Distance Learning Junior Infants: 6/5/20.
Please
find below a list of suggested daily activities. Please choose the activities
that best suit your families’ circumstances at this time.
Daily Activities
1.Please continue to revise all the jolly Phonics sounds: Jolly Phonics.
Can you remember the sound, the action and the song?
2.Keep going over all the tricky words we had covered:
I
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she
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was
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he
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do
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some
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the
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he
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be
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to
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come
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are
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your
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you
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all
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- Here are some games you can play with the Tricky Words:
- Write 2 sets of them on paper and play a Matching game/snap.
- Make up your own worksheet/ table with the tricky words. Colour ‘she’ red, colour ‘he’ green etc. Can you put ‘your’ in a sentence? Eg. Put on your coat Etc
- Try write some of the tricky words on your own.
- Can you remember why they are called tricky words?
4. Practice counting every day.
- Count forward and backward 1-10. Then try starting at different numbers e.g. start at 4 and count forward to 10 or start at 7 and count backward to 1.
- Ask your child before and after questions from 1-10. What number comes before the number 3? What number comes after the number 6?
- You could also ask your child what number comes between two numbers. E.g. what number comes between the numbers 3 and 5.
Wednesday 6/5/20
1.
Theme: The
Farm
Oral Language:
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Talk about
the picture below, it is all about the farm! You could ask your child some of
the questions also listed below.
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Can you draw
your own picture of a farm? What animals do you need to include? Who works on
the farm? What buildings are on the farm?
2.
Maths: Number
1- Let’s revise the number 1.
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First listen
to this song to help the children remember everything they know about the
number 1 Number 1 song
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Can you
write the number 1 (straight line down and then I’m done that’s the way I make
a 1).
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Can you make
some sets of 1 object?
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Can you hold
up one finger?
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Can you
search in your house and see can you find anything that has the number 1 on it?
E.g. the remote control.
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What does
number 1 look like on a dice?
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Have a look
at this PowerPoint to revise the number 1.
Sing along
to this song. Remember you don’t have to watch the video. Can you sound like
the animals on the farm? Can you move your body like the animals on the farm
4. Let’s Get
Moving:
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Balancing: Balance
on one leg. Now balance on the other. How long can you balance for? Is it
longer than before?
5. Don’t forget
your reading for today! Children love having a story read to them, searching
for their sounds/ tricky words and sounding out simple 3 letter words like the
ones they practice during their blending. Try read one book a day with your
child. Bedtime is a lovely time to do this.
We suggest
using www.oxford.co.uk logging in and choosing a book along with your
child or you could also use other books you have at home.Talk
to them and ask questions about what they read, ensuring they have understood
the story.
1.
Reading:
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Before
listening to the story ‘Farmer Duck’, ask your child:
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What does
the author do? (writes the story)
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What does
the illustrator do? (draws/paints the pictures)
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What do you
think the story is going to be about?
·
Listen to
the story Farmer Duck
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After your
child has listened to the story, you could ask them the following questions:
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Did you hear
any tricky words being read?
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Why do you
think the farmer is lazy?
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What are the
different animals in the story?
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What are the
different types of weather in the story?
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Do you think
the duck worked hard? Why? /Why not?
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Have you
ever been to a farm before? What do you remember?
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Have you
ever seen a duck/cow/pig/sheep before?
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Who is your
favourite character/animal/person in the story? Why?
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What happens
at the beginning, middle and end of the story? Can you draw pictures to show
this?
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Could
you try and sequence the story using sequencing cards?
2.
Maths:
Making sets of objects 1-5.
Using
objects that you have in your house (we used pasta and clothes pegs in the
example) make sets of objects 1-5 and assign a numeral on a piece of paper to
it. Remind the children of their number formation rhymes when they are
writing their numbers.
1.
Straight
line down and then I’m done that’s the way I make a 1.
2.
Half
a heart will never do, slide to the right to make a 2.
3.
Around
a tree, around a tree that’s the way we make a 3.
4.
Down
and across, then down some more that’s the way we make a 4.
5.
Down
and around and then we stop, we finish 5 with a hat on top.
3.
Let’s Get
Moving:
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Hurdles: Mark
the ground with chalk or use leaves/sticks to draw 5 lines1 metre apart. Jump
over the hurdles.
1.
Writing
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Let’s go
back and write our curly caterpillar letters! Watch the video so that you
remember how to do them: Curly Caterpillar letters
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Let’s try to
write some of our tricky words: I, the and me
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Let’s try
and write about some animals we see on the farm. Try to copy the words below
and can you draw a picture to match your sentence!
- A pink pig.
- A yellow duck.
- A black dog.
2. Maths Walk
3. Let’s Get Moving:
- Obstacle Course: Set up
your own obstacle course, using items from your house. Think about jumping,
skipping, climbing and crawling
4. Don’t forget your reading
for today! Children love having a story read to them, searching for their
sounds/ tricky words and sounding out simple 3 letter words like the ones they
practice during their blending. Try read one book a day with your child.
Bedtime is a lovely time to do this. We suggest using www.oxford.co.uk logging in and choosing a book along with your child or you could also use
other books you have at home.Talk to them and ask
questions about what they read, ensuring they have understood the story.
