Dear Parents,
I sincerely hope you and your children are staying safe. We have been advised that schools will remain closed until after the Easter holidays.
I hope some of the learning activities listed below can help to support your child’s learning for the duration of the school closure.
We understand that this is a very difficult time for everyone. We are not expecting the children to complete all of the work listed below. We are simply providing the resources to support the children who wish to continue their learning at home.
Please feel free to email me if you require further support – michael@scoiliosaballina.ie.
Kind regards,
Michael
Learning activities for Junior Infant children
Junior Infants –Ms Geraghty and Ms.Keane – Plan of work
English
Junior and Senior Infants – Additional Oral Language Activities for Infant Classes
Pencil Grip
Letter family c,o,a,d,g- write each letter with correct formation
Letter family i,r,n,h,m-write each letter with correct formation
Go over the sounds of these letters using sounds copy in homework folder
Say words that begin with each letter
Then make 3 letter words using the bag of letters in homework folder
Read book in folder and discuss the pictures
Parent can read other books to child and discuss them
Draw pictures and try to label items and write the names of the people in pictures (with parent help)
Colour
Maths
Junior Infants – Oral Counting – Maths Tips for Parents
Go over numerals 1,2,3 and 4
Make sets of objects for each number
Draw a square,circle,triangle,rectangle
Draw pictures using these shapes
Make patterns
Look for shapes around your home
Count items around your home
Irish
Draw cóta,geansaí,bríste,léine,bróga
Music
Sing nursery rhymes
Hey Diddle Diddle
Little Bo Peep
Twinkle Twinkle
Mary had a little lamb
Humpty Dumpty
Sings songs:
I want someone to buy me a pony
I have a small teddy
When Goldilocks went to the house of the Bears
When Jesus was a boy
Art
Make an Easter card
Draw a Spring picture
Draw your family
Draw teacher and all the children
PE
Follow Joe Wicks The Body Coach on youtube for daily PE lesson
Bunny Hop Pencil Control Worksheets
Farm Themed Cutting Skills Activity Sheets
Five Senses Scavenger Hunt Activity Sheet
General Sound Discrimination – Body Percussion EYFS Home Learning Challenge
General Sound Discrimination Environmental Sounds Home Challenge
Incy Wincy Spider Prop Craft Instructions
Minibeasts Colour By Number Activity Sheets
Paper Bowl Ladybird Craft Instructions
Pizza Shape Colouring Activity
Six Steps To Washing Your Hands Posters
The Gingerbread Man Pattern Tracing
Toys Home Learning Challenge Activity Sheet
Junior and Senior Infants additional school activities to continue learning at home
Learning activities for Senior Infant children
Here is a plan of what you can do with your child. Vary the things you do day to day:
English:
Junior and Senior Infants – Additional Oral Language Activities for Infant Classes
Oral language: Say the days of the week, the months of the year, the four seasons. Name the day, month and season and discuss things that happen during this time of year, eg baby animals are born, spring flowers grow, etc.
Phonics: Revise all letter names and the sounds they make. Sound out short cvc (consonant vowel consonant) words and write them down. Pick a cvc word, eg cat, and write down all the words that rhyme with it.
Reading: Revise Jolly phonics tricky words 1-60 (there is a link on school website)
Writing: Write Our News. The children usually write 3 or 4 sentences. Draw a picture underneath. Write all the small words you know.
Poetry: Pick a poem/rhyme from the school website and learn it off by heart. Name the words that sound the same
Stories: Go on www.storylineonline.net for lots of stories
Maths:
Senior Infants – Oral Counting – Maths Tips for Parents
Count 1-50. Pick a number from 1-20 and ask the child what number comes before and after it. Pick two numbers and ask the child what number comes in between. Practice number formation 1-8. Revise simple addition up to 10 eg 2+5=7. Go on a shape hunt in your house and revise the names of the 2D and 3D shapes we have covered. Draw 5 squares, triangles, rectangles and circles. Cut them out and make a pattern with them. Revise the story of 6, 7 and 8. You can get access to the folens website which has their maths book online.(Go to folensonline.ie and click register. Select teacher. Fill in a username, email and password. For Roll number use the code Prim20). On the school website there is a link with extra maths worksheets for senior infants. Pick one of those to do daily.
Irish:
Name the colours in Irish. Count from 1-10 in Irish. Revise Ar Maidin and Cúigear Fear.
SESE:
Magnetism: Get a fridge magnet and gather together different materials. Guess which things will stick to the magnet. Then try it out and see if you were right.
Go for a walk in your garden and look out for all the signs of spring. Draw a picture afterwards of the different things you saw.
Name all the members in your family. Draw a picture of them. Talk about how each member is important and has a role to play in your family
Talk about the life cycle of the frog. Look up youtube Life Cycle of a frog – the Dr Binocs Show
Talk about the life cycle of the butterfly. Look up youtube Life Cycle of a butterfly
Art:
Talk about the colours that make up a rainbow. Paint/colour a rainbow
Make baby chicks by colouring/painting two paper plates yellow. Stick on orange beak and feet. Draw/stick on eyes.
Make an Easter card
Make a frog by painting/colouring a paper plate green, 2 big circles for eyes and 2 webbed feet painted/coloured green
Draw your own butterfly, colour it in and cut it out.
PE
Follow Joe Wicks The Body Coach on youtube for daily PE lesson
Junior and Senior Infants additional school activities to continue learning at home
Additional Resources for Infant Classes
-0-to-10-number-formation-activity-booklet
Dolch-Sight-World-Lists-and-Story(1)
Eadai – school-clothes-fill-in-the-blanks-gaeilge-worksheet-gaeilge
Game JD1 Recognising and interpreting data
Game JN2 Comparing and ordering
home_school_links_senior_infants
poems and rhymes for junior to 1st class
Learning activities for First and Second Class Children
Please do each of these activities daily:
Writing:
On alternate days:
a) Write My News and draw a picture (see Helpful Words chart on the website) OR
b) Write About A Picture (see picture prompts on the website)
Reading:
a) Read the Dolch Words / Tricky Words (see links on the website) OR
b) Visit www.raz-plus.com. Read a book and answer questions to earn points.
How to login
Go to raz-plus.com
Click on kids login
Enter your teacher’s username: missfoody123 or missgilroy123
Click on your name.
Enter your password which was sent to parents in a text.
Make sure you use capital letters when entering your password.
Phonics and Spellings:
a) Play an online phonics game (www.ictgames.com – English) OR
b) Revise two letter sounds (sh, ch, ck, ng, oo, oa, ai, ay, ee, ea, oi, ou, ow, aw) and Magic E words (e.g. _a_e)
Choose a sound and write as many words as you can.
Maths:
a) Play an online maths game (www.mathplayground.com) OR
b) Practice addition and subtraction sums without renaming within 100.
Oral/Mental maths: (20 minutes per day – choose between the following activities)
- Counting: Count to 100 – forwards, backwards, from different starts, number before / after, choose a number and count on / back 5, etc.
- Skip Counting: Counting in 10s, 2s, 5s, even numbers, odd numbers, etc.
- Shapes: Look for various shapes around the house. Draw a picture using shapes.
- Tables: Revision of addition and subtraction tables.
- Addition: Adding two and three numbers together (totals within 20). Adding doubles.
- Subtraction: Subtracting within 20
- Sequencing: Put 4 or 5 numbers in the correct order (e.g. 25, 84, 48, 52 )
- Patterns: Draw patterns. Look for patterns around the house.
- Time: Revise o’clock and half past (e.g. show/draw the time on a clock)
Look at a calendar and identify days/dates/how many Mondays, etc.
Please choose another activity daily:
- Handwriting: Write a sentence at the top of a copy page. Children should copy the sentence 4 or 5 times paying attention to letter size, spacing, capital letters, full stops, etc.
- Irish: Revise colours / numbers 1-20 / activities (ag rith, ag snámh, ag gáire…)
- Art: Choose a drawing activity from Art for Kids Hub (www.artforkidshub.com)
- PE: Follow a PE lesson from PE with Joe (see link on website)
- SESE: Visit www.dublinzoo.ie – Watch webcams from the zoo and read about the various animals.
- Oral Language: Choose a poem/rhyme from the website and learn it.
- Storytime: Listen to a story online (e.g. www.storylineonline.net, www.freechildrenstories.com)
- Fun activities: Memory games, matching games, puzzles, dot-to-dot activities, wordsearches, etc.
(www.primarygames.com)
Additional Activities for First and Second Classes
First and Second Class additional school activities to continue learning at home
build-a-sentence-gaeilge-cards
Dolch-Sight-World-Lists-and-Story(1)
Eadai – school-clothes-fill-in-the-blanks-gaeilge-worksheet-gaeilge
Eadai-Clothes-Activity-Sheets-Pack-Irish-Gaeilge_
Gaeilge-Seanfhocail-with-Translations
Game 1A1 Extending and using patterns
Game 1D1 Representing and interpreting data
Maths – st-patricks-day-addition-mosaic-activity-sheets
poems and rhymes for junior to 1st class
Write About the Pictures: At Home – School – The Park – The Swimming Pool – The Birthday Party
Learning activities for Third and Fourth Class Children
Third and Fourth Class 25th March to 3rd April 2020
Hi All,
We hope you are all enjoying this time and not missing school too much! We have put together some work for you to do each day. Well done to those of you who have logged onto Nessy, we are following your progress and would like to see everyone logging on. Log on to Nessy and khan Academy daily and spend a minimum of 20 minutes on each if possible and complete the writing. maths and reading activities outlined below.
RTE have announced that they will be broadcasting daily ‘school’ from 11am to 12pm, Monday to Friday on RTÉ2, with a shorter “catch-up” segment later in the afternoon. You will also be able to find the show on the RTÉ Player and worksheets and other material will be accessible on RTE.ie/learn.
We hope to see you all very soon, stay safe. We will update this page again on the 3rd April.
Ms. Lavelle, Mrs. Mahady, Mr. Lynott, Miss Brady & Ms. Garvin.
Reading
When you login your Secret Word is: MASSIVECLOCKS
Then your real name to get started.
- scoiliosa1
- namesurname19
Writing
- Diary – Spend a few minutes every day writing a diary entry. Date each entry.
To get yourself writing, ask yourself questions: What did you learn today?
What did you read? What games did you play? What was in the news today?
What was on T.V.? How are you feeling?
Maths
- Tables Times 7 tables, (x 7) skip count in 7’s.
- Help out at home with some baking and cooking with an adult by getting involved in measuring the ingredients and dividing out portions.
Spellings
Barn, yard, party, happy, sharp, ant, Antrim, dance, answer, banana, gas, gasp, grasp, clasp, aspect, paste, taste, waste, haste, hasty.
Reading
- Read two pages of your reader or Read at home each day.
- Listen to David Walliams Audio Books, he is releasing a new short story every day from 11am. Read by David Walliams they are available to listen to through his website www.worldofdavidwalliams.com and will be available for free for 30 days. We encourage you to sit down, take a break and enjoy a few minutes of pure fun’.
- Amazon are also allowing access to their audio book free of charge, just log onto https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Learning activities for 5th and 6th Class Children
My Read at Home
Mental Maths and tables
MATHS
Mangahigh.com
Each child has been assigned a username and password.
Please email your teacher for your log in details if you want to complete tasks which have been assigned to you.
Email addresses can be found at the end of this document.
Khan Academy:
Username: fullname19
Password: scoiliosa1
ENGLISH
Nessy
Secret Word: MASSIVECLOCKS
Enter your name with a capital letter and select the correct profile.
Audio Books
David Williams has released free audio books of some of his novels. Click on the link below to listen to some of his books.
A-Z Books
Username: scoiliosa2016
Password: ballina
Spellings:
Please contact your teacher by email if you would like to receive your group spelling lists
Writing
The author of ‘The Adventures of Jack & Adam’ book series is running a poetry competition.
To be in with a chance of winning a t-shirt and school bag all you have to do is write a poem and email it to anthony@jackandadamadventures.com
For more details search for ‘Jack & Adam’ on social media.
GAEILGE
P.E.
P.E. with Joe: Joe Wicks “The Body Coach” is doing daily P.E. workouts for children on his youtube channel. Live Monday to Friday @ 9am. Can be viewed anytime
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBvQafyve889qVcPxYEjdSTl
HELPFUL WEBSITES
Typing: typing.com
Twinkl
Twinkl offer for great resources on all topics:
Enter code: IRLTWINKLHELPS
GOOGLE PROJECTS
Topics to research
- Volcanoes
- Northern Ireland (The Troubles)
- 1916 Rising
- Gas, Liquids & Solids
If you do not have your own google account (gmail) at home, you can sign into the account you use at school.
When you sign into your chromebook account, you can create and share projects with your teacher on google slides.
Sign into your google account on any laptop/phone/tablet at home and find your folder.
Sign into the chromebook account you usually work on for projects at school, by going to google and clicking on the blue sign in icon in the top right corner.
Sign in using the details below.
email address: chromebook.one@scoiliosaballina.ie
password: student1
email address: chromebook.two@scoiliosaballina.ie
password: student 2
email address: chromebook.three@scoiliosaballina.ie
password: student 3
email address: chromebook.four@scoiliosaballina.ie
password: student4
email address: chromebook.five@scoiliosaballina.ie
password: student5
email address: chromebook.six@scoiliosaballina.ie
password: student6
Create a project using google slides. (click on the 9 dots in the top right corner and select slides)
Please save your project in your folder.
SHARE your projects with your teacher using the email addresses below and they will be corrected.
gemma.kenny@scoiliosaballina.ie
mary.coyle@scoiliosaballina.ie
claire.mitchell@scoiliosaballina.ie
elaine.mcloughlin@scoiliosaballina.ie
Looking forward to hearing from you all and a huge well done to those who have already shared projects with their teacher!!
