Tuesday May 5th 2020.

Good morning everyone!

I hope you had a lovely weekend and that you enjoyed the sunshine.

It is sunny and warm today. It is the month of May. It is the season of Summer! There are bees in the garden and the flowers growing. The green leaves are growing on the trees and the farmer is busy on his farm. The sky is blue and we are staying safe at home.

Here is some work for you to try if you can.

Your parents or grandparents or older brothers or sisters may send some photos of your work to me using my special email address scmskeys@gmail.com . I would love to see some of your work!

Try to spend some time outside and play some games with your family if you can.

If you have downloaded some of these brilliant APPS to help you to practice your english, you can continue to use them.

Here are some of the APPS I have been using this week.

Tell the grown up to go to the Playstore and download them, they are free.

Learn English Kids playtime
- another British Council app with fun songs, stories and games

Timmy's starting to read -
English language learning for children age 6 and younger.

Speaking pal English tutor -This is an interactive APP.

Monkey puzzle - games on elementary topics such as food, clothing, colours etc..

Learn English for kids by Talk English- introduces words one at a time with pictures.

Memrise - great for the 8 year old and the parents

Duolingo- a brilliant APP

Junior Infants Mrs Mulrain/Senior Infants Mrs Mulhall

1st class children- Ms Ferry & Ms McNulty

2nd class children:Ms McDaid

3rd class children:Mrs O Connor.

https://www.twinkl.ie/resources/esl-resources –

This website has lots of vocabulary worksheets and flashcards for children to practise their familiar words. This link shows you some vocabulary for the Farmer and his tractor

.https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-2546171-exploring-my-world-grandads-farm-ebook

This link brings you to a book about the Little Red Hen. The Little Red Hen lives on the farm.comhttps://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tp-l-52275-the-little-red-hen-ebook Username:englishmisskeys@hotmail.

password:englishroom10.

https://readingeggs.co.uk/ There is a free trial for parents to access some simple english reading books.

https://www.barryfunenglish.com/ interactive games using familiar vocabulary.

Here are some reading books that you could try to read aloud with your family. My little girl reads these books to her dolls! Maybe some of the girls could try that and the boys could read the books to their action figures or their wrestling figures!

(1)Big Bad Bug. The children use a magnifying glass to see some bugs in the garden. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1215.html The Little Red Hen. (This book is similiar to the one from the Twinkl website. You can practise your words).https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1415.html

(3)The Big Carrot. The farmer and his friends try to dig up a big carrot from the field!

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1394.html

THE LOGIN DETAILS FOR OXFORDOWL.CO.UK ARE BELOW:

Login:englishmisskeys@hotmail.com

password:Englishroom10.

I will put up some links to some stories which are read aloud online for you.

These stories are on youtube.com. Did you listen to any of the stories below? I will leave the links for these and add some new ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUWU58pVcwM Llama Llama Red Pjama. This is a rhyming book about a little Llama. If you want to draw me a picture of the book, you could send it to my email address.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDfQNcn5uGo There's a Bear on my Chair. This book is a rhyming book aswell. It is read aloud by the author and illustrator Ross Collins! If you want to draw the story, label it and send it to me by email, I would be delighted to see it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQTmetl7sxc The Good Egg If you wnat to draw me a labelled picture of the good egg and the animals he helped. You can send it to my special email address.I would love to see your work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBi_RoXKVo0 Ten Magic Butterflies.This is a lovely book about fairies and butterflies. Have you seen any butterflies? Draw me a colourful picture of your favourite butterfly and send it to my special email address.

Here are the APPS I listed last week if anyone needs them again!

TASKS FOR PARENTS:

Thank you to all of you for making the time to help your children with their work this week. We understand how busy everyone is and we really appreciate you taking the time to email some of the fabulous work your children are doing. Remember, if you have done other work with your child, feel free to email it to me aswell. I would love to see some of their work.

(If you have time this week and want to attempt these with the children, you may upload their work to my email address, I will send some comments back to your child. Again, only if you have the time, we all appreciate how busy everyone is at home!).

The vocabulary that I would like the children to practise this week is based on the following theme: “My School bag”

The following exercises can help your child practise their words.

TASK 1:

Draw, Label and Colour a picture of your school bag and the items you have in it. Use the following pictures to help you. If you want to write 5 sentences about the picture, I would love to see them!

TASK 2:

Attempt some of the tasks on the accompanying sheets. If you have some paper, copy the sentences onto them and pretend you are the children in the picture,. Practise the sentences on the sheet.

TASK 3:

Attempt to draw the picture of the school bag and fill in the blank labels as seen on the sheet.

Here are the sheets from last week, if you want to send some labelled pictures, please do!

REVISION FROM LAST WEEK.

Our Feelings.

You can practise these words and do the actions with them. If you have time, you could draw these faces and write the feelings under them. You could write 5 sentences about the faces too! Remember to ask the grownup to send them by email to me.

REVISION FROM LAST WEEK.

Please continue to talk to your child about the weather and their morning routine.

TASK 3

We always have a short discussion about the weather and what we did before coming to school. Here are some weather words to help you talk your child about the weather they can see outside your home and some words and phrases to help them remember the words for our “Morning Routines”.

The children can play shop every day. I would love to see photos of their shopping!

TASK 4 REVISION:

Play shop with your child.(again only if you have time!).

Take out 5 foods or some fruit or vegetables that you have in your house.

Find out the english word for these. (Google Translate will give you a correct pronunciation for the item).

Place the foods on a table. Ask your child to be the customer. You could be the shopkeeper! If your child wishes to draw, colour and label the items, take a photo on your phone and email it to me!.

RTE channel has launched a home-school set of programmes that are on at 11am every day from Monday to Friday.

I will have more work and links up on this site next Monday.

Stay safe everyone!

Ms Keys