Jun 12, 2015 | First Class – Mr Kinsella
Develop hand skills and hand muscles Change how activities are done to encourage finger use. For example, when playing with Lego® have your child rest his forearms on the table so that he uses his fingers to put the pieces together. Lace buttons with strings (Mr. Price/Dealz). Put pennies into a piggy bank. Play with finger puppets (IKEA). Use small tongs/tweezers to pick up cotton balls. Pegs on the side of a shoe box (clothes pegs – opportunities for maths counting and colour). Cut paper with a safe scissors. Jigsaws and plasticene. Develop eye-hand coordination Roll, throw and catch large and small sized balls. Draw in a colouring book using thick crayons – encourage drawing inside the lines and scribble. Pour, ladle and spoon soapy water into different sized containers at the kitchen sink. Wooden blocks – set a timer. Who can build the tallest tower in one minute. This is a great way to develop hand to eye coordination. Digging and scooping are also activities that require little hands to hold, grasp and utilize their eyes in...
Jun 8, 2015 | Junior Infants – Mr Twomey
We had great fun making saucers with...
Jun 3, 2015 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
Story takes up a large portion of the history curriculum for junior infants. The children are provided with opportunities to improve their understanding of time and chronology by reading, retelling and ordering parts of stories. Over the last month, the children in room 2 have been reading The Little Red Hen. They have engaged with the book so many times, that they are now able to sequence parts of the story. This week, they will be doing this as one of their play stations during aistear. Each child is given a page of mixed up pictures from the story. The children must colour, cut, and stick the pictures back down in the correct order on long strips of purple paper. Have a look at this in action...
