Work for Monday 30th March-Friday 3rd April
Hello again everyone,
I hope you are all doing well. Unfortunately we will not now be returning to school this week, so you will once again find your daughter’s work for the week outlined below. As I mentioned previously, she should try her best to do the work but I want to reassure you not to worry if for any reason this is not possible. Keeping safe and healthy is the main priority at the moment. If you would like a little more work there are optional activities under Friday's work, along with a list of what various celebrities are currently offering (free of charge) for children at home. For daily reading during the week https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ might be a useful website. And don't forget about 'RTÉ's School Hub', which is on every weekday from 11am-12pm on RTÉ2 and then 'RTÉ's School Hub Extra' at 4.10 pm-4.30 pm on the same channel.
Monday 30th March
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 42. Read the poem ‘Waiter, There’s a Dog in My Soup’ by Kenn Nesbitt. Learn the focus words for this poem. Remember to keep ticking off the focus words on your checklists.
Complete page 43. 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-5b Food Poems (2) and also Poster 13 ‘Funny Foods’. The poster will 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 ‘5b Food Poems’ section on Thursday, before your child completes page 44 in her Skills book.
Spellings- ‘oi’ 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.
oi
bug
had
film
oil
coin
noisy
toil ( to work or to work hard)
would
right
boiling
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘oi’ sound too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTITdRL_cU
Watch this video with words containing this week’s sound ‘oi’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-0wWdE-Ezg
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 36 Learn to join ‘nt’ and ‘ti’.
Maths: Revise 10+ tables
Tuesday 31st March
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 42. Re-read poem ‘Waiter, there’s a Dog in My Soup’.
Learn the focus words for this poem.
Spellings- ‘oi’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 37 Learn to join letters ‘ay’ and ‘oy’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 46 (Monday and Tuesday) Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems at the bottom of the page.
Revise 10+ tables
Wednesday 1st April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 42. Re-read the poem.
Learn the focus words for these poems.
Spellings- ‘oi’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 38 Learn to join letters ‘le’ and ‘ip’
S.E.S.E. Family
Discuss your family, not just your immediate family but your extended family too. Your family is not just the people who live in your home. Your family is all your aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, great grandparents etc. There are lots of people to think about when you talk about our family. Everybody’s family is different. You might not have any brothers or sisters. Your granny might not be alive anymore. Your dad might live in a different place. But every family is special.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-p-247-every-kind-of-family-powerpoint (Another resource to explain how all families can be different but they are all special)
Draw a picture of your granny, granddad, uncle, aunt or cousins!
Explain what a family tree is. Use these resources from twinkl to help. (You will have to have an account to access these resources, it is free to sign up)
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-h-018-what-is-a-family-tree-powerpoint
Can you draw your own simple family tree? Or use this worksheet.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-h-25710-my-family-tree-activity-sheet
Can you answer these questions?
1. If your mum has a brother, he is called your ______________.
2. If your dad has a sister, she is called your ________________.
3. Your mum’s dad is your ______________.
4. Your mum’s mum is your _____________.
5. If your aunt has a baby, the baby is your _____________.
Maths: Revise 11+ tables. Type ‘April Calendar 2020’ into your search engine to display this year’s April calendar. Please ask your daughter some of the following questions:
1. How many days are there in April?
2. How many Saturdays/Mondays/Wednesdays etc. are there in April?
3. How many Saturdays and Wednesdays/Mondays and Fridays etc, are there altogether?
4. Are there more/less Tuesdays/ Thursdays than Fridays/Sundays etc.? How many more/less days?
5. What day of the week will the 12th/17th/ 23rd April fall on?
6. What date is the 2nd Tuesday or 4th Thursday etc. in April?
Thursday 2nd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 42. Re-read the poem.
Learn the focus words for this poem. Complete the grammar activity in the ‘5b Food Poems’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 44 in Skills book- to/too/two.
Spellings- ‘oi’ learn spellings 1-10 from the list and revise all.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 39. Learn to join letters ‘de’ and ‘ar’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 47 (Wednesday and Thursday) Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems at the bottom of the page. Study the April Calendar again and answer and ask more questions about it.
Revise 11+ tables.
Friday 3rd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 38. Re-read the poem.
Learn the focus words for these poems. Complete page 45 on ‘cinquain’ poems.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘oi’ spelling list using these sentences. The 10 words from the list are in bold
1. The noisy bug was on a coin.
2. She would toil on the farm.
3. I saw the right film yesterday.
4. You had some boiling oil in the pot.
Maths: Mixed speed test (20 sums, 2 minutes on a timer) 10+ and 11+ tables.
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.
- 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.
- Look up and read some more cinquain poems.
- 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 Poster 13 ‘Funny Foods’. Write a few sentences about what you see in the poster.
- What are the signs of spring? Go on a spring nature walk and see what signs of spring you can find! If you have access to a printer you can print off this checklists to help
- Continue to spend time reading every day
- Don’t forget about all of the other activities listed at the end of last week’s assigned work, and on the school website too! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Daily
9.00am - PE with Joe Wicks https://youtu.be/6v-a_dpwhro
10.00am - Maths with Carol Vorderman www.themathsfactor.com
11.00am - English with David Walliams https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
12.00pm - Lunch (cooking with Jamie Oliver) https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/category/get-kids-cooking/
1.00pm - Music with Myleene Klass https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ
1.30pm - Dance with Darcey Bussel https://twitter.com/diversedancemix/status/1241098264373592065
2.00pm - History with Dan Snow (free for 30-days) https://tv.historyhit.com/signup/package
4.00pm - Home Economics with Theo Michaels (Mon/Wed/Fri) https://www.instagram.com/theocooks
Non-daily
Science with Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince & Guests https://cosmicshambles.com/stayathome/upcoming-schedule
9.30am Wednesday 25 March - Geography with Steve Backshall https://twitter.com/SteveBackshall/status/1242058846941712385
Work for Monday 23rd-Friday 27th March
Dear parents and children,
I hope that you and your families are continuing to keep safe and well. You will find your daughter’s work for the coming week outlined below. As I have previously requested, please ensure that she only completes the assigned pages in the workbooks each day and does not work ahead.
Monday 23rd March
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 38. Read the poems ‘When the Giant Comes to Town’ and ‘Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich’. Learn the focus words for these poems. Focus word checklists are in your daughter’s homework folder.
Complete page 39. 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-5a Food Poems (1) and also Poster 13 ‘Funny Foods’. The poster will 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 over the course of the next fortnight. Please do the grammar activity in the ‘5a Food Poems’ section on Thursday, before your child completes page 40 in her Skills book.
Spellings- ‘ou’ sound. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qtCB7CYH3I Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘ou’ sound too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uz9U7YhmCw Watch this video with words containing both this week’s sound and last week’s ‘ow’ sound.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 31 Learn to join ‘us’ and ‘am’.
Maths: Revise 8+ tables
Tuesday 24th March
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 38. Re-read the 2 poems.
Learn the focus words for these poems.
Spellings- ‘ou’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 32 Learn to join letters re’ and ‘ed’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 44 (Monday and Tuesday) Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems at the bottom of the page.
Revise 8+ tables
Wednesday 25th March
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 38. Re-read the 2 poems.
Learn the focus words for these poems.
Spellings- ‘ou’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 33 Learn to join letters ‘ew’ and ‘en’
S.E.S.E. Complete the ‘Natural Materials’ worksheet and read and talk about the process of making rubber and plastic using the page on this in your March S.E.S.E booklet. Look at the labels on the clothes in your wardrobe and find out what materials they’re made from. Watch this video on the rubber making process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iTz9yN4v4k&feature=youtu.be and this one on recycling plastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPu4wYak3Dw
Hunt for objects around your house that are made from rubber and plastic. If you have enough old plastic bags you could even try out this mat weaving activity (with some adult assistance).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=85&v=E_r96mDkSY0&feature=emb_logo
Maths: Revise 9+ tables
Thursday 26th March
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 38. Re-read the 2 poems.
Learn the focus words for these poems. Complete the grammar activity in the ‘5a Food Poems’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 40 in Skills book.
Spellings- ‘ou’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 34. Learn to join letters ‘ai’ and ‘ie’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 45 (Wednesday and Thursday) Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems at the bottom of the page.
Revise 9+ tables.
Friday 27th March
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 38. Re-read the 2 poems.
Learn the focus words for these poems. Complete page 41.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘ou’ spelling list using these sentences. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
- We open our mouths at the dentist.
- I just saw my pet bat who lives outside.
- He went round the corner by himself.
- Will you put out the bins?
Maths: Mixed speed test (20 sums, 90 seconds on a timer) 8+ and 9+ tables.
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 are 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.
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.
- Find and read some more cinquain poems.
- Try to learn more about the different processes involved in making the materials you have been learning about in your SESE booklet
- Continue to spend time reading every day
- Don’t forget about all of the other activities listed at the end of last week’s assigned work, and on the school website too! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html
Work for Monday 16th-Friday 20th March
Dear parents and children,
I hope you and your families are all keeping safe and well. Please find below your daughter’s homework for this week. I ask that you do not work ahead in the workbooks and only complete the pages that I have outlined on each assigned day. Do your best to do the activities but if for any reason you cannot complete them that is ok! Keeping healthy is the most important thing right now. I hope to see you all soon.
Kind regards,
Ms Sorensen
Monday 16th March
English: Read the report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Complete page 35. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions.
Spellings- /ow/ sound as in owl, flower, power. Can you think of other words that have the /ow/ sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtvjxBYg7I&t=52s Geraldine the Giraffe learns the /ow/ sound too!
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 27 Learn to join ‘fe’ and ‘an’.
Focus words for report ‘Where is Hot and Where in Not’. Focus word checklists are in your daughter’s homework folder.
Maths: Revise + 6 tables
Tuesday 17th March
Happy St Patricks Day!
English: Read report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Focus words
Spellings- /ow/ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 28 Learn to join letters ‘my’ and ‘by’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 42 (Monday and Tuesday) Please remember to try and write a sum for the word problems at the end of the page.
Revise + 6 tables
Art: Draw a leprechaun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXvBKUDinE&t=3s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyXpbhIWs4
Wednesday 18th March
English: Read report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Complete page 36 in Skills Book- a or an and of or off. Remember we use ‘an’ when a word begins with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u) For example: an egg, an orange. We use ‘a’ when a word starts with any other letter.
Focus words
Spellings- /ow/ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 29 Learn to join letters ‘up’ and ‘ag’.
Maths: Revise + 7 tables
S.E.S.E. Complete ‘Animals in Hot and Cold Places’ worksheet and the following page (Do these animals live in hot or a cold place)in your March S.E.S.E booklet.
Thursday 19th March
English: Read report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Focus words
Spellings- /ow/ Learn and revise spellings 1-10 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 30 Learn to join letters ‘go’ and ‘no’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 43 (Wednesday and Thursday) Please remember to try and write a sum for the word problems at the end of the page.
Revise +7 tables
Friday 20th March
English: Complete page 37 in Skills Book. Write a report about spring using the plan we completed last week on page 33. Remember to include a title, lots of facts about spring and an ending.
Focus words
Spellings- Test yourself on the /ow/ words.
Maths: Speed test of +6 and +7 tables 2 minutes
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
Other:
The following websites may be useful at home during this time.
https://www.cula4.com/en/watch/player/?pid=6099761371001&teideal=Cat%20Cliste%20&series=Cat%20Cliste&dlft=35
Dónal Dána
https://www.cula4.com/en/watch/player/?pid=5993007077001&teideal=D%C3%B3nall%20D%C3%A1na&series=D%C3%B3nall%20D%C3%A1na&dlft=7
Alvinn agus na chipmunks
https://www.cula4.com/en/shows/alvinnn-agus-na-chipmunks/
I hope you and your families are all keeping safe and well. Please find below your daughter’s homework for this week. I ask that you do not work ahead in the workbooks and only complete the pages that I have outlined on each assigned day. Do your best to do the activities but if for any reason you cannot complete them that is ok! Keeping healthy is the most important thing right now. I hope to see you all soon.
Kind regards,
Ms Sorensen
Monday 16th March
English: Read the report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Complete page 35. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions.
Spellings- /ow/ sound as in owl, flower, power. Can you think of other words that have the /ow/ sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtvjxBYg7I&t=52s Geraldine the Giraffe learns the /ow/ sound too!
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 27 Learn to join ‘fe’ and ‘an’.
Focus words for report ‘Where is Hot and Where in Not’. Focus word checklists are in your daughter’s homework folder.
Maths: Revise + 6 tables
Tuesday 17th March
Happy St Patricks Day!
English: Read report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Focus words
Spellings- /ow/ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 28 Learn to join letters ‘my’ and ‘by’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 42 (Monday and Tuesday) Please remember to try and write a sum for the word problems at the end of the page.
Revise + 6 tables
Art: Draw a leprechaun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXvBKUDinE&t=3s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyXpbhIWs4
Wednesday 18th March
English: Read report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Complete page 36 in Skills Book- a or an and of or off. Remember we use ‘an’ when a word begins with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u) For example: an egg, an orange. We use ‘a’ when a word starts with any other letter.
Focus words
Spellings- /ow/ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 29 Learn to join letters ‘up’ and ‘ag’.
Maths: Revise + 7 tables
S.E.S.E. Complete ‘Animals in Hot and Cold Places’ worksheet and the following page (Do these animals live in hot or a cold place)in your March S.E.S.E booklet.
Thursday 19th March
English: Read report ‘Where is Hot and Where is Not’.
Focus words
Spellings- /ow/ Learn and revise spellings 1-10 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 30 Learn to join letters ‘go’ and ‘no’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 43 (Wednesday and Thursday) Please remember to try and write a sum for the word problems at the end of the page.
Revise +7 tables
Friday 20th March
English: Complete page 37 in Skills Book. Write a report about spring using the plan we completed last week on page 33. Remember to include a title, lots of facts about spring and an ending.
Focus words
Spellings- Test yourself on the /ow/ words.
Maths: Speed test of +6 and +7 tables 2 minutes
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
- After completing the handwriting pages in your books, practise the letters in a copy or piece of paper.
- Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
- Learn about St Patrick (great resources on twinkl)
- Read daily from a library book or your own book.
- Practise a hobby you enjoy for example, baking, drawing, colouring, sport etc
- Help out! Empty/fill the dishwasher, dry the dishes, tidy your room/toy room etc
- Here you’ll find a handy little chart of fun activities and jobs to keep the girls busy during these next few weeks. If you print it off they can colour in each one as they complete them!
- file:///C:/Users/Teacher/Downloads/infant%20ideas.pdf.pdf.pdf
- Another list of activities. 20 things to do at home!
Other:
The following websites may be useful at home during this time.
- ‘Go Noodle’ -dancing, mindfulness, stretching, brain breaks etc
- Search ‘Cosmic Kids Yoga’ on You Tube. Excellent follow along yoga videos.
- Search Art for Kids Hub videos on You tube –get drawing!
- https://www.twinkl.ie/resources/roi-resources there are lots of amazing resources available on twinkl. They are offering free access to all their resources for parents during school closures.
- Get up and get active! Search ‘The Body Coach Kids workouts’ on Youtube.
- https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents Dabbledoo is the music scheme we use in school. They have lots of fun interactive music activities.They are offering free access to parents during school closures.
- Watch cartoons on cúla 4/TG4 https://www.cula4.com/en/
https://www.cula4.com/en/watch/player/?pid=6099761371001&teideal=Cat%20Cliste%20&series=Cat%20Cliste&dlft=35
Dónal Dána
https://www.cula4.com/en/watch/player/?pid=5993007077001&teideal=D%C3%B3nall%20D%C3%A1na&series=D%C3%B3nall%20D%C3%A1na&dlft=7
Alvinn agus na chipmunks
https://www.cula4.com/en/shows/alvinnn-agus-na-chipmunks/