Home Learning Ideas 21/04/20

English

Oral Language

 Aistear/Integrated Learning: Café /Restaurant. Children could set up their own

café or restaurant with their toys and household items. They could make food
from recycled household items-junk art. They could use playdough to make a
gingerbread man, cupcakes or other food to sell in their café They could make
their own signs for their café/restaurant write their own menu, label food, set
up prices under 10c or 20c.

There are lots of opportunities for practicing oral language and learning through
play. They can roleplay being a chef, being a waiter/waitress and being a
customer. They could practice ordering and serving food and setting the table.
They could write down the food orders from customers. They can practice
writing numbers for prices, counting and using money.
 Eating Out poster and lessons from Starlight available on folensonline.ie

Reading

 Starlight readers JI (Junior Infants) Fish and Chips! SI (Senior Infants) Let’s
Eat Outside (Readers are available online @ Folensonline.ie)
Starlight Skills Book JI pages 21-24 Starlight Skills Book SI pages 53-56
 Read your own library books, oxford reading tree books are available online on
Oxford Owl
Collins Big Cat e books https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/Portal.aspx Click
Teacher Login Enter username:Parents@harpercollins.co.uk Password:
Parents20!

Writing

 Phonics: (Wh, -ash, -ump) My Sounds Booklet SI pages 20-22 My Sounds

Booklet JI pages 35,38 (letters z, v and ll)
 Just Handwriting Practice Book JI & SI complete any pages in this small
handwriting practice book.
 News writing, put some tricky words into sentences, write a menu for your café,
write about your café -what is it’s name? What kind of food do you sell? Who
works in the café? and draw a picture of your café, write a few sentences about
your favourite food and draw a picture.
 Maths

 Planet Maths Number Book JI and SI complete any pages in this mini maths
book. Maths games on twinkl and folensonline.ie.
 Make up some simple sums when playing in your café e.g. How many plates and
cups are on the table 5 + 5 = 10

Gaeilge

 Abair Liom A (JI) An Buachaillín Sinséir (The Gingerbread Man)

 Abair Liom B (SI) Revise An Buachaillín Sinséir from Junior Infant programme
(Story available on folensonline.ie – Abair Liom)
 Use frásaí sheet for having a little chat in Irish.

Arts: Drama, Music, Art

 Drama- Pretending to work in your play café and you could act out the story of
Gingerbread man in English or as Gaeilge.
 Music- Spring is Here by The Learning Station. https://youtu.be/DobrRgD5aOU
You can do the actions for the different animals bird, frog etc.
 Art- Spring Tulips painting- Put some paint onto a fork and dab it onto the page
to create a tulips and repeat using different colours. Then paint some stems and
leaves using green paint.
Paper plate frog- Paint a paper plate green, see frog template- paint legs green.
When they are dry fold the paper plate in half, cut out legs and glue on from the
back, add some eyes and a tongue and you have a little frog.
 S.E.S.E

 History The Gingerbread Man -There is a gingerbread man worksheet where the
children can cut out the six pictures and put them into the correct order and
then retell the story. They could also pretend to interview a character from the
story.

 Science Lifecycle of a frog - Listen to the story Growing Frogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yZsabsIwS8 There is also a worksheet on
the lifecycle of a frog.

 Geography Enjoy some more Spring walks 😊. Chat about all the signs of Spring.
Name the Spring flowers. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-2545798-spring-
flower-hunt-checklist

S.P.H.E

 The Magic Moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYKKPfTPG5g&t=6s We

already read this story in class but it is a really good story for helping children
deal with any worries, so it’s definitely worth reading and listening to again.
 Take Five by Niall Breslin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D18AgB9ONrg
This story helps children focus on things that they are grateful for.

Religion

 www.growinlove.ie - Email address-trial and the password is grow in love

Both Junior and Seniors can listen to the story in this lesson 7. Holy Week
-Jesus is Alive
 P.E

 Go noodle- Guided dance, movements activities and mindfulness.

 Cosmic Kids yoga-yoga, mindfulness and relaxation for kids.
 P.E with Joe/The body coach -Youtube daily P.E lessons at 9am Mon-Fri.
 Make an obstacle course, have an egg (potatoe) and spoon race, play your
favourite outdoor games-football, basketball, skipping etc.