Phonic games: Senior infants

We played the Phonic Loop game today.  We each have 2 words on our cards, and we take turns in saying for example: "I have hat, who has man".  We time how long it takes us to finish the loop and use up all the cards.  It is quite an exciting game.

We also played with the phonic folder, making words out of letters.  Some of the words make sense, but others are just nonsense words.

Matching Words: Junior Infants

Fun with letters: Junior Infants

We are getting very good at recognising our letters and sounds.  We love playing the puddles game.  The aim of our game is to get from one side of the river bank to the other by jumping on the letter lilly pads.  We can only jump on to the lilly pad if we know the letter, the sound it makes and a word that starts with that letter.  We were all very good at this game. 

 

New letter "h" Junior Infants

Every week we learn a new letter. This week we are learning about the letter h. h is a very quiet letter. We brought in some objects from home that begin with the letter h. The children brought in hairbrushes, hair, Hannah Montana, a hedgehog. We practice air tracing our letter, writing it with our pencil and throwing the sound. As you can see in the picture we make the letter with playdough.

Reading big books

Wednesday, September 21st, 2010

Teacher has lots of big books. We love listening to these stories, and we like it even more when we can read (or look at the pictures of) these books ourselves.

Storyteller

Friday, May 21st, 2010

A story teller came to our school. He had some great stories to tell. We listened well and loved the whole experience. We even played some listening games with him.

Fun with words

Literacy Activities

Learning new words in Room 5

Storytime in Room 1

Today we were very lucky as Mary Meaney came in and told us a story. The story was called We're Going On a Bear Hunt. It is a really good story with lots of noises like swishy swashy, stumble trip. After Mary told us the story we went down to the PE hall and we carried out actions to the story and we pretended we were going on the bear hunt. It was great fun.

Puddles of Words, Junior Infants, Room 1

This week we played a game with all our new words from our reader. We had to call out the word and then jump onto the puddle. It was great fun. It is a great way for us to learn our words.

Literacy Games in Senior Infants

Friday, January 8th, 2010
We have some great literacy games in our class. We all had a chance to try each game this week. We played Look and Find Lotto, Twist and Check Phonic cards, Shopping List game, Red Folder matching words and Magnetic Rhyming Words. We are becoming really good readers in this class.