Please revise the sight word list again from yesterday. I will be adding four new sight words to this list on Monday so please ensure you are confident reading the ones so far.

Today I’d like you to do an oral language lesson. Log into folensonline using the log in details I posted on the blog on Wednesday 18th March. Search ‘Starlight Junior Infants’ in the search bar at the top of the page. Click on ‘Resources’. Near the top of the page you will see ‘theme’, ‘unit’, ‘resource type’, ‘component’. Click on ‘unit’. Click on ’12. The Duck Pond’. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on ‘Poster- 12. The Duck Pond’. Click ‘open’. On the next screen you will see lots of oral language activities.

  • Firstly, listen to Story 2. (Try story 2 first, but if this is too challenging you have the option to listen to story 1 instead). After playing the story discuss some of the vocabulary the children might have found difficult. Discuss the meanings, put the word into sentences for your child to understand the meaning (variety, gliding, graceful, perched, leaping, lily pad, waddling, bank of pond, prickly spines, wriggles, burrow). Play the story again once you have clarified meaning of the vocab with your child.
  • Click the home button to return to the main oral language screen. Next click on ‘labeling’. Ask your child to drag the correct label to the different creatures in the poster.
  • Click the home button to return to the main oral language screen. Next click on ‘questions’. Ask your child to click on a question. Discuss the answers with your child. Some of the questions will require your child to use higher order thinking skills such as comparing and contrasting and hypothesising.
  • Click the home button to return to the main oral language screen. Next click on ‘activity’. This is a nice listening activity to finish off your oral language lesson.

For today’s writing activity I’d like you to write three/four things you can see in the poster of the pond. E.g. I see a swan. I see a duck. I see a frog. I see lots of fish. Ask mum or dad to write the sentences on a piece of paper or a mini whiteboard and you can copy them into your copybook. To finish draw a nice picture of the duck pond at the top half of the page.

This ladybird maths game is great for practicing counting, ordering and matching https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/ladybird-spots

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