PE in Junior Infants

We have started PE lessons! This month we are learning lots of new skills like balancing and throwing and catching. We are using beanbags to practise these skills.

Jungle Animals in Junior Infants

This month Junior Infants are learning all about animals.  For the next two weeks we will be looking at jungle animals and animals that live in other hot places.

Talk to you child at home about animals from hot countries.  Maybe you could even visit the zoo this month to look at some of the animals.   There are lots of links to videos and activities here which you can use to help you learn all about these animals at home.

• Sheppard Software - Preschool Animal Activities
• Elephant Documentary for Kids
• Sounds of the Jungle Animal
• Jungle Safari Video
• Tropic Story - Play with and learn about jungle animals
• Y8 - Play free jungle themed games
• CBeebies - Jungle Jingle (learning animal sounds)
• CBeebies - Monkey Nut Crackers (help the monkeys crack the nuts.)
• Learning Games for Kids - Match the Jungle Animals
• Africa Games - Jungle Games
• Science Kids - Fun Jungle Facts for kids
• Number Zoo - learn to count zoo animals (You Tube)
• DLTK Crafts for Kids - Jungle Crafts

Have great fun at home learning all about Jungle and other animals. 

Phonics Games to Play at Home

Choose some of these phonics games to play at home:

• PBS Kids - Alphabet Games
• CVC Machine
• Initial Sound Matching Castle
• Phoneme Pop
• Sesame Street - Jumping Rhymes
• Starfall - Learn to read (games and stories)
• Jim's Whirlyword Machine

Phonics Games

There are lots of fantastic websites on the internet with Phonics Games.  Here are a few of them to play at home:

Family Learning: A great selection of fun phonics games at different levels.

Starfall: A selection of phonics and early reading activities.

Super Simple Learning: Phonics games for kids.

PBS kids: The Quiet Machine (phonics games)