Julie's Class Blog

Tuesday, 20 March 2018

On Thursday 22^nd March, the Junior and Senior Infant classes will be going to Malahide Park for an SESE fieldtrip. As our current them is ‘Trees, plants and flowers’ we will be doing some investigation work, followed by a trip to the playground.

The cost of the bus is 3 Euro per child. The bus will leave the school at 9am and pick us up from Malahide Castle at 11.30am.

Please ensure your child is wearing appropriate footwear, and has a rainjacket. We will be bringing our lunches to the park to have a picnic.

Parent volunteers are very welcome. If you’re interested, contact the class teacher.

Kind regards,

Julie, Becky, Mel and Jessica

Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Homework 13th - 16th March 2018

Tuesday's homework:

- Learn to recognise new tricky word 'said'. Tricky words are words that we don't blend, but learn to recognise as a whole word.

- Handwriting book - Small letter 'c'. Try to keep inside the blue lines, touching top and bottom blue line. Draw a picture above of something that starts with 'c'. We're focusing on letter size and height for the remainder of the year, while revising formation of the letters.

- Revise the song and action for the 'c' sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZNxhoxSAFA

- 4 in a row CVC word game. This is a two player like x's and o's. Sound out each sound in the word and blend together to say the word.

Wednesday's homework:

- Learn to recognise new tricky word 'said'. Tricky words are words that we don't blend, but learn to recognise as a whole word.

- Handwriting book - Small letter 'a'. Try to keep inside the blue lines, touching top and bottom blue line. Draw a picture above of something that starts with 'a'. We're focusing on letter size and height for the remainder of the year, while revising formation of the letters.

- Revise the song and action for the 'a' sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVER0qQ6Q0

- 4 in a row CVC word game. This is a two player like x's and o's. Sound out each sound in the word and blend together to say the word.

Thursday's homework:

- Learn to recognise new tricky word 'said'. Tricky words are words that we don't blend, but learn to recognise as a whole word.

- Tricky Words group 1 worksheet.

Monday, 12 March 2018

Homework folders going out tomorrow

No homework on Monday night (12th). Homework folders will be sent home on Tuesday this week.

Monday, 5 March 2018

Homework 5th - 9th March 2018

Homework for the week:

Monday: CVC words booklet - Filling in initial sound of word.

Tuesday: CVC words booklet - Filling in final sound of word.

Wednesday: CVC words booklet - Filling in middle sound of word.

Thursday: CVC words booklet - Sounding out the word and filling in initial, middle and end sounds.

Monday - Thursday: Learn new tricky word 'some'. Revise over all other words in Tricky Words Folder. If you want to play some games to make the learning more fun, check your 'Homework Helpers' sheet. If you have lost this sheet and are looking for some Tricky Words games, email me at belmayneetjulie@gmail.com

Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Teaching Practice Student

Dear parents/ guardians,

For the next four weeks, Niamh, a student in St. Patrick’s Teaching College will be completing her Teaching Practice with the class. She’ll be following the Junior Infant curriculum under my supervision. As a final year student, Niamh has already had prior teaching experience. Niamh is really looking forward to working with the children for the next few weeks. Any thoughts or comments, as always please feel free to contact me on belmayneetjulie@gmail.com.

Kind regards,

Julie

January & February in pictures!

A selection of activities from International Week:

African Drum Workshop

Building the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Pretending to be Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel

Learning a dance from the Czech Republic with Erika

Italian food tasting. Thanks Lori and Grainne! Delizioso!! :-)

Internation Week yard disco!

Aistear: The Restaurant

In the role-play area the children were customers, waiters, waitresses, chefs and baristas.

For play-dough the boys and girls each made a meal.

At the construction table the children built restaurants and coffee shops using Lego. They built tables, chairs, counters, kitchens and some even built a delivery car for people ordering takeaway :-)

The kids did some pop-art aswell using oil pastels.

Friendship Week:

We made friendship bracelets with Shane's 3rd Class. Each of our class buddied up with a 3rd Class child.

Friendship groups with children from different classes. The 6th Class children led the groups which lasted for about 20 minutes every day the week before midterm.