St. Brigid's

Good morning,

I hope you are all well and enjoying the lovely sunshine.

Please find some ideas for literacy for senior infants.

Reading: Please continue to encourage the children to read daily.There are lots of fantastic books on the oxford reading tree website, they have
graded readers for all abilities. Here is a link for the website

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=#

Writing: The students can write 'My News' where they write a few simple sentences. We were working on this in class. For example Today is Wednesday, It is a sunny day etc. The children love making up their own sentences and sounding out words themselves if they don't know how to spell them.

The students can practice tricky words. It is good to keep looking at the tricky words as these words cannot be easily sounded out. You can ask your child to put a tricky word in to a sentence or write a tricky word. Please see the list of tricky words which I have added. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg_q6YX1y3DG8Ttu_7mJ12Q (Good for children to enhance fine motor skills and use for teaching early letter formation. Type in squiglet (on YouTube) along with the phonic sound you want to focus on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY (Tricky words songs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2HYM9VXz9k (Jolly Phonics songs)

https://www.youtube.com/user/BouncePatrolKids (Fun and interactive nursery rhymes and songs. Type in bounce (on YouTube) along with the phonic sound you want to focus on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2Tf9TE1bc (Great for teaching phonics. Type in geraldine giraffe (on YouTube) along with the phonic sound you want to focus on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc36_Imtiig (Great for teaching phonics. Type in Kids vs phonics (on You Tube) along with the phonic sound you want to focus on)

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/ (For sight reading and reading words)

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html (Select a phonic sound and spell the words using the letters announced on the screen)

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/viking/index.html (Select a word family and use the letters provided to spell words within that word family)

I hope you get on well. Please remember to email me if you need help with anything or want to share some of your child's work.

My email address is: room13b@stbrigidsthecoombe.ie

Thank you,

Ms (Ní Luanaigh) Murphy.