound copy.
• Revise all sounds – ai, ee, or, ie, ng, oo, ch, sh, th, ou, oi, ue, er, ar, qu, ck. (senior infants)
• Pick a sound and find five things in your house that have that sound and write/ draw them on your whiteboard.
Extra worksheets for the sounds
Junior Infants
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-246-phonics-activity-pack
Senior Infants
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4185-i-can-read-phase-2-words-activity-sheet-pack
Tricky / dolch words
• Practice tricky/dolch words – lots of different games for these can be found on the website –www.sightwords.com
• Put tricky/dolch words into sentence
A nice idea is to choose a word from the dolch list e.g. the, and – then when reading the book online / or books you might have at home ask your child to go on a word hunt and find the word as many times as they can in the book.
Reading Website
Junior Infants:
Starfall website – word family games
en word family
https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-sv-e/maw-en/?sn=ltr-classic
ig word family –
https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-sv-i/maw-ig/?sn=ltr-classic
ot word family –
https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-sv-o/maw-ot/?sn=ltr-classic
Senior Infants Reading:
There are different levelled reading books on this website which are great for reading.
https://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/?lbFilter[level-C]
Handwriting
– please continue to practice the formation of all 26 letters- see worksheets here
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-5088-new-letter-formation-worksheet-a-z
Writing
Ask the boys to write or draw a picture of the clothes that we wear in Summer, the weather in Summer and some of the things we might do in Summer.
– Practice writing and recognising all numbers 1 – 5 Junior Infants & 1-10 Senior Infants.
Junior infants:
Cracking maths book. – Data – p. 91 – 93
Weight p. 94 – 97
Senior infants:
Cracking maths book – Comparing and Ordering p. 113 – 116
SESE – Summer Time
PowerPoints
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-1259-sammy-seagulls-summer-safety-story-powerpoint
Oral language activities:
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-54028-at-the-beach-oral-language-activity-sheet
Other Summer activities
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-1327-summer-i-spy-and-count-activity-to-10
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-12241-summer-read-and-colour-worksheet
Play /art
Draw/paint your own summer picture.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-a-57-summer-dot-to-dot-activity-sheet – Dot to Dot summer pictures
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-22774-seaside-trip-colouring-sheets
Summer colouring pictures
