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 ...

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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Welcome back! Here's our homework and new Aistear topic - The Train Station

Welcome back to the second half of Term 1, it sounds like the children had a lovely mid-term break and are ready to learn loads of new things! The tricky word this week is 'be', can you think of any sentences with this word in it? be The first sound we are learning about this week is:

The formation rhyme for this sound goes like this: 'Dive down, bump the line, swim back up and over.'
Have a look at some things that start with this sound!

Here is the song for the sound 'r'

Later on in the week we will learn all about the sound

The formation rhyme for this sound is: 'Dive down, swim up and over, back down, bump, swim up and over, back down and kick.'

Here is the song for 'm':

We will be learning all about transport for the next two weeks and our new Aistear topic is 'The Train Station'. Some of the words we will be learning are: train station, train driver, schedule, ticket master, platform, single ticket, return ticket and carri…

Weekly homework 5th of February

Hi all,

Here is the homework for the week:

1. Tricky Words
Revision of the tricky words (3 from the old list and 3 from the new list) 'I','are', 'go', 'only', 'any'and 'could'.
2: Reading The children have been given new readers in their folders.
Starting tomorrow, each child will get a list of book titles with a specific colour. (yellow, red, blue and green)Once your child gets a new book, please fill in the date they received the book and sign the sheet if you feel your child has completed the book to the best of their ability. The children will read their book on Monday and Tuesday night and I will listen to them on Wednesday to see if it is possible for them to move onto a new book for Wednesday and Thursday night. Once they have read all the books in that specific colour group, they will move on to the next group of books. When completing this at home, please focus on fluency, pacing, good expression and a good understanding of the bo…

Homework 5th of March

Welcome back everyone, I hope you had a wonderful time in the snow!
Here is the homework for the week:

1. Tricky Words
Revision of the tricky words (3 from the old list and 3 from the new list):
she, your, mine, down, before, right

2: Reading The children have been given new readers in their folders.
Once your child gets a new book, please fill in the date they received the book and sign the sheet if you feel your child has completed the book to the best of their ability. When completing this at home, please focus on fluency, pacing, good expression and a good understanding of the book they are reading. As always, if you have any questions about this please feel free to ask ☺

3: Sound Booklet Our sound this week is the 'ue' sound. Please complete page 27 in the Sound Booklet. Here are some 'ue' sounds:
Blue Argue
Rescue Tissues

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