Junior Infants Home Learning Page
The Department of Education and Skills’ NEPS psychologists have developed advice and some resources for young people to manage and stay well when schools are closed.
Some of the documents published that we think you might find useful are available here for download in PDF format below.
You can find out more information by clicking here.
Some of the documents published that we think you might find useful are available here for download in PDF format below.
You can find out more information by clicking here.
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Wonderful website with tonnes of ideas and advice about play: https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/lets-play-ireland/
Home Learning Monday 22nd June
| Home_learning_22.6.pdf |
Home Learning Monday 15th - Friday 19th June
| Home_learning_15.6-19.6.pdf |
Supports for home learning.
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Teanglann is an Irish dictionary website. It can be used to listen to how words are said in Irish. This is a guide on how to use the website.
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Accessing Collins Big Cat Readers during home learning.
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Home Learning Monday 8th - Friday 12th June
| home_learning_8.6_-_12.6.pdf |
Home Learning Monday 25th - Friday 29th May
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Home Learning Monday 18th - Friday 22nd May
| Home Learning Monday 18th - Friday 22nd May.pdf |
Home Learning Monday 11th - Friday 15th May
| home_learning_11.5_-_15.5.pdf |
Home Learning Tuesday 5th - Friday 8th May
| home_learning_ 5.5 -8.5.pdf |
Home Learning Monday 27th April - Friday 1st May
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Home Learning Monday 20th April - Friday 24th April
| home_learning_20.4-24.4.pdf |
Home Learning Monday 30th March - Friday 3rd April
| home_learning_2.pdf |
March 2020:
Dear Parents and Guardians of Junior Infants,
The topics which we were teaching over February and March are as follows:
Maths - Time, the number 0, combining and partitioning of sets.
Literacy - blending words and beginning reading. New phonic introduced each week.
Gaeilge - Seachtain na Gaeilge, Jeaic agus an Gas Pónaire (Jack and the Beanstalk).
Learn Together - Value for February - Love. Value for March - Honesty.
P.E. - Outdoor and Adventure: fundamental movement skills: walking, running and balancing.
We were planning on starting on teaching about the farm. While we had not begun this, feel free to begin discussing and exploring this topic at home.
Other learning topics:
The Fancy Dress shop
The Shoe shop
The Farm
Irish Myths and legends
Planting and taking care of plants
Spring
As part of our homework, the children are beginning to read both picture books and short text books. It is important to remember that each child learns to read at their own pace, and reading should always be a positive experience.
As always, many thanks for your support and co-operation.
Bláithín and Holly: Teachers of Junior Infant Classes
English
Objectives
Activities
Oral Language
Reading
Writing
Story - The Hungry Caterpillar
Maths
Objectives
Activities
Number 0
Combining sets
Gaeilge
https://www.cula4.com/en/
http://sraith.pdsttechnologyineducation.ie/Sraith_22_2014_v1/player.html
Other Activities
Well-Being
The farm
Music
Food
Spring
Physical activity
Dear Parents and Guardians of Junior Infants,
The topics which we were teaching over February and March are as follows:
Maths - Time, the number 0, combining and partitioning of sets.
Literacy - blending words and beginning reading. New phonic introduced each week.
Gaeilge - Seachtain na Gaeilge, Jeaic agus an Gas Pónaire (Jack and the Beanstalk).
Learn Together - Value for February - Love. Value for March - Honesty.
P.E. - Outdoor and Adventure: fundamental movement skills: walking, running and balancing.
We were planning on starting on teaching about the farm. While we had not begun this, feel free to begin discussing and exploring this topic at home.
Other learning topics:
The Fancy Dress shop
The Shoe shop
The Farm
Irish Myths and legends
Planting and taking care of plants
Spring
As part of our homework, the children are beginning to read both picture books and short text books. It is important to remember that each child learns to read at their own pace, and reading should always be a positive experience.
As always, many thanks for your support and co-operation.
Bláithín and Holly: Teachers of Junior Infant Classes
English
Objectives
Activities
Oral Language
- Ask your child some questions that we cover in our circle time: e.g. Would you rather live underground or live in the sea? Beans or peas? What is your favourite animal?
- Listen and draw tasks
- Nursery rhymes
- Listen to stories and retell in your own words
Reading
- Begin sounding out blending CVC words (three letter words with vowel-consonant-vowel) using the spellings that we have already covered.
- Read a picture book with no words and make up your own story.
- Find tricky words in a story
- Read to and with your child every day
Writing
- Practise writing the sounds we know - use as many different colours as you can!
- Practice making the letters in a bowl of rice or sand etc.
- Free writing
- Write a thank you card to Doctors, nurses and carers in our local hospital in Tallaght, for all the hard work they are doing.
- Write and send a letter to an older person in Sally Park Nursing Home in Firhouse. Tell them about what you have been up to, the signs of Spring you have noticed and tell them something nice about yourself. You could also draw a picture of yourself in the letter.
Story - The Hungry Caterpillar
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY
- Retell the story to a family member
- Make your own version of the story with pictures
- Make up your own ending - what else could happen?
- Sequence the story - what did the hungry caterpillar eat on Monday? On Tuesday?
Maths
Objectives
Activities
Number 0
- Write the number 0 - do this in pencil, crayon, make a rainbow zero, do some sensory writing: in rice, shaving foam, make a zero out of playdough
Combining sets
- Adding around your home: how many red crayons have you got? How many yellow? How many altogether?
- Repeat for a variety of objects - toys, cutlery, shoes etc.
- Discuss with someone at home - which is there more of? Less of? Altogether how many? What if there was one more? Two more? One less? Two less?
Gaeilge
https://www.cula4.com/en/
- Watch one episode as gaeilge
- Do 10@10 each day for one week - choose ‘Gaeilge’ https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
- http://www.schooldays.ie/articles/Primary-Irish-Resources - variety of resources available
http://sraith.pdsttechnologyineducation.ie/Sraith_22_2014_v1/player.html
- **Recommend using a browser which allows adobe flash** Microsoft Edge worked for us.
- Éist agus abair - Listen and Say
- Tarraing pictiúr - Draw a picture
- Aimsir - weather
- Tirim - dry
- Crann - tree
- Duilleoga - leaves
- Ag fás - growing
- Nead - nest
- Ubh - egg
- Na hUain óga - lambs
- Ag leim - jumping
- Seamróga - shamrocks
- Lá le Pádraig - St. Patrick’s Day
- Pluiríní sneachta -snowdrops
- Lus an chrom chinn - daffodils
- Ubh Chásca - easter egg
- Aimsir - weather
Other Activities
Well-Being
- Do one thing that makes you happy every day.
- Do one thing that makes someone else happy everyday.
The farm
- Do a project - all about the farm
- What animals live on the farm?
- What work is done on the farm?
- What grows on the farm?
- Match the baby animals to their mothers
- Record the life cycle of a chicken
Music
- Sing the spring chicken song. Don’t forget the actions!
Food
- Keep a food diary - what did you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner each day for a week.
- Record this each day - draw a picture of each meal.
- Talk about healthy food with someone at home.
- Help to prepare your meals or a meal for someone at home.
Spring
- Draw a spring picture! Include at least three of the signs of Spring - daffodils, chicks, caterpillars, rain, lambs, flowers budding, bluebells, tadpoles etc.
Physical activity
- Practice the fundamental movement skills of walking, running and balancing.
- The Move Well Move Often website has fantastic resources: videos, step-by-step instructions and game suggestions to use. This is what the school has been using since September 2019.
