Good morning girls,
I hope everyone got on okay with the homework corrections on Friday.
Thank you to everyone who sent photographs to go up onto our blog. It was lovely to get so many pictures showing the activities you have been enjoying recently.
Below are the homework suggestions for this week. Please remember this is optional, all you can do is your best. Do keep reading and getting fresh air. Play board games with your family and do activities that make you feel happy!
Myself and Ms. Meagher have decided to take a little break from handwriting this week and we’ve added in a bit of extra Maths. We’re going to be looking at 2D shapes in maths J.
In case anyone is having difficulty accessing Bua na Cainte online here are the login details. Username: primaryedcobooks Password: edco2020 There are no capital letters in either the username or password. The direct link to the book/website is here https://www.edcolearning.ie/Book/Page?bookId=book750&chapterId=chapter15&pageId=page120 . I will continue to take screenshots and attach them to the blog post just in case there are still issues accessing the website. There will also be screenshots of the pages from Planet Maths for the optional extra work.
Have a great week and I look forward to getting some more e-mails!
Best wishes,
Ms. Moore
Homework Suggestions for Monday 27th – Friday 1st of May:
Completely optional extra work for the week can be found at the end of this blog post.
Monday 27th:
Wednesday 29th :
Thursday 30th:
Friday 1st May:
Online Games:
Optional extra work for the week:
· Planet Maths (Online book available on folensonline.ie - If you would like extra Maths work this week complete page 119 – 122 (2D Shapes) over the course of the week.
· 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/
· RTE School hub – If you haven’t watched all the super daily lessons you can watch them back on the RTE Player https://www.rte.ie/player/series/rt%C3%A9-home-school-hub/SI0000006854?epguid=IP000065950
· 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?
· 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
I hope everyone got on okay with the homework corrections on Friday.
Thank you to everyone who sent photographs to go up onto our blog. It was lovely to get so many pictures showing the activities you have been enjoying recently.
Below are the homework suggestions for this week. Please remember this is optional, all you can do is your best. Do keep reading and getting fresh air. Play board games with your family and do activities that make you feel happy!
Myself and Ms. Meagher have decided to take a little break from handwriting this week and we’ve added in a bit of extra Maths. We’re going to be looking at 2D shapes in maths J.
In case anyone is having difficulty accessing Bua na Cainte online here are the login details. Username: primaryedcobooks Password: edco2020 There are no capital letters in either the username or password. The direct link to the book/website is here https://www.edcolearning.ie/Book/Page?bookId=book750&chapterId=chapter15&pageId=page120 . I will continue to take screenshots and attach them to the blog post just in case there are still issues accessing the website. There will also be screenshots of the pages from Planet Maths for the optional extra work.
Have a great week and I look forward to getting some more e-mails!
Best wishes,
Ms. Moore
Homework Suggestions for Monday 27th – Friday 1st of May:
Completely optional extra work for the week can be found at the end of this blog post.
Monday 27th:
- Spellbound: Unit 29 - Part A & B - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 21 - Day 1
- Master Your Maths: Unit 28 - Monday
- Extra Maths – Can you spot 2D shapes in your surroundings? Name them and describe them (how many sides/corners? Are the sides straight/curved?) Try to find a circle, triangle, rectangle, square and hexagon with 6 sides like this!
- 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 27 – Read story and answer part A (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Write a diary entry. Draw a picture to demonstrate if you wish.
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 114 – 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 as an Irish to English dictionary and a English to Irish dictionary J ). https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice. Read poem “Smiling is Infectious”by Russel Conwell (you will find it on the blog).
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
- Spellbound: Unit 29 - Part C & D - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 21 - Day 2
- Master Your Maths: Unit 28 - Tuesday
- Extra Maths: Can sort classify (sort ) the shapes under the headings ‘‘Name of shape’, ‘How many sides’, ‘Straight or Curved lines’, ‘How many vertices (Remember the vertices are the corners on a shape) ’, ‘Is it an irregular or a regular shape? (A regular shape’s lines and angles are all the same size – An irregular shape has different sides and angles)’.
- 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 27 – Read story and answer part B & C (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Write a diary entry.
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 114 – 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). Líon na bearnaí agus scríobh na habairtí I do chóipleabhar (Fill in the blanks and write the sentences into your copy). 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 as an Irish to English dictionary and a English to Irish dictionary J ). https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/
- Reading activities:
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice. Read poem “Smiling is Infectious”by Russel Conwell (you will find it on the blog).
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
Wednesday 29th :
- Spellbound: Unit 29 - Part E & F - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 21 - 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.
- Extra Maths – Draw a 2D shape picture. It can be of a town, a robot or anything that you like once you include lots of 2D shapes.
- Reading Zone: Unit 27 – Read story and answer part D (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Write a diary entry.
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 114 – 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). Líon na bearnaí agus scríobh na habairtí I do chóipleabhar (Fill in the blanks and write the sentences into your copy). 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 as an Irish to English dictionary and a English to Irish dictionary J ). https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice. Read poem “Smiling is Infectious” by Russel Conwell (you will find it on the blog).
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
Thursday 30th:
- Spellbound: Unit 29 - Part G & H - Learn spellings from this unit
- Table Toppers: Unit 21 - 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 27 – Read story and answer part E (answer in copy - full sentence)
- Diary: Write a diary entry.
- Gaeilge – Sa Bhaile (Theme: At Home) – Bua na Cainte page 116 – Tithe – Léigh an dán trí nó ceithre uair (read the poem 3 or four times). Scríobh an dán I do chóipleabhar agus tarraing pictiúr. (Copy the poem into your copybook and draw a picture).
- Reading activities: 20 minutes of your library book or book of choice. Read poem “Smiling is Infectious”by Russel Conwell (you will find it on the blog).
- P.E. – Activity of your choice from P.E. blog post or your favourite type of exercise for 30 minutes.
Friday 1st May:
- 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. Read poem “Smiling is Infectious” by Russel Conwell (you will find it on the blog). Can you try to say it for someone in your house without looking at the words??
- Just dance and GoNoodle exercises
- Visual Arts: Happy stone messages. Simply find a nice flat stone and decorate it with a positive message or happy picture. A nice idea is to leave it somewhere where others will pass it and it will brighten their day! On the blog you will find some examples of painted stones that might inspire you!
- Diary: Write a diary entry.
- Extra activity of your choice from extra work blog post.
- Online games: Choose a Maths game and an English game of your choice and practice your skills for 20 minutes.
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 - no doubt Eva will love a challenge :) )
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10 - This is kind of a mix and match of different maths topics.
- https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/pattern-blocks - tangrams game. We had only just started learning about 2D shapes when the schools had to close. This is a great game where Eva can choose a puzzle and she has 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 the week:
· Planet Maths (Online book available on folensonline.ie - If you would like extra Maths work this week complete page 119 – 122 (2D Shapes) over the course of the week.
- 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/
· RTE School hub – If you haven’t watched all the super daily lessons you can watch them back on the RTE Player https://www.rte.ie/player/series/rt%C3%A9-home-school-hub/SI0000006854?epguid=IP000065950
· 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?
· 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