Scoil Bhríde Cailíní

Blanchardstown, Dublin 15

Suggested Activities 11th-15th May

Hello everyone, well done on all the fabulous work going on at home! Have you checked out our Home Learning gallery?

We know it’s a hectic time for lots of families so please don’t feel under pressure to do all the activities below. Every household is different and whatever you are doing as a family is great. If you can even pick a few of the activities to complete that would be great. Our main work is to keep practising our ABCs and 123s.

Maths

Number

  • Watch Ms. Meenagh’s maths videos, the activities are described below.
  • Write numbers 0-5 Junior Infants (0-10 Senior Infants) and colour the back pink. Draw pictures of fruits for each numbers 0-5 Junior Infants (0-10 Senior Infants) and colour the back blue. Cut out your two sets of cards. Now you’re ready for some games!
  • Matching – can you match the pictures of fruit to the corresponding number card. See how quickly you can do this.
  • Ordering – order the number cards and pictures of fruit from 0 up.
  • Memory game – turn the cards upside down and take turns choosing one blue card and one pink card per turn. Do they match?

Time – days of the week

  • Listen to Ms. Gilroy’s Days of the Week song
  • Please write the seven days of the week out on a page and cut them into flashcards. Use a colouring pencil or crayon to highlight the first letter of each.
  • Ordering the days of the week – singing our song might help with this, the last day of the week is Sunday and the first is Monday.
  • Can you find…? With the days of the week in the right order say different days of the week and ask your daughter to point to it.
  • “If today is…” – choosing different days of the week, ask your daughter if today is Tuesday what day was it yesterday? And what day will it be tomorrow?

English

  • Continue to revise and write a letter each day, do this in your phonics homework book.  What is the letter’s name? What sound does it make? Can you find something that starts with the letter?
  • Revise your letter sounds – look at the Eric Carle alphabet picture. Can you name all the letters? Do you know what sound they make? Do you know the name of the animals? Do you know the alphabet song?

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  • Can you draw what happens at the Beginning, Middle and End of our story? Write a simple sentence for each picture.  (If you want to make this more challenging try drawing six boxes and having extra details!)
  • Procedural writing How to Make a Fruit Salad video. Ms. McGeough shows us how to make fruit salad. She is using bossy words to explain how to do it.
  • Can you draw three pictures of what she did First, Next and Last
  • Can you write a simple sentence for each picture?

 

  • Our Reader: Splash! Available online on folensonline.ie you can set up a free parents account and see all the Reading Zone books there.
  • Our new words: it Can you see Yes
  • Can you write a simple sentence for each word?

Gaeilge

Bia 2 (food)

Listen to and practise saying the vocabulary and phrases in Ms. Toomey’s video: Bia 

 

  • Mealbhacán Uisce (watermelon)
  • Píosa Cácá (piece of cake)
  • Uachtar Reoite (ice-cream)
  • Picil (pickle)
  • Píosa Cáise(piece of cheese)
  • Salámaí (salami)
  • Líreacán (lollipop)
  • Píosa Píog Silíní (piece of cherry pie)
  • Ispín (sausage)
  • Cáca Beag (cupcake)
  • Clúimh (caterpillar)
  • Duilleog (leaf)
  • Ubh (egg)
  • Cocún (cocoon)
  • Féileacán (butterfly)
  • Bhí ocras fós air (he was still hungry)

 

Suggested activities:

  • Draw pictures of each of these words and make your own flashcards.
  • Cluiche Kim: line the flashcards up in a row. Point to each card and say the word. Tell your child to close her eyes and then remove one card. When she opens her eyes again she must guess which card is missing.
  • Can you find any of these objects in your house/ garden?
  • Do you know how to say any of these words in a different language?

 

Once you know these words really well, listen to Ms. Toomey telling the story: “Dónall an Chlúimh agus An-Ocras Air!”

 

 

Suggested activities:

  • Using playdough, make a model of Dónall an Chlúimh and all of the food that he ate. Use this to help you to re-tell the story.
  • Can you tell this story in another language? Maybe you could make a video or voice recording and send it to the school website.
  • Don’t worry if you or your child don’t understand every single word in the story. It’s important that they understand the main vocabulary that we have practised in other videos but you can use context to guess the vocabulary that we have not covered.

Other

Art and Music – imaginative drawing, listen to the music in the video and draw your own picture, you can watch the video for inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPpkaldk84Y

Can you make yourself a hungry caterpillar?

PE – The Very Hungry Caterpillar Yoga session, can you follow along? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWDiQRrC1Y

Section B

Please consider doing some of the following…

Thank you so much to everyone for sending photographs of your work. Send photos of any of these activities to us at photos@scoilbhridecailini.ie Please include your child’s name, her teacher’s name and whether you’re happy for us to share the picture on our website.  We put photographs up every Thursday, so keep an eye out for you and your friends’ work!

Missing you all and hoping all of you are keeping safe and happy. 

Le grá, 

Ms. Gilroy and Ms. Meenagh