Suggested work for June 22nd-26th
Please click on the link below to access the suggested work for the final week of this school year.
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Suggested Work for Monday 1st-Friday 5th June
Hello again everyone,
I hope you’ve all been enjoying the beautiful weather we’ve been lucky enough to have over the past week, hopefully it’ll stay nice for today’s Bank Holiday. We’re entering the last few weeks of this school year, even though we haven’t actually been in our school building for a long time now. I’m very impressed with all the photos of your work that I’m continuing to receive, it’s great to see that you’re still working hard at home. Ms. Byrne and I are going to be suggesting less work for you to do as the month of June continues and we start the countdown to the summer holidays! I want to wish Cara a very Happy 8th Birthday for this Thursday 4th of June. I hope you have a great day Cara, with lots of presents and cake!
This week I would like you to send me a photo of your narrative about something that happened on your summer holiday, from page 69 of your Skills book. Another piece of work you could send me is the results of your experiment on heating different substances or even some pictures you being a scientist whilst carrying out this experiment!
My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Reading websites and resources:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
Click Teacher Login.
Enter the following username: [email protected].
Enter password: Parents20!
The red, yellow and blue are the simpler readers, and the green, orange, turquoise and purple are more challenging. Gold, white and lime are the most challenging. Try to choose a book that is not too easy but not too difficult for you, and is something that you will enjoy reading. You can access both fiction and non-fiction books on this site.
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the school work that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 1st June
There’s no work for today, just make sure that you enjoy the June Bank Holiday!
Tuesday 2nd June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read the narrative from last week, ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Continue learning the focus words for this narrative.
Complete sections A&C on page 68 of your Skills Books. These exercises will help you to revise some of the homophones (words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings) we have learned this year, and also check if you can identify the nouns, verbs, and adjectives in sentences.
Remember:
A noun is a person, place, or thing e.g. Kate, circus, nose.
A verb is a doing word e.g. to wait/waited/waiting, to excite/excited/exciting
An adjective is a describing word e.g. funny, colourful, clumsy, big
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of the focus words for this narrative. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘summer’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week.
Spellings- ‘ir’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-4 from the list today.
‘ir’
yet
hid
wept
girl
skirt
shirt
first
of
eight
birthday
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘ir’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ta_KKUU-98
You can also try Geraldine’s Phonics Flashcards to practise reading more words containing this sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhRxww2WmpI
The Alphablocks ‘Birthday Girl’ episode can be viewed here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEAuZcRB_cM
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘ir’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
You can also play this ‘ir’ Frogs Phonics Game.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526279-ir-phonics-frog-game
Try an ‘ir’ wordsearch. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-356-ir-sound-differentiated-word-search
Can you spot the ‘ir’ words in this postcard?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526145-ir-phoneme-spotter-postcard
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 58. Learn to join ‘ap’ and ‘ye’.
You can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 60, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: This week you are going to revise the 9+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
9+ 0 = 9
9 + 1 = 10
9 + 2 = 11
9 + 3 = 12
9 + 4 = 13
9 + 5 = 14
9 + 6 = 15
9 + 7 = 16
9+ 8 = 17
9 + 9 = 18
9 + 10 = 19
9 + 11 = 20
9 + 12 = 21
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
Wednesday 3rd June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’.
Continue to learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section B on page 68 of your Starlight Combines Reading and Skills Book. Re- write the sentences using contractions.
Spellings- ‘ir’ Learn spellings 5-8 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 60, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Please revise the last 6 number facts from the 9+ tables today.
9+ 0 = 9
9 + 1 = 10
9 + 2 = 11
9 + 3 = 12
9 + 4 = 13
9 + 5 = 14
9 + 6 = 15
9 + 7 = 16
9+ 8 = 17
9 + 9 = 18
9 + 10 = 19
9 + 11 = 20
9 + 12 = 21
Number Sequencing: Can you use your hundred square to identify the following number sequences and discover the missing numbers?
S.E.S.E: Science- Heat
At the moment we are lucky enough to be getting some very sunny summer weather. The heat from the Sun is extremely strong, and we need to protect ourselves from it by wearing sunscreen and hats, drinking lots of water, and spending some parts of a hot day in the shade or indoors. We learned about the Sun and other sources of natural and man-made heat when we were last in school together, can you list any of them? If you’re not sure, this twinkl activity sheet and power point might help you to remember!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t2-s-998-heat-sources-natural-and-artificial-activity-sheet
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/heat-and-temperatures-powerpoint-roi2-s-77
Do you know what can happen to some materials when they are heated?
Yes that’s right, they can melt. Can you name 5 or more things you think would melt if they were left out in the sun or on top of a radiator, put in the oven or microwave, or even heated up with a hairdryer? If a solid material is heated and it melts, did you know that it then becomes a liquid? Watch this video to learn more about melting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-lbwqzfVbo
This video explains how a material or substance can change from a solid to a liquid, as well as how a liquid can change to a solid through freezing. It also talks about gases, which are neither solids nor liquids. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-h-5480-changing-states-video
You can carry out an experiment to discover which everyday objects will and will not melt when they are heated, using the worksheet which you will find an image of at the end of this week’s blog post. You will probably have most of the objects mentioned in your house, but feel free to use other things of your own choosing instead/as well as those listed on the worksheet. To make it a fair test, you should try to leave the same objects in both a warm and cool place.
Don’t forget to predict which of them will stay solid and which will melt, and make sure that you leave each object in the sunlight for several hours in order to give it a chance to melt. If today isn’t a particularly sunny day then you might want to wait and carry out this experiment on a warmer day!
If you can’t do the experiment then you can look at these photos to discover some of the substances that will melt instead. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t2-s-1043-melting-materials-display-photos Please don’t look at them before you carry out the experiment as they will give away some of the results!
Thursday 4th June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Continue to learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 69 in your Skills Book, use your plan from last week to write a narrative about something that happened during the summer holidays.
Spellings- ‘ir’ learn spellings 8-10 from list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 61, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Please revise all of the 9+ tables today.
9+ 0 = 9
9 + 1 = 10
9 + 2 = 11
9 + 3 = 12
9 + 4 = 13
9 + 5 = 14
9 + 6 = 15
9 + 7 = 16
9+ 8 = 17
9 + 9 = 18
9 + 10 = 19
9 + 11 = 20
9 + 12 = 21
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
Friday 5th June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Make sure you have all the focus words for the narrative ticked off on your checklist today. Both sides of this sheet should now be completed, although you should continue to revise the various sets of focus words over the next few weeks.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘ir’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. Do you like that girl’s shirt or skirt best?
2. I hid first at the birthday party.
3. There were eight of us playing the game.
4. I have not wept yet today.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 59. Learn to join ‘op’ and ‘pp’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 61, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Number Sequencing: Can you use your hundred square to identify the following number sequences and discover the missing numbers?
Maths: Speed test on 9+ tables. (90 seconds)
Other curriculum subjects
Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
Music-‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme, have created a special parents' course which is suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the usual content of their weekly lessons to make it more accessible and engaging for parents and children, and put it all into the free Parents' Subscription . I would highly recommend taking a look at these lessons as they have tailored everything so that they can be easily followed. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home too. https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
P.E. St Colmcilles ‘Cul Cilles’ Academy. Every Sunday morning 11.00-11.30 am via Microsoft Teams for children born 2012-2014. Email Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
P.E.& Music Get moving with some of these fun action songs from ‘The Learning Station’. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL17F1F193E453DB97
I remember that one your favourites this year was ‘Shake Your Sillies Out’! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwT5oX_mqS0&list=PL17F1F193E453DB97&index=3&t=0s
S.P.H.E. Learn about how germs spread and how you can help to stop this from happening. https://www.littlemedicalschool.com/ireland/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/2020/03/Coronavirus-Presentation-2020.pdf
Follow the instructions in these GoNoodle ‘Flow’ videos to learn how to get rid of negative emotions and to relax and calm yourself down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzXFPh6CPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZP-TMr984s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYlRFIzl4WA
Here is a different video that teaches you calming and breathing and stretching exercises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZP-TMr984s
Art- Explore lots of amazing ideas for arts and crafts here. http://www.iamanartist.ie/
RTE Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn
This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday-No programme due to the bank holiday
Tuesday-Geography (World Cup Bid)
Wednesday-Drama (Images)
Thursday-Gaeilge (Bia and Siopa)
Friday-Science (Minibeast Hunt)
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letter joins in your handwriting copy.
Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
After you have completed this week’s S.E.S.E. work, you could try this activity to design a chocolate melting device. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-sc-2167-chocolate-melting-stem-powerpoint
Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for families to enjoy online- check out www.librariesireland.ie/services/right Type ‘Spring into Story time’ into the search box at the top of the page and scroll down to choose from hundreds of great reads!
You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
Choose something you still haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Hello again everyone,
I hope you’ve all been enjoying the beautiful weather we’ve been lucky enough to have over the past week, hopefully it’ll stay nice for today’s Bank Holiday. We’re entering the last few weeks of this school year, even though we haven’t actually been in our school building for a long time now. I’m very impressed with all the photos of your work that I’m continuing to receive, it’s great to see that you’re still working hard at home. Ms. Byrne and I are going to be suggesting less work for you to do as the month of June continues and we start the countdown to the summer holidays! I want to wish Cara a very Happy 8th Birthday for this Thursday 4th of June. I hope you have a great day Cara, with lots of presents and cake!
This week I would like you to send me a photo of your narrative about something that happened on your summer holiday, from page 69 of your Skills book. Another piece of work you could send me is the results of your experiment on heating different substances or even some pictures you being a scientist whilst carrying out this experiment!
My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Reading websites and resources:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
Click Teacher Login.
Enter the following username: [email protected].
Enter password: Parents20!
The red, yellow and blue are the simpler readers, and the green, orange, turquoise and purple are more challenging. Gold, white and lime are the most challenging. Try to choose a book that is not too easy but not too difficult for you, and is something that you will enjoy reading. You can access both fiction and non-fiction books on this site.
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the school work that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 1st June
There’s no work for today, just make sure that you enjoy the June Bank Holiday!
Tuesday 2nd June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read the narrative from last week, ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Continue learning the focus words for this narrative.
Complete sections A&C on page 68 of your Skills Books. These exercises will help you to revise some of the homophones (words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings) we have learned this year, and also check if you can identify the nouns, verbs, and adjectives in sentences.
Remember:
A noun is a person, place, or thing e.g. Kate, circus, nose.
A verb is a doing word e.g. to wait/waited/waiting, to excite/excited/exciting
An adjective is a describing word e.g. funny, colourful, clumsy, big
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of the focus words for this narrative. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘summer’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week.
Spellings- ‘ir’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-4 from the list today.
‘ir’
yet
hid
wept
girl
skirt
shirt
first
of
eight
birthday
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘ir’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ta_KKUU-98
You can also try Geraldine’s Phonics Flashcards to practise reading more words containing this sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhRxww2WmpI
The Alphablocks ‘Birthday Girl’ episode can be viewed here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEAuZcRB_cM
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘ir’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
You can also play this ‘ir’ Frogs Phonics Game.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526279-ir-phonics-frog-game
Try an ‘ir’ wordsearch. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-356-ir-sound-differentiated-word-search
Can you spot the ‘ir’ words in this postcard?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526145-ir-phoneme-spotter-postcard
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 58. Learn to join ‘ap’ and ‘ye’.
You can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 60, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: This week you are going to revise the 9+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
9+ 0 = 9
9 + 1 = 10
9 + 2 = 11
9 + 3 = 12
9 + 4 = 13
9 + 5 = 14
9 + 6 = 15
9 + 7 = 16
9+ 8 = 17
9 + 9 = 18
9 + 10 = 19
9 + 11 = 20
9 + 12 = 21
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
- Start at 46 and count up in 2s to 90
- Start at 61 and count back in 3s to 1
Wednesday 3rd June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’.
Continue to learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section B on page 68 of your Starlight Combines Reading and Skills Book. Re- write the sentences using contractions.
Spellings- ‘ir’ Learn spellings 5-8 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 60, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Please revise the last 6 number facts from the 9+ tables today.
9+ 0 = 9
9 + 1 = 10
9 + 2 = 11
9 + 3 = 12
9 + 4 = 13
9 + 5 = 14
9 + 6 = 15
9 + 7 = 16
9+ 8 = 17
9 + 9 = 18
9 + 10 = 19
9 + 11 = 20
9 + 12 = 21
Number Sequencing: Can you use your hundred square to identify the following number sequences and discover the missing numbers?
- 60, 65, ____75, 80
- 91, 89, 87, ___
- ___, 40, 42, 44, ____
S.E.S.E: Science- Heat
At the moment we are lucky enough to be getting some very sunny summer weather. The heat from the Sun is extremely strong, and we need to protect ourselves from it by wearing sunscreen and hats, drinking lots of water, and spending some parts of a hot day in the shade or indoors. We learned about the Sun and other sources of natural and man-made heat when we were last in school together, can you list any of them? If you’re not sure, this twinkl activity sheet and power point might help you to remember!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t2-s-998-heat-sources-natural-and-artificial-activity-sheet
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/heat-and-temperatures-powerpoint-roi2-s-77
Do you know what can happen to some materials when they are heated?
Yes that’s right, they can melt. Can you name 5 or more things you think would melt if they were left out in the sun or on top of a radiator, put in the oven or microwave, or even heated up with a hairdryer? If a solid material is heated and it melts, did you know that it then becomes a liquid? Watch this video to learn more about melting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-lbwqzfVbo
This video explains how a material or substance can change from a solid to a liquid, as well as how a liquid can change to a solid through freezing. It also talks about gases, which are neither solids nor liquids. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-h-5480-changing-states-video
You can carry out an experiment to discover which everyday objects will and will not melt when they are heated, using the worksheet which you will find an image of at the end of this week’s blog post. You will probably have most of the objects mentioned in your house, but feel free to use other things of your own choosing instead/as well as those listed on the worksheet. To make it a fair test, you should try to leave the same objects in both a warm and cool place.
Don’t forget to predict which of them will stay solid and which will melt, and make sure that you leave each object in the sunlight for several hours in order to give it a chance to melt. If today isn’t a particularly sunny day then you might want to wait and carry out this experiment on a warmer day!
If you can’t do the experiment then you can look at these photos to discover some of the substances that will melt instead. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t2-s-1043-melting-materials-display-photos Please don’t look at them before you carry out the experiment as they will give away some of the results!
Thursday 4th June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Continue to learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 69 in your Skills Book, use your plan from last week to write a narrative about something that happened during the summer holidays.
Spellings- ‘ir’ learn spellings 8-10 from list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 61, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Please revise all of the 9+ tables today.
9+ 0 = 9
9 + 1 = 10
9 + 2 = 11
9 + 3 = 12
9 + 4 = 13
9 + 5 = 14
9 + 6 = 15
9 + 7 = 16
9+ 8 = 17
9 + 9 = 18
9 + 10 = 19
9 + 11 = 20
9 + 12 = 21
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
- Start at 37 and count up in 3s to 88
- Start at 59 and count back in 2s to 7. Are the numbers in this sequence odd or even?
Friday 5th June
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Make sure you have all the focus words for the narrative ticked off on your checklist today. Both sides of this sheet should now be completed, although you should continue to revise the various sets of focus words over the next few weeks.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘ir’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. Do you like that girl’s shirt or skirt best?
2. I hid first at the birthday party.
3. There were eight of us playing the game.
4. I have not wept yet today.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 59. Learn to join ‘op’ and ‘pp’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 61, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Number Sequencing: Can you use your hundred square to identify the following number sequences and discover the missing numbers?
- 64, 67, ____73
- ____, 30, 31, 32,_____
- 17, ____, 37, 47, _____
Maths: Speed test on 9+ tables. (90 seconds)
Other curriculum subjects
Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
Music-‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme, have created a special parents' course which is suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the usual content of their weekly lessons to make it more accessible and engaging for parents and children, and put it all into the free Parents' Subscription . I would highly recommend taking a look at these lessons as they have tailored everything so that they can be easily followed. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home too. https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
P.E. St Colmcilles ‘Cul Cilles’ Academy. Every Sunday morning 11.00-11.30 am via Microsoft Teams for children born 2012-2014. Email Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
P.E.& Music Get moving with some of these fun action songs from ‘The Learning Station’. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL17F1F193E453DB97
I remember that one your favourites this year was ‘Shake Your Sillies Out’! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwT5oX_mqS0&list=PL17F1F193E453DB97&index=3&t=0s
S.P.H.E. Learn about how germs spread and how you can help to stop this from happening. https://www.littlemedicalschool.com/ireland/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/2020/03/Coronavirus-Presentation-2020.pdf
Follow the instructions in these GoNoodle ‘Flow’ videos to learn how to get rid of negative emotions and to relax and calm yourself down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzXFPh6CPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZP-TMr984s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYlRFIzl4WA
Here is a different video that teaches you calming and breathing and stretching exercises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZP-TMr984s
Art- Explore lots of amazing ideas for arts and crafts here. http://www.iamanartist.ie/
RTE Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn
This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday-No programme due to the bank holiday
Tuesday-Geography (World Cup Bid)
Wednesday-Drama (Images)
Thursday-Gaeilge (Bia and Siopa)
Friday-Science (Minibeast Hunt)
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letter joins in your handwriting copy.
Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
After you have completed this week’s S.E.S.E. work, you could try this activity to design a chocolate melting device. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-sc-2167-chocolate-melting-stem-powerpoint
Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for families to enjoy online- check out www.librariesireland.ie/services/right Type ‘Spring into Story time’ into the search box at the top of the page and scroll down to choose from hundreds of great reads!
You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
Choose something you still haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Suggested Work for Monday 25th-Friday 29th May
Hello everyone.
We’re already into the last week of May, it won’t be too long now until the summer holidays! It was lovely to see some of you with your parents outside the school last week when you were collecting the rest of your books, I hope you’ve been enjoying looking back through all of the work you did in First Class.
This week I would like you to send me a photo of your narrative plan from page 65 of your Skills book, or some photos of your plant and flower scavenger hunt. You could also send me a photo of your art work from this week, ‘A Summer Beach Scene’. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Reading websites and resources:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
Click Teacher Login.
Enter the following username: [email protected].
Enter password: Parents20!
The red, yellow and blue are the simpler readers, and the green, orange, turquoise and purple are more challenging. Gold, white and lime are the most challenging. Try to choose a book that is not too easy but not too difficult for you, and is something that you will enjoy reading. You can access both fiction and non-fiction books on this site.
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the schoolwork that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 25th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Read the narrative from last week ‘Our Summer Bucket List’ again. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 65 of your Skills Books. Today you are going to plan a story about something that happened during the summer holidays. You can draw pictures or write sentences to show the main events. Remember this is a narrative, so you should have characters in your story, a setting, and a plot. Try to include an exciting event in your plot! You will write the full story next week.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8a ‘Our Summer Bucket List’, which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of this week’s focus words. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘summer’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like to this week.
Spellings- ‘er’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘er’
mud
jam
sent
term
summer
river
number
always
also
woodpecker
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘er’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8_kUg3454
Watch these videos with words containing the ‘er’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taa3ANEyN_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf7b2rO5iIY
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘er’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Can you spot the ‘er’ words in this story?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-m-27702-er-phoneme-spotter-story
Play this ‘er’ boardgame. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526246-reading-er-sounds-board-game
Complete this ‘er’ flower worksheet https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526404-er-sound-spelling-flowers-activity-sheet
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 56. Learn to join ‘ur’ and ‘gg’.
You can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 58, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 7+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
Tuesday 26th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’.
Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section B and C on page 64 of your Starlight Combines Reading and Skills Book. (You completed section A last week). Use ‘I’ or ‘me’ and ‘is’ or ‘are’ to complete the sentences.
Spellings- ‘er’ Learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 58, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Please revise the last 6 number facts from the 7+ tables.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Continue to study the May 2020 calendar.
Type ‘May Calendar 2020’ into your search engine to display this year’s May calendar. Please ask your daughter some of the following questions:
1. How many days are there in May?
2. How many Mondays/Wednesdays/Sundays etc. are there in May?
3. How many Saturdays and Mondays/Tuesdays and Thursdays etc, are there altogether?
4. Are there more/less Sundays/ Tuesdays than Fridays/Saturdays etc.? How many more/less days?
5. What day of the week does the 8th/23th/ 30th May fall on?
6. What date is the 3rd Wednesday or 4th Sunday etc. in May?
7. How many days between today (Tuesday 26th May) and the last day of May? Can you write a number sentence to show how you can find out the answer to this question?
S.E.S.E: Science/Geography-Plants and Flowers
Plants are extremely important for the planet and for all living creatures, including us humans! They absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen from their leaves, which we and other living creatures need to breathe. Many animals also need plants and trees to eat and to live in.
Flowers not only look pretty and smell beautiful, they also play an important part in our world. Flowers feed insects, birds, animals and humans; they provide natural medicines for humans and some animals; and help in a plant's reproduction. Flowers brighten up our world and make it a more colourful and cheerful place to live!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-sc-272-ks1-all-about-plants-powerpoint Take a look at this powerpoint to learn all about plants.
The lifecycle of a plant- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2546339-life-cycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint
The lifecycle of a flower - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/lifecycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint-t-t-2547035
If you have a printer you can cut and stick the lifecycle of a flower in the correct order.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/90/72/t-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf?__token__=exp=1590058982~acl=%2Fresource%2F90%2F72%2Ft-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf%2A~hmac=b2582dbd052e84981366c08e3a86b9ccc523331d2bc17cc2d97fdd3b9a71fbf4
Plants and flowers are made up of different parts, just like humans. Take a look at this power point that explains what each part of a plant does.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10000130-parts-of-a-plant-powerpoint-
Do you recognise some of these plants and flowers? Can you name them? You might find many of these flowers in your garden, on the street outside your home, in a field, or in your local park. Follow this link to look at some of the common plants and flowers we see around us every day.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/fb/3f/t-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf?__token__=exp=1590059388~acl=%2Fresource%2Ffb%2F3f%2Ft-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf%2A~hmac=0a98e2c64bec720cce7dbe31e790024ca4da169d9dd763a91a4b547d1426357f
You can also watch this video. https://youtu.be/yp1NpIvwwj4
S.E.S.E. Activity
Go on a plant and flower scavenger hunt in your garden or in your local green area or park. Use this worksheet to tick off the plants and flowers as you find them!
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/d8/ca/t-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet-_ver_6.pdf?__token__=exp=1590060744~acl=%2Fresource%2Fd8%2Fca%2Ft-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet
_ver_6.pdf%2A~hmac=22a6251014bbca0ffed29a3740909b888cc850f13b6ac441d19df6eb4ffdc6c7
Here are some other activities you might enjoy!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ca-sc-50-putting-together-a-flower-activity Cut out and put together your own flower.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10560-plant-growth-sequencing-activity Try this sequencing activity.
Wednesday 27th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Read the final narrative, ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn the focus words for this story.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of the focus words for this narrative. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘summer’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 57. Learn to join letters ‘ha’ and ‘ug’. Remember that you can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master your Maths page 59, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 8+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
Thursday 28th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 67 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 59, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise the last 6 number facts from the 8+ tables.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
Friday 29th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn focus words for this narrative. We will be continuing with this narrative next week, so there's no need to have all of the words ticked off on your checklist yet.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘er’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. There is always mud in that river.
2. I sent a letter in the summer term.
3. I also saw a woodpecker in the woods.
4. What number did you pick?
5. I like butter and jam on my toast.
Complete the grammar activity in section 8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ in the online Starlight resources, in which you have to decide whether a word is a noun, adjective or a verb.
Remember:
A noun is a person, place, or thing e.g. Ben, school, table.
A verb is a doing word e.g. to read/reading, to dance/danced/dancing, to cook/cooked/cooking
An adjective is a describing word e.g. shiny, blue, smooth
This grammar activity is not associated with any particular page in your Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book this week.
Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSwetS2IPS4&t=7s Watch this directed drawing video, which will give you step by step instructions on how to create a summer beach scene, then colour it in!
Maths: Mixed speed test on 7+ and 8+ tables. (2 minutes)
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
Friday Maths Challenge
Use your maths skills and hundred square to answer these questions.
What number am I?
1. I am an odd number. I have 3 units and 7 tens. _______ I am an even number. I have 6 tens and 8 units. _______
2. What digit is underlined in the following numbers, tens or units?
24 56 78 82 91 12 47
3. Guess the shape.
I have 4 sides and 4 corners. All my sides are straight and of equal length. I am a flat shape.
I am a __________.
I am a flat shape. I have 2 sides, one curved and one straight. I have 2 corners. I am a ____________.
I am a 3D shape. I can roll. I have no corners and have one curved face. I am a ____________.
4. There are three children playing together. Bella is 10, Laurena is 7 and Sofia is 4. What is the total sum of their ages? Remember to write down the number sentence.
5. 10 – 4 =? Can you make up a word problem to go with this number sentence?
For example- Ben had 10 marbles, he gave 4 to his friend. How many marbles does Ben have left?
6. Mystery Number
Lots of you enjoyed the mystery number challenge a few weeks ago, so here’s another one for you to try!
(a) Start with the number 4.
(b) Add on the number of sides on a triangle.
(c) Double it.
(d) Take away 5.
(e) Now subtract the number of sides you would find on a rectangle.
The mystery number is ….?
Here are some fun maths activities and games you can try today.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
Practise your tables and mental maths with this game.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition
Practise your addition and subtraction skills using this game. Make sure you listen carefully, and you can use a hundred square to help you.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
Other curriculum subjects
Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
Music-‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme, have created a special parents' course which is suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the usual content of their weekly lessons to make it more accessible and engaging for parents and children, and put it all into the free Parents' Subscription . I would highly recommend taking a look at these lessons as they have tailored everything so that they can be easily followed. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home too. https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
P.E. St Colmcilles ‘Cul Cilles’ Academy. Every Sunday morning 11.00-11.30 am via Microsoft Teams for children born 2012-2014. Email Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
P.E./Music Get moving and dancing with ‘GoNoodle’! https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames/featured
P.E./S.P.H.E. Stretch your body and relax your mind with some yoga from the ‘Cosmic Kids’ channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
S.P.H.E. ‘Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home’. Read this lovely story to find out how Winnie and Wilbur are staying safe at home.
RTE Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn
This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday- Art: Botanical Art
Tuesday- Science: Forces and Friction
Wednesday- English: ‘The Black Sheep’
Thursday- Gaeilge: Mé Féin (myself) agus Mothúcháin (feelings)
Friday- Music: Choral Singing
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letter joins in the handwriting copy you will have received in your bag of books last week. We were going to use it in school after Easter, but we never got the chance!
Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-c-012-summer-bucket-list Complete this ‘Summer Bucket List’ worksheet, make a list of all the things you would like to do this summer.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/nz-t-t-5589-summer-acrostic-poem-template Use this template to write an acrostic poem. Each line must start with a word that begins with the letters in the word S-U-M-M-E-R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rTmH6SVcI In keeping with our plant and flower theme this week, join in with this mindfulness meditation called ‘The Flower’. Find a quiet space in your home and follow along with the video. Then you can complete some of these flower mindfulness colouring sheets.https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-26967-plants-and-growth-themed-mindfulness- colouring-sheets Take your time, relax and enjoy some quiet time whilst colouring!
Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for families to enjoy online- check out www.librariesireland.ie/services/right Type ‘Spring into Story time’ into the search box at the top of the page and scroll down to choose from hundreds of great reads!
You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
Choose something you still haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Hello everyone.
We’re already into the last week of May, it won’t be too long now until the summer holidays! It was lovely to see some of you with your parents outside the school last week when you were collecting the rest of your books, I hope you’ve been enjoying looking back through all of the work you did in First Class.
This week I would like you to send me a photo of your narrative plan from page 65 of your Skills book, or some photos of your plant and flower scavenger hunt. You could also send me a photo of your art work from this week, ‘A Summer Beach Scene’. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Reading websites and resources:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
Click Teacher Login.
Enter the following username: [email protected].
Enter password: Parents20!
The red, yellow and blue are the simpler readers, and the green, orange, turquoise and purple are more challenging. Gold, white and lime are the most challenging. Try to choose a book that is not too easy but not too difficult for you, and is something that you will enjoy reading. You can access both fiction and non-fiction books on this site.
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the schoolwork that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 25th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Read the narrative from last week ‘Our Summer Bucket List’ again. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 65 of your Skills Books. Today you are going to plan a story about something that happened during the summer holidays. You can draw pictures or write sentences to show the main events. Remember this is a narrative, so you should have characters in your story, a setting, and a plot. Try to include an exciting event in your plot! You will write the full story next week.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8a ‘Our Summer Bucket List’, which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of this week’s focus words. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘summer’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like to this week.
Spellings- ‘er’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘er’
mud
jam
sent
term
summer
river
number
always
also
woodpecker
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘er’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8_kUg3454
Watch these videos with words containing the ‘er’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taa3ANEyN_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf7b2rO5iIY
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘er’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Can you spot the ‘er’ words in this story?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-m-27702-er-phoneme-spotter-story
Play this ‘er’ boardgame. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526246-reading-er-sounds-board-game
Complete this ‘er’ flower worksheet https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526404-er-sound-spelling-flowers-activity-sheet
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 56. Learn to join ‘ur’ and ‘gg’.
You can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 58, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 7+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
- Start at 24 and count up in 2s to 70
- Start at 87 and count back in 2s to 35
Tuesday 26th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’.
Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section B and C on page 64 of your Starlight Combines Reading and Skills Book. (You completed section A last week). Use ‘I’ or ‘me’ and ‘is’ or ‘are’ to complete the sentences.
Spellings- ‘er’ Learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 58, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Please revise the last 6 number facts from the 7+ tables.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Continue to study the May 2020 calendar.
Type ‘May Calendar 2020’ into your search engine to display this year’s May calendar. Please ask your daughter some of the following questions:
1. How many days are there in May?
2. How many Mondays/Wednesdays/Sundays etc. are there in May?
3. How many Saturdays and Mondays/Tuesdays and Thursdays etc, are there altogether?
4. Are there more/less Sundays/ Tuesdays than Fridays/Saturdays etc.? How many more/less days?
5. What day of the week does the 8th/23th/ 30th May fall on?
6. What date is the 3rd Wednesday or 4th Sunday etc. in May?
7. How many days between today (Tuesday 26th May) and the last day of May? Can you write a number sentence to show how you can find out the answer to this question?
S.E.S.E: Science/Geography-Plants and Flowers
Plants are extremely important for the planet and for all living creatures, including us humans! They absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen from their leaves, which we and other living creatures need to breathe. Many animals also need plants and trees to eat and to live in.
Flowers not only look pretty and smell beautiful, they also play an important part in our world. Flowers feed insects, birds, animals and humans; they provide natural medicines for humans and some animals; and help in a plant's reproduction. Flowers brighten up our world and make it a more colourful and cheerful place to live!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-sc-272-ks1-all-about-plants-powerpoint Take a look at this powerpoint to learn all about plants.
The lifecycle of a plant- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2546339-life-cycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint
The lifecycle of a flower - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/lifecycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint-t-t-2547035
If you have a printer you can cut and stick the lifecycle of a flower in the correct order.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/90/72/t-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf?__token__=exp=1590058982~acl=%2Fresource%2F90%2F72%2Ft-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf%2A~hmac=b2582dbd052e84981366c08e3a86b9ccc523331d2bc17cc2d97fdd3b9a71fbf4
Plants and flowers are made up of different parts, just like humans. Take a look at this power point that explains what each part of a plant does.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10000130-parts-of-a-plant-powerpoint-
Do you recognise some of these plants and flowers? Can you name them? You might find many of these flowers in your garden, on the street outside your home, in a field, or in your local park. Follow this link to look at some of the common plants and flowers we see around us every day.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/fb/3f/t-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf?__token__=exp=1590059388~acl=%2Fresource%2Ffb%2F3f%2Ft-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf%2A~hmac=0a98e2c64bec720cce7dbe31e790024ca4da169d9dd763a91a4b547d1426357f
You can also watch this video. https://youtu.be/yp1NpIvwwj4
S.E.S.E. Activity
Go on a plant and flower scavenger hunt in your garden or in your local green area or park. Use this worksheet to tick off the plants and flowers as you find them!
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/d8/ca/t-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet-_ver_6.pdf?__token__=exp=1590060744~acl=%2Fresource%2Fd8%2Fca%2Ft-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet
_ver_6.pdf%2A~hmac=22a6251014bbca0ffed29a3740909b888cc850f13b6ac441d19df6eb4ffdc6c7
Here are some other activities you might enjoy!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ca-sc-50-putting-together-a-flower-activity Cut out and put together your own flower.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10560-plant-growth-sequencing-activity Try this sequencing activity.
Wednesday 27th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Read the final narrative, ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn the focus words for this story.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of the focus words for this narrative. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘summer’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 57. Learn to join letters ‘ha’ and ‘ug’. Remember that you can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master your Maths page 59, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 8+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
- Start at 6 and count up in 10s to 96
- Start at 95 and count back in 5s to 10
Thursday 28th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 67 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 59, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise the last 6 number facts from the 8+ tables.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
- Choose any even number and higher than 80 and count back in 2s to 0
- Choose any odd number lower than 41 and count up in 2s to 99
Friday 29th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn focus words for this narrative. We will be continuing with this narrative next week, so there's no need to have all of the words ticked off on your checklist yet.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘er’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. There is always mud in that river.
2. I sent a letter in the summer term.
3. I also saw a woodpecker in the woods.
4. What number did you pick?
5. I like butter and jam on my toast.
Complete the grammar activity in section 8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ in the online Starlight resources, in which you have to decide whether a word is a noun, adjective or a verb.
Remember:
A noun is a person, place, or thing e.g. Ben, school, table.
A verb is a doing word e.g. to read/reading, to dance/danced/dancing, to cook/cooked/cooking
An adjective is a describing word e.g. shiny, blue, smooth
This grammar activity is not associated with any particular page in your Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book this week.
Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSwetS2IPS4&t=7s Watch this directed drawing video, which will give you step by step instructions on how to create a summer beach scene, then colour it in!
Maths: Mixed speed test on 7+ and 8+ tables. (2 minutes)
Counting work: Use your hundred square to do the following.
- Start at 19 and count up in 3s to 100
- Choose any odd number higher than 79 and count back as far as you can in 10s
- Choose any even number lower than 52 and count up in 1s to 100
Friday Maths Challenge
Use your maths skills and hundred square to answer these questions.
What number am I?
1. I am an odd number. I have 3 units and 7 tens. _______ I am an even number. I have 6 tens and 8 units. _______
2. What digit is underlined in the following numbers, tens or units?
24 56 78 82 91 12 47
3. Guess the shape.
I have 4 sides and 4 corners. All my sides are straight and of equal length. I am a flat shape.
I am a __________.
I am a flat shape. I have 2 sides, one curved and one straight. I have 2 corners. I am a ____________.
I am a 3D shape. I can roll. I have no corners and have one curved face. I am a ____________.
4. There are three children playing together. Bella is 10, Laurena is 7 and Sofia is 4. What is the total sum of their ages? Remember to write down the number sentence.
5. 10 – 4 =? Can you make up a word problem to go with this number sentence?
For example- Ben had 10 marbles, he gave 4 to his friend. How many marbles does Ben have left?
6. Mystery Number
Lots of you enjoyed the mystery number challenge a few weeks ago, so here’s another one for you to try!
(a) Start with the number 4.
(b) Add on the number of sides on a triangle.
(c) Double it.
(d) Take away 5.
(e) Now subtract the number of sides you would find on a rectangle.
The mystery number is ….?
Here are some fun maths activities and games you can try today.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
Practise your tables and mental maths with this game.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition
Practise your addition and subtraction skills using this game. Make sure you listen carefully, and you can use a hundred square to help you.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
Other curriculum subjects
Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
Music-‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme, have created a special parents' course which is suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the usual content of their weekly lessons to make it more accessible and engaging for parents and children, and put it all into the free Parents' Subscription . I would highly recommend taking a look at these lessons as they have tailored everything so that they can be easily followed. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home too. https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
P.E. St Colmcilles ‘Cul Cilles’ Academy. Every Sunday morning 11.00-11.30 am via Microsoft Teams for children born 2012-2014. Email Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
P.E./Music Get moving and dancing with ‘GoNoodle’! https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames/featured
P.E./S.P.H.E. Stretch your body and relax your mind with some yoga from the ‘Cosmic Kids’ channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
S.P.H.E. ‘Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home’. Read this lovely story to find out how Winnie and Wilbur are staying safe at home.
RTE Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn
This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday- Art: Botanical Art
Tuesday- Science: Forces and Friction
Wednesday- English: ‘The Black Sheep’
Thursday- Gaeilge: Mé Féin (myself) agus Mothúcháin (feelings)
Friday- Music: Choral Singing
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letter joins in the handwriting copy you will have received in your bag of books last week. We were going to use it in school after Easter, but we never got the chance!
Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-c-012-summer-bucket-list Complete this ‘Summer Bucket List’ worksheet, make a list of all the things you would like to do this summer.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/nz-t-t-5589-summer-acrostic-poem-template Use this template to write an acrostic poem. Each line must start with a word that begins with the letters in the word S-U-M-M-E-R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rTmH6SVcI In keeping with our plant and flower theme this week, join in with this mindfulness meditation called ‘The Flower’. Find a quiet space in your home and follow along with the video. Then you can complete some of these flower mindfulness colouring sheets.https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-26967-plants-and-growth-themed-mindfulness- colouring-sheets Take your time, relax and enjoy some quiet time whilst colouring!
Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for families to enjoy online- check out www.librariesireland.ie/services/right Type ‘Spring into Story time’ into the search box at the top of the page and scroll down to choose from hundreds of great reads!
You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
Choose something you still haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Suggested Work for Monday 18th-Friday 22nd May
Good morning everyone,
I hope you all had a lovely relaxing weekend and are ready for another week of schoolwork. Have you been watching the RTE School Hub programmes? They have some very interesting sounding ideas coming up this week, including making masks and paper airplanes and writing a movie review. Let me know what you think of any of the episodes you see, and I’d love you to send me photos if you make any masks or planes or write your own review of a movie you’ve seen! You can find the full weekly timetable for this programme at the end of this blog post.
I would also really like you to send me a photo of your written report about the season of summer, so that I can see you’re still keeping up the lovely handwriting you were all doing every day in school. And remember that you are always more than welcome to write me a little message or letter just letting me know how you and your family are doing and what you’ve been up to recently and send me a photo of your message. I love hearing all your news. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Finally, I would like to wish Georgia a very Happy 8th Birthday for this Saturday May 23rd, when she will turn 8. Have a lovely day Georgia!
Reading websites and resources:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the schoolwork that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 18th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Read the narrative ‘Our Summer Bucket List’. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Learn the focus words for this narrative. Remember to keep ticking off these words on your checklist.
Complete page 63 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8a ‘Our Summer Bucket List’, which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of this week’s focus words. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘camping’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week.
Spellings- ‘au’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘ ‘au’
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘au’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOHDkQGhku4
Watch these videos with words containing the ‘au’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPlh7bcuaRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvEfzL0H3f4
Watch this video showing words containing both the ‘au’ sound and ‘aw’ sound, which you learned last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvEfzL0H3f4
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘au’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Can you spot the ‘au’ words in this postcard?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-54652-au-phoneme-spotter-postcard
Try this ‘au’ wordsearch. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-307-au-sound-differentiated-word-search
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 54. Learn to join ‘ir’ and ‘ut’.
You can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 56, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Let’s revise the new counting sequence you were practising last week. Use your hundred square to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. First, do this twice times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all.
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 5+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
5+ 0 = 5
5 + 1 = 6
5 + 2 = 7
5 + 3 = 8
5 + 4 = 9
5 + 5 = 10
5 + 6 = 11
5 + 7 = 12
5 + 8 = 13
5 + 9 = 14
5 + 10 = 15
5 + 11 = 16
5 + 12 = 17
Tuesday 19th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
For today’s written activity, please see the S.E.S.E. work below on the topic of summer.
Spellings- ‘au’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 56, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you will revise the last 6 number facts from the 5+ tables.
5+ 0 = 5
5 + 1 = 6
5 + 2 = 7
5 + 3 = 8
5 + 4 = 9
5 + 5 = 10
5 + 6 = 11
5 + 7 = 12
5 + 8 = 13
5 + 9 = 14
5 + 10 = 15
5 + 11 = 16
5 + 12 = 17
Today, you are going to use your hundred square to practise counting back in 3s. First revise counting up in 3s from 1 to 100. Now start at 100 and count slowly back in 3s to 70. You’ll need to do this a few times using your finger, as it’s quite tricky! Now try doing this without looking at your hundred square.
Type ‘May Calendar 2020’ into your search engine to display this year’s May calendar. Please ask your daughter some of the following questions:
1. How many days are there in May?
2. How many Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays etc. are there in May?
3. How many Saturdays and Mondays/Tuesdays and Thursdays etc, are there altogether?
4. Are there more/less Sundays/ Tuesdays than Fridays/Saturdays etc.? How many more/less days?
5. What day of the week does the 12th/20th/ 29rd May fall on?
6. What date is the 1st Wednesday or 5th Saturday etc. in May?
7. How many days between today (Tuesday 19th May) and the last day of May? Can you write a number sentence to show how you can find out the answer to this question?
S.E.S.E: Geography/Science- ‘Summer’
Today you are going to learn all about the season of summer. Do you know which seasons come before and after summer?
First, try to think of as many signs of summer as you already know of. You can write down your ideas, draw them, or just list them out loud. Maybe going out into the garden or for a walk with an adult would help you with this task.
Open this power point https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-891-ks1-when-is-summer-powerpoint Does it mention any signs of summer that you didn’t think of?
Have fun trying to guess which signs of summer you can see through the spyholes in this power point! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-11650-summer-themed-what-can-you-see-powerpoint
Take a look at these summer themed photos and describe what you can see. Can you say why each photos is linked to the season? https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-577-summer-display-photos
Read page 1 of this reading comprehension activity from ‘Twinkl’ and then answer the questions on page 2. You don’t have to write them down unless you want to. You will find all of the answers to the questions on page 3, but don’t cheat and look at them before giving your own answers!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi2-e-2672-summer-in-ireland-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity
A reminder that parents can access all of the resources on the ‘Twinkl’ site by using the code IRLTWINKLHELPS when you go to this page www.twinkl.ie/offer
Write a report on summer in a copy or on a page, using what you’ve learned about this season. Try to make it at least half a page long and you should use capital letters and full stops. Use your best handwriting too! Remember that a report should be full of facts and information. You can use these word mats to help you. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-t-1036-summer-word-mat and https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5747-summer-clothes-word-mat
If you have access to a printer you might like to use one of these colourful sheets to write on. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-1354-my-summer-holiday-page-borders
Wednesday 20th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘au’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 55. Learn to join letters ‘oc’ and ‘om’. Remember that you can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master your Maths page 57, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 6+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
6 + 0 = 6
6 + 1 = 7
6 + 2 = 8
6 + 3 = 9
6 + 4 = 10
6 + 5 = 11
6 + 6 = 12
6 + 7 = 13
6 + 8 = 14
6 + 9 = 15
6 + 10 = 16
6 + 11 = 17
6 + 12 = 18
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 70. Now, use your finger to count back from 70 to 40 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all.
Thursday 21st May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section A on page 64 of your Starlight Combined Reader and Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘au’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 57, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise the last 6 number facts from the 6+ tables.
6 + 0 = 6
6 + 1 = 7
6 + 2 = 8
6 + 3 = 9
6 + 4 = 10
6 + 5 = 11
6 + 6 = 12
6 + 7 = 13
6 + 8 = 14
6 + 9 = 15
6 + 10 = 16
6 + 11 = 17
6 + 12 = 18
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 40. Now use your finger to count back from 40 to 1 in 3s two or three times. Then see how far you can get without looking at the hundred square at all.
Friday 22nd May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’. Make sure you know all of the focus words for this narrative and have ticked them off on your checklist.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘au’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. You must fix it because it is your fault.
2. Do not pause after every jump.
3. An astronaut does not need a map.
4. We are going to a haunted house in August.
Complete the grammar activity in section 8a ‘Our Summer Bucket List’ in the online Starlight resources, in which you have to try to spot the mistakes made in the sentences shown. This grammar activity is not associated with any particular page in your Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book this week.
Maths: Mixed speed test on 5+ and 6+ tables. (2 minutes)
Use your hundred square to revise counting back in 3s. First, count all the way back from 100 to 1 two or three times whilst using your finger. Then see how far you can get without looking at the square at all. It will be very impressive if you can count all the way back to 1!
Number Sequences. Use your hundred square to solve these.
24, 26, 28, 30, ___ 34, 36 I am counting up/down in…?
80, 75. 70, ____ I am counting up/down in...?
13, 16, 19, ____ I am counting up/down in…?
37, 34, 31, ____ I am counting up/down in…?
Play this game to practise putting numbers in the right order according to their value. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering Can you identify which counting sequencing is being used each time?
‘Place Value Basket Ball’ https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball Can you identify the number of cubes being shown?
Mini Maths Challenge. Can you answer these questions on the topic of ‘Time’ which you were learning about last week? You might need to look up some of the answers!
Follow the links below to play some ‘Planet Maths’ games to further revise the topic of time.
‘Time’ https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM1/resources/activitya/pm_1c_133a/index.html
‘What Time is it Mr. Wolf?’
https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM1/resources/activitya/pm_1c_133/index.html
What Time is it? https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM1/resources/activities/pm_1c_134/index.html
Other curriculum subjects
P.E./S.P.H.E. Stretch your body and relax your mind with some yoga from the ‘Cosmic Kids’ channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
S.P.H.E. Save the world in this fun interactive game, by learning how to keep yourself and others safe whenever you go outside during this time of the coronavirus. https://martin-jacob.itch.io/can-you-save-the-world This game is very newly developed and so only works on computers at the moment.
Read the book ‘Everybody Worries’ by John Burgerman on the Oxford Owl website. This book has been written to reassure children and to give them the message that this current crisis will pass, we are there for them, and we will get through this together. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/jon-burgerman-everybody-worries-free-ebook/
Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn
This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday- Art (Venetian masks)
Tuesday- English (movie review)
Wednesday- Science (paper airplanes)
Thursday- Maths (addition and subtraction)
Friday- Gaeilge (mothúcháin-feelings)
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
Good morning everyone,
I hope you all had a lovely relaxing weekend and are ready for another week of schoolwork. Have you been watching the RTE School Hub programmes? They have some very interesting sounding ideas coming up this week, including making masks and paper airplanes and writing a movie review. Let me know what you think of any of the episodes you see, and I’d love you to send me photos if you make any masks or planes or write your own review of a movie you’ve seen! You can find the full weekly timetable for this programme at the end of this blog post.
I would also really like you to send me a photo of your written report about the season of summer, so that I can see you’re still keeping up the lovely handwriting you were all doing every day in school. And remember that you are always more than welcome to write me a little message or letter just letting me know how you and your family are doing and what you’ve been up to recently and send me a photo of your message. I love hearing all your news. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Finally, I would like to wish Georgia a very Happy 8th Birthday for this Saturday May 23rd, when she will turn 8. Have a lovely day Georgia!
Reading websites and resources:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
- Click Teacher Login.
- Enter the following username: [email protected].
- Enter password: Parents20!
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the schoolwork that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 18th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Read the narrative ‘Our Summer Bucket List’. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Learn the focus words for this narrative. Remember to keep ticking off these words on your checklist.
Complete page 63 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-8a ‘Our Summer Bucket List’, which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of this week’s focus words. If you open Poster 16 ‘Summer at Home’, you will find the poem for this week, ‘Sunflakes’ by Frank Asch. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘camping’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week.
Spellings- ‘au’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘ ‘au’
- map
- fix
- jump
- fault
- pause
- haunt
- August
- after
- every
- astronaut
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘au’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOHDkQGhku4
Watch these videos with words containing the ‘au’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPlh7bcuaRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvEfzL0H3f4
Watch this video showing words containing both the ‘au’ sound and ‘aw’ sound, which you learned last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvEfzL0H3f4
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘au’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Can you spot the ‘au’ words in this postcard?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-54652-au-phoneme-spotter-postcard
Try this ‘au’ wordsearch. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-307-au-sound-differentiated-word-search
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 54. Learn to join ‘ir’ and ‘ut’.
You can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 56, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Let’s revise the new counting sequence you were practising last week. Use your hundred square to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. First, do this twice times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all.
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 5+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
5+ 0 = 5
5 + 1 = 6
5 + 2 = 7
5 + 3 = 8
5 + 4 = 9
5 + 5 = 10
5 + 6 = 11
5 + 7 = 12
5 + 8 = 13
5 + 9 = 14
5 + 10 = 15
5 + 11 = 16
5 + 12 = 17
Tuesday 19th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
For today’s written activity, please see the S.E.S.E. work below on the topic of summer.
Spellings- ‘au’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 56, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you will revise the last 6 number facts from the 5+ tables.
5+ 0 = 5
5 + 1 = 6
5 + 2 = 7
5 + 3 = 8
5 + 4 = 9
5 + 5 = 10
5 + 6 = 11
5 + 7 = 12
5 + 8 = 13
5 + 9 = 14
5 + 10 = 15
5 + 11 = 16
5 + 12 = 17
Today, you are going to use your hundred square to practise counting back in 3s. First revise counting up in 3s from 1 to 100. Now start at 100 and count slowly back in 3s to 70. You’ll need to do this a few times using your finger, as it’s quite tricky! Now try doing this without looking at your hundred square.
Type ‘May Calendar 2020’ into your search engine to display this year’s May calendar. Please ask your daughter some of the following questions:
1. How many days are there in May?
2. How many Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays etc. are there in May?
3. How many Saturdays and Mondays/Tuesdays and Thursdays etc, are there altogether?
4. Are there more/less Sundays/ Tuesdays than Fridays/Saturdays etc.? How many more/less days?
5. What day of the week does the 12th/20th/ 29rd May fall on?
6. What date is the 1st Wednesday or 5th Saturday etc. in May?
7. How many days between today (Tuesday 19th May) and the last day of May? Can you write a number sentence to show how you can find out the answer to this question?
S.E.S.E: Geography/Science- ‘Summer’
Today you are going to learn all about the season of summer. Do you know which seasons come before and after summer?
First, try to think of as many signs of summer as you already know of. You can write down your ideas, draw them, or just list them out loud. Maybe going out into the garden or for a walk with an adult would help you with this task.
Open this power point https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-891-ks1-when-is-summer-powerpoint Does it mention any signs of summer that you didn’t think of?
Have fun trying to guess which signs of summer you can see through the spyholes in this power point! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-11650-summer-themed-what-can-you-see-powerpoint
Take a look at these summer themed photos and describe what you can see. Can you say why each photos is linked to the season? https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-577-summer-display-photos
Read page 1 of this reading comprehension activity from ‘Twinkl’ and then answer the questions on page 2. You don’t have to write them down unless you want to. You will find all of the answers to the questions on page 3, but don’t cheat and look at them before giving your own answers!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi2-e-2672-summer-in-ireland-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity
A reminder that parents can access all of the resources on the ‘Twinkl’ site by using the code IRLTWINKLHELPS when you go to this page www.twinkl.ie/offer
Write a report on summer in a copy or on a page, using what you’ve learned about this season. Try to make it at least half a page long and you should use capital letters and full stops. Use your best handwriting too! Remember that a report should be full of facts and information. You can use these word mats to help you. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-t-1036-summer-word-mat and https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5747-summer-clothes-word-mat
If you have access to a printer you might like to use one of these colourful sheets to write on. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-1354-my-summer-holiday-page-borders
- Please see the section of optional work at the bottom of this week’s list of work for some other summer themed activities.
Wednesday 20th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘au’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 55. Learn to join letters ‘oc’ and ‘om’. Remember that you can watch ‘Flowie’ the dog showing you how to do all the letter joins here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master your Maths page 57, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 6+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
6 + 0 = 6
6 + 1 = 7
6 + 2 = 8
6 + 3 = 9
6 + 4 = 10
6 + 5 = 11
6 + 6 = 12
6 + 7 = 13
6 + 8 = 14
6 + 9 = 15
6 + 10 = 16
6 + 11 = 17
6 + 12 = 18
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 70. Now, use your finger to count back from 70 to 40 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all.
Thursday 21st May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section A on page 64 of your Starlight Combined Reader and Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘au’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 57, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise the last 6 number facts from the 6+ tables.
6 + 0 = 6
6 + 1 = 7
6 + 2 = 8
6 + 3 = 9
6 + 4 = 10
6 + 5 = 11
6 + 6 = 12
6 + 7 = 13
6 + 8 = 14
6 + 9 = 15
6 + 10 = 16
6 + 11 = 17
6 + 12 = 18
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 40. Now use your finger to count back from 40 to 1 in 3s two or three times. Then see how far you can get without looking at the hundred square at all.
Friday 22nd May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’. Make sure you know all of the focus words for this narrative and have ticked them off on your checklist.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘au’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. You must fix it because it is your fault.
2. Do not pause after every jump.
3. An astronaut does not need a map.
4. We are going to a haunted house in August.
Complete the grammar activity in section 8a ‘Our Summer Bucket List’ in the online Starlight resources, in which you have to try to spot the mistakes made in the sentences shown. This grammar activity is not associated with any particular page in your Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book this week.
Maths: Mixed speed test on 5+ and 6+ tables. (2 minutes)
Use your hundred square to revise counting back in 3s. First, count all the way back from 100 to 1 two or three times whilst using your finger. Then see how far you can get without looking at the square at all. It will be very impressive if you can count all the way back to 1!
Number Sequences. Use your hundred square to solve these.
24, 26, 28, 30, ___ 34, 36 I am counting up/down in…?
80, 75. 70, ____ I am counting up/down in...?
13, 16, 19, ____ I am counting up/down in…?
37, 34, 31, ____ I am counting up/down in…?
Play this game to practise putting numbers in the right order according to their value. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering Can you identify which counting sequencing is being used each time?
‘Place Value Basket Ball’ https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball Can you identify the number of cubes being shown?
Mini Maths Challenge. Can you answer these questions on the topic of ‘Time’ which you were learning about last week? You might need to look up some of the answers!
- How many days in a week?
- How many weeks in a year?
- How many months in a year? Can you list them in the correct order?
- How many seasons in a year? Can you name them?
- How many hours in a day?
- How many minutes in 1 hour?
- How many seconds in 1 minute?
Follow the links below to play some ‘Planet Maths’ games to further revise the topic of time.
‘Time’ https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM1/resources/activitya/pm_1c_133a/index.html
‘What Time is it Mr. Wolf?’
https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM1/resources/activitya/pm_1c_133/index.html
What Time is it? https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM1/resources/activities/pm_1c_134/index.html
Other curriculum subjects
- Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
- Music-‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme, have created a special parents' course which is suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the usual content of their weekly lessons to make it more accessible and engaging for parents and children, and put it all into the free Parents' Subscription . I would highly recommend taking a look at these lessons as they have tailored everything so that they can be easily followed. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home too. https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
- P.E. St Colmcilles ‘Cul Cilles’ Academy. Every Sunday morning 11.00-11.30 am via Microsoft Teams for children born 2012-2014. Email Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
P.E./S.P.H.E. Stretch your body and relax your mind with some yoga from the ‘Cosmic Kids’ channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
S.P.H.E. Save the world in this fun interactive game, by learning how to keep yourself and others safe whenever you go outside during this time of the coronavirus. https://martin-jacob.itch.io/can-you-save-the-world This game is very newly developed and so only works on computers at the moment.
Read the book ‘Everybody Worries’ by John Burgerman on the Oxford Owl website. This book has been written to reassure children and to give them the message that this current crisis will pass, we are there for them, and we will get through this together. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/jon-burgerman-everybody-worries-free-ebook/
Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn
This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday- Art (Venetian masks)
Tuesday- English (movie review)
Wednesday- Science (paper airplanes)
Thursday- Maths (addition and subtraction)
Friday- Gaeilge (mothúcháin-feelings)
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
- After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letters in a copy or on a piece of paper.
- Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
- Print off this sheet or draw your own large picture of a pair of sunglasses and draw a picture of an activity you would like to do this summer inside each lens.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2547063-summer-sunglasses-activity-sheet - If you can go to the beach with an adult then you could try to find everything in this beach scavenger hunt! You can write down the list of objects if you don’t have access to a printer. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2547952-beach-nature-scavenger-hunt
- Can you spot and count the 2D shapes in this summer themed picture? https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/summer-themed-2d-shape-hunt-worksheet-t-n-2546943
- Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for familes to enjoy online- check out www.librariesireland.ie/services/right Type ‘Spring into Story time’ into the search box at the top of the page and scroll down to choose from hundreds of great reads!
- You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
- Choose something you still haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Monday 11th-Friday 15th May
Hello girls,
I hope you and your families are keeping well, and you are not too sad about the news that we won’t be able to go back to school until September. I am still missing all of you, and lots of you have told me in your emails that you’re really missing being with your friends. However, we can look forward to the time when we can be together again, there will be great excitement when that day finally comes! I’d like to wish Aoibhe a very Happy 8th Birthday for this Thursday 14th May, have an amazing day Aoibhe!
I’m continuing to receive lots of lovely emails from parents, with plenty of photos of the great work that’s clearly being done at home with the children. I very much appreciate everyone who has been taking the time to do this, as it is always lovely to have the opportunity to reply to these messages and communicate with the girls on an individual basis.
Some suggestions for photos of the work that could be sent to me this week are; the questions about the narrative ‘Noises in the Night’ on page 59 of your Skills Book, your own narrative on page 61 of your Skills Book, some of your maths work on time, or your response to the Greek Myth ‘Daedalus and Icarus’. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Reading websites and resources:
As mentioned previously, https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the schoolwork that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 11th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Read the narrative ‘Noises in the Night’. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Learn the focus words for this narrative. Remember to keep ticking off these words on your checklist.
Complete page 59 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-7b ‘Noises in the Night’, which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of this week’s focus words. If you open Poster 15 ‘Camping’, you will find the poem for this week. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘camping’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week. Please do the grammar activity in the 7b ‘Noises in the Night’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 60 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘aw’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘ ‘aw’
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘aw’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xvdbR6g060
Watch this video with words containing the ‘aw’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=finOGW5MCCs
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘aw’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Here is an ‘aw’ board game that you could play with someone else in your family if you have access to a printer at home.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526398-aw-sound-snakes-and-ladders-game
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 52. Learn to join ‘au’ and ‘ou’.
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 54, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to continue to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. We got up as far as the number 61 last week, so will continue on from there. First, revise counting from 1 to 61 in 3s two or three times. Now, count from 61 to 79 in 3s. Remember to take your time, as this is a new counting sequence for you!
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 3+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
3 + 0 = 3
3 + 1 = 4
3 + 2 = 5
3 + 3 = 6
3 + 4 = 7
3 + 5 = 8
3 + 6 = 9
3 + 7 = 10
3 + 8 = 11
3 + 9 = 12
3 + 10 = 13
3 + 11 = 14
3 + 12 = 15
Tuesday 12th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘aw’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 54, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you will revise the last 6 number facts from the 3+ tables.
3 + 0 = 3
3 + 1 = 4
3 + 2 = 5
3 + 3 = 6
3 + 4 = 7
3 + 5 = 8
3 + 6 = 9
3 + 7 = 10
3 + 8 = 11
3 + 9 = 12
3 + 10 = 13
3 + 11 = 14
3 + 12 = 15
Use your hundred square to continue to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. First, revise counting from 1 to 79 in 3s two or three times. Now, count on from 79 to 100 in 3s. Remember to take your time, as this is a new counting sequence for you!
S.E.S.E – History: The Story of Daedalus and Icarus.
Greek ‘myths’ are a series of stories about the Gods and magical beings of Greece. Created thousands of years ago, Greek myths were epic stories about Greek gods, passed down over generations. They often feature heroic battles and terrible creatures, and taught the importance of bravery, intelligence, and right and wrong.
The Story of Daedalus and Icarus is a Greek myth. Do you remember another Greek myth which we read in class a few months ago, called ‘Perseus and the Gorgon’? Try to retell the story to someone in your family. Here is a video to help you remember it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0Nnzi1PkY
A myth usually has an important message or lesson. Can you figure out what the important lesson is in this new myth? Use this powerpoint from ‘twinkl’ to read the story of Daedalus and Icarus. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-h-4826-icarus-story-powerpoint
You can also click on this link to read the story.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/75/e6/au-t2-p-409-icarus-and-daedalus-short-story-english_ver_1.pdf?__token__=exp=1588854577~acl=%2Fresource%2F75%2Fe6%2Fau-t2-p-409-icarus-and-daedalus-short-story-english_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=cd29325b832c7c899b22b011ba13c36a9029bef94715395bf70d3a6ad4772076
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVkwWo_LNZs Watch this YouTube video telling the story of Daedalus and Icarus.
Here is another version of the story: ‘The Boy Who Flew Too High’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQ-98Bqazg
Can you answer these questions about the story? (You don’t need to write down the answers.)
1. Why did King Minos not want Daedalus to return to his home in Athens?
2. Why would a boat not work for Daedalus and Icarus’ escape?
3. What did Daedalus use to stick the feathers together to make the wings?
4. Why did Daedalus tell Icarus not to fly too low?
5. Why did Daedalus tell Icarus not to fly too high?
6. What do you think about the ending of the story? Do you like it? Why/why not? Are there different endings? Which one do you prefer?
Optional extra activity:
In a copy or on a piece of paper, write a few sentences about your favourite and least favourite part of the story. Then draw pictures to represent these 2 events.
https://primarytexts.co.uk/free_resources/Myths17-21.pdf Use this resource to read the story and complete more questions and activities about the myth of 'Daedalus and Icarus'.
Here’s a word search you can try https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-h-4833-icarus-word-search
Wednesday 13th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘aw’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 53. Learn to join letters ‘aw’ and ‘ow’.
Complete the grammar activity in section 7b ‘Noises in the Night’ in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 60 in Skills book on ‘contractions’. Contractions are when two words are squeezed together to make one shorter word, for example can+not=can’t. The little mark between the letters n and t is called an apostrophe.
Maths: Master your Maths page 55, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 4+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
4 + 0 = 4
4 + 1 = 5
4 + 2 = 6
4 + 3 = 7
4 + 4 = 8
4 + 5 = 9
4 + 6 = 10
4 + 7 = 11
4 + 8 = 12
4 + 9 = 13
4 + 10 = 14
4 + 11 = 15
4 + 12 = 16
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. Today, revise counting from 1 to 61 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all!
Thursday 14th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 61. Use the pictures of Emma, Ben and Dad at the top of the page to write a story/narrative. Don’t forget to include the information about who is in the story, and where and when the story takes place.
Spellings- ‘aw’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 55, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise the last 6 number facts from the 4+ tables.
4 + 0 = 4
4 + 1 = 5
4 + 2 = 6
4 + 3 = 7
4 + 4 = 8
4 + 5 = 9
4 + 6 = 10
4 + 7 = 11
4 + 8 = 12
4 + 9 = 13
4 + 10 = 14
4 + 11 = 15
4 + 12 = 16
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. Today, revise counting from 61 to 100 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all!
Friday 15th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’. Make sure you know all of the focus words for this narrative and have ticked them off on your checklist.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘aw’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. My mother and father fell in the pond!
2. A prawn has a sharp claw.
3. The men saw the sunrise at dawn.
4. I ate a strawberry for my lunch.
5. I fixed the zip on my coat.
Maths: Mixed speed test on 3+ and 4+ tables. (2 minutes)
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. Today, revise counting all the way from 1-100 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all!
Revise the topic of ‘Time’ today. Use a clock in your home or a watch to help you.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-5481-make-a-clock-face-activity If you have access to a printer, you can download and print off this worksheet to make your own clock!
Do you know what the two hands on a clock stand for? The long hand represents the minutes and the short hand represents the hours. There are 60 minutes in 1 hour.
In First Class, we learn to read ‘o’clock’ times and ‘half past’ times.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-1241-o-clock-and-half-past-on-clocks-display-posters Look at these posters to remind you what 7 o’clock, half past 8, 9 o’clock etc. look like on a clock.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2544952-oclock-and-half-past-activity-sheets Use these worksheets to practise telling the time and drawing times on an empty clock face.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling_the_time_in_words# Here’s a game you can play to practise your ‘time’ skills. Select level 1 or 2 and choose the correct time.
Other curriculum subjects
The very entertaining Coach Ciarán, who the girls always love doing their ‘Fitness for Fun’ lessons with, has set up his own Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4i3Jy3V8pkgeoWCY1rDvQQ/feed You will find lots of videos here for keeping fit whilst having fun at the same time!
St Colmcilles ‘Cul Cilles’ Academy. Every Sunday morning 11.00-11.30 am via Microsoft Teams for children born 2012-2014. Email Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday- Maths-Spatial Awareness
Tuesday- Gaeilge-Mo Bhréagáin (My Toys)
Wednesday- Drama-The Three Little Pigs
Thursday- SPHE-Myself and My Opinions
Friday- History –Tom Crean
Additional activities for this week, in case you want to keep extra busy!
Hello girls,
I hope you and your families are keeping well, and you are not too sad about the news that we won’t be able to go back to school until September. I am still missing all of you, and lots of you have told me in your emails that you’re really missing being with your friends. However, we can look forward to the time when we can be together again, there will be great excitement when that day finally comes! I’d like to wish Aoibhe a very Happy 8th Birthday for this Thursday 14th May, have an amazing day Aoibhe!
I’m continuing to receive lots of lovely emails from parents, with plenty of photos of the great work that’s clearly being done at home with the children. I very much appreciate everyone who has been taking the time to do this, as it is always lovely to have the opportunity to reply to these messages and communicate with the girls on an individual basis.
Some suggestions for photos of the work that could be sent to me this week are; the questions about the narrative ‘Noises in the Night’ on page 59 of your Skills Book, your own narrative on page 61 of your Skills Book, some of your maths work on time, or your response to the Greek Myth ‘Daedalus and Icarus’. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries they may have about their child’s school work.
Reading websites and resources:
As mentioned previously, https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very good website to use for your daily reading. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is most suitable for their child. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
- Click Teacher Login.
- Enter the following username: [email protected].
- Enter password: Parents20!
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the schoolwork that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
Monday 11th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Read the narrative ‘Noises in the Night’. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Learn the focus words for this narrative. Remember to keep ticking off these words on your checklist.
Complete page 59 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-7b ‘Noises in the Night’, which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of this week’s focus words. If you open Poster 15 ‘Camping’, you will find the poem for this week. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘camping’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week. Please do the grammar activity in the 7b ‘Noises in the Night’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 60 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘aw’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘ ‘aw’
- zip
- men
- pond
- saw
- claw
- dawn
- prawn
- mother
- father
- strawberry
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘aw’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xvdbR6g060
Watch this video with words containing the ‘aw’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=finOGW5MCCs
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘aw’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Here is an ‘aw’ board game that you could play with someone else in your family if you have access to a printer at home.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526398-aw-sound-snakes-and-ladders-game
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 52. Learn to join ‘au’ and ‘ou’.
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 54, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to continue to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. We got up as far as the number 61 last week, so will continue on from there. First, revise counting from 1 to 61 in 3s two or three times. Now, count from 61 to 79 in 3s. Remember to take your time, as this is a new counting sequence for you!
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 3+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
3 + 0 = 3
3 + 1 = 4
3 + 2 = 5
3 + 3 = 6
3 + 4 = 7
3 + 5 = 8
3 + 6 = 9
3 + 7 = 10
3 + 8 = 11
3 + 9 = 12
3 + 10 = 13
3 + 11 = 14
3 + 12 = 15
Tuesday 12th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘aw’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 54, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you will revise the last 6 number facts from the 3+ tables.
3 + 0 = 3
3 + 1 = 4
3 + 2 = 5
3 + 3 = 6
3 + 4 = 7
3 + 5 = 8
3 + 6 = 9
3 + 7 = 10
3 + 8 = 11
3 + 9 = 12
3 + 10 = 13
3 + 11 = 14
3 + 12 = 15
Use your hundred square to continue to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. First, revise counting from 1 to 79 in 3s two or three times. Now, count on from 79 to 100 in 3s. Remember to take your time, as this is a new counting sequence for you!
S.E.S.E – History: The Story of Daedalus and Icarus.
Greek ‘myths’ are a series of stories about the Gods and magical beings of Greece. Created thousands of years ago, Greek myths were epic stories about Greek gods, passed down over generations. They often feature heroic battles and terrible creatures, and taught the importance of bravery, intelligence, and right and wrong.
The Story of Daedalus and Icarus is a Greek myth. Do you remember another Greek myth which we read in class a few months ago, called ‘Perseus and the Gorgon’? Try to retell the story to someone in your family. Here is a video to help you remember it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0Nnzi1PkY
A myth usually has an important message or lesson. Can you figure out what the important lesson is in this new myth? Use this powerpoint from ‘twinkl’ to read the story of Daedalus and Icarus. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-h-4826-icarus-story-powerpoint
You can also click on this link to read the story.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/75/e6/au-t2-p-409-icarus-and-daedalus-short-story-english_ver_1.pdf?__token__=exp=1588854577~acl=%2Fresource%2F75%2Fe6%2Fau-t2-p-409-icarus-and-daedalus-short-story-english_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=cd29325b832c7c899b22b011ba13c36a9029bef94715395bf70d3a6ad4772076
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVkwWo_LNZs Watch this YouTube video telling the story of Daedalus and Icarus.
Here is another version of the story: ‘The Boy Who Flew Too High’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQ-98Bqazg
Can you answer these questions about the story? (You don’t need to write down the answers.)
1. Why did King Minos not want Daedalus to return to his home in Athens?
2. Why would a boat not work for Daedalus and Icarus’ escape?
3. What did Daedalus use to stick the feathers together to make the wings?
4. Why did Daedalus tell Icarus not to fly too low?
5. Why did Daedalus tell Icarus not to fly too high?
6. What do you think about the ending of the story? Do you like it? Why/why not? Are there different endings? Which one do you prefer?
Optional extra activity:
In a copy or on a piece of paper, write a few sentences about your favourite and least favourite part of the story. Then draw pictures to represent these 2 events.
https://primarytexts.co.uk/free_resources/Myths17-21.pdf Use this resource to read the story and complete more questions and activities about the myth of 'Daedalus and Icarus'.
Here’s a word search you can try https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-h-4833-icarus-word-search
Wednesday 13th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘aw’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 53. Learn to join letters ‘aw’ and ‘ow’.
Complete the grammar activity in section 7b ‘Noises in the Night’ in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 60 in Skills book on ‘contractions’. Contractions are when two words are squeezed together to make one shorter word, for example can+not=can’t. The little mark between the letters n and t is called an apostrophe.
Maths: Master your Maths page 55, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 4+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
4 + 0 = 4
4 + 1 = 5
4 + 2 = 6
4 + 3 = 7
4 + 4 = 8
4 + 5 = 9
4 + 6 = 10
4 + 7 = 11
4 + 8 = 12
4 + 9 = 13
4 + 10 = 14
4 + 11 = 15
4 + 12 = 16
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. Today, revise counting from 1 to 61 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all!
Thursday 14th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 61. Use the pictures of Emma, Ben and Dad at the top of the page to write a story/narrative. Don’t forget to include the information about who is in the story, and where and when the story takes place.
Spellings- ‘aw’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 55, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise the last 6 number facts from the 4+ tables.
4 + 0 = 4
4 + 1 = 5
4 + 2 = 6
4 + 3 = 7
4 + 4 = 8
4 + 5 = 9
4 + 6 = 10
4 + 7 = 11
4 + 8 = 12
4 + 9 = 13
4 + 10 = 14
4 + 11 = 15
4 + 12 = 16
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. Today, revise counting from 61 to 100 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all!
Friday 15th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 58. Re-read ‘Noises in the Night’. Make sure you know all of the focus words for this narrative and have ticked them off on your checklist.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘aw’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. My mother and father fell in the pond!
2. A prawn has a sharp claw.
3. The men saw the sunrise at dawn.
4. I ate a strawberry for my lunch.
5. I fixed the zip on my coat.
Maths: Mixed speed test on 3+ and 4+ tables. (2 minutes)
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. Today, revise counting all the way from 1-100 in 3s two or three times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all!
Revise the topic of ‘Time’ today. Use a clock in your home or a watch to help you.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-5481-make-a-clock-face-activity If you have access to a printer, you can download and print off this worksheet to make your own clock!
Do you know what the two hands on a clock stand for? The long hand represents the minutes and the short hand represents the hours. There are 60 minutes in 1 hour.
In First Class, we learn to read ‘o’clock’ times and ‘half past’ times.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-1241-o-clock-and-half-past-on-clocks-display-posters Look at these posters to remind you what 7 o’clock, half past 8, 9 o’clock etc. look like on a clock.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2544952-oclock-and-half-past-activity-sheets Use these worksheets to practise telling the time and drawing times on an empty clock face.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling_the_time_in_words# Here’s a game you can play to practise your ‘time’ skills. Select level 1 or 2 and choose the correct time.
Other curriculum subjects
- Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
- Music-‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme, have created a special parents' course which is suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the usual content of their weekly lessons to make it more accessible and engaging for parents and children, and put it all into the free Parents' Subscription . I would highly recommend taking a look at these lessons as they have tailored everything so that they can be easily followed. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home too. https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
- P.E. Go to ‘Jack Hartmann Kids’ Music Channel’ and join in with his funny active videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann He also has lots of songs that will help you with your English and maths skills, you can take a look at all of his playlists here. https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann/playlists.
The very entertaining Coach Ciarán, who the girls always love doing their ‘Fitness for Fun’ lessons with, has set up his own Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4i3Jy3V8pkgeoWCY1rDvQQ/feed You will find lots of videos here for keeping fit whilst having fun at the same time!
St Colmcilles ‘Cul Cilles’ Academy. Every Sunday morning 11.00-11.30 am via Microsoft Teams for children born 2012-2014. Email Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday- Maths-Spatial Awareness
Tuesday- Gaeilge-Mo Bhréagáin (My Toys)
Wednesday- Drama-The Three Little Pigs
Thursday- SPHE-Myself and My Opinions
Friday- History –Tom Crean
Additional activities for this week, in case you want to keep extra busy!
- After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letters in a copy or on a piece of paper.
- Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
- Write 4 sentences using the contractions couldn’t (from combining could+not), wouldn’t (from combining would+not), aren’t (from combining are+not) and don’t (from combining do+not).
- Religion: May is ‘Mary’s Month’. Why don’t you make your own May Alter somewhere in your home to remember Mary during this month. Use this powerpoint to help! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-re-3-may-is-the-month-of-mary If you don’t know it already, learn the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer off by heart. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-re-236-may-is-the-month-of-mary-prayer
- Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for familes to enjoy online- check out www.librariesireland.ie/services/right Type ‘Spring into Story time’ into the search box at the top of the page and scroll down to choose from hundreds of great reads!
- You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
- Choose something you haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Suggested Work for Monday 4th-Friday 8th May
Hello again girls,
It's hard to believe that it’s May already, time is flying by. When I look at the photos I’m being sent by your parents I’m noticing that lots of you are already looking a bit taller and more grown up since we were last in school. We have the first May birthday in our class coming up on Saturday, when Áine will turn 8. Happy Birthday Áine! I also realised that I forgot to wish Lilas a happy 8th birthday for March 21st and to wish to Stella a happy 7th birthday for April 7th. My apologies girls, a very Happy Belated Birthday to you both and I hope you had fantastic days with lots of presents and cake!
Last week I received some lovely photos of girls making cupcakes and homemade lemonade and doing lots of exercise for Active Week, as well as pictures of your great English and maths work. Some suggestions for the work you might like to send me photos of this week are; the questions you answered about the narrative ‘The Great Outdoors’ on page 57 of your Skills Book, your Friday spelling test, your answers to the Friday Maths Challenge, or the weather themed drawing you did by following the instructions in one of the ‘Art for Kids Hub’ videos. My email address is [email protected]. which parents can also use for any queries you may have about their child’s school work.
I’m sure you are all continuing to read every day too. I have read so many books over the last few weeks myself. As mentioned previously, https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very useful website. The page in this link helps parents to assess which level of readers on the site is the most suitable for their child.
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/which-reading-level-stage/
‘Collins Big Cat’ readers are another great set of books for the girls to read at home. You can access them by going to the linked page and following the 3 steps below. https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx
- Click Teacher Login.
- Enter the following username: [email protected].
- Enter password: Parents20!
You can follow this link to find out about the Cul Cilles Academy, which is providing online GAA training for children aged 6-8 every Sunday morning 11-11.30 am. https://cilles.com/2020/04/shane-black-cul-cilles-academy-online/ .
Please remember that the lists of weekly work posted here are just suggestions of the schoolwork that the girls could being doing at home. It is not expected that every child will be able to complete all of the work listed below.
May 4th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 54. Read the narrative ‘The Great Outdoors’. Remember, a narrative is a story and has characters (who is the story about?), a setting (where does the story take place?) and a plot (what happens in this story?). Learn the focus words for this narrative. Remember to keep ticking off these words on your checklist.
Complete page 55 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-7a ‘The Great Outdoors’, which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of this week’s focus words. If you open Poster 15 ‘Camping’, you will find the poem for the next fortnight. It also contains the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme of ‘camping’ being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this this week. Please do the grammar activity in the 7a ‘The Great Outdoors’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 56 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘al’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘al’
- bad
- vet
- fact
- all
- talk
- walk
- small
- made
- their (for belonging, as in ‘That is their house’.)
- beanstalk
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘al’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-1M5ncvvxM
Watch this video with words containing the digraph ‘al’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9iQ7W6l86I
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘al’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Here is an ‘al’ board game that you could play with someone else in your family if you have access to a printer at home.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526262-al-sound-board-game
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 48. Learn to join ‘tr’ and ‘ro’.
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 52, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count up in 2s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
6, 18, 44, 80
Now use it to count back in 2s starting at these odd numbers.
9, 21, 39, 77
Do you remember that this is called skip counting? Maybe you could try it without the hundred square and use your skipping rope to physically skip whilst you count!
Tables: This week you are going to learn the ‘near doubles’ numbers facts. A near double is a double plus one more. Eg. If 6+6 is the double, then the near double is 6+7. There are lots of resources on Twinkl to practise these number facts, including the ones linked below.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ni-n-13-near-doubles-warm-up-and-revision-powerpoint
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-7077-near-doubles-addition-bus-board-game
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-n-239-doubles-plus-1-with-pictures-activity-sheets
To find more resources type ‘near doubles’ into the Twinkl search bar.
Today you can learn the first 3 near doubles.
1 + 2 = 3
2 + 3 = 5
3 + 4 = 7
4 + 5 = 9
5 + 6 =11
6 + 7 = 13
7 + 8 = 15
8 + 9 = 17
9 + 10 = 19
10 + 11 = 21
11 + 12 = 23
12 + 13 = 25
Tuesday 5th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 54. Re-read ‘The Great Outdoors’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘al’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 52, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Near Doubles
A near double is a double plus one more. Eg. If 4+4 is the double, then the near double is 4+5. .
Today you can learn the next 3 near doubles.
1 + 2 = 3
2 + 3 = 5
3 + 4 = 7
4 + 5 = 9
5 + 6 =11
6 + 7 = 13
7 + 8 = 15
8 + 9 = 17
9 + 10 = 19
10 + 11 = 21
11 + 12 = 23
12 + 13 = 25
Use your hundred square to count up in 5s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
10, 30, 60, 80
Now use it to count back in 5s starting at these odd numbers.
15, 45, 75, 95
S.E.S.E.- History (Weather Forecasting in the Past)
Last week you were learning all about the weather and weather forecasting, some of you might even have watched a weather forecast on your tv. Did you know that the people who work to predict our weather are called meteorologists? They have lots of very clever objects to help them to do their job these days, including weather satellites, computers, and thermometers.
Watch this video on how weather forecasts are made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdErsR8_NaU
In the past people didn’t have any of this fancy equipment, so they had much more simple ways to predict the weather. Look at the image of the worksheet posted right at the end of this week's list of suggested work and read about the different signs which they believed meant certain types of weather were going to arrive. I’m not sure that this way of forecasting the weather would work very well, what do you think?
Use this information to explain what people in the past would have thought about the weather if they had seen what’s in each of the pictures at the bottom of the page.
You can read more about the objects used by meteorologists and also about some other ways people used to predict the weather in the past here. https://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/weather-forecasting.html
If you would like to do some art to go along with your work on the weather then have a go at following the instructions given in one of these videos from ‘Art For Kids Hub’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgVhLWPyP5g (Draw the sun.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3P3kHoLvAY (Draw a raincloud.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UT3ASMfNw (Draw rain falling onto an umbrella.)
Wednesday 6th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 54. Re-read ‘The Great Outdoors’.
Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Spellings- ‘al’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 49. Learn to join letters ‘es’ and ‘sc’.
Complete the grammar activity in section 7a ‘The Great Outdoors’ in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 56 in Skills book on ‘contractions’. Contractions are when two words are squeezed together to make one shorter word, for example can+not=can’t. The little mark between the letters n and t is called an apostrophe.
Maths: Master your Maths page 53, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Near Doubles
A near double is a double plus one more. Eg. If 10+10 is the double, then the near double is 10+11. .
Today you can learn the next 3 near doubles.
1 + 2 = 3
2 + 3 = 5
3 + 4 = 7
4 + 5 = 9
5 + 6 =11
6 + 7 = 13
7 + 8 = 15
8 + 9 = 17
9 + 10 = 19
10 + 11 = 21
11 + 12 = 23
12 + 13 = 25
Use your hundred square to count up in 10s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
4, 16, 48, 60
Now use it to count back in 10s starting at these odd numbers.
97, 73, 51, 39
Thursday 7th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 54. Re-read ‘The Great Outdoors’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 57, use the narrative ‘The Great Outdoors’ to answer the questions about this story.
Spellings- ‘al’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 51. Learn to join letters ‘sm’ and ‘sw’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 53, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Near Doubles
A near double is a double plus one more. Eg. If 8+8 is the double, then the near double is 8+9. .
Today you can learn the last 3 near doubles.
1 + 2 = 3
2 + 3 = 5
3 + 4 = 7
4 + 5 = 9
5 + 6 =11
6 + 7 = 13
7 + 8 = 15
8 + 9 = 17
9 + 10 = 19
10 + 11 = 21
11 + 12 = 23
12 + 13 = 25
Use your hundred square to try something new. Can you start at 1 and use your finger to count up in 3s until you get to 31? You might need to go slowly at first! Practise doing this a few times.
Friday 8th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 54. Re-read ‘The Great Outdoors’.
Make sure you know all of the focus words for this narrative and have ticked them off on your checklist.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘al’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
- The vet made their pet better.
- Do you have all the correct facts?
- A small baby cannot talk or walk.
- I have a bad feeling about that beanstalk!
Use your hundred square to practise counting in 3s again. First, start at 1 and count up to 31, like you did yesterday. When feel confident doing this, start at 31 and count up in 3s until you get to 61. Repeat this counting sequence a few times.
Complete this ‘Friday Maths Challenge’!
Use your maths skills and hundred square to answer the following questions.
1.Which sum is correct? Remember, the equals (=) sign means ‘is the same as’.
(a) 5+6=6+4
(b) 5+4=9+5
(c) 5+9=9+5
(d) 6+5=11+5
2. 5+9+___=14
3. 6+ (5+1)=___ Remember to add the numbers in brackets together first and then add on the other number.
4. There were 3 girls standing at the bus stop. Aisling was first in line and Lucy was third in line. What position was Niamh in?
5. Aoife had 9 socks in her drawer. How many pairs of socks could she make?
6. Can you work out the mystery number by following these steps?
- Start with the number 2.
- Add on the number of sides on a square.
- Double it.
- Subtract (take away) 2.
- Now subtract the number of sides you would find on a triangle.
Other curriculum subjects
- Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
- Music-‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme, have created a special parents' course which is suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the usual content of their weekly lessons to make it more accessible and engaging for parents and children, and put it all into the free Parents' Subscription . I would highly recommend taking a look at these lessons as they have tailored everything so that they can be easily followed. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home too. https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
- English: Oral Language Skills- Discuss some of these questions with your family.
- Go on holidays?
- Have pets?
- Take photographs?
- Play sports?
- Learn a different language?
Do you know which of the underlined words are adjectives (describing words)?
- She is a very active person.
- The cake was delicious.
- Please put on your coat.
- He ran quickly around the park.
- I saw a black dog on a lead.
- That cushion is very soft.
P.E. Go to ‘Jack Hartmann Kids’ Music Channel’ and join in with his funny active videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann The girls loved these videos in school, ‘Move it to Sounds’ being one of their real favourites! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JvkWXBY2eY He also has lots of songs that will help you with your English and maths skills, you can take a look at all of his playlists here. https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann/playlists.
The very entertaining Coach Ciarán, who the girls always love doing their ‘Fitness for Fun’ lessons with, has set up his own Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4i3Jy3V8pkgeoWCY1rDvQQ/feed You will find lots of videos here for keeping fit whilst having fun at the same time!
Drama- Play some of these games with your family.
- Two truths, one lie: Say three sentences about yourself, but make one of them a lie. See if your family are able to work out whether you're lying or telling the truth.
- Sleeping lions: Pick one ‘hunter’ and have everyone else, the ‘lions’, lie down on the floor in sleeping positions. The lions are not allowed to move or open their eyes. The hunter walks around the room and tries to make the sleeping lions move by scaring them with a loud noise, whispering in their ears, telling jokes, and so on. The hunters are not allowed to touch the lions. Once any lion moves they are tapped and have to get up and join the hunter. The last lion left sleeping on the floor wins!
- Speaking objects: Select objects for each other to personify inanimate objects. How is your television feeling? What would the chairs say to the table?
- You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
- Home School Hub-This programme is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and is currently on every weekday from 11am to 12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers and covers a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online, which is available on www.rte.ie/learn
This week’s ‘School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class this week is as follows:
Monday-No programme today due to the May Bank Holiday.
Tuesday- English (Explore poetry, in particular the use of comparisons and similes.)
Wednesday- Science (Designing and Making; Learn how to design and build a ‘crisp protector’!)
Thursday- P.E. (Work on your coordination skills.)
Friday-Music (Listen and respond to traditional songs, and sing along with them too.)
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
- After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letters in a copy or on a piece of paper.
- Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
- Write 4 sentences using the contractions isn’t (from combining is+not), didn’t (from combining did+not), wasn’t (from combining was+not), and hasn’t (from combining has+not).
- Watch storytime with Mr Read https://youtu.be/iPMFFMfzmAc
- Choose something you haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Suggested work for Monday 27th April-Friday 1st May
Hello everyone,
I hope the first week of school work after the Easter holidays went well for you all. It can be hard to get back into the routine of working after having a break, but hopefully you found time to go outside and enjoy the lovely weather we had last week too.
I would like to remind all parents that every teacher now has a new email account which you can use to correspond with us. You should have received an email from me last Monday April 20th explaining how it will work. My address is [email protected] You can use this to send photos of your daughter’s work and other activities she has done at home, or just to let me how she is getting on in general and for any questions you may have about her school work. Please see Mrs. McCloughan's latest school closure update in the 'School News' section of this website and read the school guidelines with regard to using emails for remote learning. These guidelines include not sending any video clips to teachers.
I was delighted to receive photos of lots of talented chefs following the Starlight procedure on how to make a pizza last week, all of your pizzas looked delicious! I was also sent several pictures of very well written recounts with lovely neat handwriting. Well done everyone, keep up the great work. This week I would like to see photos of your written procedure for making homemade lemonade (Starlight pg 53) or maybe even some pictures of you following this procedure to make the lemonade or following the procedure on how to make your own cupcakes. You’d need help from an adult to make either of these of course. You might also like to send me a picture of your completed weather record sheet, a piece of your maths work, or photos of you doing some of the ‘Active Week’ activities mentioned below. Just one or two samples of work from each child per week is plenty. It would be especially nice to receive emails from the girls I haven't heard from yet, even just a brief message to let me know how you and your family are getting on at home.
This week is Active School Week. As we cannot be in school, we are going to take part in an ‘Active Home Week’ instead! Follow this link to read more. https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Active-Home-Week-Letter-1.pdf
I’m sure you are already getting lots of daily exercise, but this week as part of your homework each day I would like you to try to record all of the different physical activities and exercise that you do. Here is a chart which you can fill in every day. https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Active-Home-Week-Challenge-Chart-1.pdf
Activities can include walking, dancing, skipping, playing with your dog, playing football, jumping on your trampoline, joining in with Joe Wicks’ PE lessons, playing games with your brothers and sisters or even helping your parents with cleaning the house! Anything at all that gets you up and active! You will find lots of great ideas for being active on the 'School News' section of this site.
You can find at home PE videos and lots more information about ‘Active Home Week’ on this website: https://activeschoolflag.ie/index.php/active-home-week-2020/#toggle-id-3
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ Here is a link to a fantastic website with lots of resources for learning phonics. There are brilliant games and activities for learning and practising your sounds and tricky words. If you click on ‘resources’ you’ll find games like ‘Buried Treasure’ where you can learn more about this week’s ‘or’ sound, and can sound out words and decide if they are ‘real’ or ‘fake’. Other great games are ‘Tricky Word Trucks’ and ‘Space Race’. Phonicsplay are offering parents free access to their site during this time, just enter ‘march20’ for username and ‘home’ for the password.
I really hope you are all keeping up with your daily reading. As mentioned last week, https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very useful website. You can download ebooks suitable for any age and level of reading ability. You will need to sign up and create your own account to avail of these resources. It is free to sign up.
‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme have created a new special parents' course full of content suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted the content from their weekly lessons to make them more accessible and engaging for parents and children at home. They have presented all of their curriculum content in a more accessible format for parents in the free Parents' Subscription . I would recommend taking a look at these lessons, they have tailored everything so it can be followed at home. The girls really enjoyed our Dabbledoo lessons in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of them at home! Here is the link:
https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
Monday 27th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Read the procedure ‘How to Make Cupcakes’. Remember, a procedure is a piece of writing that tells you how to do or make something. Learn the focus words for this procedure. Remember to keep ticking off the focus words on your checklist.
Complete page 51 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in your username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-6b ‘How to Make Cupcakes’ and also Poster 14 ‘In the Kitchen’, which includes the poem for this week ‘The Friendly Cinnamon Bun’. The poster will also contain the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this week. Please do the grammar activity in the ‘6b How to Make Cupcakes’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 52 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘or’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘or’
- got
- bun
- belt
- fork
- storm
- horse
- forty
- goes
- does
- morning
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘or’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9PRHDJlv4
Watch this video with words containing this week’s digraph ‘or’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKWxjU0UgQ
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘or’ sound.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 44. Learn to join ‘pl’ and ‘sl’.
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 50, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 1s from 1 to 100 and back again.
Tables: This week you are going to learn the ‘doubles’ from our addition tables, which all add up to even numbers. There are lots of resources on Twinkl to practise these number facts, just search for ‘doubles’ at the top of the homepage.
Today you can learn the first 3 number facts.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 22
12 + 12 = 24
S.E.S.E. – Weather.
How many different types of weather can you list? What is your favourite and least favourite type of weather and why? What kind of weather do we usually get in Ireland during each of the 4 seasons- winter, spring, summer, and autumn?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-292049-all-about-weather-powerpoint
Weather symbols- Weather symbols are used by people called ‘weather forecasters’. Their job is to tell us what the weather is going to be like in different parts of the country during the next few days. Why might it be useful to know if a certain day is going to be hot or cold, dry or wet?
Here is a list of some weather symbols, I’m sure you will recognise and know most of them! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-t-811-weather-symbol-cut-outs
The weather forecast for Ireland is on RTE One after the news every day. Maybe you could ask your mum or dad if you can watch it with them one day this week, and try to spot some of the symbols you learned about. Do you know what they mean? What will the temperatures be like where we live, in the East of Ireland? Will it be mostly dry and sunny or is there some rain forecast?
Print out this worksheet or draw your own version of it, and use the weather symbols to record what the weather is like each day this week. https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/09/f1/roi-t-25943-my-weather-record-activity-sheet.pdf?_
Follow this link to explore the Met Éireann website. https://www.met.ie/
https://www.rte.ie/weather/22259-dublin/ Use this link to follow and watch the weather every day!
P.E- Fill in your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
Tuesday 28th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 45. Learn to join letters ‘br’ and ‘cr’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 50, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 2s from 2 to 100 and back again.
Tables: Learn the next 3 doubles.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 22
12 + 12 = 24
P.E- Fill in your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E.-Fill in your weather record sheet for today.
Wednesday 29th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 46. Learn to join letters ‘dr’ and ‘fr’
Complete the grammar activity in the ‘6b How to Make Cupcakes’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 52 in Skills book on how to use the pairs of homophones know/no and right/write correctly.
Maths: Master your Maths page 51, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 5s from 5 to 100 and back again.
Tables: Learn the next 3 doubles.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 22
12 + 12 = 24
P.E- Fill in your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E.-Fill in your weather record sheet for today.
Thursday 30th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’. Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 53. Use the plan you completed last week on page 49 to write a procedure for making lemonade. Remember to start each step with a verb (a doing or action word like 'cut' and 'stir'), use sequencing words (first, next, then, after that, finally), and write the steps in the correct order.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 47. Learn to join letters ‘gr’ and ‘pr’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 51, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 10s from 10 to 100 and back again.
Can you count up in 10s starting from these even numbers? 18, 24, 32
Can you count back in 10s starting from these odd numbers? 95, 87, 79
Tables: Learn the last 3 doubles and revise all.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 22
12 + 12 = 24
P.E- Fill in your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E.-Fill in your weather record sheet for today.
Friday 1st May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’
Make sure you know all of the focus words for this procedure and have ticked them off the checklist.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘or’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
- There was a bad storm this morning.
- Does the fork bend?
- My belt goes in that press.
- I got a bun at the party.
- The horse ate forty apples!
P.E- Fill in your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E.-Fill in your weather record sheet for today.
Maths: Mixed speed test on doubles (90 seconds).
Use your hundred square and maths skills to complete this week's 'Friday Maths Challenge'!
- Which number is greater than 40 and less than 50?
39 51 60 47
2. Which number is greater than 45 and less than 50?
49 52 41 55
3. What number am I?
- I am 6 tens and 7 units.
- I am 3 tens and 2 units.
- I am 0 tens and 9 units.
- I am 5 tens and 0 units.
Here is a rhyme that can help you remember odd and even numbers!
0, 2, 4, 6, 8, that’s what makes even great,
1, 3, 5 ,7,9, the odd numbers fall right in line!
4. Which of these numbers are even?
22, 87, 54, 93, 100, 35, 78
5. Which of these numbers are odd?
16, 23, 48, 62, 75, 99, 100
*Always remember to check the units places.
3D Shapes. Spend time learning and revising the 3D shapes. Remember, 2D shapes are flat and 3D shapes are solid.
Before you begin looking at the work on 3D shapes, how many 2D shapes can you name and draw? Do you know how many sides and corners each one has? We have covered 2D shapes in our maths lessons in school this year, so I hope you know lots about them!
When we describe 3D shapes, we use words like faces, edges and vertices (corners).
Use this powerpoint from twinkl to discover which 3D shapes we see around us every day.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-928-every-day-3d-shapes-powerpoint
Go on a 3D shape hunt around your home and garden and see how many you can find! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/outdoor-3d-shape-hunt-t-m-3690
Other curriculum subjects
- Music- Dabbledoo (See post above)
- You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
- Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
- P.E- Joe Wicks/The Body Coach is continuing with his PE lessons live from his living room every morning at 9 o’clock, which would be especially good to join in with during this 'Active Week'! Just search ‘PE with Joe’ on YouTube.
- Home School Hub-Home School Hub is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and it will run Mon-Fri 11am-12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers covering a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player). Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online available on www.rte.ie/learn
Monday: History (Myths and legends, including the Irish legend 'The Children of Lir', which we have read in class)
Tuesday: Science (Learn all about 'Robby the Robin')
Wednesday: P.E. (Get busy moving, twisting and balancing!)
Thursday: Maths (Patterns)
Friday: English (Become 'sentence detectives')
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
- After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letters in a copy or on a piece of paper.
- Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
- Write a few sentences using the homophone pairs right/write and know/no. Check that you've used the correct spellings of these words each time!
- Follow the Starlight procedure on how to make cupcakes or lemonade, but only if your mum or dad allow you to and can help you with this.
- Complete this weather report https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-6280-my-weather-report-activity-sheet
- Drama- Role play: you are RTÉ’s newest weather presenter! Make your own weather symbols and use them to forecast and present the weather.
- Art- Create your own weather scene. Draw, paint or use any other art materials you have at home to create a weather scene e.g. it could be a dark, cloudy evening, a bright and sunny morning, or a very snowy or wet day!
- Storytime with Mr Read https://youtu.be/iPMFFMfzmAc
- Story time with Julia Donaldson. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialGruffalo/ This very famous author will perform stories, songs and poems, all broadcast on Facebook from her home. Each episode airs at 4pm each Thursday on Facebook, and she’ll also be joined by guest illustrators.
- Choose something you haven’t done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Suggested work for Monday 20th-Friday 24th April
Hello again everyone,
I hope you all enjoyed the Easter holidays and the lovely weather we’ve been having, as well as eating lots of chocolate! Unfortunately we can’t return to school and see each other yet, therefore I will be continuing to set you work online. The good news is that there is now an e-mail address your parents can use to send me photos of your work and some of the activities you are getting up to at home. This week I would love to see a photo of your Easter holiday recount or maybe even some photos of you following the Starlight procedure to make your own pizza, with a bit of help from an adult of course!
I have added photos to our blog page of some of the last art activities we did in school before it closed, which you might like to have a look at to see all your friends again. I hope you are spending time reading every day, so that you will continue to be great readers when we return to school. If you are running out of books at home then there are lots available for free at this website https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/. You can also access children’s library books to read and listen to using the ‘borrowbox’ app. https://www.borrowbox.com/
Thank you very much to all the parents who completed my survey on the amount of work being put up on this blog. The vast majority think that the right amount is being set so I will continue on with a similar level of work for now, with a little more maths added in. As always, you are free to pick and choose which activities your daughter does from these weekly lists, depending on what suits your current family circumstances. You should receive an email this morning (Monday 20th April) from the new account set up for me to correspond with parents, which is [email protected] Please see Mrs. McCloughan's lastest school closure update in the 'School News' section of this website to read the school guidelines with regard to using emails for remote learning. I look forward to hearing from you.
Monday 20th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Read the procedure ‘How to Make a Pizza’. Remember, a procedure is a piece of writing that tells you how to do or make something. Learn the focus words for this procedure. Remember to keep ticking off the focus words on your checklists.
Complete page 47 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in a username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-6a ‘How to Make a Pizza’ and also Poster 14 ‘In the Kitchen’, which includes the poem for the next fortnight ‘The Friendly Cinnamon Bun’. The poster will also contain the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this week. Please do the grammar activity in the ‘6a How to Make a Pizza’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 48 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘oy’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘oy’
Geraldine Giraffe learns the ‘oy’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aodJQr-WJLk
Watch this video with words containing this week’s digraph ‘oy’ and last week’s digraph ‘oi’, which both make the same sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbt0Thvs1GE
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 40 Learn to join ‘rt’ and ‘ve’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 48, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 1s from 1 to 100 and back again.
Revise 12+ tables.
Tuesday 21st April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Write a recount of what you did over the Easter holidays (‘My Easter Holiday News’).Even if you couldn’t go very far or see many people I’m sure you kept busy over the past two weeks!
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 41. Learn to join letters ‘ss’ and ‘ll’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master your Maths page 48, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 2s from 2 to 100 and back again.
Revise 12+ tables.
Wednesday 22nd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 42. Learn to join letters ‘bl’ and ‘cl’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Complete the grammar activity in the ‘6a How to Make a Pizza’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 48 in your Skills book on how to use the pairs of homophones would/wood and here/hear correctly.
Maths: Master your Maths page 49, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 5s from 5 to 100 and back again.
Continue to revise 12+ tables, as these are the most difficult set of addition tables.
Thursday 23rd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’. Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 49, planning a procedure on how to make lemonade.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 49, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 10s from 10 to 100 and back again.
Can you count up in 10s starting from these even numbers? 14, 38, 52
Can you count back in 10s starting from these odd numbers? 99, 65, 27
Revise 12+ tables for a speed test tomorrow.
SESE: My Body and Our 5 Senses (you could split this work between today and tomorrow)
Can you point to and name as many of your body parts as you can, before looking at these posters? https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-m-203-parts-of-the-body-display-posters
What kind of activities do these body parts help us do?
Our thumbs are a very important part of our hands. Which of these things can you do without using your thumbs? Some of these activities may be trickier than they sound!
Can you name the 5 senses and which parts of our body we use to do each one?
This power point will help you learn more about them.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5240-eyfs-all-about-me-my-senses-powerpoint
Answer these questions.
List 3 things you like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
What about 3 things you don’t like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch!
Can you find these things in your house?
4. Something that makes a noise 5. Something smelly.
There is lots more to learn about your 5 senses here!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-sc-38-the-senses-all-five-senses-resource-pack
Friday 24th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Make sure you know all of the focus words for this procedure and have ticked them off the list on your sheet.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 43. Learn to join letters ‘fl’ and ‘gl’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘oy’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
Maths: Mixed speed test on 12+ tables (13 sums, 90 seconds).
Use your hundred square and maths skills to complete this 'Friday Maths Challenge'!
1. Which number is greater than 80 and less than 90?
67 93 88 100
2. Which number is greater than 35 and less than 40?
47 33 39 40
3.Which number is less than 70 and more than 55?
70 85 60 50
4. What number am I?
I am 3 tens and 4 units.
I am 0 tens and 5 units.
I am 5 tens and 0 units.
I am 7 tens and 2 units.
I am 1 ten and 1 unit.
Can you say our rhyme for remembering odd and even numbers?
0, 2, 4, 6, 8, that’s what makes even great,
1, 3, 5 , 7, 9, the odd numbers fall right in line!
5. Which are these numbers are even?
18, 63, 4, 9, 22, 50, 96
6. Which of these numbers are odd?
18, 30, 44, 79, 100, 13, 85
*Always remember to check the units places.
7. Can you make up your own word problems for these sums? For example if the sum is 8+__=16 then my word problem might be ‘My friend and I had 16 sweets altogether. I had 8 sweets. How many sweets did my friend have? You don’t need to write these problems down.
(a) 5+6=11
(b) 9-6=3
(c) 12+__=20
(d) 10 -__= 5
Other curriculum subjects
Hello again everyone,
I hope you all enjoyed the Easter holidays and the lovely weather we’ve been having, as well as eating lots of chocolate! Unfortunately we can’t return to school and see each other yet, therefore I will be continuing to set you work online. The good news is that there is now an e-mail address your parents can use to send me photos of your work and some of the activities you are getting up to at home. This week I would love to see a photo of your Easter holiday recount or maybe even some photos of you following the Starlight procedure to make your own pizza, with a bit of help from an adult of course!
I have added photos to our blog page of some of the last art activities we did in school before it closed, which you might like to have a look at to see all your friends again. I hope you are spending time reading every day, so that you will continue to be great readers when we return to school. If you are running out of books at home then there are lots available for free at this website https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/. You can also access children’s library books to read and listen to using the ‘borrowbox’ app. https://www.borrowbox.com/
Thank you very much to all the parents who completed my survey on the amount of work being put up on this blog. The vast majority think that the right amount is being set so I will continue on with a similar level of work for now, with a little more maths added in. As always, you are free to pick and choose which activities your daughter does from these weekly lists, depending on what suits your current family circumstances. You should receive an email this morning (Monday 20th April) from the new account set up for me to correspond with parents, which is [email protected] Please see Mrs. McCloughan's lastest school closure update in the 'School News' section of this website to read the school guidelines with regard to using emails for remote learning. I look forward to hearing from you.
Monday 20th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Read the procedure ‘How to Make a Pizza’. Remember, a procedure is a piece of writing that tells you how to do or make something. Learn the focus words for this procedure. Remember to keep ticking off the focus words on your checklists.
Complete page 47 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in a username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-6a ‘How to Make a Pizza’ and also Poster 14 ‘In the Kitchen’, which includes the poem for the next fortnight ‘The Friendly Cinnamon Bun’. The poster will also contain the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this week. Please do the grammar activity in the ‘6a How to Make a Pizza’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 48 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘oy’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘oy’
- jet
- dig
- help
- boy
- toy
- enjoy
- annoy
- two
- four
- destroy
Geraldine Giraffe learns the ‘oy’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aodJQr-WJLk
Watch this video with words containing this week’s digraph ‘oy’ and last week’s digraph ‘oi’, which both make the same sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbt0Thvs1GE
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 40 Learn to join ‘rt’ and ‘ve’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 48, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 1s from 1 to 100 and back again.
Revise 12+ tables.
Tuesday 21st April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Write a recount of what you did over the Easter holidays (‘My Easter Holiday News’).Even if you couldn’t go very far or see many people I’m sure you kept busy over the past two weeks!
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 41. Learn to join letters ‘ss’ and ‘ll’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Maths: Master your Maths page 48, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 2s from 2 to 100 and back again.
Revise 12+ tables.
Wednesday 22nd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 42. Learn to join letters ‘bl’ and ‘cl’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Complete the grammar activity in the ‘6a How to Make a Pizza’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 48 in your Skills book on how to use the pairs of homophones would/wood and here/hear correctly.
Maths: Master your Maths page 49, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 5s from 5 to 100 and back again.
Continue to revise 12+ tables, as these are the most difficult set of addition tables.
Thursday 23rd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’. Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 49, planning a procedure on how to make lemonade.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 49, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 10s from 10 to 100 and back again.
Can you count up in 10s starting from these even numbers? 14, 38, 52
Can you count back in 10s starting from these odd numbers? 99, 65, 27
Revise 12+ tables for a speed test tomorrow.
SESE: My Body and Our 5 Senses (you could split this work between today and tomorrow)
Can you point to and name as many of your body parts as you can, before looking at these posters? https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-m-203-parts-of-the-body-display-posters
What kind of activities do these body parts help us do?
Our thumbs are a very important part of our hands. Which of these things can you do without using your thumbs? Some of these activities may be trickier than they sound!
- Brush your hair.
- Write your name.
- Hold a cup.
- Open a box.
- Zip up your coat.
- Turn over the page of a book.
- Cut a straight line along a piece of blank paper. Make sure to ask an adult if you are allowed a scissors to try this one.
- Throw a ball.
Can you name the 5 senses and which parts of our body we use to do each one?
This power point will help you learn more about them.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5240-eyfs-all-about-me-my-senses-powerpoint
Answer these questions.
- I use my________to smell flowers.
- I use my eyes for my sense of ________.
- I use my_______to listen for traffic when I’m crossing the road.
- I use my ______to touch gooey slime.
- I use my tongue to _______ my favourite dinner.
List 3 things you like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
What about 3 things you don’t like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch!
Can you find these things in your house?
- Something red. 2. Something soft. 3. Something sweet.
4. Something that makes a noise 5. Something smelly.
There is lots more to learn about your 5 senses here!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-sc-38-the-senses-all-five-senses-resource-pack
Friday 24th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Make sure you know all of the focus words for this procedure and have ticked them off the list on your sheet.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 43. Learn to join letters ‘fl’ and ‘gl’. You can watch 'Flowie' the dog showing you how to join these letter pairs here. http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/gwtf-handwriting/index.html#!/book-sections/2/section-activities/1
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘oy’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
- That boy got a toy jet.
- My two sisters enjoy annoying me.
- The four dogs will dig up and destroy my garden.
- Can you help me catch that oyster?
Maths: Mixed speed test on 12+ tables (13 sums, 90 seconds).
Use your hundred square and maths skills to complete this 'Friday Maths Challenge'!
1. Which number is greater than 80 and less than 90?
67 93 88 100
2. Which number is greater than 35 and less than 40?
47 33 39 40
3.Which number is less than 70 and more than 55?
70 85 60 50
4. What number am I?
I am 3 tens and 4 units.
I am 0 tens and 5 units.
I am 5 tens and 0 units.
I am 7 tens and 2 units.
I am 1 ten and 1 unit.
Can you say our rhyme for remembering odd and even numbers?
0, 2, 4, 6, 8, that’s what makes even great,
1, 3, 5 , 7, 9, the odd numbers fall right in line!
5. Which are these numbers are even?
18, 63, 4, 9, 22, 50, 96
6. Which of these numbers are odd?
18, 30, 44, 79, 100, 13, 85
*Always remember to check the units places.
7. Can you make up your own word problems for these sums? For example if the sum is 8+__=16 then my word problem might be ‘My friend and I had 16 sweets altogether. I had 8 sweets. How many sweets did my friend have? You don’t need to write these problems down.
(a) 5+6=11
(b) 9-6=3
(c) 12+__=20
(d) 10 -__= 5
Other curriculum subjects
- ‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme we began using this year, have offered parents a free subscription. Go to https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access/?product_id=1122889&coupon_code=18767N
- You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
- If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
- Joe Wicks/The Body Coach is continuing with his PE lessons live from his living room every morning at 9 o’clock. Just search ‘PE with Joe’ on YouTube.
- Home School Hub-Home School Hub is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and it will run Mon-Fri 11am-12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers covering a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player) Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online available on www.rte.ie/learn This week’s ‘Home School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class is as follows:
- Monday-History (myths and legends including the Irish legend 'The Children of Lir', which we have read in class)
Tuesday- Geography and Science (Learn about 'Robby the Robin')
Wednesday-PE (Get moving, twisting, and balancing)
Thursday- Maths (Patterns)
Friday- English (Become a 'sentence detective'!)
- After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practice the letters in a copy or on a piece of paper.
- Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
- Follow the Starlight procedure on how to make a pizza if your mum or dad allow you to, and if an adult can help you with this in the kitchen.
- Print out or write down the ideas in this scavenger hunt and do it around your house and garden. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t-3745-five-senses-scavenger-hunt-worksheet
- If the weather is nice, go out for a ‘Senses Walk’ with an adult. Bring along a pencil and paper and a small sandwich bag. Collect (or take photos of) the things you see, smell, and touch. Write down the things you hear, or record them on the adult’s phone. It will probably not be safe to taste anything you find on your walk.
- Look at the April 2020 calendar again and answer and ask more questions about it.
- Choose something you haven’t yet done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html