***Update:
Hi Girls,
Spellbound was added into this week's homework by mistake. The good news is you're FINISHED this book so well done! The English work this week is focused on our class novel 'Charlotte's Web'.
Talk soon,
Ms. Meagher
Hello girls,
I hope you had a lovely weekend and that you got outside to play in the fresh air!
Normally at this time of year we would be going on school tours, having sports days and getting ready for the Summer break from school. So, from now until the end of the school term we will be putting up less suggested written homework for you to do. Instead you will have time to take more notice of the beauty of nature around us, time to play, time to go on walks with your family and of course time to help with jobs around the house!
For reading we are going to continue with ‘Charlotte’s Web’. We will make the pdf available to you and also you can listen to it being read aloud on YouTube. The details are below. So, maybe read it one day and listen to it being read aloud the next day. It’s always fun to hear someone reading a story with expression, it makes it even more enjoyable!
There will still be suggestions of additional work for those of you who really want to keep doing written work, but remember that it is okay to play and spend time with your family. Once you are still smiling and healthy you are doing great!
I am really looking forward to putting our class video together this week. If you get a chance I would love if everyone could email me some photographs or videos of fun activities you have been doing at home for the video :D. It will feel like we finally have our class back together when we watch the video. Remember there has to be someone else in the picture/video with you. This could be your sister/brother/parents/your whole family/friends whoever you like .
Best wishes,
Ms. Meagher
Homework Suggestions for Week 9 – Monday 25th – Friday 29th of May:
Completely optional extra work for the week can be found at the end of this blog post.
Monday 25th:
Up in the trees the birds are happily singing and so on.
This can be completed over the week, it doesn’t need to be done in one day.
Tuesday 26th:
Wednesday 27th:
Thursday 28th
Friday 29th :
Online Games:
Optional extra work for week 9:
Worksheets and Resources Needed for this Week's Work.
Hi Girls,
Spellbound was added into this week's homework by mistake. The good news is you're FINISHED this book so well done! The English work this week is focused on our class novel 'Charlotte's Web'.
Talk soon,
Ms. Meagher
Hello girls,
I hope you had a lovely weekend and that you got outside to play in the fresh air!
Normally at this time of year we would be going on school tours, having sports days and getting ready for the Summer break from school. So, from now until the end of the school term we will be putting up less suggested written homework for you to do. Instead you will have time to take more notice of the beauty of nature around us, time to play, time to go on walks with your family and of course time to help with jobs around the house!
For reading we are going to continue with ‘Charlotte’s Web’. We will make the pdf available to you and also you can listen to it being read aloud on YouTube. The details are below. So, maybe read it one day and listen to it being read aloud the next day. It’s always fun to hear someone reading a story with expression, it makes it even more enjoyable!
There will still be suggestions of additional work for those of you who really want to keep doing written work, but remember that it is okay to play and spend time with your family. Once you are still smiling and healthy you are doing great!
I am really looking forward to putting our class video together this week. If you get a chance I would love if everyone could email me some photographs or videos of fun activities you have been doing at home for the video :D. It will feel like we finally have our class back together when we watch the video. Remember there has to be someone else in the picture/video with you. This could be your sister/brother/parents/your whole family/friends whoever you like .
Best wishes,
Ms. Meagher
Homework Suggestions for Week 9 – Monday 25th – Friday 29th of May:
Completely optional extra work for the week can be found at the end of this blog post.
Monday 25th:
- 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 10
- 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 :). (This could be part of a video/picture for the class video :D).
- S.P.H.E. Tidy your room and help out with jobs around the house.
- Reading: Charlotte’s Web. Revise Chapter 1, 2 & 3 this week. Write no more than 10 lines per chapter to summarise each chapter by Friday. (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). Chapter 1 audio:......................... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLM7d5Rx8Po Chapter 2 audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiT3v6tIdQc Chapter 3 audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W60MnjK-suA Read 30 mins from a book of your choice.
- Gaeilge – An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 126 – An Sorcas. Léigh an dán. Léigh 1 – 3 ag deireadh an leathanaigh agus tarraing na hainmhithe i do chóipleabhar.(Read 1-3 at the end of the page and draw the animals in your copy. Bhain úsáid as teanglann.ie chun an Béarla a fháil ar na focail nua ón dán agus scríobh iad I do chóipleabhar. (Use teanglann.ie to look up all the new words from the poem and write them in your copy)
- Writing: Write an acrostic poem with the word Summer. To do this you need to start each sentence with each letter from the word Summer. For example
Up in the trees the birds are happily singing and so on.
This can be completed over the week, it doesn’t need to be done in one day.
Tuesday 26th:
- Tables: Revise all multiplication and division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Master Your Maths: Test 11
- Reading: Charlotte’s Web. Revise Chapter 1, 2 & 3 this week. Write no more than 10 lines per chapter to summarise each chapter by Friday. Read 30 mins of a book of your choice.
- Gaeilge – An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 127 – An Clog. (The Clock) Cén t-am é? Scríobh an t-am. (What time is it? Write the time)
- Handwriting: page 57
- Writing activities: Continue to write an acrostic poem with the word ‘Summer’.
- 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 :). (This could be part of a video/picture for the class video :D).
- S.P.H.E. Tidy your room and help out with jobs around the house.
Wednesday 27th:
- Tables: Revise all multiplication and division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Master Your Maths: Test 12
- Reading : Charlotte’s Web. Revise Chapter 1,2&3 this week. Write no more than 10 lines per chapter to summarise each chapter by Friday. Read 30 minutes of a book of your choice.
- Gaeilge – An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 128 – Sceideal Teilifíse (T.V schedule) – Léigh an sceideal (read the schedule/timetable) – déan iarracht é a léamh as Béarla chomh maith (try to translate it into English as well). Bhain úsáid as teanglann.ie chun an Béarla a fháil ar na focail ón sceideal agus scríobh iad I do chóipleabhar. (Use teanglann.ie to look up these words from the timetable in English and write them down in your copy e.g. clár dúlra = nature programme).
- Writing activities: Continue to write an acrostic poem with the word ‘Summer’. (If you have already completed this you could make up your own acrostic poem using a word of your choice e.g. ‘Sunshine’.)
- 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 :). (This could be part of a video/picture for the class video :D).
Thursday 28th
- Tables: Revise all multiplication and division tables. Try and beat your own personal best on the 'Hit the Button' website.
- Master Your Maths: Test 12
- Reading: ‘Charlotte’s Web’. Revise Chapter 1,2 &3 this week. Write no more than 10 lines per chapter to summarise each chapter by Friday. Read 30 minutes of a book of your choice.
- Handwriting: page 58
- Writing activities: Continue to write an acrostic poem with the word ‘Summer’. (If you have already completed this you could make your own acrostic poem using a word of your choice e.g. ‘Sunshine’.)
- 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 :).
- Gaeilge – An Teilifís (Theme: The Television) – Bua na Cainte page 128 – Sceideal Teilifíse (The Schedule/Timetable) – Freagair na ceisteanna ag deireadh an leathanaigh. Scríobh na freagraí I do chóipleabhar. Mar shampla: (For example): Cén t-am a bheidh an clár dúlra ar siúl? Beidh an clár dúlra ar siúl ar a cheathrú tar éis a trí. Má tá sé seo ró-dheacair déan iarracht iad a fhreagairt ó bhéal in ionad iad a scríobh (If this is too difficult, try to answer them orally instead of writing them).
Friday 29th :
- 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 :).
- Reading activities: Charlotte’s Web. Revise Chapter 1, 2 & 3 this week. Write no more than 10 lines to summarise each chapter by Friday.
- Just dance and GoNoodle exercises
- Visual Arts: This week we are drawing a Summer scene. Choose whatever materials and colours you have handy at home and be as creative as you wish. Below are some examples that might inspire you!
- 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:
- Free-writing: Your free writing topic this week is ‘A Great Day at the Beach’. 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 :).
- 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 1, 2 & 3 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 126 & 127 (Mental Maths 5) over the course of the week.
- Table Toppers: Unit 24 (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.
- 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?
- 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.
Charlotte's Web PDF to Download and Audio for Chapters 1, 2 & 3.
charlotte_s_web_complete.pdf |