Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors “Seomra Ranga” means “classroom” in the Irish language.
Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources. The resources on the site, which support all areas of the curriculum, are arranged in accordance with the curricular provisions of the Irish primary school….
Seomra Ranga Goes French
In the first of the new developments on the site, Seomra Ranga has branched out and has provided new resources in French for schools involved in the teaching of French at primary level. Initially, resources provided for download include Les Jours de la Semaine (Days of the Week), Les Mois (The Months of the Year), Les Saisons (The Seasons), Les Nombres (Numbers), Les Couleurs (Colours) and Les Animaux (Animals). It is hoped to develop the number of French resources available over the coming months. Special thanks to my colleague, Siobhán Buckley, for kindly doing the translation work. If you are involved in the teaching of French in the primary school, perhaps you would consider sharing some resources with others on this site. Simply e-mail the resources to the site as an attachment at info@seomraranga.com and I’ll place the resources on the site immediately. All of the new French resources are free to download.
New Year – New Resources
Happy New Year to all the visitors to the Seomra Ranga website. It’s been a busy year for the site so far with the December visitor numbers topping the previous monthly figures. Since the new year, lots more new resources have been added to the site. New posters and signs include the following:
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Describing Characters
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Writing Sentences
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Thinking Chair
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Provinces of Ireland
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Cúigí na hÉireann
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Roman Numerals
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Winter Vocabulary
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Focail Ardmhinicíochta
It’s hoped to develop the site and introduce some new sections over the next few months, so hopefully there will be lots more free resources for teachers to download in the very near future.
Christmas Greetings
Best wishes at Christmas to all the visitors to the Seomra Ranga website. Thanks for your support, positive comments during the year and thanks again to those who took the trouble to upload resources to the site. Enjoy the well earned rest over the Christmas period. Hopefully in 2009, the site will continue to develop and provide more resources for use in the primary school classroom. Suggestions are always welcome, so if you have an idea to develop the site, please contact me through the site.
Seomra Ranga Goes Spanish
Seomra Ranga has branched out and has provided new resources in Spanish for schools involved in the teaching of Spanish at primary level. Initially, resources provided for download include Días de la Semana (Days of the Week), Los meses del ano (The Months of the Year), Las Estaciones (The Seasons), Numeros (Numbers). It is hoped to develop the amount of Spanish resources available over the coming months. Special thanks in this regard go to Erin Ní Riain, firstly for suggesting the idea of Spanish resources, and secondly for kindly doing all the translation work. The resources can be downloaded freely.
Website
Seomra Ranga reached another milestone yesterday as the number of visitors to the site reached the 100,000 mark. The site has been online since September 2007 and the amount of free classroom resources on the site has been steadily growing. So too has the number of visitors to the site been steadily growing, especially over the last few months. As the site celebrated its first birthday in September 2008, it also had the highest monthly visitors since the site started. However this figure was surpassed in October 2008 when there were more than 22,000 visitors to the site, literally from all over the world. And it looks like this figure will again be surpassed for the month of November, during which the number of visitors reached the 100,000 mark. As the number of free resources on the site continues to grow, hopefully the number of visitors to the site will also continue to grow.
Best regards to all the visitors to the site. I hope that you find the Seomra Ranga resources suitable and practical for the classroom. As always, I’d like to appeal to more of the site visitors to search through your desktop and to share any of your own resources with the rest of the teaching community on the Seomra Ranga website.
New Christmas Website
A new Seomra Ranga website has just been launched. The Christmas @ Seomra Ranga website is dedicated to Christmas resources for use in the primary school classroom. Among the many resources contained on the site are:
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Christmas posters and signs
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Seasonal flashcards with Christmas vocabulary in English and Gaeilge
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Cártaí Lúibe (Loop Cards)
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Visual Arts lessons
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Religious resources
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Tin whistle notes for seasonal tunes
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Booklets of Christmas carols
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Christmas Quizzes
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Vocabulary Word Walls
All of these resources can be downloaded for free from the website. As always, I would appreciate it that if you download a resource from the site that you upload another in return so that the bank of resources van be expanded. Visit the site at:
Gaeilge Resources
Scríobh Leabhar 2008
Fuair gach bunscoil sa tír an CD seo le déanaí. CD le haghaidh ríomhaire é atá lán le leabhair Ghaeilge scíobhtha ag daltaí bunscoile ó Ranganna Naíonáin go Rang VI. Is féidir na leabhair atá ar an CD a chur ar do chruadhiosca agus dá bhrí sin beidh gach rang sa scoil ábalta féachaint ar na leabhair. Tá an CD an-úsáideach má tá CBI (clár bhána idirghníomhaíochta) agat chun na leabhair a léamh leis na daltaí agus chun iad a spreagadh chun a leabhair féin a chruthú.
Is áis sár-mhaith é an CD seo. Léiríonn sé gur féidir le daltaí bunscoile, fiú daltaí sna ranganna naíonáin, an Ghaeilge a úsáid i mbealach taitneamhnach, suimiúil agus spreagúil. Is féidir le múinteoirí na leabhair ar an CD a úsáid mar áis teagaisc mar is iad na téamaí atá in a lán leabhair, na téamaí céanna atá luaite sa churaclam. Mar sin, má tá an múinteoir ag déanamh obair faoin téama “Bia”, is féidir féachaint ar an CD chun leabhair faoi bhia a fháil. Beidh na daltaí ag léamh faoin téama bia agus ansin, diaidh ar ndiaidh, beidh siad spreagtha chun a leabhair féin a chruthú.
Cé nach bhfaca tú an CD sa scoil, cuir ceist ar an príomhoide chun a fháil amach an bhfuair an scoil cóip. Tá tuile eolais le fáil ón gréasán don Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta & Gaelscolaíochta. Tá cuid de na leabhair le feiceáil ansin freisin:
