The last two days in school we have been studying floating and sinking and what causes something to float or sink. We then carried out an experiment to see what will float and sink and recorded our results. We watched the movie below before we began our experiment.
Here are some games you can play at home.
Click here for “float and sink”.
Click here for “drag and drop”
This week we are learning the sound ee-or. Listen to the song at home and sing along with your child. The boys and girls did great homework last night based on the ee sound. They will have more homework during the week on the ee sound and next week we will concentrate on “or”. I will set up some links to ee games and writing activities you can do at home.
Click here for the ee blur game.
Click here for the ee memory game.
Click here for ee spelling game.
Click here for the picture to word matching game.
Click here for another matching game.
Click here for a challenging word matching game.
WRITING
Click here for ee word selection writing.
Click here for a reading and writing activity.
The last two weeks the children have been learning when to use a capital letter. Here in room 18 we are finding it hard to remember all the rules but we are trying very hard. Ms. Nugent tells us the harder we try the better we will get at remembering when to put a capital letter!!! 🙂
So what are the rules???????? 
1. We use a capital letter at the start of a sentence.
2. We use a capital letter for some ones name.
3. We use a capital letter for the name of a place.
4. We use a capital letter for the word I.
5. We use a capital letter for the months of the year.
6. We use a capital letter for the days of the week.
Here is a link to some games you can play at home to practice the above rules.
Click here for Roy the Zebra. There are 5 games to choose from
Click here to match lower case and capital letters.
Click here for fairy capitals game.
Click here for the full stop game.
Click here for a challenging capital letters game.
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esterday, Monday 16th the boys and girls got to complete some fun experiments with magnets. The children learned a number of facts:
1. Magnets are a type of metal.
2. Only some other types of metals will stick to a magnet.
3. There are two sides to a magnet: the North Pole and the South Pole.
4. We learned two new words; Attract and Repel. Attract means the metals want to join together with the magnet and repel means they want to push apart. The boys and girls also found out that only opposite poles will stick together.
Why not ask your son/ daughter tonight how many of the above facts
they can remember!!!!!! 🙂
Today is Pancake Tuesday. We sang a lovely song about cooking a pancake. We wrote a pancake recipe which will be up on the notice boards this evening for all you mams and dads to see. Ms. Nugent was so proud of the excellent writing.
After break Ms. Nugent had a big surprise for us all. There was a big plate of pancakes, chocolate sauce, lemon juice and yummy fresh fruit to put on our pancakes.
Today in class the children learned another new sound. Last week the children were introduced to the new sound ai. Ms. Nugent told the children that something special happens when any two of the five vowels come together. “When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking”. Last week “a” in ai did the talking and today “o” in oa did the talking. Sing along at home and don’t forget the action!! (put your hand to your mouth in “shock”) Think of some oa words at home tonight; I would love to hear some tomorrow. 🙂
I will leave links to some writing activities for oa words.
Click here for oa reading and writing.
Click here for oa writing and oa words.
Click here if you REALLY want to test your child’s decoding abilities!!! 🙂
Click here for an oa game.
Click here for an oa matching game.
Click here for an oa “what’s missing?” game.
Today Friday the 6th February was a special day here in Scoil Carmel. We have been in school 100 days!!!!! We did lots of fun activities during the day to celebrate. We danced for 100 seconds, we wrote about 100 things and we even sang a lovely song about 100!!
We read this fun story too about the night before the 1ooth day of school.
Ms. Nugent recently entered the boys and girls into an Irish Writing competition “Scríobhleabhar”. The children have been working very hard since they came back to school after the Christmas holidays writing their books. We were very lucky to have Ms. Quinn helping us with this competition. Here are some videos of the finished books. Ms. Nugent will keep you all posted at home on the competition and how we get on it.
(For some reason one or two videos went sideways when posted, Sorry 😥 )
Teilífis
Bia
Peataí
An Aimsir
Dathanna
Here are some games and activities you can do at home.
Click here for Roy the Zebra.
Click here for Daisy the Snail.
Click here for a challenging ai spelling game
Click here for another challenging game “what’s missing?”
Last year the children worked very hard in Junior Infants learning all their sounds. Today we learned a new sound (ai). Ms. Nugent reminded the children of the 5 vowels we learned before Christmas – a,e,i,o,u.
Ms. Nugent told the children today that when two vowels “go walking, the first vowel does the talking”; so with the ai sound we only say and hear the a and we do not say the i.
Here are some vidoes you can watch at home.
Ms. Nugent's Senior Infants Class 2014-2015 
