Monthly Archives: March 2017

Helpful websites for parents

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English

Jolly Phonics Jingles on Youtube.

ABCYA has a  huge variety of games suitable for Junior and Senior Infants in English and Maths and more.

Starfall has interactive phonics activities and games for early readers.

LearnEnglish Kids has lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children to have fun and learn English too.

Sign up as a parent on the Oxford Owl website to access lots of levelled Oxford e-books and activities for children. Excellent website for young readers

Crickweb has many interactive early learning activities for infants.

Gaeilge

Is Feidir Liom is a great resource if you are looking for Irish lessons for yourself.  It is suitable for parents helping their children with Irish too

TG4’s area for children which offers programmes in Irish, games, newsletter and gallery

Maths 

Cracking Maths is an Irish website with games based on Infant curriculum.

General

Helpmykidlearn.ie includes audio and video content to support parents with literacy difficulties and links to others websites providing more detailed information on specific topics. The site is designed for parents, grandparents and carers of children aged 0 – 12 years and is searchable according to the child’s age.

Sow & Grow: Week 3

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Our plants are now 3 weeks old and our beans and carrots are starting to catch up with the cress!  Our growers all had an encouraging chat with their plants this morning.  Let’s see if our plants take a stretch over the coming days.

 

As you can see the Bean Team have been very successful this week, and our Star Grower has a plant that measures an impressive 33cm!

Sow And Grow: Week 1

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Senior Infants are taking part in the “Sow & Grow” programme.  All of the children planted seeds and are monitoring their growth.  Unfortunately it was not a good week for our beans and cress, which have not grown at all, but all of the cress grew!  Two of our pupils were this week’s “Star Growers” with their cress plants measuring in at 4 centimeters each.  Well done, girls!