Welcome to our new way of doing Cròileagan, for as long as the Covid-19 lockdown lasts.
Officially last week was the first week of lockdown, but we thought that everyone would need that week to get used to their new normal of having everybody at home all the time, and that Cròileagan would be quite low down everybody’s list of priorities!
Our plan is to continue making up our DFs each week as normal, with some words or phrases, a song and a suitable craft. Since we can’t go through the sheets with you all like we usually do at circle time, we will include links to sound files here on our blog. In these sound files you will be able to hear the phrases and the songs.
We will be choosing crafts that we think most people will have the materials for at home.
Every Monday morning we will share our blog post with all the information for that week in it. We would love for you all to send us pictures of the crafts that you and your little ones make at home, then at the end of each week we can share them all here on our blog again. The easiest way for you to send them to us is probably by Facebook messenger to our page, or you could also email them to us if you don’t have Facebook.
So, let’s get started with our first lockdown Cròileagan!
This week we are learning about Easter - a’ Chàisg.
Our words for this week are:
A’ Chàisg - Easter
Là na Caisg - Easter Day
Ugh na Càisge - Easter Egg
Teòclaid - Chocolate
You can hear how to pronounce these words by clicking here.
If you want to download a version of our DF to print out for yourself you can do so here.
For craft time we thought it would be fun to make some Easter Egg pictures, and since we knew that not everyone would have the same craft supplies at home we have three different options for you. You can make one of them or you can make all of them if you would like!
Our first suggestion is an egg shape of paper with strips of paper stuck across to decorate.
Our second idea is similar, but uses masking tape to mark off sections. Colour in each section with whatever you have at home and then remove the masking tape.
And our final suggestion uses white crayons, or even a white candle, to draw on some markings. Use watered down paint to paint over and the paint won’t stick to the crayon/wax markings.
Our song this week is the Gaelic version of Ring a Ring a Roses, which we had chosen to do this week before realising that the original English one is said to date from the time of the Great Plague. Absolutely no connections whatsoever with the fact that we are learning it at the time of Coronavirus, honestly!
If you want to listen to a version of this you can find one here The second verse is slightly different from our version as they just repeat the first line three times. In our version lines 2-4 of verse two are almost exactly the same as in the first verse, so you will still hear how to pronounce all the lines.
Don’t forget to share your art work with us, and we can share it all at the end of the week. We would really love to see what everyone is doing.
Stay safe!
An Sgioba Cròileagan 🙂
