First Class Mr. Murphy, Miss Diskin and Miss. Reilly.
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English• Readers-sent home daily with reading for
homework listed. Reading homework should be
signed each night.
• Focus on reading and comprehension strategies
e.g. questioning, prediction and summarisation.
• Asking them questions, summarise what they’ve
read, talk about the characters, find tricky words
to practise, retell the story etc.
• Join the library
• Dolch words-220 in total-10 a week. This will
greatly help your child’s reading fluency and
comprehension.
• Spellings-10 a week, based on a sound such as ch,
sh and including two tricky words. Everyday,
children will make up sentences with their new
spellings.
• Spellings-Look, Cover, Write, Check, shapes of the
letter, sounding it out, spell it as its written.
Writing• Three types of writing, a recount-my summer
holidays, my news, procedural-how to make rice
crispie buns and narrative-writing stories.
• Practise writing at home-getting your child to help
with writing a shopping list, a card, letters.
• Free Writing Copy.
• Sunday evening/Monday morning revise your childs
news to prepare them for recount writing lessons
throughout the week.
Oral Language
• Talking to your child about their day.
• Who, When, What, Where Why, How?
• Poetry
• Readers
• Curriculum- integrated in every subject
Maths• Number-addition with renaming, subtraction.
• Large emphasis this year on place value, tens
units i.e. 43 is 4 tens and 3 units.
• Tables both addition and subtraction.
• Counting in 2’s, 5’s and tens, doubles and halves.
• Hundred Square, Number Line, Snakes and
Ladders.
Maths• Shapes-2d, 3d, language of space-beside, between, left,
right etc.
• Measures-litres, metres, kilograms, up to 50c, and
telling the time in half hours and hours.
• Use mathematical language at home – plus, add,
minus, take away, subtract, equals, altogether makes.
• Concrete materials.
• Maths Time/Table champions
Counting at home• Start on numbers other than one.
• Counting forwards and backwards.
• Specific focus on the ‘teen’ numbers e.g. 14, 17.
• Counting across a ten e.g. 19, 20, 21 - forwards and
backwards.
• Counting games.
Homework• You child’s homework should take no longer than 40
minutes each night.• Sign homework journal, reading homework and test
notebook each week.• Spellings- 10 spellings for the week (take 2-3 each night)
revise all on Thursday night for test on Friday.• Sentences- based on spellings (1-3 Monday, 4-6 Tuesday, 7-
8 Wednesday, 9-10 Thursday).• Dolch list: 10 words per week that your child needs to be to
read and recognise.• Tables: learn tables off by heart as well as filling in the
book .• Mental Maths: Monday-Thursday as indicated in the book.
Please help your child with the estimates.
Gaeilge
•Emphasis in school is on speaking Irish and
being able to follow instructions in Irish.
• Getting your child to teach you a few phrases.
• Looking for Irish in the local community.
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SESE-Geography, History and Science• Local Environment, develop knowledge of other
countries and areas e.g. Artic and Antartica. • Stories-Óisín in Tír na nÓg, Children of Lir.• Changes-in themselves, toys, clothes, community,
environment etc.• Historical events e.g. The Great Fire of London.• Would welcome volunteers to talk about their
country, toys they played with when young, talk about your job, somebody with a new baby, story telling etc, teaching a game they learned when young, talking about different festivals.• Plants, Seasons, heat, light, lifecycles etc.
Other Subjects• Drama, Music, Art-Any parents with a particular
interest in any of these areas, please feel free to
volunteer.
• P. E. –Swimming, Games, Athletics for this term. After
Christmas-dance, gymnastics, games and orienteering.
• SPHE-Stay Safe, Road Safety, Water Safety, themselves
and their families.
• Goodness Me, Goodness You.
Themes• September – Myself, my family, my home.
• October – Changes (school now and then, clothes in the past).
• November - All around me(Local area, mapping, people at work).
• December – Traditions and winter.
Themes• January – The Earth and Space (North and
South Pole, Solar system).
• February – The elements (fire, water, wind).
•March- Nature and Spring.
• April – Transport (Titanic, Amelia Earhart).