Scoil Mhuire Room 9

Scoil Mhuire Room 9

Tuesday 11 October 2016

The School Walk

On Friday the 30th of October we went on our school walk to Corkagh Park.



We had great fun in the park.













Useful websites to use at home

Here are some websites based on the letters and sounds.



The Jolly Phonics songs that help teach letter recognition and the sound the letters make.




This video has all the sounds spoken clearly twice and then used in a word.



www.starfall.com





http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/ngfl/ngfl-flash/alphabet-eng/alphabet.htm




This link shows the correct letter formation we use in school.

Exceptions:

h,i,l, m and n have kicks at the end.

f - we write f like this.

Start just under the top line, go back over the hump, straight down under the line a little bit, kick it back and cross it near the top.

k - we write k like this.

Start at the top, go straight down to the line, back up to the middle, give him a belly, a leg and a kick.



Good websites for phonics games:




Here are some websites based on the sight words the children learned in junior and senior infants.


Your child would have learned the pre-primer list in Junior Infants and the Primer list on Senior Infants. They will be learning the Grade 1 list this year in first class.

http://www.mrsperkins.com/
Gives a good understanding of Dolch words and has some activities and printables for practicing the Dolch words.

http://www.dolchword.net/dolch-pre-primer-games.html
Games to practice Dolch words learned in Junior Infants

http://www.dolchword.net/dolch-primer-games.html
Games to practice Dolch words learned in Senior Infants

http://www.dolchword.net/dolch-first-grade-games.html

Games to practice Dolch words to be learned in first class.
Do not move onto these until pre-primer and primer lists are mastered.


Here are some websites with maths games.

https://ie.ixl.com/math/class-1
A selection of maths games based around the first class curriculum.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=11
A selection of maths games.
http://www.mathplayground.com/grade_1_games.html
More maths games.

Saturday 8 October 2016

All About Me!

Our theme in September was myself.

We drew self-portraits.



First we drew realistic self-portraits that look just like us! We used wool as our hair.

Another week we drew Picasso style self portraits. Picasso was an artist who exaggerated shapes in people's faces. These self-portraits were so much fun to draw and colour!




We celebrated Lucky to be Me fortnight in September. We wrote about some of the things we are good at. We are marvellous and we make sure to tell ourselves that everyday.



We played literacy and numeracy activities in our groups.





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We are the children in First Class Room 9 in Scoil Mhuire.


Keep an eye on our blog to see what we get up to this school year.

A big congratulations to our first three pupils of the week!