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I hope the activities I have selected will be suitable for the children who attend the Learning Support Class. I have tried to post a broad range of work to suit all ages.
Please pick those suitable for your child, remembering this work is in addition to class work.
Just do what is possible considering the pressures of everyday life .




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Activities to Promote Wellbeing.


​How to deal with our anger.
Learn techniques to control ones feelings.
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Use these breathing methods to calm oneself when stressed, angry or upset.
Take a break to breath.
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Colouring Focus Sheets: When you need "time out" and in need of a quiet activity.
Get a parent to print these sheets for you to colour.

Mindfulness Focus Sheets
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Activities to enjoy if you are feeling over worked or stressed. 
Take a break and attempt some of the exercises in the file below.
You might enjoy them!
Sensory Brain Break
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For children who need movement before settling to do school work/homework.
Download the pages, print and assemble the dice.
Now roll the dice and attempt the exercises. 
Try at least five and you will be ready to concentrate on your school work.
 Gross Motor Exercises for you to enjoy before starting school work/homework. 
Gross Motor Exercises
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Time for a Movement Break

Select some of the exercises and you will be ready to work!

Time for a Movement Break
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 Mindfulness Focus Sheets.
Print and complete to help with your feelings.
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Literacy Activities 
Literacy Activity: Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words
Pre-Primer Sight Words
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Literacy Activity: Dolch Primer Words
Primer Sight Words
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Literacy Activity: Dolch Grade 1 Words.
Dolch Grade 1 Words
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Literacy Activity: Dolch Grade 2 Words
Dolch Words Grade 2
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Literacy Activity: Dolch Grade 3 Words
Scanning Activity to find high frequency words.
​Lists 1 & 2
scan these lists to find high frequency words.
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Scanning Activity to find high frequency words.
​Lists 3 & 4.
scan these lists and find the high frequency words
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​Comprehension Strategy: Fact and Opinion

It is important to recognise in a text what is a fact versus what is someone's opinion. We must ensure to check that what is presented to us is a true fact and not fake news.
Try some of these exercises to help you develop this comprehension skill.

Fact and Opinion
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Suggested Answers to Fact and Opinion Guided Reading Task Cards.
Card 1: Fact: There are two boys sitting on the floor.
             Opinion: They built the castle using lego.

Card 2: Fact: It is not raining in this picture.
             Opinion: The artist is famous.

Card 3: Fact: This boy can count to 10.
             Opinion: This boy loves maths, it's his favourite subject.

Card 4: Fact: this is a baby.
             Opinion: It is summer time as the baby is dressed in a baby grow.

Card 5: Fact: The fish is attached to the little finger of a left hand.
              Opinion: The fish is fake and made from rubber.

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Comprehension Strategy: Inference
A most important strategy to use in our reading of texts.
We must be able to use the material presented to infer other details.
Not all answers to questions will be obvious in a text, so we must learn to use the facts/information before us to infer a suitable, intelligent answer.
Try some of  these exercises to develop this comprehension skill.
comprehension strategy : Inference
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  • Suggested answers to Inference Guided Reading Task Cards.

  • Card 1: Picture of Mountains.
  • I see a mountaineer in the picture but I suspect there are more resting in the tent as it is dangerous to climb mountains on ones own. It may be safer to climb with others.
  • I think it is cold as the temperature drops a degree for every 100 meters you climb. So warm, rainproof clothing is essential.
  • He must feel elated as he is near the summit of the mountain.
  • Maybe this is the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest which is 8848.86 metres high. Maybe this was an ambition of the climber to one day scale this mountain.


Card 2: Picture of a child .

  • I see a child whose hair is wet with shampoo, so I suspect he is in a bath.
  • The child looks pretty happy.
  • One does not wear a top in a bath!


Card 3: Picture of a group of musicians.
  • These men are busking which means they are playing music outside for others to enjoy. They seek financial support by placing a box/hat on the ground to encourage people who pass by to place some coins into it, helping them earn a living. Buskers often sell a CD of their music. You would often see buskers in large cities like Dublin, maybe on Grafton Street.
  • I would suspect they are singing.
  • They look happy so they must feel cheerful and content.
  • I suspect they are playing popular music, maybe pop/classical/ traditional Irish music as they would wish for their music to be appreciated by many, thus earning them more money. The instruments they are playing include a banjo, guitar and a cello, all  instruments where a wide variety of music could be played.
 My answers indicate that there is no one answer but indeed many, based on your own inference. We use logic, our knowledge from our experiences and our intellect to suggest reasonable answers.
I hope you did well with your answers.
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Comprehension Strategy: Author's Purpose.
An author writes for many reasons:
  • to persuade or convince the reader to do or believe something ( advertisements: Buy a product)
  • to inform or tell the reader more information about a topic (History/Geography topics at school)
  • to entertain the reader with an interesting or funny story (fiction/non-fiction stories).


Try the following exercises to see if you can tell the purpose behind the texts.
What is the reason behind an author's writing.
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Maths Activities.
Fun Activity to reinforce short multiplication: Suitable for Rang 3-4
multiplication Dice Game
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Multiplication Dice Game 2
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multiplication dice game 3
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What number am I thinking of ?
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Tricky Sums but a good Challenge.
Sum number 1: Go to the end of the sum which is 369.
You are then going to work backwards and do the reverse operation to what you are being asked.
So if you are asked to add, then you subtract.
If you are asked to multiply, then you divide.

So here is the answer to number 1.
Start a the end number which is 369.
Add 6 to make 375.
Divide by 5 which makes 75
Subtract 5 which makes 70.
Divide by 7 which makes 10.
So the number I am thinking of is 10.
Problem Solving Challenge Cards: Suitable for Rang 2-4.
Challenge Cards: Problem Solving:
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Working Memory Activities.
​Suitable for all children attending learning support class.
Number Recall Cards
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Working Memory Activity 2 

Remember the Sentences
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Working Memory Activity 3
Naming items
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Working Memory Activity 4
Working Memory Activity: Listen & Do
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Answers to Working Memory Activity: Listen & Do
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Answers to Listen & do
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Working Memory Activity
Listen to all words and then repeat from memory.
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