{"id":7890,"date":"2020-04-03T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=7890"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:21:34","slug":"butterflies-conversations-and-maths-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=7890","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies, Conversations and Maths Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but I really wish I was back in school! For now though we have to stay safe at home and keep washing our hands.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday in the garden I saw my first butterfly of the year so let&#8217;s try some <strong>Butterfly Breaths<\/strong>! Click on the image below to enlarge it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>During this time you might find yourself watching more TV than usual or playing games on the playstation or tablet, etc. But don&#8217;t forget to talk to your family too!<\/h6>\n<h6>Have a look here for some interesting ideas for <strong>Conversations<\/strong>.<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Have-a-conversation.pdf\">Have a conversation!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is very important to keep practising your <strong>Counting <\/strong>&#8211; both forwards <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> backwards. You can still practise the activities that were in <a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=7643\">my post last week<\/a>. This week here are some maths games to try:<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Ordering numbers<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/ordering-and-sequencing\/chinese-dragon-ordering\">https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/ordering-and-sequencing\/chinese-dragon-ordering<\/a> &#8211; order numbers on the dragon from smallest to largest and from largest to smallest<\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictgames.com\/mobilePage\/playYourCardsRight\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.ictgames.com\/mobilePage\/playYourCardsRight\/index.html<\/a> &#8211; guess will the next number be higher or lower<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Reading numbers<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictgames.com\/postAletter\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/learning-to-count\/helicopter-rescue<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictgames.com\/postAletter\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.ictgames.com\/postAletter\/index.html<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Number after and Number before<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/learning-to-count\/chopper-squad\">https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/learning-to-count\/chopper-squad<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; one more, one less<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Please note: For internet based activities please ensure your children are supervised while accessing the internet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! I don&#8217;t know about you but I really wish I was back in school! For now though we have to stay safe at home and keep washing our hands. Yesterday in the garden I saw my first butterfly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=7890\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7890"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16374,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7890\/revisions\/16374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}