Hello everyone,
I hope the first week of school work after the Easter holidays went well for you all. It can be hard to get back into routine and work after having a little break. Aren’t we so lucky to have such beautiful weather at this time? I hope you are all enjoying the outdoors and the sunshine.
I would like to remind all parents that every teacher now has a new email account which you can use to correspond with us. You should have received an email from me last week Monday 20th explaining how it will work and the guidelines for sending emails. My new email address is [email protected]. You can use this email to send us photos of your daughter’s work and other activities she has done or just to hear how she is getting on in general and for any questions you may have about her school work. Please see Mrs. McCloughan's lastest school closure update in the 'School News' section of this website and read the school guidelines with regard to using emails for remote learning.
I was delighted to get photos of some talented chefs following the Starlight procedure on how to make a pizza last week, which all looked delicious! I also received a few pictures of very well written recounts with lovely neat handwriting. Well done to all of those girls, keep up the great work! This week I would love to see photos of your written procedure for making homemade lemonade (Starlight pg53) or maybe even a picture of you following the procedure to make the lemonade or following the procedure on how to make your own cupcakes. You’d need help from an adult to make either of these of course. You might also like to send me your completed weather record sheet, some of your maths work or photos of you doing some of the ‘Active Week’ activities mentioned below. Just one or two samples of work from each child per week is plenty.
**This week is Active School Week. As we cannot be in school, we are going to take part in ‘Active Home Week’ instead! Follow this link to read more. https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Active-Home-Week-Letter-1.pdf
I’m sure you are all doing lots of exercise at home to stay fit and healthy but this week as part of your homework each day, I would like you to record the different activities and exercise that you do. Here is the chart you can fill in every day. https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Active-Home-Week-Challenge-Chart-1.pdf (If you can’t print out the chart, you could make one yourself!)
Activities can include walking, dancing, skipping, playing with your dog, playing football, jumping on your trampoline, joining in with Joe Wicks' PE lessons, playing games with your brothers and sisters or even helping your parents around the house! Anything that gets you up and active! You will find lots of great ideas for being active on the 'School News' section of this site.
You can find at home PE videos and lots more information about ‘Active Home Week’ on this website: https://activeschoolflag.ie/index.php/active-home-week-2020/#toggle-id-3
**https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ Here is a link to a fantastic website with lots of resources for learning phonics. There are brilliant games and activities for learning and practising your sounds and tricky words. If you click on resources you’ll find games like ‘Buried Treasure’ where you can pick this week’s sound ‘or’ and can sound out the words and decide if they are ‘real’ or ‘fake’ words. Other great games are the Tricky Word Trucks and Space Race. Phonicsplay are offering parents free access to their site during this time, just enter ‘march20’ for username and ‘home’ for the password.
**I really hope you are all keeping up with your daily reading. As mentioned last week, https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very useful website. You can download ebooks suitable for any age and level of reading ability. You will need to sign up and create your own account to avail of these resources. It is free to sign up.
**‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme have created a special parents' course full of content suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted their content from their weekly lessons to make them more accessible and engaging for parents and children at home. They have presented all of their curriculum content in a more accessible format for parents in the free Parents' Subscription . I would recommend taking a look at these lessons, they have tailored everything so it can be followed at home. The girls really enjoyed Dabbledoo in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of these lessons at home! Here is the link:
https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
Monday 27th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Read the procedure ‘How to Make Cupcakes’. Remember, a procedure is a piece of writing that tells you how to do or make something. Learn the focus words for this procedure. Remember to keep ticking off the focus words on your checklists.
Complete page 51 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in a username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-6b ‘How to Make Cupcakes’ and also Poster 14 ‘In the Kitchen’, which includes the poem for this week ‘The Friendly Cinnamon Bun’. The poster will also contain the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this week. Please do the grammar activity in the ‘6b How to Make Cupcakes’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 52 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘or’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘or’
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘or’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9PRHDJlv4
Watch this video with words containing this week’s digraph ‘or’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKWxjU0UgQ
Play some games on ‘Phonicsplay’ to practise the ‘or’ sound.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 44 Learn to join ‘pl’ and ‘sl’.
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 50, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 1s from 1 to 100 and back again.
Tables: This week you are going to learn double facts. Remember all doubles are even numbers! **There are lots of resources on twinkl to practise ‘doubles’ just search ‘doubles’ at the top of the homepage!
Today you can learn doubles1-3
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 22
S.E.S.E. – Weather.
How many different types of weather can you list? What is your favourite and least favourite type of weather and why? What kind of weather do we usually get in Ireland during each of the 4 seasons- winter, spring, summer, and autumn?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-292049-all-about-weather-powerpoint
Weather symbols- Weather symbols are used by people called ‘weather forecasters’. Their job is to tell us what the weather is going to be like in different parts of the country during the next few days. Why might it be useful to know if a certain day is going to be hot or cold, dry or wet?
Here is a list of some weather symbols, I’m sure you will recognise and know most of them! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-t-811-weather-symbol-cut-outs
The weather forecast for Ireland is on RTE One after the news every day. Maybe you could ask your mum or dad if you can watch it with them one day this week, and try to spot some of the symbols you learned about. Do you know what they mean? What will the temperatures be like where we live, in the East of Ireland? Will it be mostly dry and sunny or is there some rain forecast?
Print out this worksheet or draw your own version of it, and use the weather symbols to record what the weather is like each day this week. https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/09/f1/roi-t-25943-my-weather-record-activity-sheet.pdf?_
Follow this link to explore the Met Éireann website. https://www.met.ie/
https://www.rte.ie/weather/22259-dublin/ Use this link to follow and watch the weather every day!
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
Tuesday 28th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 45 Learn to join letters ‘br’ and ‘cr’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 50, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 2s from 2 to 100 and back again.
Tables: Learn the next three doubles.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 22
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Wednesday 29th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 46. Learn to join letters ‘dr’ and ‘fr’
Complete the grammar activity in the ‘6b How to Make Cupcakes’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 52 in Skills book on how to use the pairs of homophones know/no and right/write correctly.
Maths: Master your Maths page 51, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 5s from 5 to 100 and back again.
Tables: Learn the next three doubles.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 24
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Thursday 30th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’. Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 53. Use the plan you completed last week on page 49 to write out a procedure for making lemonade. Remember to start each step with a verb (a doing or action word like 'cut' and 'stir'), use sequencing words (first, next, then, after that, finally), and write the steps in the correct order.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 10 from the list and revise all.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 47. Learn to join letters ‘gr’ and ‘pr’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 51, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 10s from 10 to 100 and back again.
Can you count up in 10s starting from these even numbers? 18, 24, 32
Can you count back in 10s starting from these odd numbers? 95, 87, 79
Tables: Learn last three doubles and revise all.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 22
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Friday 1st May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’
Make sure you know all of the focus words for this procedure and have ticked them off the list.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘or’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in yellow.
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Maths: Mixed speed test on doubles (90 seconds).
Use your hundred square to answer the following questions.
39 51 60 47
49 52 41 55
3. What number am I?
Here is a rhyme that can help you remember odd and even numbers!
0, 2, 4, 6, 8, that’s what makes even great,
1, 3, 5 ,7,9, the odd numbers fall right in line!
22, 87, 54, 93, 100, 35, 78
16, 23, 48, 62, 75, 99, 100
*Always remember to check the units places.
3D Shapes. Spend time learning and revising the 3D shapes. Remember, 2D shapes are flat and 3D shapes are solid.
Before you begin looking at the work on 3D shapes, how many 2D can you name and draw? Do you know how many sides and corners each one has?
When we describe 3D shapes, we use words like faces, edges and vertices (corners).
Use this powerpoint from twinkl to discover which 3D shapes we see around us every day!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-928-every-day-3d-shapes-powerpoint
Go on a 3D shape hunt aroud your home and garden and see what shapes you can find! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/outdoor-3d-shape-hunt-t-m-3690
Other curriculum subjects
Monday: History (Myths and legends, including the Irish legend 'The Children of Lir', which we have read in class)
Tuesday: Science (Learn all about 'Robby the Robin')
Wednesday: P.E. (Get busy moving, twisting and balancing!)
Thursday: Maths (Patterns)
Friday: English (Become 'sentence detectives')
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
I hope the first week of school work after the Easter holidays went well for you all. It can be hard to get back into routine and work after having a little break. Aren’t we so lucky to have such beautiful weather at this time? I hope you are all enjoying the outdoors and the sunshine.
I would like to remind all parents that every teacher now has a new email account which you can use to correspond with us. You should have received an email from me last week Monday 20th explaining how it will work and the guidelines for sending emails. My new email address is [email protected]. You can use this email to send us photos of your daughter’s work and other activities she has done or just to hear how she is getting on in general and for any questions you may have about her school work. Please see Mrs. McCloughan's lastest school closure update in the 'School News' section of this website and read the school guidelines with regard to using emails for remote learning.
I was delighted to get photos of some talented chefs following the Starlight procedure on how to make a pizza last week, which all looked delicious! I also received a few pictures of very well written recounts with lovely neat handwriting. Well done to all of those girls, keep up the great work! This week I would love to see photos of your written procedure for making homemade lemonade (Starlight pg53) or maybe even a picture of you following the procedure to make the lemonade or following the procedure on how to make your own cupcakes. You’d need help from an adult to make either of these of course. You might also like to send me your completed weather record sheet, some of your maths work or photos of you doing some of the ‘Active Week’ activities mentioned below. Just one or two samples of work from each child per week is plenty.
**This week is Active School Week. As we cannot be in school, we are going to take part in ‘Active Home Week’ instead! Follow this link to read more. https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Active-Home-Week-Letter-1.pdf
I’m sure you are all doing lots of exercise at home to stay fit and healthy but this week as part of your homework each day, I would like you to record the different activities and exercise that you do. Here is the chart you can fill in every day. https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Active-Home-Week-Challenge-Chart-1.pdf (If you can’t print out the chart, you could make one yourself!)
Activities can include walking, dancing, skipping, playing with your dog, playing football, jumping on your trampoline, joining in with Joe Wicks' PE lessons, playing games with your brothers and sisters or even helping your parents around the house! Anything that gets you up and active! You will find lots of great ideas for being active on the 'School News' section of this site.
You can find at home PE videos and lots more information about ‘Active Home Week’ on this website: https://activeschoolflag.ie/index.php/active-home-week-2020/#toggle-id-3
**https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ Here is a link to a fantastic website with lots of resources for learning phonics. There are brilliant games and activities for learning and practising your sounds and tricky words. If you click on resources you’ll find games like ‘Buried Treasure’ where you can pick this week’s sound ‘or’ and can sound out the words and decide if they are ‘real’ or ‘fake’ words. Other great games are the Tricky Word Trucks and Space Race. Phonicsplay are offering parents free access to their site during this time, just enter ‘march20’ for username and ‘home’ for the password.
**I really hope you are all keeping up with your daily reading. As mentioned last week, https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very useful website. You can download ebooks suitable for any age and level of reading ability. You will need to sign up and create your own account to avail of these resources. It is free to sign up.
**‘Dabbledoo’, the interactive music programme have created a special parents' course full of content suitable for exploring music at home. They have adapted their content from their weekly lessons to make them more accessible and engaging for parents and children at home. They have presented all of their curriculum content in a more accessible format for parents in the free Parents' Subscription . I would recommend taking a look at these lessons, they have tailored everything so it can be followed at home. The girls really enjoyed Dabbledoo in school so I’m sure they would love to do some of these lessons at home! Here is the link:
https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access?
Monday 27th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Read the procedure ‘How to Make Cupcakes’. Remember, a procedure is a piece of writing that tells you how to do or make something. Learn the focus words for this procedure. Remember to keep ticking off the focus words on your checklists.
Complete page 51 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Go to FolensOnline.ie and click ‘register’ and select ‘teacher’. Fill in a username, email, and password. For Roll Number use ‘Prim20’. Then find the Starlight resources for First Class and open ‘Combined Reader-6b ‘How to Make Cupcakes’ and also Poster 14 ‘In the Kitchen’, which includes the poem for this week ‘The Friendly Cinnamon Bun’. The poster will also contain the online oral language activities that accompany the current theme being explored in the Starlight workbook. You can choose to do as many of these activities as you would like this week. Please do the grammar activity in the ‘6b How to Make Cupcakes’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 52 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘or’ sound. Your daughter does not have the spelling list for this week in her spelling notebook, so please have her copy the list below into this notebook. Can you write a list of some other words with this sound? Learn spellings 1-3 from the list today.
‘or’
- got
- bun
- belt
- fork
- storm
- horse
- forty
- goes
- does
- morning
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘or’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9PRHDJlv4
Watch this video with words containing this week’s digraph ‘or’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKWxjU0UgQ
Play some games on ‘Phonicsplay’ to practise the ‘or’ sound.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 44 Learn to join ‘pl’ and ‘sl’.
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 50, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 1s from 1 to 100 and back again.
Tables: This week you are going to learn double facts. Remember all doubles are even numbers! **There are lots of resources on twinkl to practise ‘doubles’ just search ‘doubles’ at the top of the homepage!
Today you can learn doubles1-3
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 22
S.E.S.E. – Weather.
How many different types of weather can you list? What is your favourite and least favourite type of weather and why? What kind of weather do we usually get in Ireland during each of the 4 seasons- winter, spring, summer, and autumn?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-292049-all-about-weather-powerpoint
Weather symbols- Weather symbols are used by people called ‘weather forecasters’. Their job is to tell us what the weather is going to be like in different parts of the country during the next few days. Why might it be useful to know if a certain day is going to be hot or cold, dry or wet?
Here is a list of some weather symbols, I’m sure you will recognise and know most of them! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-t-811-weather-symbol-cut-outs
The weather forecast for Ireland is on RTE One after the news every day. Maybe you could ask your mum or dad if you can watch it with them one day this week, and try to spot some of the symbols you learned about. Do you know what they mean? What will the temperatures be like where we live, in the East of Ireland? Will it be mostly dry and sunny or is there some rain forecast?
Print out this worksheet or draw your own version of it, and use the weather symbols to record what the weather is like each day this week. https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/09/f1/roi-t-25943-my-weather-record-activity-sheet.pdf?_
Follow this link to explore the Met Éireann website. https://www.met.ie/
https://www.rte.ie/weather/22259-dublin/ Use this link to follow and watch the weather every day!
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
Tuesday 28th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 45 Learn to join letters ‘br’ and ‘cr’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 50, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 2s from 2 to 100 and back again.
Tables: Learn the next three doubles.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 22
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Wednesday 29th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 46. Learn to join letters ‘dr’ and ‘fr’
Complete the grammar activity in the ‘6b How to Make Cupcakes’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 52 in Skills book on how to use the pairs of homophones know/no and right/write correctly.
Maths: Master your Maths page 51, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 5s from 5 to 100 and back again.
Tables: Learn the next three doubles.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 24
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Thursday 30th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’. Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 53. Use the plan you completed last week on page 49 to write out a procedure for making lemonade. Remember to start each step with a verb (a doing or action word like 'cut' and 'stir'), use sequencing words (first, next, then, after that, finally), and write the steps in the correct order.
Spellings- ‘or’ learn spellings 10 from the list and revise all.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 47. Learn to join letters ‘gr’ and ‘pr’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 51, Thursday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Use your hundred square to count in 10s from 10 to 100 and back again.
Can you count up in 10s starting from these even numbers? 18, 24, 32
Can you count back in 10s starting from these odd numbers? 95, 87, 79
Tables: Learn last three doubles and revise all.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 =10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20
11 + 11 = 21
12 + 12 = 22
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Friday 1st May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 50. Re-read ‘How to Make Cupcakes’
Make sure you know all of the focus words for this procedure and have ticked them off the list.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘or’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in yellow.
- There was a bad storm this morning.
- Does the fork bend?
- My belt goes in that press.
- I got a bun at the party.
- The horse ate forty apples!
P.E- Fill out your ‘Active Home Week’ exercise chart for today.
S.E.S.E – Fill out your weather record sheet for today.
Maths: Mixed speed test on doubles (90 seconds).
Use your hundred square to answer the following questions.
- Which number is greater than 40 and less than 50?
39 51 60 47
- Which number is greater than 45 and less than 50?
49 52 41 55
3. What number am I?
- I am 6 tens and 7 units.
- I am 3 tens and 2 units.
- I am 0 tens and 9 units.
- I am 5 tens and 0 units.
Here is a rhyme that can help you remember odd and even numbers!
0, 2, 4, 6, 8, that’s what makes even great,
1, 3, 5 ,7,9, the odd numbers fall right in line!
- Which of these numbers are even?
22, 87, 54, 93, 100, 35, 78
- Which of these numbers are odd?
16, 23, 48, 62, 75, 99, 100
*Always remember to check the units places.
3D Shapes. Spend time learning and revising the 3D shapes. Remember, 2D shapes are flat and 3D shapes are solid.
Before you begin looking at the work on 3D shapes, how many 2D can you name and draw? Do you know how many sides and corners each one has?
When we describe 3D shapes, we use words like faces, edges and vertices (corners).
Use this powerpoint from twinkl to discover which 3D shapes we see around us every day!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-928-every-day-3d-shapes-powerpoint
Go on a 3D shape hunt aroud your home and garden and see what shapes you can find! https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/outdoor-3d-shape-hunt-t-m-3690
Other curriculum subjects
- Music- Dabbledoo (See post above)
- You will find hundreds of resources for all subjects at www.twinkl.ie/offer if you enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
- Gaeilge-If you would like to continue with some of the Irish curriculum for First Class you can access your child’s workbook ‘Bua na Cainte 1’ online by going to www.edcolearning.ie/login and log in using the username primaryedcobooks and the password edco2020. You will also be able to access the teacher’s manual ‘Leabhar an Mhúinteora 1’ but will not be able to access the accompanying interactive programme, as this is not available on the website.
- P.E- Joe Wicks/The Body Coach is continuing with his PE lessons live from his living room every morning at 9 o’clock. Just search ‘PE with Joe’ on YouTube. Active Home Week exercise chart.
- Home School Hub-Home School Hub is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class and it will run Mon-Fri 11am-12pm on RTE2. It is presented by three primary school teachers covering a wide range of subjects across the curriculum. (This programme is also available to stream on RTE player) Children can also access lots of engaging, educational content online available on www.rte.ie/learn
Monday: History (Myths and legends, including the Irish legend 'The Children of Lir', which we have read in class)
Tuesday: Science (Learn all about 'Robby the Robin')
Wednesday: P.E. (Get busy moving, twisting and balancing!)
Thursday: Maths (Patterns)
Friday: English (Become 'sentence detectives')
Additional OPTIONAL activities for this week:
- After completing the handwriting pages in your workbook, practise the letters in a copy or on a piece of paper.
- Put focus words and/or spellings into sentences.
- Write a couple of sentences using homophones right/write and know/no, making sure your sentences make sense!
- Follow the Starlight procedure on how to make cupcakes or lemonade if your mum or dad allow you to.
- Complete this weather report https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-6280-my-weather-report-activity-sheet
- Drama- Role play: you are RTÉ’s newest weather presenter! Make your own weather symbols and use them to forecast and present the weather!
- Art- Create your own weather scene. Draw, paint or use any materials you have at home to create a weather scene e.g. it could be a dark, cloudy evening, a bright and sunny morning or a showery, wet day!
- Storytime with Mr Read https://youtu.be/iPMFFMfzmAc
- Story time with Julia Donaldson. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialGruffalo/ The author will perform stories, songs and poems, broadcast on Facebook from her home. Each episode airs at 4pm each Thursday on Facebook and she’ll also be joined by guest illustrators.
- Choose something you haven’t yet done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html