Our Work January 7th - 18th

Happy New Year to all our families and friends.  We hope everybody had an enjoyable break.  The children in Room 6 did great work this week and I think everyone was happy to be back at school and see all their friends again.  Here is a quick synopsis of our work for the 2 weeks

English:

• Letters - Kicking King, Lucy Lamplady..  Revision of other letters.
• Reading - revision of sight words, Little Book 7 - The Telescope.  New sight words - up, went, down.
• Building cvc (3 letter) words using letters covered.
• Word families - the "en" family - pen, men, hen, ten, den
• Story - No room for a baby Roo, Penguins can't fly, The emperors egg, A winter's day, the Gruffalo's child, Ice Bear
• Rhymes - Humpty Dumpty and Little Bo Peep

Maths

• Counting games from "Mata sa Rang" programme.
• Number 2 - matching sets of 2, identifying and making sets of 2, writing the numeral 2, sorting sets of 1 and 2.
• Maths activities - Numicon, pegs, beads, pattern blocks

Gaeilge
Éadaí (clothes).

• cóta, hata, scairf, briste, gúna, geansaí, léine, carbhat, bróga, stocaí, sciorta, t-léine. (coat, hat, scarf, trousers, dress, jumper, shirt, tie, shoes, socks, skirt, t-shirt).
• Cuir ort/ bain díot/ croch suas do chóta/ hata. (Put on/ take off/ hang up your coat/ hat.
• Tá cóta/ geansaí/ bróga orm (I am wearing a coat/ jumper/ shoes)
• Cá bhfuil cónaí ort?  Ta cónaí orm i Sord (Where do you live?  I live in Swords)

Topics/ Aistear
Winter, Arctic and Antarctic animals and weather, Family and Belonging., clothes - esp winter clothes

Aistear Areas:

• Role Play - Clothes Shop
• Small World - My Class
• Sand - The Arctic
• Creative - winter playdough mats/ winter art
• Construction - Mobilo