Àireamhan - Numbers

 Àireamhan - Numbers

Halò, ciamar a tha sibh an-diugh?

The sinn a coimhead air àireamhan a-rithist an t-seachdain seo. We are looking at numbers again this week and we can move on to numbers above 10. 

Here are the numbers from 11-20. You can watch a video here that will give you the pronunciation. 

Activities

Challenge yourself to see how often you can use the Gaelic numbers this week. Here are some crafts and activities that you could also get involved in. 

Painting around numbers 

Burras

A counting Activity 

A slightly longer song for this week. You can hear the audio file here. This link also has access to some fantastic resources for Gaelic numbers, as well as many other topics. Definitely worth checking out!!

As always, we love hearing from you. Let us know if we can be of any help, and we look forward to seeing you soon. 

Sgioba C x 

 

Àireamhan - Numbers

Àireamhan - Numbers

Hi a h-uile duine. Failte air ais gu Cròileagan air-loidhne. Tha sinn an dochas gu bheil sibh gu math, agus gun do chord an sneachd ruibh uile. 

An t-seachdainn seo tha òran agus crafts againn mu dheidhinn àireamhan. This week our songs and crafts are going to be all about Numbers. Back to basics but with some new ideas for using them at home. 

We are very aware there will be children that are due to move up to Nursery and that they won’t have had as much exposure to the language as they would have should we be in ‘normal’ times, so using the basics, such as Numbers and colours is a great way to introduce the sounds and help them feel familiar with some of the vocabulary that they will be exposed to in a nursery setting. It may not seem much but it definitely helps!

  

The short video for these numbers can be found here. 

Here are a couple of simple songs that using our numbers. 

You can find the songs here. 

ACTIVITIES 

You have the choice of a few activities this week, or you can even try doing them all.

Why don’t you try making a number rocket (rocaid), and practice counting down from deich gu aon. 

To help with recognising numbers that are out of sequence you could try playing number bingo. You can make your own bingo sheets and use whatever you have lying around the house as counters, we used grapes, though they needed to be topped up as they would mysteriously vanish quite often 🤔 

And finally, with the weather looking like it should be nice and mild this week, why don’t you get outside and see what sort of games that you can incorporate numbers into. An example below is a hunt to find objects to match the numbers. 

That is all for now, please remember that we are here if you would like any support. You can get in touch and keep up to date with other resources that are available through our facebook page. We love seeing and hearing about what you have been up to! We hope that we will get to see you all in person very soon. 

Sgioba C x

 

 An t-Sìde / The Weather

Haidh a-rithist a h-uile duine! Tha sinn an dòchas gu bheil sibh uile gu math.

It feels like Spring is finally on the way, although it is still a bit chilly, and I see that there is still some snow forecast for this week. We'll continue this week talking about the weather - let's face it, a great topic no matter the time of year in Scotland!

If you have children who attend Òganan for nursery, you will know that their topic right now is weather too. We thought it would be a nice idea to provide a bit of overlap with what is being learned there where we can.

Our songs are the same as last week - Fuar Fuar and Tha I Fuar An-Diugh. You can hear the first one being sung, and see the words here.

The words for the second song are below. You can also find them on the Gàidhlig nan Òg website, along with a sound file to hear it being sung. Have you had time to check out this great new resource yet? There is lots there to learn and listen to. Please let us know if you would like any help with any of it, or if you have a particular request for a weekly topic, based on what you find there.

Tha i fuar an-diugh

Tha i fuar an-diugh,

Tha i fuar an-diugh,

Tha i fuar,

O tha i fuar,

O tha i fuar an-diugh.

Tha i breagha an-diugh...

Tha i fliuch an-diugh...

Tha i sgòthach an-diugh...

The vocabulary this week is the same as last week. You can hear how to pronounce these words and phrases here.

For craft this week, we have a couple of new weather related ideas. 

If you have a wee bit of bubble wrap, and some paint, you can make a great rainy picture like this one.

If you'd like some things to go along with your rain stick from last week, you could make a windsock or a sun catcher. These can both be made in lots of different ways - the sun catcher linked to uses plastic lids, but you can use contact paper, or a paper plate with the centre cut out too. A windsock can be made with a cardboard tube, a plastic bottle, or even a milk carton. Hopefully you can find some things around the house that will work.

  

Did you get a chance to look at the clouds last week? Remember to let us know what you saw in them! 

Gabhaibh spòrs! Remember that next week is half term, so the next blog post will be on February 17th. Deagh saor-làithean!