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

The Sound Collector

We learned the poem The Sound Collector by Rodger Mc Gough when we came to school after our Christmas holidays. Then we wrote our own versions of the poem. Here are some of verses we made up:
The purring of the kitten.                        The roaring of the lion,
The roaring of the lion.                           The hissing of the snake.
The croaking of the frog.                        The barking of the dog.
The barking of the dog.                          The squeaking of the
The neighing of the horse.                     mouse.         
The snapping of the crocodile.              The purring of the cat.
The squeaking of the mice.                   The munching of the giraffe.
The Hissing of the snake.                      The stumping of the rhino.
By Laura                                                  By Daniela

The squeaking of a mouse                    The purring of the cat.
The barking of the dog.                          The barking of the dog.
The screaming of a monkey.                  The hissing of a snake.
The roaring of a cheetah.                        The roaring of a lion.
The hissing of a snake.                           The croaking of a frog.
The tweeting of a bird.                             The howling crocodile.
The neighing of horse.                             By Martin
The creaking of the spider.
By Jacob