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:

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/

www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=38

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html

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.