Junior Infants
Here are some ideas of activities you can do with your child while the school is closed.
Kind Regards,
Junior Infants Team
Literacy
- Revise all sounds in sound bag
- Use blending box to make CVC words. Revise –at words (e.g. cat, mat, rat)
- Practise writing the letters: c, o, a, d and g on paper at home (see back for formation)
- Read books with your child. Get them to tell you about the beginning, middle and end
- Draw pictures. Cut out pictures from magazines/newspapers.
Oral Language
- Revise Nursery Rhymes
- Go on a spring walk (if possible) and look for signs of spring in nature
- Talk about St Patrick, his life in Ireland and St Patrick’s Day traditions
Numeracy
- Revise the numbers 1 – 5. Make sets using concrete materials (e.g. Lego/blocks/pasta)
- Write the numbers 1 – 5
- What 2-D shapes can you see around the house? Practice drawing and making 2-D shapes (square, circle, rectangle, triangle)
- Practice Number Rhymes (2 little dickie birds; 1, 2 buckle my shoe; 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed, 5 little ducks went out one day etc.)
- Forward and backward counting to 10
Gaeilge
- Cé tusa? Is mise… (Introduction: Who are you? I am…)
- Cén saghas lae é / Conas atá an aimsir? Tá an lá… (Weather: What type of day is it? Today is ….)
If you so wish, you can watch clips of the following on YouTube
- Alphablocks
- Numberblocks
- Numbertime (1 2 3 4 5, shapes)
- Super Simple Songs