Our work - september 17th - 28th

How you can help at home:
I will not be giving formal homework for another few weeks - I feel the day is long enough at the moment and the children are tired.  But there are some things you can be doing at home to help your child:

• Practice writing their name using a capital at the start and lower case letters everywhere else
• Ask them what sounds the letters c, a and d make and find things beginning with those sounds. Practice forming the letters in their sound copies
  
• Find things that are blue, red, green and yellow.
• Match items that are the same/ same colour/ same size
• Say the nursery rhymes Twinkle Twinkle, Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill with your child.
• Teach them the correct crayon grip and correct it everytime you see them holding the wrong way.

Some of the things we will be learning over the next 2 weeks:

• Letters - d (Dippy Duck) and h(Harry Hatman).  Revision of c and a.
• Sight Words - Danny, Zeb, Mum, and.
• Colours - green and yellow
• Maths - matching by size and by colour.  Sorting objects by colour and type.
• Gaeilge  - "Is mise",(I am) "Dia duit/ Dia is Muire dhuit (hello/ hello to you).  "Tá mé ag siúl/ rith/ gáire/ léim/ caoineadh/ i mo chodladh" (I am walking/ running/ laughing/ jumping/ crying/ asleep).
• Themes - Starting School and Colour
• Rhymes - Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Incy wincy spider
• Story - Elmer, Brown Bear Brown Bear, Rainbow Fish