Hello everyone,
I hope you and your families are continuing to stay healthy and well. Outlined below is this week’s work and suggestions of work you can email me.
Keep up the fantastic work.
Ms Byrne
Suggested Work for Monday 18th-Friday 22nd May
This week I would 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. You could also 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 it. 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.
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 ‘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- ‘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.
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 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
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!
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. 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 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 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 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 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)
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!
Number Sequences. Use your hundred square to solve these.
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
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 aeroplanes)
Thursday- Maths (addition and subtraction)
Friday- Gaeilge (mothúcháin-feelings)
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
I hope you and your families are continuing to stay healthy and well. Outlined below is this week’s work and suggestions of work you can email me.
Keep up the fantastic work.
Ms Byrne
Suggested Work for Monday 18th-Friday 22nd May
This week I would 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. You could also 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 it. 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.
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 ‘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- ‘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.
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 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
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!
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. 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 extra activities 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 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 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 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 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)
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!
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./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. 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.
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 aeroplanes)
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 - 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