by admin | Jul 7, 2012 | 1st/2nd, Infants, Music
I recently asked on the Seomra Ranga Facebook Page for suggestions of classroom songs/rhymes to the tune of “Frere Jacques”. I got plenty of suggestions from teachers. I also came across some others on the internet. These are the ones that we gathered in...
by admin | Jul 5, 2012 | Bibliography, Infants, Poetry, Teaching News
I accidentally came across this book of rhymes on the internet while looking for something else. There are 24 pages of rhymes, songs, nursery rhymes, hello and goodbye rhymes, fingerplays, action rhymes and lap rhymes. It comes from the Henrico County Public Libraries...
by admin | Jul 5, 2012 | Rang I
Hóra a Pháid – Ceacht 28: Na Pictiúir; cuid de chúrsa comhrá Gaeilge le haghaidh Rang I, á chur le chéile ag an Roinn Oideachais blianta ó shin. Obair digiteach déanta ag Seomra Ranga i mbliana. B’fhéidir go bhfuil cuid den acmhainn seo “as dáta”, ach bain úsáid as in...
by admin | Jul 4, 2012 | Teaching News
I wrote a Blog Post some time ago about how, after being challenged by Pam Moran and Ira Socol at the ICT in Education Conference in Tipperary to make a change in our classrooms to make the space more conducive to learning, I created a new Learning Space in my...
by admin | Jul 4, 2012 | Rang I
Hóra a Pháid – Ceacht 29: Ag an mBus; cuid de chúrsa comhrá Gaeilge le haghaidh Rang I, á chur le chéile ag an Roinn Oideachais blianta ó shin. Obair digiteach déanta ag Seomra Ranga i mbliana. B’fhéidir go bhfuil cuid den acmhainn seo “as dáta”, ach bain úsáid as in...
by admin | Jul 4, 2012 | Technology
I’m doing the NCTE summer course on Scratch Programming and Numeracy in Senior Primary Classes this week. I’d heard and read a lot about Scratch over the years but knew virtually nothing about how to work it or how it could be used in the classroom....
by admin | Jul 3, 2012 | Rang I
Hóra a Pháid – Ceacht 31: An Sú; cuid de chúrsa comhrá Gaeilge le haghaidh Rang I, á chur le chéile ag an Roinn Oideachais blianta ó shin. Obair digiteach déanta ag Seomra Ranga i mbliana. B’fhéidir go bhfuil cuid den acmhainn seo “as dáta”, ach bain úsáid as in aon...
by admin | Jul 3, 2012 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, Number
This resource (subtraction doubles) is a handy bookmark size to keep in a maths book/copy to remind pupils of the set of tables that they are learning in any particular week. There are two bookmarks on a page. If you find that the bookmark is still too large, set your...
by admin | Jul 3, 2012 | Rang I
Hóra a Pháid – Ceacht 32: Ainmhithe Feirme; cuid de chúrsa comhrá Gaeilge le haghaidh Rang I, á chur le chéile ag an Roinn Oideachais blianta ó shin. Obair digiteach déanta ag Seomra Ranga i mbliana. B’fhéidir go bhfuil cuid den acmhainn seo “as dáta”, ach bain úsáid...
by admin | Jul 3, 2012 | Technology
Some months ago, infant teacher Mary Jo Bell wrote a Guest Post on this blog about Infants and ICT which was well received at the time. Mary Jo has now teamed up with the National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) to produce a great video demonstrating the...
by admin | Jul 2, 2012 | Teaching News
The INTO has reported that the Education Amendment Act 2012 has been passed by the Oireachtas and signed by the President. As well as a number of other issues, the Act allows the DES and Teaching Council to exchange data in order to compile lists of registered and...
by admin | Jul 1, 2012 | Resources Websites
The Literacy Shed is a new website that has been online only a couple of weeks but it is getting great reviews from many in the online education community and is building up a large following. The reason is that it is providing great inspiration, ideas and...
by admin | Jun 30, 2012 | Technology, Video
Some time ago Catherine Cronin, academic coordinator of online IT programmes and lecturer in IT at the National University of Ireland, Galway, asked me to take part in a video showcasing technology being used in Irish classrooms. Along with a number of other Irish...
by admin | Jun 29, 2012 | Teaching News
Two days ago, the Minister for Education and Skills, Mr Ruairí Quinn T.D., announced that all pupils transitioning from primary school to post-primary will be accompanied by an “Education Passport” from this coming September. He wants the end of year...
by admin | Jun 10, 2012 | Technology, Video
I attended a workshop given by John Heffernan at the recent ICT in Education Conference in the Thurles campus of LIT on “A Brief History of the Near Future” where he looked at predictions of what the technologies of the future might look like. One of the...
