Senior Infants Blog
A focus on ‘Reading at Home’ for the month of October.📚
For the month of October, we would like the girls to take out their favourite books and nursery rhymes and read them for 10 minutes every evening.
- Cover of the Story– Start with a conversation. What is this book going to be about? What does the title suggest? What do the pictures suggest? These questions help children to read with purpose.
- Discuss the pictures in the story. Who are the characters? Where are they? What are they doing?
- Prediction– Ask your child what she thinks will happen next in the story.
- Allow your child to sound out and blend some words in the text.
- Search for tricky words and rhyming words in the text.
- Finish the session with discussion and praise. Even if you have only succeeded in reading a few pages in your session, talk to your child about the meaning of what you have just read. This conversation extends vocabulary, aids comprehension and you both will then be excited for the next reading session!
Ways of Reading with your child
Paired reading is when a parent reads with a child to help model good reading and to support the child’s own efforts. There are several kinds of paired reading – try them all to see what works.
* Assisted reading
Read a part of the text and let the child take over at an agreed point. You read every second page, for example, or, if the going is very slow, every second paragraph. This can alleviate frustration.
* Chorus reading
Parent and child read together out loud. This way the child gets a sense of your tone and cadences, where you stop and pause and how you add expression.
* Echo reading
This is very effective for children experiencing significant difficulties with fluency. First you read the sentence. Then you and the child read the sentence together. Finally the child reads the sentence alone.
Nursery Rhyme- ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’🐈🎻🐄🌙🐕🍽️🥄
We have been focusing on the nursery rhyme ‘Hey Diddle, Diddle’.
Busy September for Senior Infants :)
In Aistear we have been learning all about the Doctor’s Surgery. This is some of the language we have been learning and using through play.
The girls really enjoyed dressing up as the patients, nurses, doctors and receptionists.
We created doctor’s kits and white coats in Arts and Crafts.
We created the doctors and nurses utensils such as; stethoscopes, syringes, thermometers etc from playdough.
The small world group, built a hospital from Lego and played out different scenes with the ambulance and dolls.
We went on a nature walk around the school, and collected Autumn leaves. We made leaf rubbings with oil pastels and glued them on to our squirrels.
Look at the hedgehogs we made in SESE. We wrote down some interesting facts we learned about the hedgehog. We molded hedgehogs from clay in Art.
Springtime Aistear!!
Springtime has taken over our class in Senior Infants. We are enjoying lots of stations that are teaching us all about Spring and in particular the Spring Garden!!
In our Drama station, each group sets up their own Garden Centre. They enjoy arranging and looking after the plants.Customers are invited in to browse and buy plants if they so wish.
In our Writing Station, girls are busy making signs that show the opening times for their Garden Centre. All the signs look so welcoming!!
In our Art Station, the girls are making beautiful egg carton daffodils which we look forward to displaying in our corridor!
In our Reading Station, the girls are having so much fun playing word bingo to showy all the “Spring-y” words they have been using and reading!!It’s very competitive but exciting!!
At our Playdough Area, the girls used all their rolling,cutting and shaping skills to produce lovely colourful Spring Garden!!
Senior Infant Update!
Last Thursday, the girls enjoyed World Book Day. They just loved dressing up as their favourite characters, showing and telling us about their favourite books, making bookmarks and having our books and blaas!In the afternoon we had had the wonderful experience of listening to stories in the Czech language and in Portugese.
We have finished our Aistear theme of Weddings but this week our Aistear is all about St Patrick who we have been learning about in History. We are looking at all know and all we achieve in recycling.
We are looking forward to our Ceili Mor in the morning and our Annual St.Patrick’s Day Parade taking place at 1.45pm on Friday!!
Fun in Senior Infants!
Senior Infants were making butter on Friday with Miss Kirwan. Marbles were put in a jar and double cream added to it.With the lid tightly secured, the Senior Infants took turns shaking with all their might. The result was butter which they strained and spread on cream crackers!It was YUM,YUM,YUM!
The New Senior Infants
This year’s Senior Infants are already proving to be a hardworking bunch. The first morning they came in with big smiles for their new teacher. They are pros at school life at this stage and were not long getting busy.
They have been great at putting all their work from last year to good use. We have displays of leaf rubbing from leaves we collected around the school, they made lovely leaf collages and even leaf monsters!!
At the moment, they are producing their own book “All About Me” which they love making and talking about.
Looking forward to a fun and busy Year!!
