Work for School Closure - Ms. Gaire's Senior Infants

​Ms. Gaire’s Senior Infants
Dear Parent(s)/ Guardians,
Below we have listed some activities for your child to do each day. It is really important that you do these activities so that we can cover the whole curriculum in Senior Infants. It is also important because the work in Senior Infants is very repetitive in order to consolidate learning and the children need to repeat this work every day.  Some activities are practical and some are written. This is how the children learn in school.
 
English:
Shared Reading:
Read plenty of books to your child. Find the title of the book, the author of the book and the illustrator. Invite your child to make predictions as you read through the story. Ask questions based on the story to assess your child’s understanding. Discuss the pictures etc.
Independent Reading: Provide books for your child to read independently and follow the ideas above also.
Tricky Words & Dolch Words in Words Copy
-Read words.
-Put words into sentences orally.
-Play some of the following games. Two or more players are needed, and in many cases, another copy of each word needs to be made.

• Matching Pairs – Place cards face down on the table. Take turns to turn two cards over to find the matching pair of Tricky Words. Read the words. If a match is found, keep the pair. If cards do not match, put the cards back face down on the table. The person with the most pairs wins the game.
• “Hi-Five” the word – Display the words. Call out a word, the first person to “Hi-Five” the word wins.
• Hidden words – Words are written on white paper in white crayon. The child colours over the crayon in marker to reveal the Tricky Word and says the word revealed.
• Twister – Play the game “Twister.” Place a Tricky Word on each colour. Instead of calling out the colours, call out the Tricky Words.
• Bingo- Create a Bingo sheet with 6 Tricky Words and play Bingo.
• “Car Park” game – Sheet of paper with words on it in the form of a car park (each car park space has a tricky word) Take turns to park a toy car on a tricky word and say the word when parking in that space.

Handwriting: Capital letters
-Complete pages marked on the capital letters “R, Q, G” in the school handwriting workbook.
-Complete pages marked on the capital letters “A, T, Y” in the home handwriting workbook.
-Practice the letter formation of all lowercase and capital letters by tracing over letters written in highlighter by an adult, tracing a letter in sand/ shaving foam/ flour etc.
Handwriting Booklet:
Complete pages marked in the booklet.
Dictation:
As shown at the Parent- Teacher Meetings, we are doing dictation at school, ie. Teacher calls out words and the children segment the word by sounding out the letters needed and then writing the word. Example: hen, dog, bat, jam, fish, chips, start, wash etc. As well as practising words in isolation, practise writing full sentences. Example: He can run./ The man has a hat./ I see a duck in the pond. Encourage correct use of punctuation.
English & Literacy websites/ apps to use daily:
-Starfall.com
-Jolly Phonics app
-Alphablocks videos (on Youtube)
-Helpmykidlearn.ie
-scoilnet.ie
-abcya.com/grades/k
-oxfordowl.co.uk
-crickweb.co.uk/earlyyears
-global.cbeebies.com
-literactive.com
-readingeggs.co.uk OR eggy words app (Tricky Words)
-thisreadingmama.com has lots of books to download for Infants.
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Maths:
Revision:
-Revise number formation: Numbers 1- 10
-Practise writing numbers by tracing over letters written in highlighter by an adult, tracing a letter in sand/ shaving foam/ flour etc.
-Practise counting up to 20.
-Count a number of objects.
-Ask your child to create a set of 3 or 8 or 10 etc and label the set with the correct number (eg. Make a set of 5 spoons/ Make a set of 3 crayons)
-Create a set of 2 and ask your child to change it to a set of 9/ Create a set of 5 and ask your child to change it to a set of 10 etc.
Topic: Addition
-Write simple sums for your children to complete within the answer range of 1- 10. Example: 3 + 6 = ___/ 2 + 5 = ___. Provide a number line 1-10 for your child to use when completing the sums.
-Look through your child’s Maths workbook to see how we write the number stories. Examples on pages 75, 76. Ask your child to write out the number stories for 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Maths Workbook pages to complete:
Complete pages 113- 116 in Maths school workbook.
Complete pages 25, 29, 30 in Maths home workbook.
Maths & Numeracy websites/ apps to use daily:
- topmarks.co.uk
-abcya.com/games/number_match
-abcya.com/games/counting_fish
-abcya.com/games/counting_sorting_comparing
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Daily Plan of Work
Day 1: Wednesday 18th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 16: Draw a picture of something that starts with the letter “A”. Complete line 1 of the capital letter “A”
-Dictation activity
-Maths: Revision of number formation 1-10.
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 
Day 2: Thursday 19th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 16: Complete lines 2 & 3 of the capital letter “A”
-Maths: Count forwards & backwards to 10. Revise number formation.
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 

Day 3: Friday 20th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 16: Complete lines 4 & 5 of the capital letter “A” and lowercase “a”
-Dictation activity
-Maths: page 25 in Maths home workbook
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 
Day 4: Monday 23rd
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: Complete page 3 in Handwriting Booklet
-Handwriting: Complete page 54 in school handwriting workbook (letter R)
-Maths: page 29 in Maths home workbook
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 

Day 5: Tuesday 24th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 17: Draw a picture of something that starts with the letter “T”. Complete line 1 of the capital letter “T”
-Dictation activity
-Maths: page 30 in Maths home workbook
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 
Day 6: Wednesday 25th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 17: Complete lines 2 & 3 of the capital letter “T”
-Maths: Make various sets 1-10 and label sets (make a set of 5 spoons and label with number 5)
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 

Day 7: Thursday 26th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 17: Complete lines 4 & 5 of the capital letter “T” and lowercase “t”
-Dictation activity
-Maths: page 113 in Maths school workbook
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 
Day 8: Friday 27th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: Complete page 4 in Handwriting Booklet
-Handwriting: Complete page 55 in school handwriting workbook (letter Q)
-Maths: page 114 in Maths school workbook
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 

Day 9: Monday 30th
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 18: Draw a picture of something that starts with the letter “Y”. Complete line 1 of the capital letter “Y”
-Dictation activity
-Maths: page 115 in Maths school workbook
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 
Day 10: Tuesday 31st
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 18: Complete lines 2 & 3 of the capital letter “Y”
-Maths: page 116 in Maths school workbook
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 

Day 11: Wednesday 1st
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: page 18: Complete lines 4 & 5 of the capital letter “Y” and lowercase “y”
-Dictation activity
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 
Day 12: Thursday 2nd
-Shared Reading: any book at home
-Independent Reading
-Words Copy- read words & play games listed
-Handwriting: Complete page 5 in Handwriting Booklet
-Handwriting: Complete page 56 in school handwriting workbook (letter G)
-Pick a website/ app to work on
 
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