I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine and having a lovely break.
We have moved on from our Big Box sight words (Danny, Zeb, planet, saw etc) and are now working on the Jolly Phonics sight words (the yellow cards they brought home.) These words cannot be sounded out - they need to be learnt by sight. Knowing these words will increase your child's fluency when reading, helping them to be come a confident reader.
We have moved on from our Big Box sight words (Danny, Zeb, planet, saw etc) and are now working on the Jolly Phonics sight words (the yellow cards they brought home.) These words cannot be sounded out - they need to be learnt by sight. Knowing these words will increase your child's fluency when reading, helping them to be come a confident reader.
We were very excited to go out on our nature hunt on Monday, as we had to delay it on Friday when the rain started. I am not sure what was more fun, the nature hunt or using clipboards (especially when a little insect landed on Sean's.)
We did great group work during SESE (science, history and geography) on the topic of "People Who Help Us." Here we are coming up with different jobs and discussing why they are helpful to us.
In maths we are learning about weight. We made predctions about which item would be heavier and lighter. And then we learnt that we can't always tell which is heavier just by looking. We made much better predictions when we looked and held each item.
We said goodbye to our tadpoles on Thursday. It has been really interesting having them in classroom and watching them change and grow. And wow have they grown! When I returned them to the pond I found the frogspawn in, I was surprised to see how much bigger they were than the other tadpoles. (The warmer temperature indoors definitely helped, as they would have hatched quicker.)
Our station work this week involved a weight station, sightword games (Swat with our new tricky words and Power Tower with our older words) and style trays.
We had a great session with Adam, from St Anne's GAA. We played lots of fun games and work on some ball skills. Adam will be back with the class for the next few weeks, on Thursdays. There is also a Macra session on every Saturday morning at 10.30 and/or a hurling nursery on Mondays from 6-7, if anyone is interested. No need to pre-enrol, just pop up and it is usually ok to try a few sessions for free.
And finally, here are some pics of the children during morning activities and playing during Golden Time.