Hello girls,
I hope everybody has enjoyed the wonderful weather we have had over the last few days.
I have reduced the work again this week. There is no written work with Charlotte’s Web this week, very little written work for Gaeilge and also no more handwriting workbook. You can practice your handwriting whilst completing the worksheet I mention below . For Charlotte’s Web, I would like you to either listen to the audio books or read a chapter a day.
The school are also completing an exciting project to mark the times that we are living in. Each class are gathering a piece of work which will then be brought together into one big book. This book will go down in history explaining what it was like during this pandemic which we are currently living through.
If you would like to have a page in this book you will have to email the worksheet back within the next 2 weeks. I will then print this off from my computer and gather them all together. It is very important that you email this to me to make sure it is included.
I have explained the worksheet in more detail under Monday’s homework section :D.
Have a wonderful week :D and make sure to spend plenty of time with your family and getting lots of fresh air and sunshine :D.
Talk to you soon,
Ms. Meagher
Homework Suggestions for Week 11 – Monday 8th – Friday 12th of June:
Completely optional extra work for the week can be found at the end of this blog post.
Monday 8th:
Tuesday 9th:
Wednesday 10th:
Thursday 11th:
Friday 12th:
Online Games:
Optional extra work for week 9:
Worksheets and Resources Needed for this Week's Work.
I hope everybody has enjoyed the wonderful weather we have had over the last few days.
I have reduced the work again this week. There is no written work with Charlotte’s Web this week, very little written work for Gaeilge and also no more handwriting workbook. You can practice your handwriting whilst completing the worksheet I mention below . For Charlotte’s Web, I would like you to either listen to the audio books or read a chapter a day.
The school are also completing an exciting project to mark the times that we are living in. Each class are gathering a piece of work which will then be brought together into one big book. This book will go down in history explaining what it was like during this pandemic which we are currently living through.
If you would like to have a page in this book you will have to email the worksheet back within the next 2 weeks. I will then print this off from my computer and gather them all together. It is very important that you email this to me to make sure it is included.
I have explained the worksheet in more detail under Monday’s homework section :D.
Have a wonderful week :D and make sure to spend plenty of time with your family and getting lots of fresh air and sunshine :D.
Talk to you soon,
Ms. Meagher
Homework Suggestions for Week 11 – Monday 8th – Friday 12th of June:
Completely optional extra work for the week can be found at the end of this blog post.
Monday 8th:
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Master Your Maths: Test 17
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes. There are some great activities for active schools week on the school website as well, take a look at these for some new ideas :).
- P.E. (extra): Make sure you register for the biggest P.E. class in all of Meath this week. It will be held on the 24th of June. See seperate blog post underneath Art blog post for more information.
- Gaeilge: An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 133 – An Nuacht agus An Aimsir (The News and The Weather) – Léigh an scéal (read the story) – déan iarracht an scéal a léamh as Béarla chomh maith (try to translate the story into English as well). Freagair na ceisteanna ó bhéal (Answer the questions orally – no writing). Léigh an scéal trí nó ceathair uair (read the story 3 or 4 times). Má tá deacrachtaí agaibh leis an bhfoclóir bain úsáid as an suíomh idirlíon teanglann.ie (If you are finding it hard to understand the new vocab use the website teanglann.ie – this is a great website which has an Irish to English dictionary and an English to Irish dictionary :) ). https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/ Faigh na focail seo a leanas san fhoclóir agus scríobh iad I do chóipleabhar: (Look up the following words in your dictionary and write them into your copy): bís, leathuair tar éis a naoi, milseáin, ag cur fearthainne, fliuch báite.
- English (Novel – only reading for this week): Charlotte’s Web. Read or listen to chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 this week. Try reading or listening to one chapter a day at least. (The PDF of this book will be available to download at the end of this blog post if you don’t have the book at home and if you would prefer to read the book instead of listening to the audio books). You can either read the chapters or else listen to the audio books which I will attach at the end of this blog post.
- Writing: As mentioned in the letter at the start of this blog post the school are working on an exciting project. For you to be part of this historical project you will need to complete this next task within two weeks, scan your worksheet onto your computer once it is completed and email it to me. We would like you to create a newspaper article on the worksheet which we have attached at the end of this blog post (pdf document which needs to be downloaded not attached as a screenshot this week because the quality is not good enough). This should be an honest article about what you think of the Corona Virus and how it has affected you. Here are a few suggestions for you to talk about in your newspaper article. You can create your own title which you can write underneath where it says ‘The Once Upon A Times’.
- Activities during lockdown.
- Not seeing friends and classmates.
- Missing school and why?
- What you miss most?
- Spending time with family.
- Enjoying the sun.
- Days at the beach.
- Exploring the countryside around my house.
- New skills you have learned.
- How your life has improved/changed?
- How everyone’s life has improved/changed?
Tuesday 9th:
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Master Your Maths: Test 18
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes. There are some great activities for active schools week on the school website as well, take a look at these for some new ideas :).
- P.E. (extra): Make sure you register for the biggest P.E. class in all of Meath this week. It will be held on the 24th of June. See seperate blog post underneath Art blog post for more information.
- Gaeilge: An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 133 – An Nuacht agus An Aimsir (The News and The Weather) – Léigh an scéal (read the story) – déan iarracht an scéal a léamh as Béarla chomh maith (try to translate the story into English as well). Freagair na ceisteanna ‘Obair Bheirte’ 1 – 4 I do chóipleabhar (Answer questions 1 – 4 in your copybook). Má tá deacrachtaí agaibh leis an bhfoclóir bain úsáid as an suíomh idirlíon teanglann.ie (If you are finding it hard to understand the new vocab use the website teanglann.ie – this is a great website which has an Irish to English dictionary and an English to Irish dictionary :) ). https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/
- English (Novel – only reading for this week): Charlotte’s Web. Read or listen to chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 this week. (The PDF of this book will be available to download at the end of this blog post if you don’t have the book at home and if you would prefer to read the book instead of listening to the audio books). You can either read the chapters or else listen to the audio books which I will attach at the end of this blog post.
- Writing: See Monday’s homework for description of your newspaper article project which you have two weeks to complete. Best of luck :) .
Wednesday 10th:
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Master Your Maths: Test 19
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes. There are some great activities for active schools week on the school website as well, take a look at these for some new ideas :).
- P.E. (extra): Make sure you register for the biggest P.E. class in all of Meath this week. It will be held on the 24th of June. See seperate blog post underneath Art blog post for more information.
- Gaeilge: An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 133 – An Nuacht agus An Aimsir (The News and The Weather) – Léigh an scéal (read the story) – déan iarracht an scéal a léamh as Béarla chomh maith (try to translate the story into English as well). Freagair na ceisteanna ‘Obair Bheirte’ 5 – 8 I do chóipleabhar (Answer questions 5 – 8 in your copybook). Má tá deacrachtaí agaibh leis an bhfoclóir bain úsáid as an suíomh idirlíon teanglann.ie (If you are finding it hard to understand the new vocab use the website teanglann.ie – this is a great website which has an Irish to English dictionary and an English to Irish dictionary :) ). https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/
- English (Novel – only reading for this week): Charlotte’s Web. Read or listen to chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 this week. (The PDF of this book will be available to download at the end of this blog post if you don’t have the book at home and if you would prefer to read the book instead of listening to the audio books). You can either read the chapters or else listen to the audio books which I will attach at the end of this blog post.
- Writing: See Monday’s homework for description of your newspaper article project which you have two weeks to complete. Best of luck .
Thursday 11th:
- Tables: Revise all multiplication tables. Continue to learn all division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Master Your Maths: Test 20
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes. There are some great activities for active schools week on the school website as well, take a look at these for some new ideas :).
- P.E. (extra): Make sure you register for the biggest P.E. class in all of Meath this week. It will be held on the 24th of June. See seperate blog post underneath Art blog post for more information.
- Gaeilge: An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 133 – An Nuacht agus An Aimsir (The News and The Weather) – Líon na bearnaí (Fill in the blanks) – Ceisteanna 1 – 6 (Questions 1 – 6). Déanfaidh mé an chead ceann daoibh. 1. Thaitin an cartún liom (mé). Má tá deacrachtaí agaibh leis an bhfoclóir bain úsáid as an suíomh idirlíon teanglann.ie (If you are finding it hard to understand the new vocab use the website teanglann.ie – this is a great website which has an Irish to English dictionary and an English to Irish dictionary :) ). https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/
- English (Novel – only reading for this week): Charlotte’s Web. Read or listen to chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 this week. (The PDF of this book will be available to download at the end of this blog post if you don’t have the book at home and if you would prefer to read the book instead of listening to the audio books). You can either read the chapters or else listen to the audio books which I will attach at the end of this blog post.
- Writing: See Monday’s homework for description of your newspaper article project which you have two weeks to complete. Best of luck .
Friday 12th:
- GoNoodle - Mindfulness (YouTube – GoNoodle) and Mindfulness Bingo sheet (attached).
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes. There are some great activities for active schools week on the school website as well, take a look at these for some new ideas :).
- P.E. (extra): Make sure you register for the biggest P.E. class in all of Meath this week. It will be held on the 24th of June. See seperate blog post underneath Art blog post for more information.
- English (Novel – only reading for this week): Charlotte’s Web. Read or listen to chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 this week. (The PDF of this book will be available to download at the end of this blog post if you don’t have the book at home and if you would prefer to read the book instead of listening to the audio books). You can either read the chapters or else listen to the audio books which I will attach at the end of this blog post.
- Just dance and GoNoodle exercises
- Visual Arts: This week’s art activity is a mix of science and a nature hunt. See Visual Arts post for more details . (Don’t forget to email pictures of your beautiful artwork).
- Online games: Choose a Maths game and an English game of your choice and practice your skills for 20 minutes.
- Extra activity of your choice from extra work blog post. Check out the school’s website as well for lots of new ideas.
Online Games:
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button - tables (addition, subtraction, division and multiplication)
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/119/find_the_start_time# - time (this is one of many time games available on this website - some of the games can be quite hard but you can modify the level)
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10 - This is a mix and match of different maths topics.
- https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/pattern-blocks - tangrams game. This is a great game where you can choose a puzzle and you have to try and create that picture by dragging different 2D shapes onto the screen.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers - this is a general link to lots of different maths games.
- http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html - Spelling game
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar - link to a range of English spelling and grammar-based games.
Optional extra work for week 9:
- Handwriting: We are finished with our handwriting as part of the daily work suggested. If you would like to continue with the pages left in the book you can :D.
- Free-writing: Your free writing topic this week is ‘Would you rather fly to space or swim to the bottom of the ocean? Why?’. Please don’t forget capital letters, fingers spaces, full stops, paragraphs and most importantly to read over your writing to make sure it makes sense :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 of April, 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 (This can be slightly difficult but it will be helpful to hear the language being spoken).
- Charlotte’s Web: There are activities for each chapter of Charlotte’s web in our own little workbook which we only barely got to start in school (The workbook which you got to design the cover of). You can complete the extra activities for each chapter in this booklet :D as we go through them each week. This week you can complete the activities for chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 if you like :D.
- Diary: Keep a record of what you have been getting up to each week especially now that the restrictions are starting to lift and we have a little bit more freedom :D. You can write in your diary every day or once a week.
- 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 150 & 151 (Mental Maths 6) over the course of the week.
- Table Toppers: Unit 26 – Counting in and dividing by 11 (Monday – Thursday) over the course of the week.
- Online games: Practice your English grammar and spelling as well as all your Maths skills using the above websites (Online games section).
- SPHE: Complete the mindfulness bingo sheet, choose as many items from it each day as you want. They are all really good for your mind.
- 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 )
- 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.
- 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?
- Extra: Activity of your choice from extra work blog post (Great selection on school website as well of extra work activities).
Worksheets and Resources Needed for this Week's Work.
newspaper_article_template_.pdf |
charlotte_s_web_complete.pdf |