Senior Infants

Mrs. Walmsley

cwalmsley@shandrumns.org

End of year Video:

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My wonderful Class.

I truly can't believe that this is my last Storytime for you this year. The last few months have gone so fast. I'm so proud of all of you and all the fabulous work you have done this last term. You all are so special to me and it was a joy to be your teacher this year.

You all know that I love taking pictures of you having fun learning and playing at school. As a surprise for you all Mrs Mulcahy has very kindly put all those pictures together to tell the most wonderful story about your time in Junior and senior Infants this year. A big huge thank you to Mrs. Mulcahy for this.

I hope you all enjoy it - it is by far my favourite story of Storytime this term. I love it - I hope you do too!

Thank you all for the fun and happy times we've shared this year and I can't wait to see you all again in school after the holidays.

Have the most wonderful summer and keep safe.

Lots of love and hugs,

Mrs Walmsley xxx

Wellbeing Week: 22nd - 25th June

To all my wonderful boys and girls.

Well done on all the science you did last week and indeed all the work and activities you did at home this last term. I am so proud of all of you! Can you believe that this is our last week of school and we are getting our holidays on Thursday.

This week we have some well being activities planned for you - they are really nice activities and I hope you enjoy doing them.

This Wednesday's storytime will be our last but it's going to be extra special as I've a fabulous story to tell you all. I think you're all going to love it so don't forget to watch it on Wednesday.

In the meantime have a wonderful week,

Lots of love,

Mrs Walmsley xxx

Link to Science Week Photos:

Plan of work:

Wellbeing Week (1).docx

STEM Week: 15th - 19th June

New Story: Pirates love Underpants

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Link to STEM Week:

Link to Sports Week Photos:

Sports Week: 8th - 12th June

Story: It's a Bear's Life

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Hi Girls and boys.

Hope you're all having a lovely week and enjoying Sports Week. I can't wait to see your pictures of you all being active and having fun!!

I hope you enjoy your story. After spending a night away Bear realises his home and family are quite special - even if they're not perfect!

Have a fabulous day,

Love Mrs. Walmsley.

Sports Week - 8th - 12th June:

Dear girls and boys.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Well done to you all on completing all your work last week - you have all have done so well this last term and I'm so proud of each one of you.

As you know this week is Sports Week. Mrs. Flannery has planned some fabulous activities, games and dances for you below. She has included links to explain how to do some activities and some videos also. You will see her little girl Ciara helping her with the obstacle course too! She has also included some dances from Go Noodle which I know you will love!

Have a fantastic week boys and girls. I hope you have lots of fun during our virtual sports week. Take lots of photos and videos if you like too and don't forget to send them to us and we will post them on the website at the weekend. Have lots of fun and I'll see you all again on Wednesday for storytime.

Love, Mrs. Walmsley.

Link to Sports Week:

Work for the week of 1st June:

Photos:

Ella sent President Michael D. Higgins a birthday card and recently got a reply letter. She received a letter along with his photograph. She also got a book.

Well done Ella!

Lilyella and Sophie out enjoying the sunshine.

Lilyella walking her dog, Oscar.

Lilyella and Sophie made these yummy scones!

Lilyella and Sophie enjoying the sunshine!

New Story: Small Billy and the Midnight Star

Hi boys and girls,

Here is today's story about Billy and the Midnight Star. Sorry that it's late! Enjoy!

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Dear boys and girls.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed the fabulous sunshine! I can't remember the last time the weather was so warm here! I love this weather but of course like all of you I put on lots of sun cream and I take Buster for his walk very early while the road is still cool for his little paws.

This week I've laid out the plan of work a little differently - you can pick and choose when you'd like to do your work and I ask that everyone completes the PAWS water safety programme please. It's very easy for junior and senior Infants but so important that you learn about water safety. As you know this is our last week of book work as you've all worked so hard for the last few months. Next week we are having sports week, the following week will be science week and the final week is a well - being week. I know that some of your books might not be completed and I don't want you to worry about that. I'm very pleased that the important topics and concepts have been covered and we will do lots of revision when we return to school aswell. During the holidays if any of you would like to complete any pages in your books not done feel free to do so but it is completely optional to do this. Well done girls and boys on your outstanding work again last week. I'm so proud of you. I have loved seeing all your fabulous pictures and hearing about your adventures - they brought me so much joy always!

Have a fabulous week and remember to do what you can and enjoy the sunshine.

love, Mrs Walmsley xxxx

Photos from last week:

Ella with her muffin - looks yum!

Ella made delicious muffins.

Simon went fishing and found a snail.

Simon went fishing.

Simon tasting his baking.

Simon made yummy muffins - he had great help too!

Darragh making the mixture for his muffins.

Clíodhna baking the chocolate chip muffins.

Clíodhna eating her muffins.

Darragh making his muffins

They look delicious Darragh!

Fiadh enjoying the sunshine

Fiadh cooking on the barbeque

Luke's tractor turning the hay - he helped his grandad get the hay done.

Luke got a new blue cast and he completed 5k in aid of Aoibheann's pink tie - Well done Luke!

Work for the week:

Water Safety

http://paws.edco.ie/junior-and-senior-infants/

English :

Sounds like Phonics: Pages 65 - 68

The Beach house - finish reading the book.

Spellings week 27

https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ -

Click on 'Sounds like Phonics Activity Book B'

Click on 'Unit 2 – The Restaurant

Click on Consonant Blends - 'Revision'

Maths:

Maths: Busy at Maths - Money Pages 104 - 109

Home School Links Sheet 18

SESE :

Small world pg. 43. Fish, Pg. 44 - living or non living. Pg 58 - Seasons.

Jolly Phonics Videos:

Work for the week of 25th May:

Story: Let's get a pup!

Hi boys and girls. Our story today is about Kate getting a new pup... or maybe 2 ... from the Rescue Centre. I know one of our families in school got a beautiful rescue dog this week and their dog found a beautiful home also. It made me think how important it is for us to think about rescue animals if we're looking for a new pet as they are all looking for new homes! Have a great day!

Love Mrs. Walmsley xxx

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Dear boys and girls.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. It was wonderful to hear your news during the week and see some of your wonderful work. I am so proud of all of you!

Again I've set out a plan of work for you for this week. Like always just do what you can and on Friday hopefully you'll get to make the chocolate chip muffins!

Have a great week everyone and I'll see you all on Wednesday for storytime.

love, Mrs Walmsley xxx

Photos from last week:

Darragh's church. I love all the colours and the steeple on top.

Aidan's church. His people are so happy there.

Ella's lovely church

Ella made the Mars bar slices - look how fabulously they're decorated! Yummy!!

Joseph's church. I love his stained glass windows.

Simon decorated his church like Solomon's church. It's fab!

Adam and Grace made yummy smoothies!

Buster waiting patiently for me to take him for a walk.

Buster watching the world go by from one of his favourite places in the house

Our little kittens are getting bigger and braver every day. Lucky is a great Mom!

Alannah found this hedgehog in her back garden.

Alannah made this beautiful church with the help of her Nana.

Plan of work for the week:

Senior Infants plan of work 25th - 29th May

MATHS:

Home School Link Sheet 17

ENGLISH:

https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ -

Click on 'Sounds like Phonics Activity Book B'

Click on 'Unit 2 – The Restaurant

Click on Consonant Blends - sp/st and 'Revision'

Jolly Phonics Videos:

Work for the week of 18th May:

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Story: Oliver's Milkshake

Hope you enjoyed our story. Maybe like Oliver, you'd like to try to make a milkshake with your favourite fruit during the week!

Have a great day!!

Hi Girls and boys.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Well done on all the wonderful work and fabulous activities you did last week. It was lovely to see your photos and your beautiful wild flower creations - I loved them all.

This week may be an exciting week for some as you may get to see your grandparents, neighbours, cousins or friends living close to you. I know you have missed them all very much but listen to what your parents say ..and remember that while we can see them and talk to them we still have to maintain social distancing for another while. Your parents will explain this to you.

Also this week our Church is opening for a few hours everyday. This week in our Grow in love we are learning about the Church so if you're out for a walk with your family you might like to call in and light a candle.

Have a lovely week everyone, enjoy the sunshine and keep safe and well.

I'll see you all again on Wednesday for storytime.

Love, Mrs. Walmsley xxxx

Photos from last week:

Alex, Stan and their dog. I think they might be looking for tadpoles.

Stan and Alex on their nature walk.

Clíodhna enjoying her nature walk.

Clíodhna and Tadhg's wildflower bouquet.

Tommy collected these primroses on his walk.

Nicole and Tommy enjoying their nature walk.

Tommy and Nicole saw frog spawn on their nature walk.

Aidan after his nature walk.

Aidan and his wildflower bouquet.

Aidan's wildflower bouquet.

Aidan's lovely birds nest.

Joseph's wildflower bouquet

Joseph's flower creation.

Simon's collection of wildflowers.

Simon made a hedgehog out of the pine cones, leaves and moss he collected - isn't it lovely?

Simon's wildflower bouquet.

Simon and his sister, Anna on their nature walk.

Ella's wildflower bouquet.

Ella's wildflower bouquet on her May altar.

Ella and her sister, Áine with one of their new chicks.

Ella got lots of new chicks this week. Isn't this one so cute!!

Ella and her dog on the farm.

Ella playing camogie

Cathal's wildflower bouquet.

Eoin's wildflower bouquet

The boys made the Mars bar slices but by the time their Mom got to take the photo, there was only one left!! Yummy!!

Alannah's wildflower bouquet.

Alannah's flower creation.

Alannah's and Clara's beautiful flower creations.

Alannah and Clara's birds nests

Darragh's lovely bookmark.

Looks yummy girls!

Roisín and Fiadh picking bluebells.

Fiadh and Roisín painting.

This is Lorcan's sketch of his Karcher pressure washer, that he uses to help his Dad wash his car.

Lorcan drew a Nutri Bullet. He makes yummy smoothies with his Mom.

Rachel and Clodagh on their nature walk.

Hi girls and boys.

When I saw your fabulous photos from your nature walks I decided I had to go on one too. I go for a walk everyday but my nature walk today was really special -

These are some photos from my walk - of course Anna and Buster came too!

My home and farm where I grew up is right beside me so we went for our nature walk there.

Our first stop was the fox covert . When I was a small girl I used to have lots of fun playing there with my sisters and brothers. The Bluebells are so beautiful at this time of year. There is also a little stream running through it - We looked for tadpoles but we weren't as lucky as Tommy in finding some! We picked lots of wildflowers there.

That tree is our " Big tree" . It's a Beech tree and would you believe we used to climb it everyday during the summer when we were young. It's branches also held our swings and it was home base for 40/40 or tip the can!

I know it is very difficult for you to see but would you believe there's a little bird nesting in the water pump and it comes back every year to lay its eggs. Everyday we see it flying in and out of the spout. I can't wait to see how many chicks it has. (Of course it's not used as a water pump anymore! )

We also saw beautiful butterflies and bees! We had such a lovely nature walk and you can see that Buster loved it too!

Lucky's kittens have got big.

Plan of work for the week:

Senior Infants plan of work 18th - 22nd May

MATHS:

Home School Link Sheet 16

ENGLISH:

https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ -

Click on 'Sounds like Phonics Activity Book B'

Click on 'Unit 2 – The Restaurant

Click on Consonant Blends - fl/tr; fr/dr; gl/gr; pl/pr; sl/sm

Jolly Phonics Videos:

Work for the week of 11th May:

Thursday 14th May:

Sorry, I put down the wrong page for Irish today. It should have said Bua na Cainte page 41.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Story: Some Dogs Do

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Hi boys and girls,

I hope you enjoy this story about what some dogs get up to! I wonder if dogs can really fly? I know that Buster runs and jumps and eats and

sleeps but I'm not so sure that he can fly .... but who knows!!

Have a great day!!

Photos of our Robots:

Adam's robot

Tommy's robot

Lillyella and Sophie's robot

Alannah's robot

Cliodhna's robot

Good morning boys and girls. Hope you all had a fabulous weekend and enjoyed the sunshine that we had for most of it! We did have a big thunderstorm Saturday evening though - Buster really didn't like it - he was snuggled on my lap for the evening and was happy to go outside once it was all over. I could see two beautiful rainbows after the storm though - I wondered if you saw one aswell..

Luke is doing great - he got his cast on Tuesday and he's managing it very well! Can you believe that he actually did his spelling test on Friday! We're all so glad to hear you're doing so well Luke

I had a lovely weekend, Anna's birthday was Saturday so we had a nice day together and our own little family party for her We made lots of treats, The mars bar slices were our favourites and I'm going to give you the recipe for you to try this week if you like.

I've more exciting news!! One of our cats - Lucky, had 6 kittens during the week. They are tiny but super cute!! They are all strong and healthy and Lucky is the best Mom keeping them safe and warm and feeding them all. One night she moved them all by herself into a little cat transport box in the garage where she knew it would be a safe place for them.

Well done to you all for all the great work that you're doing and thank you for emailing me the pictures of your work and fabulous creations! I absolutely loved your robots this week!! They were superb! I've a few here for you all to see and I'll post more on Wednesday with my story. If anyone else made one please email me a picture of it and I'll include it on Wednesday.

Keep up the fabulous work girls and boys- you are all doing great! Again this week do what you can with your parents and don't feel you have to colour everything unless you're specifically asked to do so - the main thing for me is that you understand what you're doing.

Hope you like the photos and see you Wednesday for storytime.

Have a wonderful week,

Love, Mrs. Walmsley xxx

Some of ye're fabulous photos from last week:

Brave Luke

Aidan's robot

Joseph's robot

Dean's robot

Eoin's robot

Cathal's robot

Ella's robot

Darragh's robot

The new kittens

Lucky minding her kittens

The new kittens

Lucky minding her kittens

Me and Anna for her birthday

Mars Slices - yum!

Plan of Work for the week:

Senior Infants plan of work 11th to 15th May

MATHS:

Home School Link Sheet 16

ENGLISH:

https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ -

Click on 'Sounds like Phonics Activity Book B'
Click on 'Unit 1 – The Park'
Click on 'Revision' in the Vowel Digraphs section - 'ue' sound.

Jolly Phonics Videos:

Work for the week of 4th May:

Story: Dilly Duckling

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Dear girls and boys,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I can't believe we're in May already!! The weeks are flying by. Thanks to everyone who sent me pictures of their fabulous work last week - it was great to see how well you are all doing. Your baking looked yummy Senior infants and your handwriting is super. Junior Infants I hope you had lots of fun measuring too -I know Mr. Browne had done some of that with you already so I bet you were excellent at it! Keep up the wonderful work and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work this week :)

I've set out your plan below for the week. Like always just do what you can and remember to get out in the sunshine and fresh air everyday. There are also lots of optional fun activities on our website under all the class links for you to do if you like aswell.

Remember to click on the links under the plan every week to help you with your work.

I'll have another story up for you on Wednesday too.

Have a great week,

Love, Mrs Walmsley xxx

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Plan of work for the week:

MATHS:

Home School Link Sheet 15

Home School Link Sheet 16

ENGLISH:

https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ -

Click on 'Sounds like Phonics Activity Book B'
Click on 'Unit 1 – The Park'
Click on 'Revision' in the Vowel Digraphs section - 'ue' sound.

Jolly Phonics Videos:

SESE:

The Fox:

Recycling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQ7y_qQYUA

Work for the week of 27th April:

Story: What are Friends for?

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Dear boys and girls.

I hope you all are having a lovely week and enjoying Active Home week! Today my story is about 2 very good friends who, like you and all of our class, have lots of fun together! They play together, share their favourite things and care for each-other, like you all do with your friends at school and your family aswell. Sometimes they might even argue but like all good friends they say sorry and make up...and continue having lots of fun together again the way friends do :)

...AND guess what!!... Buster has a new friend called Milo ( who lives at my mother's house) but comes through the fields everyday to play with him. They are great friends and have lots of fun together too.

Today you could draw a picture of a fun time you've had with your friends and/or write a postcard to a special friend to let him/her know some of the fun things you've been up to!

Have a great day!

Love Mrs Walmsley.

Dear boys and girls.

I hope you are all keeping well and continuing to enjoy this lovely weather! I bet I won't recognise some of you with your fabulous tans when we go back to school! It was lovely to see some of your work during the week and I am so proud of you all for the wonderful effort you're making.

This week is Active Home week - Mr. Twomey has a letter written to you all and you can ask a parent to read it for you. He has some fun suggestions on how we can all keep fit and active for 60 minutes everyday next week - and I'm going to join in too!!

Have a wonderful week and remember to get out in this lovely sunshine everyday.

Love Mrs. Walmsley xxx

Plan of Work for the week:

MATHS:

Home-School Links Sheet 15:

ENGLISH:

https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ -

Click on 'Sounds like Phonics Activity Book B'

Click on 'Unit 1 – The Park'

Click on 'Revision' in the Vowel Digraphs section - 'ie' sound.

ACTIVE SCHOOLS WEEK INFORMATION:

Work for the week of 20th April:

Story: Tidy Up, Jack

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Hi boys and girls.

Today I'm going to read a story about a boy called Jack who was bored but found lots of exciting things to do in his bedroom. I bet you could find lots of new and exciting games to play too after listening to Jack's story. I hope you enjoy it! ️

20th April, 2020

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a lovely Easter and enjoyed having lots of fun outside in the lovely sunshine. I had a lovely holiday too, took Buster on lots of walks and did lots of cooking and cleaning - the same as all your moms I'm sure!

I've set some work for you all for the coming week. I'd love to see some of your work too and I was thinking that if you wanted every week you could choose 2 or 3 pieces of your favourite pieces of work and your Mom or Dad can email it to me.

I'm also going to ask your parents to help me correct your work as you do it - otherwise I'll have hundreds of pages to correct when we go back to school and when we do go back we're going to spend all of our time having so much fun learning together again.

I'll have another story on the website for you on Wednesday and I hope to have a new one up for you every Wednesday. I can't wait to read to you all again but in the meantime this is a nice way for me to do that.

Of course continue to go outside and play everyday, have lots of fun and keep healthy.

Lots of love,

Mrs. Walmsley xxx

ENGLISH:

https://slp.cjfallon.ie/ -

Click on 'Sounds like Phonics Activity Book B'

Click on 'Unit 1 – The Park'

Click on 'Revision' in the Vowel Digraphs section.

Link to Term 2 work - Week of the 30th March:

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