Writing a train story in Senior infants

We have been writing a story about a train. Here are a few of the stories we wrote. Teacher is going to make these stories into a book for all to read.

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Making new words in Junior Infants

Writing about our train project: Senior infants

Playing Word Detective in Junior Infants

Letter blending in Senior infants

We have been using our magnetic letters to put the alphabet together and to create three letter words which we can sound out and read. We are getting much better at our reading.

Sound poems and fairy tales in Second class

We made up sound poems based on sounds in school.
We also read many fairytales and created an alternative version of Cinderella!

Reading like trains in Senior Infants

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Our class is involved in the Keep on Track train project at http://keepontrack.scoilnet.ie/.  We are learning songs and rhymes about trains, playing train games in PE, and even reading like trains.  Fist of all we play a phonic or word list loop game.  (One player calls out "I have pet, who has ten?" and the person with the word "ten" keeps the game moving in the same way.)  Once the game has been played and the cards are laid out in order, in the shape of a train track, we read then at a train pace - starting very slowly and then getting quicker and quicker and slowing down at the end.  We like the rhythm of this game.

Literacy games in second class