Walker Éireann Book Competition
Walker Éireann have again kindly sponsored three book packs as Gaeilge as prizes for a competition on the site. Walker Éireann, an imprint of Walker Books, has again teamed up with Foras na Gaeilge and translated another four of their most popular picture books by Irish authors into Gaeilge. Walker Éireann has chosen some well-known books by four brilliant authors and illustrators – Martin Waddell, Sam McBratney, Michael Rosen and Niamh Sharkey – to be translated into Gaeilge. All of the books have been translated by well-known author and illustrator Gabriel Rosenstock. The purpose of the Walker Éireann imprint is to be both a way to celebrate these great authors’ work, and to build the perfect Irish language library for little ones. read more…
Sentence Builders – Faces
These sentence builder activities, featuring smiley faces, are suitable for younger pupils and special needs pupils who are starting on the road to reading. It teaches left to right orientation, capital letters and full stops. They are also reinforcing numbers 1-3 and the colours yellow, green and red.
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Ministers Launch History Lesson Plans
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., and the Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan T.D., today jointly launched new History lesson plans for primary schools. The History lesson plans are based on A History of Ireland in 100 Objects, the collaborative project involving the National Museum of Ireland, The Irish Times and the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). This is also available as a mobile app which featured on this site last March. read more…
Maths Sentence Builders: Hats
These maths sentence builder activities, featuring winter hats, are suitable for younger pupils and special needs pupils who are starting on early number activities. It teaches left to right orientation, number recognition and addition. They deal with the addition of the numbers 0 to 3.
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Just Listen
This resource is just a reminder to all that when in the classroom, special education room, Learning Support Room or elsewhere in the school, when one person is speaking, the other should be listening!
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Indoor Voice
This resource is just a reminder to all that when in the classroom, special education room, Learning Support Room or in the school library, we use our “Indoor Voices”!
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Quiet Please
This resource is just a reminder of when it is quiet time in the classroom, special education room, Learning Support Room or in the school library.
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Guest Post: Book Creator App
If you use an iPad in your class, then spending €4.49 on the Book Creator App will be the best money you will spend. You should be warned that this will be a very enthusiastic review of an amazing app. Many schools I have spoken to about buying iPads are under a mistaken belief that iPads need to be filled with apps to be useful. I can honestly say that there are about 4 or 5 I use on a regular basis and Book Creator is used on a daily basis read more…
Science Week 2013 Table Quiz
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34 Things To Do With A Novel
This resource contains 34 different suggestions of activities that can be done when doing a novel in class. They cover different writing genres, some creative art work as well as suggestions of websites and apps that could be used to enhance the experience of responding to a novel.
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