Word families

We are getting very good at sounding out words and at recognising word families. We use the 'Say, cover, write and check' method, when we are writing out our word families each day. First we say the word (or sound it out if we do not recognise it). Then we cover the word and next we try to sound it out in our heads and write it from memory. Lastly, we check our word to make sure that we have written it correctly.

Sequencing the story of Cinderella using pictures

We recently read the a quirky version of the fairy tale Cinderella. As well as re-telling the story orally, we also sequenced the events using pictures. Once we knew the story well, this was no problem for us!!

The Elves and the Shoemaker

We heard the story of the Elves and the Shoemaker.  We loved the story.

We put the story into sequence.

You can see the story in these videos.

The Rainbow Fish

We read a great story called the Rainbow fish about a really kind fish.

We enjoyed putting the story in the right sequence.

Listen to the story here:

The letter Rr

We are learning all about the letter Rr

We know what sound it makes and we are able to write it now

Today we used marla, pipe cleaners, crayons, counters and rainbow sand to make the letter r 

  Have a look at letter Rr on Starfall phonics

A rocket rhyme

We know a rocket rhyme

Zoom zoom to the moon

Travel really fast

Out around the universe

Watch the world go past

Today we wrote out this poem onto a rocket.

We decorated our rockets and then stuck them to a giant rocket which is outside our classroom now.

A puppet show in Ballybane library

We were invited to Ballybane library for their book week event.

Today we attended a puppet show with Jay Ryan from Pignot Puppets.

The puppet show was wonderful and the magic show was even better.

We loved Jay's magic colouring book, we loved watching Jay catching a bubble and we especially loved when Jay used Joanna's word "Abracadabra" to change a red handkerchief into a huge magic wand.

Thank you so much Jay for your wonderful performance

and to our parents who made sure we had waterproof jackets and shoes for our walk today.
More pictures from Ms. Joyce's class

Room on the Broom sound effects

We have been reading this story in class.

We really like it.

Today we re-read the story again, adding sound effects whenever we could.

The story is so much more fun and interesting with added sound effects.

Visiting our school library

Our class will visit our school library every Tuesday and each child can take a book that she/he likes.  This book needs to be brought back to school on Friday in time to make it easy for teacher to issue new books on Tuesday.

Enjoy sharing some nice books with your child!

Words bingo

Here are the new words we are learning:

We play Bingo with these words.

Flower words

We are blending words.

Today we were making AT words like mat, bat, cat etc.

We made words in the shape of a flower.

We are good at this.

Try out these great sites:

Loop games

We are revising the words we learned last year.

Today we played a fun loop game with last year's words.

Reading games

Now that we are such good readers, we are having fun with reading games.

Pocket rockets

We had fun today reading Pocket Rocket books.

We love reading!