Each student in Junior and Senior Infants has their own ePortfolio. In our classroom we have been using the app Seesaw to record audio, images and videos of our work. We have recorded some songs and poems and images of our lovely art work too. Each child received their own code this week so that we can share our ePortfolios with parents. Be sure to check them out, we will be adding to them every week.
It is the first week of October in our class and we are busy exploring our new Aistear theme "The Birthday Party". We have lots of creative and educational areas set up to build our fine motor and social skills and they are lots of fun too. Our Birthday Party role play area is very exciting, we have been writing invitations at the writing area, building presents with polydrons at the construction area and creating birthday cakes at the creative area.
Birthday Party role play
Creative area
Construction area
In English Junior Infants are busy learning lots of new group 3 sounds and practicing our blending skills. We have been using the "Stretchy Snake" strategy to stretch out the sounds in words.
You can listen to our new sound songs below.
Senior Infants have been learning "ck" words like duck, click, stick, brick, clock, and revising our letter formation too. We will be moving on to capital letter formation next week. At our iPad station we are using "Teach your Monster to Read" to reinforce our phonic skills.
We have been exploring "Recount Writing" over the past number of weeks and have been creating pieces of work together using the question words who, what, where, when, why and how to help us structure our work.
In Maths we are busy exploring patterns and counting skills.If you would like to practice some educational Maths skills at home click here to visit the Topmarks website.
Some of the rhymes and songs we are learning are below so you can practice at home too.
