Friday 11 October 2019

A bheil thu ag iarraidh......? (2)

We continued looking at the same phrases as last week.

A bheil thu ag iarraidh.....? (A vel oo ag ee-ar-ee.....) - Do you want........?

Tha / Chan eil (ha / chan yel) - Yes / No

Tha mi ag iarraidh.... (ha me ag ee-ar-ee.......) - I want....

Chan eil mi ag iarraidh..... (chan yel me ag ee-ar-ee......) - do not want....

Taois (Tish) - Playdough

Remember a couple of weeks ago we talked about how the ‘ao’ sound is a longer sound than just an English ‘i’, so the word taois actually sounds more like ‘tiiiish’ phonetically! Also, taois isn’t just the word for playdough. You would also use it to talk about dough in general, like if you were making bread.

Instead of a craft this week we played with our playdough. We also all got a little bag of it to take home with us too.



At song time we sang ‘Nigh do làmhan salach’ again.

Nigh do làmhan salach (nyee do lavan salach)
Nigh do làmhan salach (nyee do lavan salach)
Sgrìob, scròb, scrìob, scròb (screeb, scrob, screeb, scrob)
Agus Nigh do làmhan salach (agus nyee do lavan salach)

Wash your dirty hands
Wash your dirty hands
Scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub
And wash your dirty hands.

We had lots of requests from people for the recipe we use for our playdough. As it happens, one of our groups made a little video showing you how to make this playdough a few months ago. It’s taken us until now to get round to editing it, but we think it’s been worth waiting for!





Friday 4 October 2019

A bheil thu ag iarraidh.....?

This week we learned a few phrases that are useful at snack time.

A bheil thu ag iarraidh ......? (a vel oo ag ee-ar-ee .....) - Do you want........?

Tha / Chan eil (ha / chan yel) - Yes / No

Tha mi ag iarraidh..... (ha me ag ee-ar-ee......) - I want.....

Bainne (ban-ye) - Milk

Uisge (ish-ge) - Water

You may also hear Bainne pronounced bon-ye and not ban-ye. As in English there are occasional variations in how some words are pronounced depending on where the speaker is from. 


At craft time we cut out pictures of a selection of snacks and stuck them onto a picture of a plate. We also put the correct words beside each snack.

Then at snack time we were able to put our new words and phrases straight to use when asking what everyone wanted to eat and drink.

Our song this week was, Nigh do làmhan salach (Nyee doh lavan salach) - Wash your dirty hands.

Nigh do làmhan salach (nyee doh lavan salach)
Nigh do làmhan salach (nyee doh lavan salach)
Nigh do làmhan salach (nyee doh lavan salach)
Sgrìob, scròb, scrìob, sgròb (screeb, scrob, screeb, scrob)
Agus nigh do làmhan salach. (Agus nyee doh lavan salach)

Wash your dirty hands
Wash your dirty hands
Scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub
And wash your dirty hands.


Our handout is available here to download if you missed this week’s sessions and would like your own copy.







Àireamhan 2

For our second week looking at numbers we revised the words for the numbers up to ten.

Aon, dhà, trì, ceithir, còig, sia, seachd, ochd, naoi, deich.

Remember you can watch this clip here to hear how the numbers are pronounced if you need some help.

We also learned a couple of phrases relating to age.

Dè an aois a tha thu? (Jay an ish a ha oo) - What age are you?

Tha mi ......... bliadhna a dh’aois (Ha me ......... blee-an-ye a gish) - I am ......... years old.

We have added the phonetics as a rough guide to help you out with pronounciation, but hearing the words is a far better way to get the sounds correct. Sometimes it isn’t entirely possible to write how the sound sounds in English, like in the word ‘dh’aois’ above. The Gaelic ‘dh’ sound is softer than an English ‘g’ and is not a sound that has a comparable sound in English. Also in the word ‘aois’ we have written it as ‘ish’ phonetically, but the ‘i’ sound made by ‘ao’ in Gaelic is a longer sound. Maybe more like, ‘iiiish’. Just think of how you hear our school ‘Taobh na Pàirce’ pronounced and that might help you with the ‘ao’ sound.

Despite the difficulties in writing phonetically we thought it may be better to sometimes add them in when we don’t have a sound file to link to, especially when the spelling doesn’t give a non Gaelic speaker any clues about how it should be pronounced!


At craft time we made a picture collage of our own ages using a selection of materials - tissue paper, sequins, feathers....

Our songs were the same as last week. Firstly...

Aon, dhà, trì, ‘s toil leam fhìn tì,
(One, two three, I like tea)
‘S toil leam fhìn, ‘s toil leam fhìn 
(I like, I like)
Briosgaid agus tì.
(A biscuit and tea)

Ceithir, còig, sia, sia anns a’ chidsin
(Four, five, six, six in the kitchen)
Ag òl cupa tì
(Drinking a cup of tea)
Tì agus briosgaid
(Tea and a biscuit)


 And secondly Còig Tunnagan Beaga. You can listen to a version of Còig Tunnagan Beaga here.


Our handouts are available to download here if you missed this session of Cròileagan and would like your own copy.







Friday 20 September 2019

Àireamhan 1

This week we learned about numbers and counting up to ten. The Gaelic for number is Àireamh (ar-iv) and for numbers is Àireamhan (ar-iv-an)

The numbers are:

Aon, dhà, trì, ceithir, còig, sia, seachd, ochd, naoi, deich 

If you are looking for help in how to pronounce these then have a look at the clip here.

At craft time we made pictures of carrots with different numbers of leaves on them. The Gaelic for carrot is curran (coo-ran) and for carrots is curranan (coo-ran-an)



We had two songs to sing at circle time relating to numbers. The first of these was ‘Aon, dhà, trì ‘s toil leam fhìn tì’

Aon, dhà, trì, ‘s toil leam fhìn tì,
(One, two three, I like tea)
‘S toil leam fhìn, ‘s toil leam fhìn 
(I like, I like)
Briosgaid agus tì.
(A biscuit and tea)

Ceithir, còig, sia, sia anns a’ chidsin
(Four, five, six, six in the kitchen)
Ag òl cupa tì
(Drinking a cup of tea)
Tì agus briosgaid
(Tea and a biscuit)

Our second song was one that we sing often, ‘Còig Tunnagan Beaga’. If you want to listen to a version of this one you can hear it here  The tune that this clip sings it to is slightly different from the one we sing at Cròileagan but at least you can hear the pronounciation of the words in it if you need help with them.

Finally, you can download a copy of our handout for this week you can find one here.










Friday 13 September 2019

Dathan 2

This week we continued learning about colours.

At craft time we made clouds and rainbows, using that good old Cròileagan favourite - paper plates!



Our vocabulary was the same as last week:

Dè an dath a tha seo? - What colour is this?

Dearg - Red

Buidhe - Yellow

Gorm - Blue

Uaine - Green

Donn - Brown

Purpaidh - Purple

Glas - Grey

Orains - Orange

Dubh - Black

Pinc - Pink

If you need help with the pronounciation of these you can watch a clip here to help you out.

We also sang the same song as last week at circle time -  Dathan aig a bhogha-fhrois (Colours of the rainbow)


Our handouts are available to download here if you would like your own copy but weren’t at Cròileagan this week.





Wednesday 4 September 2019

Dathan

We’ve had lots of new families starting at Cròileagan since the start of term so we’ve decided to go back to basics for a few weeks.

Starting off with dathan (colours) this week.

Our vocabulary was:

Dè an dath a tha seo? - What colour is this?

Dearg - Red

Buidhe - Yellow

Gorm - Blue

Uaine - Green

Donn - Brown

Purpaidh - Purple

Glas - Grey

Orains - Orange

Dubh - Black

Pinc - Pink

You can find a clip showing you how to pronounce these colours here.


For craft we coloured in some little pictures with the correct colours.


Our song was Dathan aig a Bhogha-Fhrois, which is sung to the same tune as the English Colours of the Rainbow song.



If you missed our sessions this week and would like to get a copy of our handout for yourself then you can do so here.


We’ll be looking at colours again next week so plenty time to practise those pronounciations!








Friday 30 August 2019

Can Halò Mar Seo

This week at Cròileagan we continued with looking at the book Can Halò Mar Seo (Say Hello Like This


We learned the same vocabulary as last week:

Is mise - I am

agus seo....... - and this is.........

Canaidh cù halò...... - a dog says hello.....

Seo mise - this is me

At craft time we coloured in pictures of different animals and then matched each picture to the correct animal noise.



Our song of the week was the one that we sing at the beginning of every session, Halò a h-uile daoine (Hello Everyone)

Halò a h-uile daoine, Halò a h-uile daoine
‘S math gu bheil sibh seo

Hello everyone, hello everyone
It’s good that you are here




If you would like a copy of our handout from this week then you can download your own copy here.

At the end of the sessions everybody was given a copy of the book to take home with them, so if you were unable to be at Cròileagan this week then just ask us for the book next week as we should have plenty copies of this one left. Also remember that all of these Bookbug books have sound files available on the Gaelic 4 Parents website. The sound file for this book can be found here.

Next week we move onto something new!


Friday 23 August 2019

Can Halò Mar Seo!

Halò, agus fàilte air ais! Hello, and welcome back!

Our little Cròileagan blog has been a bit neglected over the last school year, but this year we’re determined to keep it up to date each week with our vocabulary and songs from each week.

This week we looked at another of our Bookbug books - Can Halò Mar Seo! (Say Hello Like This), a book about the noises different animals make to say hello.


You can find the sound file for this book, and all of the other Bookbug books, on the Gaelic 4 Parents website. Click here to go directly to the file for this book.

Our vocabulary was simple this week and based around introductions.

We learnt:

Is mise...... - I am.......

Agus seo......... - and this is........

Canaidh cù halò - the dog says hello

Seo mise - this is me

Mo theaghlach - my family

Mamaidh - Mummy

Dadaidh - Daddy


If you missed Cròileagan and would like a copy of our handout for yourself then you can download a copy here.

Our song of the week was the one that we sing every week at the start and end of Cròileagan - Halò a h-uile daoine (hello everybody).

Halò a h-uile daoine, Halò a h-uile daoine
‘S math gu bheil sigh seo

Hello everybody, hello everybody
It’s good that you are here

And craft was a simple drawing of ourselves and our families, using the titles Seo Mise (this is me) and Mo Theaghlach (my family)