WORK FOR STUDENTS OF MISS O'ROURKE AND MISS LINDON
Hi Everybody – Students, Parent(s) / Guardian(s),
I hope that you have had a good week and that you are finding the balance between free time and school work and sunshine and fresh air and physical activity! Well done for putting in the effort with your maths and reading.
Scroll down to find the current week’s activities for your class. Remember it’s always enough to do your best and we do not wish for you to struggle with any of this. You will know yourself what’s helping you, and the rest is excess!
There are several activities here to exercise your brain, and don’t forget about any previous suggestions, tasks, websites that Miss Lindon or I have given you also. Revision is good!
I hope that you have a great week,
Take care and stay safe,
Miss O’Rourke.
Junior Infants
• Count to 10: https://ie.ixl.com/math/jr-infants
• Comparing: https://ie.ixl.com/math/jr-infants
• Patterns: https://ie.ixl.com/math/jr-infants
• Adding to make 5: https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/previews/7276-7300/sb7279-number-bond-posters-making-5.html
And https://www.lessontutor.com/worksheets/making-5-worksheet-1st-grade/ Write your own number sentences like these for how to make 5. Use + and = signs.
• Number Sequences between 1and 10. Look out for 3 numbers that run together eg. 3,4,5 and 7,8,9 or backwards 8,7,6, and 3,2,1 . You can find them all around you eg. on car registrations, barcodes, telephone numbers, busses, posters etc. Say them out loud when you see them!
Senior Infants
• Numbers and Counting up to 10: https://ie.ixl.com/math/sr-infants
• Patterns (H1 to H5 only): https://ie.ixl.com/math/sr-infants
• Comparing: https://ie.ixl.com/math/sr-infants
• Measuring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8o7n-A0SC0
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqf1nA2Tl0 Choose your own non-standard tool to measure long and short objects in your home and garden. Before you measure, make an estimate/guess the answer.
• Adding to make 10: Say what goes in the empty circles (scroll down): https://www.helpingwithmath.com/printables/worksheets/addition-subtraction/koa3-number-bonds01.htm
1st +2nd Maths
• 2 and 3 Digit Numbers: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/arrowCards/index.html
Using this website, work your way through the activities below as the week goes on.
(1) Begin by Exploring the functions of this tool. Make sure you understand how you can use it- You can create or undo, show or hide, add or subtract and delete. You can make numbers using 3 different methods – Arrow cards, Deinnes blocks( cubes) or Abacus(beads). You can flick between these to Compare and see how the same number can be represented on each. The Arrow cards can sit on top of each other, or you can separate them out to reveal how the number is made.
(2) Use only numbers lower than 1000.
(3) Count in 1s to 1000. Start with a clear page. Use the Arrow cards. Click on the + sign on the far right. Continue clicking on it and watch the numbers grow from 0 to 1000. Say the numbers aloud.
(4) Do the opposite now. Count backwards from 1000 to 1. Use the – sign on the far right. Say the numbers aloud.
(5) Do activities 3 and 4 using Deinnes blocks and Abacus. Flick to compare all 3 methods.
(6) Make a random 2 digit number yourself. Say what it is. Then predict what the numbers right after it and right before it are. Write your predictions down. Then check if you were correct by using the add 1 and subtract 1 functions. Do this several times.
(7) Make a random 3 digit number yourself. Don’t forget to include zero sometimes! Say what it is. Then predict what the numbers right after it and right before it are. Write your predictions down. Then check if you were correct by using the add 1 and subtract 1 functions. Do this several times.
(8) Do activities 6 and 7 using Deinnes blocks and Abacus. Flick to compare all 3 methods.
(9) Count in 10s to 1000. Start with a clear page. Use the Arrow cards. Click on the 3rd + sign. Continue clicking on it and watch the numbers grow from 0 to 1000. Say the numbers aloud.
(10) Do the opposite now. Count backwards from 1000 to 1. Use the 3rd – sign. Say the numbers aloud.
(11) Make a random 2 digit number yourself. Say what it is. Then predict what the numbers 10 more and 10 less than it are. Write your predictions down. Then check if you were correct by using the add 10 and subtract 10 functions. Do this several times.
(12) Make a random 3 digit number yourself. Don’t forget to include zero sometimes! Say what it is. Then predict what the numbers 10 more and 10 less than it are. Write your predictions down. Then check if you were correct by using the add 10 and subtract 10 functions. Do this several times.
(13) Do activities 9 to 12 using Deinnes blocks and Abacus. Flick to compare all 3 methods.
(14) Make a 2 digit number with Abacus or Deinnes blocks, but hide the Arrow cards. Instead, write on a piece of paper yourself what you think the number is, then ‘show’ the Arrow cards answer to see if you were correct. Do this several times.
(15) Do activity 14 with 3 digit numbers.
1st +2nd Reading Group
Books : https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Start at level 4 (age 6-7) and work towards level 5.
Tasks:
• (1) Remember to keep a track of what you read in your Reading Record Book.
• (2) Just listen to the book and follow the words.
• (3) Use the pause button and try to copy the reading style of the reader by going at a similar speed, pausing at commas and full stops, stressing and emphasising some words and phrases. Let emotions like pleasure, approval, disapproval, anger, shock, questioning be noticeable in your voice.
• (4) Mute the reader and Reread the story on your own to gain fluency.
• (5) If there are questions accompanying your book, try to answer them. Use new words and phrases which you have learned from the book in doing so.
• (6)Cross-check your understanding of tricky parts by asking yourself 3 questions: Does that look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
• (7) Draw 3 pictures from the book which you consider to represent the beginning, middle and end of the story.
• (8) Make lists in your copy of “nice” words that are used instead of common words eg. instead of said you might see announced, explained, answered, declared.
• (9) Fry phrases: https://www.d57.org/Downloads/frys_sight_word_phrases.pdf Practise page one only this week (first 100 words).