Work schedule for Senior Infants 16 March 2020 Week 1

Text book Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

15 mins Fun activities

Say the ‘Nursery Rhyme – Humpty Dumpty’ as if you were very tired, telling someone a secret and if you were in a hurry. Listen and retell (row 4 – 4 boxes)

Act it out and guess – drama activity (see attachment)

Simple turn taking board game. Listen and retell (row 5– 4 boxes)

Memory Game with a deck of Cards Listen and retell (row 6 – 4 boxes)

Let child choose their favourite from the weeks activities and do this one.

Maths

Days of the week song (Today is...yesterday was...tomorrow will be ..... oh what fun, oh what fun! Maths Worksheet in booklet

Find 3 items that are 3D- Cubes at home. Revise numbers 10-20 (what number is next after 15, what number is before 17)

Find 3 items that are 3D – Cylinders at home. Revise numbers 10-20 (name a number that is more than/less than 7 etc)

Find 3 items that are 3D – Cones at home. Pick an object at home and can they find items that are heavier/lighter than selected object.

. Find 3 items that are 3D – Spheres at home. Compare items at home (book & tv – tv is heavier etc) Or Complete attached heavy/light w.sh orally.

English Tricky Words R. Zone Activity Book Pat Booklet

Tricky Words (put, take, too, got, take, where) Activity book pg. 34 Revise–op words (mop, hop, bop etc. PAT Book – Op & Ell Non-pic. Page.

Tricky Words – (every, pretty, jump, green & four) Complete an English w/sheet in folder. Put Op Words into sentences orally

Tricky Words (away, old, by, their & here) Activity book pg. 35 Learn new –ing words (sing, sting) -ing songs on Youtube

Tricky Words (saw, well, call, after, think) Practice Blending (ai, ay,a_e words) (Sail, Rail, Stay, Play, Jake, Cake) Pat Booklet –Picture Pg. With Op & Ing words.

Revise this week’s tricky words Activity book pg. 36 Revise both –op and ing words.

Work schedule for Senior Infants 16 March 2020 Week 1

Writing

On a copy pg or attached template printed, boys copy adult writing 2 sentences/story about ‘The Zoo’

Continue By adding another 2 sentences about ‘The Zoo’ to Monday’s writing.

Continue by adding the final 2 or more sentences about ‘The Zoo’.

Revise and Edit ‘the Zoo’ writing by checking have they all small letters and capitals in the right place, tall letters tall etc. and fix if required.

Handwriting book pg 44.

Gaeilge

Focloir (Vocab) (Children don’t read Irish, we say everything orally – boys should know these phrases already)

Cén dath atá ___?

(ar an eitleán, bad,

bord, leabhar,

riomhaire srl.)

Tá an t-eitleán ___

(glas,dearg, oraiste,

dubh,ban, donn srl.)

Cad atá sa bhosca

bréagán?

Tá ___ sa bhosca

bréagán (An t-

eitleán, an tarracóir,

an cluiche, an

bhábóg, na brící .

Cén saghas lae é? Tá an lá_ (fuar, te, fliuch, tirim, gaofar, scamallach).

Cad atá sa spear? Tá __ sa spear (an ghrian, scamall, tuar ceatha, éan, eitleán).

Revise this week’s question and answers phrases.

Oral Language The Zoo Vocabulary: elephant, mud, giraffe, zebra, ostrich, rhinoceros, lion, cheetah, flamingo, monkey, peacock, drinking, eating, feeding, cleaning, swamp, watering hole, peacock, flamingo, habitat, performing, enclosure, escape and strutting

1- Teach children the rhyme below and encourage them to have fun chanting them, miming the

actions as they chant. ‘The Itsy-Bitsy Monkey’ Itsy bitsy monkey climbed down the coconut tree Down came a coconut and hit him on his knee – OWW Out came a lion shaking his mighty mane and the itsy-bitsy monkey climbed up the tree again.

2- Pair talking task: Guess my animal

Organise children in pairs. Have them pick an animal in the poster and describe it to their partner, e.g.: Child A: My animal’s eyes are …/nose is …mouth is …ears are …body is covered with … my animal is different from other animals because …

Work schedule for Senior Infants 16 March 2020 Week 1

Adult/Child B: I think your animal is a … Children and Adult/Other Child then swap roles and repeat.

3- Design a Zoo (with Lego and toy animals or by drawing and colouring; children design their own zoo and have a

conversation about their creation.