Ms Dolan

June 22nd, 2020

22/6/2020

Hi Room.8,

It's your last week of Senior Infants and my last post to you! I have really enjoyed teaching you all. I will remember you as the class who transformed me into a full-time blogger.....for a few months!😄

Many thanks to parents, carers and students for your hard work and dedication throughout the school year. I appreciate all the emails and blog comments too.

This week's blog has a mix of fun activity sheets and videos. As always, some sheets can be copied by hand or done in your own style.

Wishing you all a happy and restful summer.

Ms.Dolan 💛

English

Below are some suggestions for writing activities.

summer holiday hopes writing.pdf
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💚 Gaeilge 💚

An Trá (The Beach)

Eiseamláirí Teanga (Language Examples)

Tá Oisín, Niamh agus Teidí ag an trá. Oisín, Niamh and Teddy are at the beach.
Tá buicéad ag Teidí. Teddy has a bucket.
Tá spád ag Oisín. Oisín has a spade.
Tá liathróid ag Niamh. Niamh has a ball.
Tá caisleán ar an trá. There is a castle on the beach.
Tá gaineamh ar an trá freisin. Sand is also on the beach.
Tá bád agus iasc san uisce. There is a boat and fish in the water.
Tá an ghrian agus scamall sa spéir. The sun and a cloud is in the sky.
Tá an lá te agus tirim. The day is warm and dry.

MOVEMENT BREAK 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

Maths

Attached are a 2D shape hunt and 'Join the dot' sheets (1-20 and 1-100 in a variety of pages). You may like to colour the dot sheets too.

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South African Animals- 1-100.pdf
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Art

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June 15th, 2020

15/6/2020

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Hello Room.8,

Sending best wishes to Matas and Summer, who celebrate their birthdays this week! Summer celebrates it today and Matas on Friday.
As per last Monday's message, weekly work will be posted each Monday until the end of the school term. Well done regarding this week's WOW wall.

Maths

Please look at the most recent games/activities uploaded on the maths support page. This week focuses on the 10 frame. I have attached more worksheets on number bonds and addition.

Maths support

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Water Safety

Check out the Water Safety Ireland website and follow the PAWS (Primary Aquatic Safety Programme) for Junior/Senior Infants. There are various lessons, games and activities to choose from. Please discuss the videos, spot the dangers on the poster and use the attachment to help design a water safety poster.

PAWS Senior Infants

E-book on Water Safety

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Dance

Our school was selected to take part in the Creative Schools project. We will be exploring different aspects of creativity, including dance. Please click the following link, which can be found on the school news page. It is a dance video created by a choreographer for our school, teaching part.1 of the dance.

Creative schools dance

💚 Gaeilge 💚

Siopadóireacht (Shopping)

Eiseamláirí Teanga (Language Examples)

Tá na páistí sa bhaile mór. The children are in the town centre.
Tá ___ sa bhaile mór. The ___ is in the town centre. (siopa éadaí, clothes shop siopa bia, food shop siopa bréagán, toy shop teach, house scoil, school séipéal church agus zú zoo)
Tá ___ (Teidí, Niamh, Oisín, na páistí) ag dul go dtí ___. Teidí, Niamh, Oisín and the children are going to_____ (an siopa éadaí, an siopa bía, an siopa bréagán, an zú)
Tá áthas ar na páistí. The children are happy.

Art

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June 08th, 2020

8/6/2020

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Good morning parents/guardians,

In line with school policy for the remainder of the term, content will be posted every Monday only. This will follow a similar timetable to the remaining three weeks in school, e.g. revision of topics, greater emphasis on outdoor activities, playtime and physical education. The content is suggested work only, so please do whatever suits your circumstances. School books will also help with revision and finishing off topics. Excuse the delay, due to video upload speed!

Please say hello in the comments box, if you are following the blog this week. 🙂

Thanks for your continued support.

Ms.Dolan

English

Please continue to practise reading. Further information can be found on my April 20th/April22nd posts regarding online reading books for Collins Connect.
If you would like to try a challenging tricky word dictation, use the last 10 words under the 'Blue Level' worksheet. Otherwise, listen back to previous videos for easier dictations.

📝Cursive Handwriting Workshop 📝
(Part.4)

This week's letters are l, t, i and j. These are part of the 'wave letters' group, due to their wave curve formation. Look at the first two videos on individual letters before watching the video on workbook pages.

Thanks to all who emailed me WOW examples of maths, handwriting and art. Great work everyone!

Maths

1. Make your own calendar for the month of June.
2. Colour the boxes in the following colours: Sundays- blue, Mondays-yellow, Tuesdays-green, Wednesdays-purple, Thursdays-orange, Fridays-brown, Saturdays-pink
3. Try to give full answers to the following questions:
Which day is today? What day comes before/after that day?
What is the month/year?
What is the full date today? (The date is June 8th, 2020.)
How many Mondays are in June?
How many Wednesdays are in June?
Which season is it?
What is the weather like today?
When does the weekend start?
How many days are in a week/this month?
How many months are in a year?
Can you name the months of the year?

4. Answer the attached addition worksheets. These have addition up to 100, if you like a challenge!

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💚 Gaeilge 💚

An Teilifís (The Television)

Please continue with workbook activities pp.41-46 and practise video language.

Eiseamláirí Teanga
(Language Examples)

(Video.1)
Cad atá sa seomra suí? What is in the sitting room?
Tá ___ sa seomra suí. The.....is in the sitting room.
(teilifís, television bord, table lampa, lamp tolg, sofa tine, fire fuinneog, window ríomhaire, computer doras, door solas light)

(Video.2)
Tá Teidí sa seomra suí. Teddy is in the sitting room.
Tá sé ina shuí ar an tolg. He is sitting on the sofa.
Tá sé ag féachaint ar an teilifís. He is watching television.
Tá sé ag éisteacht leis an raidió. He is listening to the radio.
Tá sé ag súgradh ar an ríomhaire. He is playing on the computer.

Plants

1. Look at the picture 'Parts of a Plant'. Draw and label your own picture.
2. Complete the attached worksheets:
(a) Writing and drawing activity on what plants need to grow.
(b) Cut and paste parts of the flower.

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It's Time To MOVE! 🏃🏻‍♂️

I hope you're having fun with your skipping ropes! Check out Lesson.2 on the school website, by clicking the following box:

Skipping School

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June 03rd, 2020

3/6/2020

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Congratulations to Jellyfish- the winners of the table competition! You will receive your prizes when back at school. If you are interested in an art competition, or would just like to use your creativity in art/maths, please visit the Home School Community Liaison page. There are also new maths games to explore on the school additional support page. You can check out both areas by clicking the following tabs:

HSCL Page

Maths Games

Please continue with workbook activities at your convenience, for the remainder of the week.
I look forward to receiving further WOW examples (ms.dolan@olvinfants.com). Due to the bank holiday, I will post them on Monday 8th June instead.

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June 02nd, 2020

2/6/2020

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Welcome back Room.8!

Hope you had a lovely weekend. Maybe some of you spent time at the beach recently, like Mickey Mouse and Pluto! I would like you to write a few sentences about a visit you made to a beach. You can also pretend that you visited one, or describe the Disney picture like in my example below.

I will announce the winners of the table competition tomorrow, so today is the last day for entries. Write your entry (favourite song and/or movie, with table name) in today's comment section. The following are the latest results:
Dolphins: 3
Jellyfish: 5
Turtles: 3

Story time
Cave Baby
(by Julia Donaldson)

Ellie the cat makes another appearance too!

Maths
Telling the Time

In Senior Infants, students learn to read time in one-hour intervals. If they are familiar with this, try reading to the half-hour for a challenge. I have included videos and worksheets regarding o'clock and half past. The worksheets go from Level 1 (easier) to Level 3 (more challenging). Please complete pg.34 of your workbook Busy at Maths.

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May 29th, 2020

29/5/2020

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Another week of fantastic work on the WOW wall! We have a video on super skipping too. Please send attachments by Thursday evening, so that they can be included on that Friday's blog. Continue to practise workbook activities related to blog content or topics covered in school, at your convenience.

🧐Competition entries at the moment 🤩
Dolphins: 3
Jellyfish: 5
Turtles: 3

Due to the bank holiday, I will be back here on Tuesday June 2nd.
Ms.Dolan 🌞💛

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May 28th, 2020

28/5/2020

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Rocket Launch 🚀

Competition Update
Thanks to everyone who has entered the competition so far! Please check May 26th post for further details. Considering there is a bank holiday next Monday, I will announce the winners on Wednesday. Who is going to win?! If you haven't entered, please add your table name, favourite song and/or movie to today's comments section. Here are the results so far:
Dolphins: 3
Jellyfish: 4
Turtles: 3

Did you watch NASA and SpaceX's attempt last night to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station? This was the first time since retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans attempted to fly to the space station from America. Unfortunately weather stopped their attempts with minutes to go! SpaceX is the company who made the rocket (click link box below).
I have attached videos to explain the International Space Station and a recent demonstration video from SpaceX 👇

For all space fans, there will be another launch on Saturday evening at 7.22 p.m.
You can watch it by clicking the link box below. There is live coverage for a few hours before lift-off.
You will be shown how the astronauts get ready to enter the rocket, inside it and all their equipment, along with what their teammates are doing to help launch the rocket. There is also coverage of last night's attempt on the site. Maybe you and your adult helper would like to check it out!

NASA Youtube

SpaceX

The Solar System

You may recall my blog video (May 11th) on Oliver Jeffer's book 'Here We Are. Notes For Living On Planet Earth'. This showed a picture of the solar system and gave some information on it.
I would like you to draw the solar system, with the help of the picture. Then draw your own rocket (see attached template). There is also a writing activity in relation to designing your own planet.

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May 27th, 2020

27/5/2020

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Competition

Good morning 🌞

Please check yesterday's post request regarding Room.8's favourite songs and/or movies.
Thanks to those who have contributed so far. You can put your answer in today's comments section. Remember there needs to be three submissions from a table in order to be entered in the competition.
Currently I have two entries from Dolphins, 2 from Jellyfish and 1 from turtles. Winners will be announced next Tuesday.

💚 Gaeilge 💚

An Fear Sinséir (The Gingerbread Man)

Please look at the language examples in this video and in previous examples posted regarding 'Sa Bhaile'. Bua Na Cainte workbook was part of the school book collection pack. A suggestion for this week is to complete pp.36-40.
Page.36-Draw a house, including
fuinneog/window,díon/roof, simléar/chimney, doras/door.
Use the colours:dearg/red, gorm/blue,
donn/brown, buí/yellow
Page.37- trace
Page.38- Colour by number.
Page.39- Draw the gingerbread man.
Page.40-Take the people to the gingerbread man.

Eiseamláirí Teanga
(Language Examples)

Rinne Teidí fear sinséir. Teddy made a gingerbread man.
Bhí áthas ar Theidí. Teddy was happy.
Rith an fear sinséir. The gingerbread man ran away.
‘Stop,’ arsa Teidí. ‘Ná bí dána. Ná bí ag rith.’ ''Stop'', said Teddy. ''Don't be bold. Don't run.''
Rith an fear sinséir. The gingerbread man ran away.
Bhí brón ar Theidí. Teddy was sad.
‘Tar ar ais,’ arsa Teidí.''Come back'', said Teddy.
Rith Teidí ina dhiaidh. Teddy ran after him.

Skipping School

Have you used the free skipping ropes that came with your book collection pack? Click the following link from the school website for some tips on how to use it.

Skipping Time!

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May 26th, 2020

26/5/2020

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Scotty Bear's Favourite Song
💛 🐻

Good morning,

Scotty will make an appearance in the near future......he's a busy bear! He still thinks he's FAB.U.LOUS and his favourite word is still FAB.U.LOUS. Check out his favourite song in the video below.
What's your favourite song and/or movie? Please ask an adult to help you share it with your classmates in the blog comments section.
Do you remember your table names from the last time you were in school......Dolphins, Turtles and Jellyfish?!
Write the table name if you are leaving a comment. Let's see which table wins, judging by the most responses before next Tuesday! There needs to be at least 3 entries from a table to be part of the competition. The table winners will receive a prize from me when back at school. 🙌

📝Cursive Handwriting Workshop 📝
(Part.3)

Following on from my previous two cursive handwriting workshops (May 11th/ May 14th), I will focus on the letters u, y, v and w today.
These are part of the 'wave letters' group, as they have a wave curve formation. Please look at the first two videos on individual letters before watching the video on workbook pages.
Thank you to the people who collected school books last Thursday.
Please open pages 8 and 9 of Ready Steady, Write! B Cursive. Most children have completed the individual letters on these pages in school, but not practised saying the words or writing them. Practise writing those letters on a ruled blank page, then saying the words and writing them.

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May 25th, 2020

25/5/2020

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🙂Story time🙂

Grandad's Island
(by Benji Davies)

Hi everyone,

Hope you had a chance to enjoy the nice weather yesterday. It's looking good today too 🌞
Please email me WOW attachments by Thursday, if you would like them to be included in Friday's blog (ms.dolan@olvinfants.com).

Today's story depicts the imagination of a child through an adventure with his grandad.
It can be interpreted in different ways, for example the special bond between grandparent and grandchild, and/or coping with short-term or long-term loss. I discussed it within the context of children missing certain family members and friends in recent months. The book suggests that there are other ways to keep in contact, even if we cannot meet someone. After listening to the story, draw your own island scene.

Maths
100 Square

1. Please print off attached blank 100 square template, or create your own.
2. Use attached yellow picture or printable version to help you fill in the 100 square. Or you can try filling it in without the full 100 square.
First, write all the numbers in pencil. Then write over the pencil in dark coloured pen.
3. Count by twos to 20 and underline/circle with pencil as you go. Continue on for as far as you are able to.
4. Rub out the previous pencil markings. Count by tens to 100 and underline/circle with pencil again.
5. Rub out the previous pencil markings. Say and circle the following numbers:
3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 19, 20, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 33, 36, 40, 42, 44, 47, 50, 53, 55, 58, 60, 61, 64, 66, 70, 74, 75, 79, 80, 85, 89, 90, 93, 96, 97, 99, 100
6. Complete the other attached activities (missing numbers and jigsaws).

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Tricky Word Dictation-Week 5 🙂

Taken from 'Handy Tricky Word List' Blue Level (any-put). As mentioned in March 26th post, please focus on red and yellow levels only, if green and blue levels are too difficult. One of the dictation videos could be replayed for a red or yellow level group instead.

🙌 Movement Break 🙌

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Room 16 have become expert movers over the past few months! We have settled into our new classroom and are ready to share all our news from Term 1 so far.

Room 16 are a friendly group of children, each displaying their own unique talents. Teacher is looking forward to more great ideas, everyone trying their best and FUN TIMES in the months ahead!

Parents/guardians/carers: I am here to help, so please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

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💚 Gaeilge 💚​​ An Trá (The Beach)

Eiseamláirí Teanga (Language Examples)

MOVEMENT BREAK 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

Maths

Art

Maths

Water Safety

Dance

💚 Gaeilge 💚​Siopadóireacht (Shopping)

Art

English

📝Cursive Handwriting Workshop 📝​(Part.4)

Thanks to all who emailed me WOW examples of maths, handwriting and art. Great work everyone!

Maths

💚 Gaeilge 💚​An Teilifís (The Television)

Eiseamláirí Teanga(Language Examples)

Plants

It's Time To MOVE! 🏃🏻‍♂️

Story time ​​Cave Baby ​​(by Julia Donaldson)

Maths Telling the Time

Rocket Launch 🚀

The Solar System

Competition

💚 Gaeilge 💚​An Fear Sinséir (The Gingerbread Man)

Eiseamláirí Teanga(Language Examples)

Skipping School

Scotty Bear's Favourite Song​ 💛 ​🐻

📝Cursive Handwriting Workshop 📝​(Part.3)

🙂Story time🙂​​Grandad's Island​(by Benji Davies)

Maths 100 Square

Tricky Word Dictation-Week 5 🙂

🙌 Movement Break 🙌

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💚 Gaeilge 💚

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📝Cursive Handwriting Workshop 📝
(Part.4)

💚 Gaeilge 💚

An Teilifís (The Television)

Eiseamláirí Teanga
(Language Examples)

Story time
Cave Baby
(by Julia Donaldson)

Maths
Telling the Time

💚 Gaeilge 💚

An Fear Sinséir (The Gingerbread Man)

Eiseamláirí Teanga
(Language Examples)

Scotty Bear's Favourite Song
💛 🐻

📝Cursive Handwriting Workshop 📝
(Part.3)

🙂Story time🙂

Grandad's Island
(by Benji Davies)

Maths
100 Square