Hello again girls :D ,
I hope everyone had a lovely Easter break and didn’t eat too much chocolate :O I have just polished off my last egg this morning – chocolate eggs on toast :D. We are so lucky to have had such beautiful weather, I hope everyone is managing to get some fresh air every day. This is so important :D
I have some good news for everyone. I have gotten a new email address which means we can finally communicate with each other. :) You will be able to send me some of your work which you have completed such as art work, baking, diary entries, completed projects or any other exciting activities which you have gotten up to. The important email guidelines have been sent to your parents on Aladdin such as only using your parents’ email address and trying to keep emails to 1- 2 from each child per week. I am looking forward to and so excited to hear how you all have been and what you have been getting up to :D
The email address which you can use to contact me on is: [email protected]
I have also gotten my hands on our Happy Notes :D I will hopefully have them up on the blog this week as well and you can have a scroll through all our lovely inspirational quotes which we have missed out on :D
Our school work this week is more or less the same as previous weeks. I have suggested some extra work activities if you would like some more suggestions and ideas for work. Once again I would like to emphasise that all the work I have on the blog is just a suggestion and you are at all times only ever expected to try your best with it. Now that we are lucky enough to have the email, if you have any questions please get in touch with me.
Like me, you’ve probably been doing a lot of baking :D I’ve picked my favourite cookie recipe and I will share it on a separate post on the blog this week. I would absolutely LOVE to see some pictures of food you’ve cooked or baked and you can send in your recipes too. I will post one recipe each week from the class so we can all give it a go if we have time <3 Happy baking!!
Lastly, a friend of mine has found a superb ‘Isolation Booklet’. This booklet is filled with fabulous worksheets and activities from treasure hunts to phone a friend interviews to family Olympics activities and art activities. If you would like me to email this booklet on, please let me know by email :D
Best wishes,
Ms Meagher :)
Completely optional extra work for the week can be found at the end of this blog post.
Monday 20th:
- Spellbound: Unit 28 - Part A & B - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 19 - Day 1
- Master Your Maths: Unit 28 - Monday
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Reading Zone: Unit 26 – Read story and answer part A (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Continue to keep a diary of what you have done every day during these few weeks. We will read about these times in our history books one day. You can write as few or as many sentences as you like or even illustrate your time (draw pictures). Don't forget to date each page :)
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 110 – An Seomra folctha (The Bathroom) – Léigh an scéal arís (read the story again) – déan iarracht an scéal a léamh as Béarla chomh maith (try to translate the story into English as well). Freagair na ceisteanna ó bhéal ar dtús (Answer the questions orally first) agus ansin scríobh na ceisteanna 1 – 4 agus na freagraí ar leathanach nó I gcóipleabhar (then write questions 1-4 and answer them on a sheet or in a copybook).
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice.
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
Tuesday 21st:
- Spellbound: Unit 28 - Part C & D - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 19 - Day 2
- Master Your Maths: Unit 28 - Tuesday
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Reading Zone: Unit 26 – Read story and answer part B & C (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Continue to keep a diary of what you have done every day during these few weeks. We will read about these times in our history books one day. You can write as few or as many sentences as you like or even illustrate your time (draw pictures). Don't forget to date each page :)
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 110 – An Seomra folctha (The Bathroom) – Léigh an scéal arís (read the story again) – déan iarracht an scéal a léamh as Béarla chomh maith (try to translate the story into English as well). Freagair na ceisteanna ó bhéal ar dtús (Answer the questions orally first) agus ansin scríobh na ceisteanna 5 – 8 agus na freagraí ar leathanach nó I gcóipleabhar (then write questions 5 - 8 and answer them on a sheet or in a copybook).
- Handwriting: page 49
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice.
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
Wednesday 22nd:
- Spellbound: Unit 28 - Part E & F - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 19 - Day 3
- Master Your Maths: Unit 28 - Wednesday
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Reading Zone: Unit 26 – Read story and answer part D (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Continue to keep a diary of what you have done every day during these few weeks. We will read about these times in our history books one day. You can write as few or as many sentences as you like or even illustrate your time (draw pictures). Don't forget to date each page :)
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 111 – An Seomra Folctha – Léigh an foclóir nua sa phictiúr (read the new vocab in the picture) agus déan iarracht iad a fhoghlaim de ghlan mheabhair (and try to learn them off by heart). Líon na bearnaí ó bhéal (fill in the blanks orally – no writing) agus léigh na habairtí cúpla uair (and read the sentences a few times).
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice.
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
Thursday 23rd:
- Spellbound: Unit 28 - Part G & H - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 19 - Day 4
- Master Your Maths: Unit 28 - Thursday
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Reading Zone: Unit 26 – Read story and answer part E (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Continue to keep a diary of what you have done every day during these few weeks. We will read about these times in our history books one day. You can write as few or as many sentences as you like or even illustrate your time (draw pictures). Don't forget to date each page :)
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 111 – An Seomra Folctha – Léigh an foclóir nua sa phictiúr (read the new vocab in the picture) agus déan iarracht iad a fhoghlaim de ghlan mheabhair (and try to learn them off by heart). Líon na bearnaí ó bhéal ar dtús (fill in the blanks orally first) agus léigh na habairtí cúpla uair (and read the sentences a few times). Ansin líon na bearnaí agus scríobh na habairtí ar leathanach nó I do chóipleabhar (then fill in the blanks and write the sentences on a page or in your copybook) agus tarraing seomra folctha I do chóipleabhar. Chuir lipéid ar do phictiúr (and draw a picture of a bathroom in your copybook also – you can label your picture as well).
- Handwriting: page 50
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice.
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
Friday 25th:
- GoNoodle - Mindfulness (Youtube)
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice.
- Just dance and GoNoodle exercises
- Visual Arts: Fruit bowl still life art activity (See separate blog post).
- Diary: Continue to keep a diary of what you have done everyday during these few weeks. We will read about these times in our history books one day. You can write as few or as many sentences as you like or even illustrate your time (draw pictures). Don't forget to date each page :)
- Extra activity of your choice from extra work blog post.
Optional extra work for week 4:
- SPHE – Family time – ask your parents if you can help them with anything today, it could be housework, feeding your pet or maybe even helping to cook the dinner? (With all this helping around the house you might not even have to ask about helping anymore and can do all the cleaning yourself :D :D )
- SESE Project/Poster – For all of March we were going to be researching and investigating the importance of caring for our environment. Since everyone has been asked to stay at home and mind ourselves we have seen a great reduction (less of) pollution in the world’s environment. In Venice alone (city in Italy where you can travel through the streets on a boat) the water has become clear for the first time and dolphins have even returned to the city. The air is free from pollution which can be seen by the astronauts in space. If you have extra time this week and next, I would like you to complete a project or design a poster on ‘Caring for our Environment’. Think about what we could do to protect our World’s environment. What could we do to help? Have you heard about any changes in nature since humans have been in lockdown? I can’t wait to see your projects or posters and remember you have 2 weeks to complete it :D
- RTÉ School Hub – This is a great resource for you to revise various topics covered throughout the school year and potentially some new content also. There will be an hour of ‘classes’ broadcast from 11am to 12 noon Monday – Friday. There will also be a RTÉ Home School Extra program at 4.15pm where children’s work which has been sent in will be broadcast on the television.
- TG4 / Cúla 4 – From Monday the 20th, they will be broadcasting an Irish lesson daily between 10am and 10.30am. This could be really helpful to hear the language being spoken again and to improve your Irish skills.
- English - Readtheory.com – Continue using this website which will improve your reading and comprehension skills. If this is your first week using this website you can sign up to this website for free. This is very similar to the SRA comprehensions that we do in school. Once signed up, you will complete a sample comprehension. This will figure out the correct level for you. Once complete, you can start reading as much as you like. Even better you’ve to try and beat your personal best when answering the questions. A fun way to read more every day.
- Reading: This is such a great opportunity to create that love of reading. When I find a book I love, I often find it hard to pull myself away from the book! I could be sitting reading it for hours! I have only suggested 20 minutes of reading in your daily work but you can go over and beyond with this as well! I could often spend hours reading a book if I really loved it :) If you prefer you could listen to an audio book online either, this is also a great way to learn! There are lots of free books available online.
- Gaeilge – practice your reading in Gaeilge by scrolling back through our Bua na Cainte (Green book) book online which is available at edcolearning.ie (username: primaryedcobooks password: edco2020). Pick a different story each day and practice reading it out loud. To challenge yourself even further try and translate the story into English orally.
- Gaeilge: Choose a cartoon of your choice to watch throughout Irish. https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories/childrens-tv-shows/
- Watch an episode of News2Day https://trte.rte.ie/news2day/
- Tables – You can never spend too much time practicing your tables. If you are looking for more to do continue to practice your tables and saying them off by heart! The Hit the Button game is brilliant and you can continue to try and beat your personal best. Why not play table champions with your family and see who wins?
- Planet Maths (Online book available on folensonline.ie – For those of you who haven’t done so already go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in a username, email, and password. For 'Roll Number' use ‘Prim20’. ) – If you would like extra Maths work this week complete page 52 – 55 (Fright Night & Mental Maths 2) over the course of the week.
- Free-writing: Mixed-up fairy-tale. Choose your two favourite fairy tales and scramble them up to create your own brand new fairy-tale :) Have your very own ‘Author’s chair’ in your house and have a dramatic reading of your new fairy-tale for your family. Or EVEN better develop your fairy-tale into a drama/play :D
- Extra: Activity of your choice from extra work blog post
If unable to access Bua Na Cainte, here are screenshots of the pages mentioned in this week's homework.