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.
Kind regards,
Ms Byrne
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! Watch this video with words containing both this week’s sound and last week’s ‘ow’ sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uz9U7YhmCw
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.
Maths: Mixed speed test (20 sums, 2 minutes on a timer) 8+ and 9+ tables.
Other curriculum subjects
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
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.
Kind regards,
Ms Byrne
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! Watch this video with words containing both this week’s sound and last week’s ‘ow’ sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uz9U7YhmCw
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, 2 minutes 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 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.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8 Joe Wicks/The Body Coach is giving PE lessons live from his living room! Follow this link and join in each morning at 9 o’clock to get you up and active!
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.
- Look up 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