Junior Infants
During the month of October Junior Infant children will be learning about comparing and ordering and patterns in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Comparing and ordering- bigger than, heavier than, lighter than, taller than, shorter than, wider then, thicker than, longer than
Patterns- order, next, before, after, last, bigger, biggest, smaller, smallest, longer, longest, taller, tallest, shorter, shortest, more, less, the same, most
Practical games and activities:
The children are learning to compare two objects on the basis of the attributes of each object, e.g. one is longer but the other is longer, one is heavy but the other is heavier.
Talk and discussion:
Use concrete materials (pairs) to instigate a discussion about comparisons (scarves, shirts, coats, trousers, cups, toy animals, building block, plates, bowls etc.) Discuss these pairs. Are they the same? What is different> What is the same?
Comparing member in the family; who is taller/shorter. Remember to always use full sentences. ____ is taller than ____.
Patterns;
-Using blocks/cars/crayons etc. place one item on the table, a red car for example. Your child places another object with the same attribute beside it, a yellow car. You place another red object down and then your child places a yellow object. You have created a colour pattern.
Hands on activities:
– Using lego/building block allow your child to pick one piece and describe it. Then they must find another piece that is thicker, bigger, heavier, smaller etc. and describe it.
-Have a box of items, your child picks two items, they must describe the differences/similarities between them.
Patterns;
-Making necklaces; while placing the beads on the chain remember to create a pattern either by shape or colour.
-Colouring a pattern
Game:
-I spy; I spy with my little eye something that is bigger/smaller than _____.
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During the month of September Junior Infant children will be learning about matching & classifying in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Same, different, belongs, does not belong, goes with, join, match, belong, set, sort, group, draw, correct, wrong, blue, red, yellow, green, partner, pair, choose, together, how many? how many are left? big, bigger, small, smaller, tall, taller, short, shorter, row, pair.
Practical games and activities:
Talk and discussion:
Involve your child in discussion about matching identical objects. Use the words same and different. Encourage the children to use these words in their response. Questions could include;
- What things around the house are the same? (use the word different also)
- What colours can you see? Can you see red anywhere? Can you see a different colour? Where can you see the same colour?
Hands on activities:
-Matching socks
-Use a big box of any set of items (set of animals, cars, balls, furry toys etc.) Your child must choose an item and describe its attributes. For example, if your child chooses an item from a set of furry toys, the attributes could be that it’s soft, blue, small, squishy etc.
-Choose two items- a banana and a lemon for example. How are these items the same? How are the different. This activity can be used for a variety of objects.
Game:
-I spy with my little eye something _____ (colour)
-Cards; pairs
-What am I thinking? – You need an array of objects, e.g. pegs. You begin to sort he pegs. Your child needs to guess what criteria you are using to sort them. Are you sorting for colour, size, shape, material? Allow your child to sort the objects and you must guess.
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Junior Infants 2016-2017
During the month of June, junior infant children will be revising money. We will learn to recognise and use one, two and five cent coins. We will continue to learn about combining numbers, moving on from concrete materials to pictures and finally numbers.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
One cent, two cent, five cent, how much?, how much more? enough / not enough, costs, how much altogether, buy.
Maths activities:
- Find the coins hidden around the room.
- Say what the coin is when shown.
- Match coins to the correct piggy bank.
- Shop role play – have you got enough? How much more do you need?
During the month of May junior infant children will be learning about 3d shapes and pattern. We will also continue to learn about partitioning numbers.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Cube, pyramid, sphere, cone, Roll, stack, under, on, up down, beside, pattern, next
Maths Activities
3d shape
Encourage your child to identify shapes in the world around us, for example; Can you see any spheres around us? (a football being a sphere shape, an icecream cone, a dice being a cube shape…)
Pattern
Orally you can say a pattern, for example, blue, green, purple, blue, green, purple. Ask your child to say what comes next. Go on a pattern walk around the house. Your child could identify patterns in curtains, carpets, paving outside.
During the month of April the children will be learning about capacity.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning: full, empty, holds more, holds less, holds the same amount, holds the most, holds the least, pour, fill, up to the top, enough, level, heavy, light, big, small, heavier, lighter, the same weight as
Practical activities: Reuse plastic cartons of various different sizes and allow your child to fill other containers.
Capacity: Informal estimation/comparison involving capacity at home. For example comparing the capacity of household containers, e.g jugs, jars, bottles, pots and buckets. Which container holds the most/ which holds the less?
Use of household items as informal units of measurement, e.g eggcups, yogurt cartons, plastic cups, mugs and jugs.
Rhymes linked with capacity
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
During the month of March junior infant children will be classifying objects on the basis of one attribute, such as colour, shape etc. identifying the complement of a set i.e. the element not in a set, matching equivalent and non-equivalent sets using one-to-one correspondence, comparing objects according to length, width etc. comparing sets without counting, ordering objects according to length or height, ordering sets without counting and counting the number of objects in a set from 1-10. They will also be comparing equivalent and non-equivalent sets 1-5 by matching without using symbols, ordering sets of objects by number 1-5, using the language of ordinal number first, last etc. exploring the components of number 1-5 and combining sets of objects totals to 5. The children will also develop an understanding of the conservation of number 1-5. They will learn how to read, write and order numerals 1-5, identify the empty set and the numeral zero, subitise (tell at a glance) the number of objects in a set 1-5, solve simple oral problems 0-5 and partition sets of objects 1-5. They will also be learning about money, recognising and using coins up to 5 cent and they will be solving practical tasks and problems using money.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that we are using:
More than, less than, same as, different, first, last, buy, sell, spend, coins, how much? Cent, enough, more, as many as, less
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
Ask your child to cut out numbers and stick them on a blank number line, in the correct order.
Use different bowls, give your child five marbles and ask him/her how many different ways they can be broken up. Repeat with different numbers and different objects.
Let your child handle money in the shop and become familiar with it. Role play a shop scenario buying items for 1c, 2c and 5c e.g. a toy car priced at 3c.
Distribute a large number of 1 cent coins and ask your child to make up groups of 2 cent and five cent. Show him/her how the sets can be swapped for 2 cent and 5 cent coins. Play an exchange game. “ I have a 5 cent coin but I want to break it up. What can you give me?”
Sing number rhymes with your child.
Songs/Poetry: –Here are examples of songs you can sing with your child:
The animals went in Two by Two
The Animals Went in Three by Three
The Animals Went in Four by Four
The Animals went in Five by Five
You tube: Sesame Street-The number 4 song
Junior Infants
During the month of February junior infant children will be classifying objects on the basis of one attribute e.g. colour, identifying the complement of a set (i.e. elements not in a set) matching using one-to-one correspondence, comparing objects according to length, width etc. They will also be comparing sets without counting, ordering objects according to length or height, ordering sets without counting, counting the number of objects in a set 1-10, comparing equivalent and non-equivalent sets 1-5 by matching without using symbols and using the language of ordinal number: first, last. The children will be combining sets of objects 1-5, reading and writing numbers 1-5 and solving simple oral problems 0-5. In Junior Infants we will also be covering time and money. The children will develop an understanding of the concept of time through the use of appropriate vocabulary and we will sequence daily events or stages in a story. They will learn to recognise and use coins (up to 5 cents) and solve practical tasks and problems using money.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that we are using:
More than, less than, same as, different, first, last, over, under, up, down, on, beside, in, morning, evening, night, day, lunchtime, bedtime, early, late, days of the week, schooldays, weekends, buy, sell, spend, coins, how much? Cent, enough, more, as many as, less
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
Use concrete materials and pictorial images to compare, order and combine sets.
Use images of queues. Who is first, last etc.
Story sequencing: first, second etc.
Count sets of objects (concrete and pictorial)
Draw sets of objects.
Assign correct numeral to a set.
Draw, colour, paint numerals.
Make numerals out of marla.
Trace numerals, write numerals using a dot as a starting point.
Listen to, solve and tell simple number stories/oral problems, 0-5.
Discuss a daily routine or sequence of events using appropriate time vocabulary.
Play shopping games with food items labelled 1c-5c.
Junior Infants
During the month of January junior infant children are learning how to classify objects on the basis of one attribute, identify the complement of a set, match equivalent and non-equivalent sets using one-to-one correspondence, compare objects according to length etc. They are also learning to compare sets without counting, order objects according to length, height etc. and to order sets without counting. The children will be counting the number of objects in a set 1-10, they will be using the language of ordinal number, identifying the empty set and the numeral zero and combining number. The children will develop an understanding of the concept of time through the use of appropriate language and they will sequence daily events or stages in a story.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that we are using:
More than, less than, same as, different, first, last, over, under, up, down, on, beside, in, morning, evening, night, day, lunchtime, bedtime, early, late, days of the week, schooldays, weekends.
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
Order objects according to length, width, height, weight.
Compare and order sets of objects which has more, less.
Order number cards on the table.
Clap the number.
Bingo.
Number rhymes.
Counting forwards and backwards.
Counting before after a given number.
Sequence events in familiar rhymes or stories orally.
Drawing or colouring the sequence of events in a story.
Junior Infants
During the month of December, Junior Infant children will be learning about classifying objects on the basis of one attribute e.g. colour, identifying the complement of a set (i.e. elements not in a set), matching, comparing objects according to length/weight etc, comparing sets without counting, ordering objects according to length or height, ordering sets without counting, counting, combining, partitioning, number, spatial relations and 3D shape.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning: More than,less than,same as,different, first,last, over, under, up, down, on, beside, in, shape, square, circle, triangle, rectangle, roll, do not roll, fit, do not fit, round, not round, thick, thin, long, short, tall, wide, narrow, longer, shorter, wider than.
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
- Game
Play hopscotch with your child using nos. 1-10. Practice counting forwards and backwards. Find numbers written on signs, in books or on the television.
- Problem Solving
Sort and order sets of concrete materials based on shape, coloured objects, textured objects and different sized objects.
Compare sets of objects as having more, less, smaller, bigger than without counting.
Order sets of concrete materials according to length or height.
Order sets of objects by quantity without counting.
Counting rhymes and songs based on numbers 1-10.
Counting forwards using physical activity-seven stomps, three claps etc.
During the month of November, Junior Infant children will be learning about 2D shapes in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Square, circle, straight line, curved line, point, corner
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
- Game
Ask your child to walk/run/crawl/roll etc. in a straight line, curved line, mixture of both.
Ask your child to make squares using straws, lollipop sticks or similar.
- Problem Solving
See if your child can find the corners in a room, identify the shape of a table, door, windows, room etc.
During the month of October Junior Infant children will be learning about matching, sorting, comparing, ordering, counting and length in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Same, different, belongs, does not belong, goes with, join, match, belong, set, draw, correct, wrong, blue, red, yellow, green, partner, pair, choose, together, How many?, how many are left? big, bigger, small, smaller, tall, taller, long, short, shorter, wide, wider than, narrow, light, heavy, row, pair, more than, less than, first, last, second, third, fourth, fifth, numbers 1-10
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
- Game
I spy with my little eye something _____ (colour)
- Problem Solving
Compare sets of objects as having more/less, smaller/bigger than without counting.
Make sets using marla that are longer, shorter, thinner, wider, heavier/lighter than and smaller/bigger than.
Colour comparative images using criteria such as having more/less, smaller/bigger, longer, shorter, thinner, wider, heavier and lighter than.
Order sets of concrete materials according to length/height or by quantity without counting.
Counting rhymes and songs based on numbers 1-10.
Counting forwards or counting sets of materials such as cubes, bears, and links.
Make snakes from playdough to explore length.
Sort and classify sets of objects by one criterion e.g. colour or size.
Match objects e.g. cubes.
Junior Infants
During the month of September Junior Infant children will be learning about matching, classifying and ordering sets without counting, comparing objects e.g. according to size, length etc. and patterns in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Pairs, same, different, family, size, big, small, bigger, smaller, biggest, smallest, tall, taller, short, shorter, long/longer, wide/wider, medium, animal, match, belongs/does not belong with, goes with, join, match, draw, talk about, pick out, find, choose, together, point to, blue, red, green, yellow, colour, set, correct, wrong, partner, pair, row, more than/less than, look at, show me, find, ring, enough, smaller amount, same amount, continue, finish, copy, next, after, shape, pattern.
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
- Game
I spy with my little eye something _____ (colour)
- Problem Solving
How many pots in the cupboard? How many doors in the house?
Matching socks, cubes, lego blocks etc.
Sort cubes, lego blocks according to colour etc. Talk about which set has more/less cubes without counting.
Make patterns using counters etc.
Junior infants
During the month of June junior infant children will be learning about money. We will learn to recognise and use one, two and five cent coins. We will continue to learn about combining numbers, moving on from concrete materials to pictures and finally numbers.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
One cent, two cent, five cent, how much?, how much more? enough / not enough, costs, how much altogether, buy.
Maths activities:
- Find the coins hidden around the room.
- Say what the coin is when shown.
- Match coins to the correct piggy bank.
- Shop role play – have you got enough? How much more do you need?
During the month of May junior infant children will be learning about shapes. We will continue to learn about partitioning numbers.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Sides, corners, straight lines, curved lines, triangle, circle, rectangle, square, sort, break up the set, how many on one side / how many on the other?
Maths activities:
- Find corners in rooms and on objects.
- Walk in a straight / curved line.
- Play games with the attributes of shapes:
I have four corners and four sides that are the same – what shape am I?
Find me a shape with three sides.
Hide shapes in bags – can you guess what it is by feeling it?
- Make shapes using straw / string.
- Counting rhymes and songs
During the month of April junior infant children will be learning about capacity, weight, 2D shapes, ordinal number and the number zero and we will also be reviewing sets of numbers.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning
Empty, full, holds more than, holds less than, heavy, light, heavier than, lighter than, triangle, circle, rectangle, square, sort, zero, nothing, empty set, missing number, first and last.
Maths activities:
- Making things full / empty by exploring materials.
- Sorting things that are full or empty.
- Find things that hold more / less.
- Exploring sets – which has more / less?
- Feeling things and saying if they are heavy or light.
- Sorting things as heavy or light.
- Finding heavier or lighter things.
- Playing games to name the 2D shapes.
- I spy a 2D shape …. finding shapes in the environment.
- Making sets of numbers – including sets with nothing in them.
- Who is first / last in the line?
-Counting rhymes and songs
-Simple number stories
During the month of March junior infant children are learning about the number five and revisiting numbers one, two, three and four. We are learning to describe the numbers and matching the correct numeral to a set. We are also learning to add one more to a set.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that we are using:
Curved, straight, one, two, three, four, five, around, down, across, set, match, belongs with, enough, the same as, more, less, count, together, make sets, same amount
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
Making sets of one/two/three/four and five: Place household objects/foods on the table eg. Pegs/apples/pears/toys etc. Have three plates on the table in a row. Ask child to put four pegs on the first plate, four apples on the second plate and four toys on the last plate. Each plate has a set of four objects.
Looking for groups of one/two/three/four/five in the environment: ‘I saw four dogs,’ ‘I saw five rabbits,’ ‘I saw the number three in the supermarket.’ ‘I saw the number 2 on a car registration’
Setting for four: Ask your child to set the table at home for four people-four cups, four saucers, four plates, four knives, four forks, four spoons.
Setting for five: Ask your child to set the table at home for five people-five cups, five saucers, five plates, five knives, five forks, five spoons.
Problem Solving
Ask your child to show you where s/he might see the numbers one/two/ three/ four and five around them e.g. calendar, doors, streets, mobile/landline phones, prices in the supermarket, calculators, car registration plates etc.
Songs/Poetry: –Here are examples of songs you can sing with your child:
The animals went in Two by Two
The Animals Went in Three by Three
The Animals Went in Four by Four
The Animals went in Five by Five
You tube: Sesame Street-The number 4 song
During the month of February junior infant children are learning about the numbers three and four. We are matching the correct number to a set
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that we are using:
Curved, straight, one, two, three, four, around, down, across, set, match, belongs with, enough, the same as, more, less, count, together, make sets, same amount
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
Making sets of four: Place household objects/foods on the table eg. Pegs/apples/pears/toys etc. Have three plates on the table in a row. Ask child to put four pegs on the first plate, four apples on the second plate and four toys on the last plate. Each plate has a set of four objects.
Looking for groups of four in the environment: ‘I saw four dogs,’ ‘I saw four rabbits,’ ‘I saw the number four in the supermarket.’
Setting for four: Ask your child to set the table at home for four people-four cups, four saucers, four plates, four knives, four forks, four spoons.
Setting for three: Ask your child to set the table at home for three people-three cups, three saucers, three plates, three knives, three forks, three spoons.
Problem Solving
Ask your child to show you where s/he might see the numbers three and four around them e.g. calendar, doors, streets, mobile/landline phones, prices in the supermarket, calculators, car registration plates etc.
Encourage your child to think about things that come in fours e.g wheels on a car, legs on a table/chair etc
Songs/Poetry: –Here are examples of songs you can sing with your child:
The Animals Went in Three by Three
The Animals Went in Three by Three, Horrah, Horrah x2
The animals went in three by three
The wasp, the ant and the bumblebee
And they all went into the ark, for to get out of the rain
The Animals Went in Four by Four
The Animals Went in Four by Four, Horrah, Horrah x2
The animals went in four by four
The great hippopotamus stuck in the door
And they all went into the ark, for to get out of the rain
Down and Over
Down and over
and down some more
That’s the way
to make a four.
You tube: Sesame Street-The number 4 song
During the month of January junior infant children are learning about the numbers two and three. We are matching the correct number to a set
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that we are using:
Curved, straight, one, two, three, around, down, across, set, match, belongs with, enough, the same as, more, less, count, together, make sets, same amount
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
Matching pairs: Match pairs of socks and shoes at home
Looking for groups of two in the environment: ‘I saw two dogs,’ ‘I saw two rabbits,’ ‘I saw the number two in the supermarket.’
Setting for two: Ask your child to set the table at home for two people-two cups, two saucers, two plates, two knives, two forks, two spoons.
Stories: Read and discuss the following fairytales-Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Setting for three: Ask your child to set the table at home for three people-three cups, three saucers, three plates, three knives, three forks, three spoons.
Problem Solving
Ask your child to show you where s/he might see the numbers two and three around them e.g. calendar, doors, streets, mobile/landline phones, prices in the supermarket, calculators, car registration plates etc.
Songs/Poetry: –Here are examples of songs you can sing with your child:
Two Little Dickie Birds Sitting On The Wall
Two Little Dickie Birds Sitting On The Wall
One named Peter, one named Paul
Fly away Peter, fly away Paul
Come back Peter, come back Paul
Come back dickie birds sitting on the wall
The Animals Went in Two by Two
The Animals Went in Two by Two, Horrah, Horrah x2
The animals went in two by two
The elephant and the kangaroo
And they all went into the ark, for to get out of the rain
The Animals Went in Three by Three
The Animals Went in Three by Three, Horrah, Horrah x2
The animals went in three by three
The wasp, the ant and the bumblebee
And they all went into the ark, for to get out of the rain
Three Blind Mice
Three blind mice x2
See how they run x2
They all ran after the Farmers wife
Who cut off their tail with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a thing in your life, as three blind mice
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Hickory, dickory dock
Tick tock, tick tock
Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck two
The mouse said boo
Hickory, dickory dock
Tick tock, tick tock
Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck three
The mouse said weeeeee!
Hickory, dickory dock
Tick tock, tick tock
During the month of December, Junior Infant children will be learning about patterns and number in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning: pattern, copy, finish (continue), next, after, colour, shape, size, one, a set of one, straight line, down
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
- Game
Play hopscotch with your child using nos. 1-10. Practice counting forwards and backwards. Find the number one written on signs, in books or on the television.
- Problem Solving
Ask your child to look at wallpaper, carpet, lino and see if they can find any patterns. What is the pattern? How many colours are there?
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During the month of November, Junior Infant children will be learning about 2D shapes in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Square, circle, straight line, curved line, point, corner
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
- Game
Ask your child to walk/run/crawl/roll etc. in a straight line, curved line, mixture of both.
Ask your child to make squares using straws, lollipop sticks or similar.
- Problem Solving
See if your child can find the corners in a room, identify the shape of a table, door, windows, room etc.
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During the month of October Junior Infant children will be learning about matching & classifying in their maths lessons.
Maths Language – Here is the vocabulary that the children will be learning:
Same, different, belongs, does not belong, goes with, join, match, belong, set, draw, correct, wrong, blue, red, yellow, green, partner, pair, choose, together, How many?, how many are left? big, bigger, small, smaller, tall, taller, short, shorter, row, pair.
Practical games and activities – Here are some games to play at home:
- Game
I spy with my little eye something _____ (colour)
- Problem Solving
How many windows in the room? How many chairs, how many legs on the table?