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Junior Infants: Continue with revision of class readers on www.folensonline.ie. Teach your monster to read www.getepic.com Continue on with Tricky Word lists. Revision of sounds covered:   Senior Infants:
Continue on with revision of class readers on www.folensonline.ie Teach your monster to read www.getepic.com Continue with revision of tricky word lists.
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Junior Infants: Tuesday: Just Phonics (pg.48-49) Wednesday: Just Phonics (pg.50-51) Thursday: Just Phonics (pg.52-53) Friday: Just Phonics (pg.54-55) Senior Infants: Tuesday: Just Phonics(pg.78-79)-ay word family.   Wednesday:Just Phonics(pg.82-83)-Revision.
Note I am skipping two pages which will be covered next week. Thursday:Reading Zone(pg.58) Friday:Reading Zone (pg.59) This week both classes are exploring capacity.What has the biggest/smallest capacity?(Which container can hold the most/least.)This can be explored outside in the good weather using water or sand.Always get your child to estimate(guess) before finding out the answer.
Key Vocabulary: full,empty,level,nearly full,holds more,holds less, as much as). Take different objects from around the home and compare their capacity. E.G:cup,egg cup,jug,jar,saucepan,glass,milk carton, bowl,basin,bucket,plastic bottle. Which one can hold more/less?E.G:how many pieces of pasta can a cup/jug/bowl hold?How many egg cups of water will it take to fill a glass/cup/mug/bowl etc.. How many cups of water will it take to fill a jug? How many cups of water will it take to fill a bucket? How many cups of water will it take to fill your lunchbox? How many cups of water will it take to fill a bottle? If a jug holds 4 cups of water,how many cups would I need to fill 2 jugs? pbskids.org/peg/games/bubble-bath https://ie.mathgames.com/skill/SI.78-holds-more-or-less www.growinlove.ie
E-mail:trial@growinlove.ie Password:growinlove Senior Infants Theme 8. Lesson 1 The Church.A place to gather.  Science:
This week we are looking at more minibeasts.Minibeasts are small animals that do not have a skeleton.They live all around us in many different places. Ladybird:It is a small,round flying beetle.It hibernates in the winter.A ladybird has 6 legs.It has 2 antennae,which allow it to touch,taste and smell.It has black spots on its body.Its body is really a shell that protects two pairs of delicate wings.Aphids(greenfly) are small garden pests that eat the leaves of some flowers.Ladybirds eat the aphids.The female lays her eggs on the underside of a leaf,near aphids so her babies will have food when they hatch. Spider:Spiders are arachnids,not insects.They have 8 legs and up to 8 eyes(4 pairs).They hatch from eggs.They have fangs.They usually eat other spiders and insects.They spin webs using the silk from their spinnerets.Webs are made to catch insects to eat. Woodlouse:It has 14 legs.It doesn't like sunlight.It comes out at night and likes to live in rotting wood. Caterpillar:This is a baby butterfly.Caterpillars eat the leaves of pIants.It will eat until its skin gets too tight and then it will shed it.It has 8 pairs of legs and 12 eyes.Some caterpillars are poisonous and birds do not like to eat them. Fly:A female can lay over 3000 eggs in her lifetime.She often lays her eggs on food.A fly lives for 21 days.It has no teeth. Ant:It lives in a group called a colony.There can be millions of ants in a colony.They are hard workers.The queen ant lays the eggs and some of the other ants act as soldiers to protect her. Snail:It can turn its eyes inside out to protect them.It is slow moving and leaves behind a trail of slime. It is most active at night. Bee:A bee can only sting once and then it dies.It is the only insect that produces food that people eat,honey.Bees talk to each other by dancing. Butterfly:It eats nectar from flowers.It has 2 pairs of wings.Some butterflies have markings on their wings to scare birds away. Optional Activity: minibeast_hunt.pdf History: Predict what the story is about before reading. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEPYKmIt4dU |
