by admin | Apr 18, 2018 | Book Reviews
This book is aimed to captivate the post Montessori pupils. It is a very creative, fun and descriptive story. The story is about a leprechaun couple and a spider. It exemplifies the mantra of ‘Never judge a book by its cover’. The story is written by Seamus O’Conaill...
by admin | Apr 17, 2018 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Oral Work
Teachers regularly do a topic of work on people who help us in our community. This oral language resource will be helpful when working on this topic. It consists of 20 oral language cards where pupils have to work out who the worker is from the given language clues....
by admin | Apr 16, 2018 | Book Reviews
Ó thaobh litríochta agus ealaíne, is leabhair álainn é seo. Thosnaíos á léamh le mo rang sinsir (4ú go 6ú) tar éis aonad faoin mbéaloideas. Chomh maith le sin táim tar éis an leabhair a úsáid mar bhunús de roinnt ranganna ealaíne agus dánta. Ta sceitseanna Olivia...
by admin | Apr 16, 2018 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Oral Work
This resource contains a set of 50 questions beginning with “Is”. Its aim is to focus in on one particular type of question and to help pupils to construct appropriate sentences as answers. It could be used with pupils in junior and middle classes or with pupils with...
by admin | Apr 16, 2018 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Scríbhneoireacht
Sa chomhad seo tá foclóir ag baint le gairmeacha beatha. Tá an foclóir go léir ar aon bhileog amháin. Bheadh sé oiriúnach do dhaltaí a bhéas ag déanamh scríbhneoireacht cruthaitheach sa seomra ranga nó ag déanamh saorscríbhneoireacht. Tá cóip lán daite agus tá cóip...
by admin | Apr 15, 2018 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Oral Work
This resource is aimed at younger pupils or pupils with speech and language difficulties. It presents pairs of words which are almost similar in pronunciation. The pupil is required to say each word in every pair aloud making sure they pronounce them properly and...
by admin | Apr 15, 2018 | Book Reviews
This story is about our President going to Dublin Castle and forgetting his glasses. The President’s pigeon must fly across Dublin and give them back to him. I liked it because it’s about our President and a pigeon. I loved the full-coloured pictures and when the...
by admin | Apr 15, 2018 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Grammar, Reading
This resource is to help pupils understand how two words can be put together to make a contraction. Contractions regularly occur in reading material so it is important that pupils understand how they are made up and where that dreaded apostrophe goes! There are two...
by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | 3rd/4th, AEN, Grammar, Reading
This resource is to help pupils understand how two words can be put together to make a new word called a “compound word”. Compound words regularly occur in reading material so it is important that pupils understand how they are made up. It is suggested that all three...
by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | Book Reviews
I found this book really enjoyable, funny and witty. I am not usually a big fan of football books, but this book might have changed that! It has a really great storyline and plot with lots of twists and turns. All the characters are very realistic. I liked that it is...
by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Phonics
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or those pupils with speech and language difficulties. It focuses on the “G” sound in all positions – initial, medial and final and contains 102 individual sound cards. In each file, there are two...
by admin | Apr 11, 2018 | Book Reviews
Book title: Tiger Boots; Author: Joe O’Brien. 1. Summary: Danny is an amazing footballer but one day his Dad comes home looking upset. Danny asks him what’s up and it turns out his Dad’s best friend’s daughter, Clara, has been diagnosed with...
by admin | Apr 11, 2018 | Book Reviews
In this book the author aims to give the reader insights into three revolutions in three different countries through three different characters. In my opinion she executes this in a manner King Louis 16th of France would be proud of! In Boston in the 1780s there is...
by admin | Apr 8, 2018 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, Writing
This fun literacy-based resource is aimed at pupils in middle standards. Pupils are given an alphabet code where each letter of the alphabet is represented by a random number 1-26. Pupils are then given sentences with a word missing – the missing word is written in...
by admin | Apr 8, 2018 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, Writing
This fun literacy-based resource is aimed at pupils in middle standards. Pupils are given an alphabet code where each letter of the alphabet is represented by a random number 1-26. Pupils are then given sentences with a word missing – the missing word is...
