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Exercises for active week and practicing time

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Exercises for active week and practicing time

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Please see Starfall's how-to-teach-reading page, Learn to Read with Phonics, Fluency, and Comprehension, and print the Free Phonics Printouts for children. Starfall™ books, games, movies, and songs follow a research-based method of systematic phonics starting with consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. Emergent readers gain confidence as they progress to long vowels and other letter-sound relationships such as digraphs.

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Learn to Read with Phonics | Starfall Education

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Starfall's movies, games, and ebooks create an environment where children have fun as they learn to read. We use a proven sequential phonics method.

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This is important for all classes, just choose the level you think your child is at.

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Senior Infants to 2nd class game. Children pick a word that would make sense in a sentence.

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IXL | Complete the sentence with the correct sight word | Kindergarten language arts

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Improve your language arts knowledge with free questions in "Complete the sentence with the correct sight word" and thousands of other language arts skills.

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This is useful for all classes. Older children often develop bad habits with letter formation. Copying a few simple sentences (handwritten by a parent/sibling or printed in a book/website) is great for 1st and 2nd class to maintain neat handwriting.

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These are suitable for all children from senior infants. Some Junior infants may like to begin to practice 3 letter words in the book band 1-pink level. You can select age or level at the top to sort the books for your child.

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Our free eBook library has been created to help children aged 3-11 to develop their reading skills at home.

All our eBooks are free to use, but you will need to register or sign in at the link below to read your book.

Please note, our eBooks are not optimised for mobile phones and are best viewed on a computer, laptop, or tablet .

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Free eBook library - practise reading with phonics eBooks - Oxford Owl

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Help your young child learn to read, and love to read, with our eBook library, containing hundreds of free eBooks. Developed for children aged 3-11.

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A youtube search for Joe Wicks. Joe adds new PE lessons live every morning at 9 but you can watch them at any time on his youtube channel.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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This is a fantastic online set of games to practice counting and number words.

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Learning to Count up to 15 with Teddy Numbers Interactive Maths Game

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A fun learning to count maths game for early years children by Topmarks. Count out treats to give to teddy.

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A nice way to keep track of books read. This is also great to encourage frther thinking about the book. You could add in more or just take what suits.

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This is just a sample picture, this game can be played with many different pictures and in many different ways. Fantastic game to develop reading and writing skills in all ages.

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This website has many different games for various levels. I have shared just one here but it would be a great website to browse.

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Blast Off is a mental maths game with different levels of difficulty. It's designed to help you identify and work with two-digit numbers. The oral questions have multiple choice answers which you will have to listen to carefully.

In the first game mode you have to find a given number. In the second you are required to find the number between two given numbers. The Count On and Count Back games are designed to help you learn some of the vocabulary of addition and subtraction. Examples of the oral questions are 'Count back four from twenty-seven', 'Count on five from sixty-one', 'What is seven more than thirty-one?' and 'What is eight less than eighty-seven?'.

As with all of our games, Blast Off works well on an interactive whiteboard.

AGE

5-8 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Number Addition Subtraction

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Blast Off - Mental Maths for 5 to 8 Year Olds

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Blast Off is a mental maths game for 5 to 8 year olds which can help you to know your two digit numbers and help with addition and subtraction skills. It covers different vocabulary such as more than, less than, count on and count back.

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Cuig Mhoncaí beaga

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cúig mhoncaí beaga (five little monkeys in Irish)- BongoBongo TV

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Put small dops of watered down paint on a page and blow it around with straws. The colours mix together and funny blobs and streaks are created. After it has dried draw in features to create some aliens and your favourite planets in the background. Webiste instructions and pictures linked here.

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Create some beautiful artwork with kids by blowing colourful paint across the paper using straws! A wonderful activity for toddlers and older children with gorgeous, colour-blended, abstract results.

We had a go at creating beautiful art work by blowing paint through straws!

This is one of those wonderful, classic activities that I used to use in my teaching days and have been looking forward to trying with the girls! It is a very simple technique that encourages exploration, investigation and a little bit of scientific thought!

Here's a question to get the children thinking before you begin the activity:

How can I get the paint to move and dance across the paper using only this straw?

I gave the girls some watered down ready-mix paints and a straw each and left them to it!

Cakie understood what to do immediately and enjoyed dripping paint onto the paper then blowing it through the straw. She first of all tried to blow it holding the straw far from the paper, but found that frustrating as of course the paint didn't move anywhere. When she came down really close and held the straw directly above or to the side of the paint, she found it moved more impressively.

We talked about making the paint-drops race across the paper, which added a really fun game element to the mix!

Pop was desperate to join in and at first I was hesitant to give her a straw as I was sure she would just use it to suck up the paint! But she's not one to be left out, and amazingly, she did work out that the idea was to blow through it!

* Top tip from A Mom with a Lesson Plan: Cut a small hole near the top of the straw so that they can only blow and not suck up. Genius!*
She also came up with another idea, which was extremely effective, of using the straw to drag the paint and make marks and patterns with it!

Cakie loved this idea and copied her too, combining both techniques to create quite a beautiful piece of art work.

Here are some of the finished results.

Combining the dragging and blowing.

Pop's finished masterpiece!

Cutting the straws shorter helps as not so much effort has to be put into blowing!

Cut a little hole near the top to stop them being able to suck up the paint

Make sure the paint is just thin/ watery enough to be blown, otherwise it's hard work

Show your child how to pick up paint from the pot by dipping in the straw and holding their finger over the end as they transfer it to the paper, then removing their finger.

If your child wants to suck up instead of blow air, try giving them toothpicks, cocktail sticks or a blunt pencil to just drag through the paint instead. The results will still be beautiful!

Learning Links:

Creativity: Investigating a range of materials and combining them, exploring colour mixing
Using air to make things move, investigating and experimenting with answering a challenge
Motor Skills: Hand/eye coordination, fine motor skills, pincer grip

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Straw Blown Paintings - The Imagination Tree

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Create some beautiful artwork with kids by blowing colourful paint across the paper using straws! A wonderful activity for toddlers and older children with gorgeous, colour-blended, abstract results. We had a go at creating beautiful art work by blowing paint through straws!

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This uses a paper plate but any card circle would work. There is no need for paint so this whole craft would be really simple and fun at home. It's a great way to discuss what we have learned about the planets so far so that they look right and are stuck on in the ocrrect order.

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This week long I have been sharing solar system activities. On Monday I shared a set of 10 constellation mats. Tuesday's activity was a hydroponic space garden. Today's activity is a paper plate solar system spiral. It is made of two crafts that are created to go together. The first is a space painted paper plate. The second is planet painting on paper.

Planet Crafts

Painting the Paper Plate

You will need to start by painting the paper plate with a wad of paper towel or a sponge brush. Various shades or blue, black and gray can be dabbed onto the paper plate in layers. You may want to let the layers dry at little and then add a little more paint to the plate.

When the paint is dry you can cut the plate into a spiral that starts on the outside of the plate and makes its way inside the plate.

Planet Painting
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They can try to paint the planets based on memory or you can set out some pictures for them to view. A solar system poster or book on the solar system like Smart Kids Space: For Kids Who Really Love Space! for your children to refer to.

We just dabbed wads of paper towels into a variety of colors that looked similar to the planets on a poster. Then we made small circles on a piece of card stock for each of the planets and the sun. You could have your children create each of the planets on an index card. When the circles are dry you can cut out the planets.

Combining the Two Planet Crafts

The final step is to combine the two crafts. Children will need to glue the planets and the sun onto the solar system spiral in order. We glued a small washer under the sun to pull the spiral down a little. You may need to put a planet book or solar system poster so they can check the order of the planets.

When the planets are in place, you can hang up your solar system. We used fishing line attached to the outside edges of the plate to hang our solar system up.

If you like this paper plate craft, here are some more paper plate crafts.
Little Jack Horner Craft Bird's Nest with Eggs Paper Plate Craft Pete the Cat Paper Plate Mask Ocean Animals- Paper Plate Craft Paper Plate Jellyfish
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Planet Crafts- Paper Plate Solar System Spiral

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This week long I have been sharing solar system activities. On Monday I shared a set of 10 constellation mats. Tuesday's activity was a hydroponic space garden. Today's activity is a paper plate solar system spiral. It is made of two crafts that are created to go together.

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If someone older in the house has an atlas that would be great but these work nicely too.

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A great website with lots of ideas and pictures of places to go in Ireland.

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Tourism Ireland's website is packed with holiday ideas, information and advice to help you find accommodation, plan activities and see what's on.

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Groups of words for each class.

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Youtube video read aloud

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6x6 squares. Great fun activity to get kids into.

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I'm adding this again in case anyone wants to do the weather diary in Irish.