Dear parents,
I hope you and your families are well. Please see this week’s work outlined below and suggestions for work you can email me. I am also attaching a link here to a lovely book called ‘Everybody worries’. A book specifically written to help children who may be feeling worried, anxious or upset during this time. It is important children know that these feelings are normal and it’s ok if they are feeling this way. As the book says ‘It’s ok to be worried but this won’t last forever’.
file:///C:/Users/Teacher/Downloads/Everybody%20worries%20story.pdf
Thank you for your emails over the last few weeks, it’s lovely to be kept updated with how the girls are doing and to see the wonderful work and activities they are doing at home. Just a reminder, due to regulations I cannot post photos on the blog of children on their own.
Thank you again for your continued efforts and support during this time. If there is anything more I can do to help, please do not hesitate to email me.
Take care,
Ms Byrne
**Some suggestions for work you could send me photos of this week are; the questions you answered about the narrative ‘Noises in the Night’ on page 59 of your Skills Book, your narrative that you wrote on page 61 of your Skills Book, some of your ‘time’ maths work or your response to the Greek Myth ‘Daedalus and Icarus’. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries you 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
Suggested Work for Monday 11th-Friday 15th May
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’
8. mother
9. father
10. 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 count up in 2s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
10, 26, 54, 70
Now use it to count back in 2s starting at these odd numbers.
13, 29, 53, 87
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: Today you are going to revise 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
Tuesday 5th 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 +3 tables again.
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 count up in 5s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
20, 40, 70, 80
Now use it to count back in 5s starting at these odd numbers.
25, 55, 75, 95
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 the myth we read in class a few months ago, ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’? Try to retell the story to someone in your family. Here is a video to help you remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQuAUBX5xBw
A myth usually has an important message or lesson. Can you figure out what the important lesson is in this 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
Or 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 retelling 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?
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
Activity:
In a copy or on a piece of paper, I want you to write a few sentences about your favourite part and your least favourite part of the story. Then draw a picture to represent your favourite/least favourite part.
Wednesday 6th 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 you are going to revise 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
Use your hundred square to count up in 10s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
6, 18, 42, 50
Now use it to count back in 10s starting at these odd numbers.
99, 77, 53, 41
Thursday 7th 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 who is in the story and where and when the story takes place.
Spellings- ‘aw’ 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 55, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise 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
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 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: Speed test on +3 and + 4 tables. (90 seconds)
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 60. Repeat this counting sequence a few times.
Spend a little while revising ‘Time’ today. Use a clock in your home or even 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 of 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. 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. Emil Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
Monday- Maths-Spatial Awareness
Tuesday- Gaeilge-Mo Bhréagáin
Wednesday- Drama-The Three Little Pigs
Thursday- SPHE-Myself and My Opinions
Friday- History –Tom Crean
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
I hope you and your families are well. Please see this week’s work outlined below and suggestions for work you can email me. I am also attaching a link here to a lovely book called ‘Everybody worries’. A book specifically written to help children who may be feeling worried, anxious or upset during this time. It is important children know that these feelings are normal and it’s ok if they are feeling this way. As the book says ‘It’s ok to be worried but this won’t last forever’.
file:///C:/Users/Teacher/Downloads/Everybody%20worries%20story.pdf
Thank you for your emails over the last few weeks, it’s lovely to be kept updated with how the girls are doing and to see the wonderful work and activities they are doing at home. Just a reminder, due to regulations I cannot post photos on the blog of children on their own.
Thank you again for your continued efforts and support during this time. If there is anything more I can do to help, please do not hesitate to email me.
Take care,
Ms Byrne
**Some suggestions for work you could send me photos of this week are; the questions you answered about the narrative ‘Noises in the Night’ on page 59 of your Skills Book, your narrative that you wrote on page 61 of your Skills Book, some of your ‘time’ maths work or your response to the Greek Myth ‘Daedalus and Icarus’. My email address is [email protected] which parents can also use for any queries you 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!
Suggested Work for Monday 11th-Friday 15th May
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
8. mother
9. father
10. 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 count up in 2s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
10, 26, 54, 70
Now use it to count back in 2s starting at these odd numbers.
13, 29, 53, 87
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: Today you are going to revise 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
Tuesday 5th 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 +3 tables again.
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 count up in 5s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
20, 40, 70, 80
Now use it to count back in 5s starting at these odd numbers.
25, 55, 75, 95
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 the myth we read in class a few months ago, ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’? Try to retell the story to someone in your family. Here is a video to help you remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQuAUBX5xBw
A myth usually has an important message or lesson. Can you figure out what the important lesson is in this 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
Or 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 retelling 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?
- Why did King Minos not want Daedalus to return to his home in Athens?
- Why would a boat not work for Daedalus and Icarus’ escape?
- What did Daedalus use to stick the feathers together to make the wings?
- Why did Daedalus tell Icarus not to fly too low?
- Why did Daedalus tell Icarus not to fly too high?
- 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?
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
Activity:
In a copy or on a piece of paper, I want you to write a few sentences about your favourite part and your least favourite part of the story. Then draw a picture to represent your favourite/least favourite part.
Wednesday 6th 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 you are going to revise 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
Use your hundred square to count up in 10s to 100, starting at these even numbers.
6, 18, 42, 50
Now use it to count back in 10s starting at these odd numbers.
99, 77, 53, 41
Thursday 7th 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 who is in the story and where and when the story takes place.
Spellings- ‘aw’ 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 55, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you are going to revise 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
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 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: Speed test on +3 and + 4 tables. (90 seconds)
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 60. Repeat this counting sequence a few times.
Spend a little while revising ‘Time’ today. Use a clock in your home or even 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 of 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. 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. Emil Conor [email protected] or phone him on +44759609800
- Drama- Play some of these games with your family.
- Two truths, one lie: Say three sentences about yourself, but one of them is 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?
- 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
Monday- Maths-Spatial Awareness
Tuesday- Gaeilge-Mo Bhréagáin
Wednesday- Drama-The Three Little Pigs
Thursday- SPHE-Myself and My Opinions
Friday- History –Tom Crean
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 couldn’t (from combining could+not), didn’t (from combining did+not), wouldn’t (from combining would+not), and hadn’t (from combining had+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
- Watch storytime with Mr Read https://youtu.be/iPMFFMfzmAc
- 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