A big welcome to all of the new
Junior Infants boys and girls (and their parents!).
The children are settling in
well to school and it is great to see lots of lovely smiley faces coming in to
school every morning.
We have been very busy in
school already:
- * In Maths we have been learning about the colour red and how to sort materials by colour. We are also learning number rhymes ‘5 Little Monkeys’ and ‘One Little Finger’. We are also beginning to count up to 5.
- * We have been doing lots of fine motor activities to get us ready for writing.
- * In English We are learning lots of nursery rhymes like ‘Incy Wincy Spider’, ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’, and ‘Humpty Dumpty’. We are also learning how to write our names.
- * We are doing lots of colouring and trying our best to stay inside the lines and use lots of different colours
For the next week we will be
learning all about our bodies and how we grow and change.
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Vocabulary:
The body:
arm hand head
eyes ears nose
mouth chin hair
neck cheeks shoulders
knees elbows toes
feet legs back stomach
Growing:
Baby toddler child
teenager adult elderly growing big
small
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How you can support
your child’s learning:
* Talk
to your child about things they can do now that they could not do when they
were a baby ( riding a bike, writing their name, feeding themselves, dressing
themselves)
* Encourage
your child to be more independent by getting them to do things for themselves
(putting on and taking off their coat, dressing themselves, opening and
closing their lunchbox, tidying up their toys, feeding themselves)
* Show
them pictures of them as a baby and
discuss all the changes that have happened
* Go
to the library and find books about the body and growing up.
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Nursery rhymes to practise at home:
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Incy Wincy Spider
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Humpty Dumpty
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Head, Shoulders,
Knees and Toes
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If you’re happy and
you know it
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2 Little Dicky Birds
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5 Little monkeys
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1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught
a fish alive
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One Little Finger
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Hokey Pokey
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These rhymes can all be found on Youtube or on our class
blog on the right hand side.
Notices:
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Junior Infant Parent
Introduction Meeting is on Wednesday 9th September at 11am in
the school hall
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From Thursday 10th
September Junior Infants will finish at 1.40pm every day. Please ensure you are
there on time/ someone is therein your place to collect your child as they can
become upset if they don’t see someone
We
look forward to working with you all this year. Please don’t hesitate to come
to us if you have any concerns.
Many
thanks,
Fiona
Murray and Sarah Stapleton
