Ms. Hanafin's Class

Beannachtaí na Cásca

3rd April

Hi to all my Senior Infants,

I hope you are all keeping well.
This situation is all very strange, but it will pass, we just need to give it some time.
I know that you were all probably well able for the work I assigned this past week, but if you did get stuck in anything or found something hard - don't worry we will catch up on everything when we return to school.
The next two weeks are the Easter holidays and like a normal holiday I will not be assigning any school work for you to do. However, there are loads of different activities that you could be doing further down on this page - exercises, arts and crafts and so on.

I have loved getting emails of the different things you've been up to. You can continue sending me pictures and I will pop them up here on the page. My email is scoilmhuire.seniorinfants@gmail.com

Finally I would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter, mind yourselves and try not to eat too much chocolate!!

I miss you and hope to see you all very soon.
Ms. Hanafin

26th March

Suggested Work for this week

Maths:

Planet Maths: pg 88, 89 and 90 - These pages are based on different positions – on, under, beside, between, in front, behind. Practise every day by going ‘under’ the table or ‘between’ the TV and the window or putting your teddy ‘on’ the table and so on.
Small Planet Maths book: You can do pages 1- 26.
Maths Revision Pack: Continue with the pack if not completed yet.
Revise months of the year, days of the week and the 4 seasons.
Practise working with your number line – do counting activities – what number comes before? after?.
Maybe get someone to test you on counting cowboy – Practise your sums and we will have a big game when we get back. Remember the sum should equal nothing higher than 10!
Planet Maths have opened up their website to parents. If you sign in as a teacher, use your own e-mail, etc but use the roll number Prim20. Go to the Senior Infants e-book and then pages 88-90. There are some activities based on positioning in this chapter.

Gaeilge:

There are some very good Irish programmes on TG4 in the morning and afternoon everyday. Popular programmes include – Alvin and PJ Masks.

English:

Zeb and Friends Skills book 2012 – interactive games for the stories we have read – search for ‘Zeb’, the Zeb and Friends skills Book will pop up, click on Edco Resources in the picture and there are a variety of interactive games and activities.

Access on Edcolearning.ie ,
User name: primaryedcobooks Password: edco2020

Continue news, free writing, wordbox words, tricky words and HFW.
Oxfordowels.co.uk – This website gives free access to the Biff and Chip range.

Religion – Theme 7 – Lesson 2

Work up to page 45 – Jesus dying on the cross.

The ‘Grow in Love’ book and all interactive content is available on the Grow in Love website. The ebook can be accessed on the right hand side of the screen.
Login details are as follows: Grow in Love: www.growinlove.ie

Email: trial@growinlove.ie
Password: growinlove

Other Subjects

Joe Wicks is on every morning at 9am, it's livestreamed on YouTube but they remain online so if you miss it at 9am don’t worry.
Lego Makers Ireland run a daily competition on Facebook to make a variety of themes everyday.
The Art Hub for Kids on YouTube has easy step – by – step drawing lessons for the kids to follow.
Check out different activities on my previous post.
The weather is also improving so make sure you get out and get loads of fresh air.

If you need anything else please let me know.
Below are some pictures of the different activities that the children in our class are getting up to! If you have any photos,
e-mail them on to me at scoilmhuire.seniorinfants@gmail.com and I will pop them up on the page.

See you soon,
Ms Hanafin

24th MARCH
Hello class!

I hope you are all doing well and staying nice and healthy. I am sure that you are all keeping busy and being very good at home.
I would love to know what you are getting up to so if you've any photos send them onto me and I will upload them on here!
My email is: scoilmhuire.seniorinfant@gmail.com

I am keeping myself very busy down in Kerry. I go on lots of walks with my sister and my dogs, especially on the beach. I am also baking, reading loads of books and making new games for us to play when we return to school!
Rex is also very good - he has been helping on the farm with the new lambs and calves so he is very tired at night. He really misses you all and can't wait to see you all soon.

I hope you are working through the work I gave you before we split up.
Here is a list of some extra ideas to keep you busy:
* Read a book
* Write your own story - Remember try your best with spelling and if you don't know a word 'Sound it Out!'
* Do some baking - (make sure an adult helps you!)
* Do some drawing, colouring or painting. There is an art competition on the main page of the school website and we have some brilliant artists in class so make sure you enter.
* Practise all the lovely songs in both English and Irish that we have learnt.
* Teach someone at home all the Irish questions you have learnt.
* Get loads and loads of fresh air, practise your football, hurling, GAA, dancing and so on.
* Sign up to 'GoNoodle'- there are loads of dances and exercises on this website.
* Try out RTÉ's 10@10 series on their website.
* Print off some mindfulness colouring from Twinkl. Use code IRE TWINKLHELPS for free access to Twinkl resources.

I will upload work for you for next week later on this week. If you are stuck with anything don't worry we will look at it when we go back to school.

See you soon,
Ms. Hanafin

World Book Day

School Garden

Friendship Week

The Garda Station

This term our Áistear theme is the Garda Station. We are lucky to have two parents in our class that are guards and they kindly came in to teach us all about their work as Gardaí. We had loads of questions for them and we learned a lot about the work they do and how they protect us. They brought in their handcuffs, walkie- talkies and even let us try on parts of their uniform. Not only that but they had a Garda motorbike which we all had a go on. We were so happy and are very grateful that they came to visit us.

Pancake Tuesday

Grandparent's Day

Réamhaisnéis na haimsire

We learnt all about 'An Aimsir' this week in Irish. We reported for RTÉ Nuacht and will continue reporting every week. We hope we'll have a good weather report :).

Special Visitors

Two baby goats came to our class and we all got to hold them.

Performing 'Santa Clause is coming to town' in Sign Language for the whole school.

Open Day

Science Week

For Science week, we carried out two experiments. The first one was about air pressure. We blew up 15 balloons and placed a table over them. Then we tested how many people we could stand on top without bursting the balloons. We got up to four children standing on the table and the balloons didn't pop! Even Ms. Hanafin didn't pop the balloons when she stood on the table! The second experiment used Skittles and water to show colours mixing.