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We have started a lot of new things this Monday!

      Hi everyone and welcome back to week 4 of Junior Infants.

The time really is flying in and this week we are starting some exciting new things with our class. 
Today we started learning our sounds, that will help us to be able to read!

We started with the sound ...

Image result for letter s

Can you remember the rhyme for making a 's'??
Little curve, turn down and curve around.We looked for things in our class that start with 's' sound, we learned the action and the song about this new sound too!!
 Here is  the song for the sound.

We also learned a what tricky words are and the first one we are learning in class is the word...

the

Please read the note in the homework folders carefully and complete tonight's homework. It should be well explained in the note, however if you are unsure of anything please let me know.

Today we started AISTEAR. 

For this fortnight our theme is The Home. 
Each day we will get to go to a different station.
Our stations for this week are - role play area, arts and crafts area, construction area and play dough area.

















Remember that next week we will have our class meeting where we will be answering all of your questions and giving more tips and resources for working through the homework. 

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