Hello again everyone,
I hope you all enjoyed the Easter holidays and the lovely weather we’ve been having, as well as eating lots of chocolate! Unfortunately we can’t return to school and see each other yet, therefore I will be continuing with setting you work online. The good news is that there is now an e-mail address your parents can use to send me photos of your work and some of the activities you are getting up to at home. This week I would love to see photos of your Easter holiday recount, or maybe even a picture of you following the Starlight procedure to make your own pizza, with a bit of help from an adult of course! I am looking forward to and excited to hear how you all have been,what you have been getting up to and how you are getting on with your school work at home.
Thank you very much to all the parents who completed my survey on the amount of work put up on this blog. The vast majority think that the right amount is being set so I will continue on with a similar level of work for now, with a little more maths added in. As always, you are free to pick and choose which activities your daughter does from these weekly lists, depending on what suits your current family circumstances. You should receive an email this morning (Monday 20th April) from the new account set up for me to correspond with parents, which is [email protected]. Please see Mrs. McCloughan's latest school closure update in the 'School News' section of this website and read the school guidelines with regard to using emails for remote learning. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me through the above email address.
***For daily reading during the week https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ is a very useful website. You can download ebooks suitable for your daughter's age and level. You will need to sign up and create your own account to avail of these resources. It is free to sign up.
Monday 20th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Read the procedure ‘How to Make a Pizza’. 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 47 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-6a ‘How to Make a Pizza’ and also Poster 14 ‘In the Kitchen’, which includes the poem for the next fortnight ‘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 ‘6a How to Make a Pizza’ section on Wednesday, before your child completes page 48 in her Skills Book.
Spellings- ‘oy’ 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.
‘oy’
- jet
- dig
- help
- boy
- toy
- enjoy
- annoy
- two
- four
- destroy
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘oy’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aodJQr-WJLk
Watch this video with words containing this week’s digraph ‘oy’ and last week’s digraph ‘oi’, which both make the same sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbt0Thvs1GE
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 40 Learn to join ‘rt’ and ‘ve’.
Maths: Master Your Maths pg 48, 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.
Revise 12+ tables
Tuesday 21st April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Write a recount of what you did over the Easter holidays (‘My Easter Holiday News’).Even if you couldn’t go very far or see many people I’m sure you kept busy over the past two weeks!
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 41 Learn to join letters ‘ss’ and ‘ll’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 48, 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.
Revise 12+ tables
Wednesday 22nd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 42. Learn to join letters ‘bl’ and ‘cl’
Complete the grammar activity in the ‘6a How to Make a Pizza’ section in the online Starlight resources, and then do page 48 in Skills book on how to use the pairs of homophones would/wood and here/hear correctly.
Maths: Master your Maths page 49, 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.
Continue to revise 12+ tables, as these are the most difficult set of addition tables.
Thursday 23rd April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’. Learn the focus words for this procedure.
Complete Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 49, planning a procedure on how to make lemonade.
Spellings- ‘oy’ learn spellings 10 from the list and revise all.
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 43. Learn to join letters ‘fl’ and ‘gl’.
Maths: Master your Maths page 49, 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? 14, 38, 52
Can you count back in 10s starting from these odd numbers? 96, 69, 27
Revise 12+ tables for a speed test tomorrow.
SESE: My Body and Our 5 Senses.
Can you point to and name as many of your body parts as you can, before looking at these posters? https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-m-203-parts-of-the-body-display-posters
Our thumbs are a very important part of our hands. Which of these things can you do without using your thumbs? Some of these activities may be trickier than they sound!
- Brush your hair.
- Write your name.
- Hold a cup.
- Open a box.
- Zip up your coat.
- Turn the page of a book.
- Cut a straight line along a piece of blank paper. Make sure to ask an adult if you are allowed a scissors to try this one.
- Throw a ball.
Can you name the 5 senses and which parts of our body we need to be able to do each one?
This power point will help you learn more about them.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-tp-5240-eyfs-all-about-me-my-senses-powerpoint
Answer these questions.
- I use my________to smell flowers.
- I need my eyes for my sense of ________.
- I use my_______to listen for traffic when I’m crossing the road.
- I need my ______to touch gooey slime.
- I use my tongue to _______ my favourite dinner.
List 3 things you like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
What about 3 things you don’t like to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch!
Can you find these things in your house?
- Something red. 2. Something soft. 3. Something sweet.
4. Something that makes a noise 5. Something smelly.
There is lots more to learn about your 5 senses here!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-sc-38-the-senses-all-five-senses-resource-pack
Friday 24th April
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 46. Re-read ‘How to Make a Pizza’.
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 ‘oy’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in yellow.
- That boy got a toy jet.
- My two sisters enjoy annoying me.
- The four dogs will dig up and destroy my garden.
- Can you help me catch that oyster?
Use your hundred square to answer the following questions.
- Which number is greater than 80 and less than 90?
67 93 88 100
- Which number is greater than 35 and less than 40?
47 33 39 40
- Which number is less than 70 and more than 55?
70 85 60 50
- What number am I?
- I am 3 tens and 4 units.
- I am 0 tens and 5 units.
- I am 5 tens and 0 units.
- I am 7 tens and 2 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 are these numbers are even?
18, 63, 4, 9, 22, 50, 96
- Which of these numbers are odd?
18, 30, 44, 79, 100, 13, 85
*Always remember to check the units places.
7. Can you make up your own word problems for these sums?
For example if the sum is 8+__=16 then my word problem might be ‘My friend and I had 16 sweets altogether. I had 8 sweets. How many sweets did my friend have? You don’t need to write these problems down.
(a) 5+6=11
(b) 9-6=3
(c) 12+__=20
(d) 10 -__= 5
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.
- 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.
- 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 This week’s ‘Home School Hub’ timetable for 1st/2nd class is as follows:
Tuesday- SPHE (Helping at home)
Wednesday-Art (Stencils)
Thursday- Maths (Data)
Friday- Drama (Exploring)
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.
- Follow the Starlight procedure on how to make a pizza if your mum or dad allow you to.
- Continue to spend time reading every day.
- Print out or write down the ideas in this scavenger hunt and do it around your house and garden. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t-3745-five-senses-scavenger-hunt-worksheet
- If the weather is nice, go out for a ‘Senses Walk’ with an adult. Bring along a pencil and paper and a small sandwich bag. Collect (or take photos of) the things you see, smell, and touch. Write down things you hear, or record them on the adult’s phone. It will probably not be safe to taste anything you find on your walk.
- Look at the April 2020 calendar again and answer and ask more questions about it.
- Choose something you haven’t yet done from the list of activities on the school website! http://realtnamaradonacarney.ie/school-news.html