Hello girls,
I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter break and that you didn’t eat too many Easter eggs! The weather has been so lovely, it was a great opportunity to get plenty of fresh air and that’s the most important thing!
I have some good news for everyone. From Monday 20th April I will have a new email address which means we can finally communicate with each other J You will be able to send me some of your work which you have completed such as art work, baking, diary entries or any other exciting activities which you have gotten up to. A message about this email has been sent to your parents on Aladdin and it explains how it will work along with important things like only using your parents e-mail addresses and sending one/two e-mails per child per week. I am really looking forward to hearing from you and so excited to hear how you all have been and what you have been getting to up to.
The email address which you can use to contact me on is: [email protected]
Our school work this week is very similar to what it was before the Easter holidays. I have suggested some extra work activities for anyone who wants to do a little more. Please remember 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. If there is any part of the work that you are finding difficult you can let me know by e-mail.
Best wishes,
Ms Moore.
Homework Suggestions for Week 4 – Monday 20th – Friday 24th of April:
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 20 - Day 1
- Master Your Maths: Unit 27 - 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.
- Spellbound: Unit 28 - Part C & D - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 20 - Day 2
- Master Your Maths: Unit 27 - 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 and write in it each day.
- 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: next page of handwriting.
- 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 23rd:
- Spellbound: Unit 28 - Part E & F - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 20 - Day 3
- Master Your Maths: Unit 27 - 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: Write your diary entry.
- 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 24th:
- Spellbound: Unit 28 - Part G & H - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 20 - Day 4
- Master Your Maths: Unit 27 - 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: Write your diary entry.
- 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: next page in handwriting book.
- 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: Write your diary entry.
- 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? · SESE Project/Poster Design – 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 and keep in mind any changes in nature since humans went into lockdown. I can’t wait to see your projects or posters and remember you have 2 weeks to complete it :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. If a book does not interest you after the first few pages try a different genre. You may find a genre of book that suits you and once you do there will be no stopping you!! 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/
- ·TG4 – From Monday 20th they will be broadcasting an Irish lesson daily between 10 am and 10.30 am. This could be really helpful to improve your Irish.
- ·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 – I have detailed how to sign up for a free account at the end of a previous blog post titled ‘Notice for parents regarding free online resources’) – 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: Try writing a Mixed-up fairy-tale. Choose your two favourite fairy tales and scramble them up to create your own brand new fairy-tale :) If you want you could develop your fairy-tale into a drama/play :
- Extra: Activity of your choice from extra work blog post