Good morning everyone,
Happy Monday! It's hard to believe we are already into the last week of May, the weeks are just flying by! I hope you all had a nice weekend and are keeping well. We are in for another week of fabulous weather so make sure to get out and enjoy the sunshine. It was lovely to see some of you and your parents outside the school last week when you were collecting the rest of your school books. Enjoy the week ahead and remember to keep following our government's guidelines on staying safe. Ms Byrne
This week I would like you to send me a photo of your narrative plan from page 65 of your Skills book or some photos of your plant and flower scavenger hunt. You could also send me a photo of your art work from this week, ‘A Summer Beach Scene’. 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!
The red, yellow and blue are the simpler readers, and the green, orange, turquoise and purple are more challenging. Gold, white and lime are the most challenging. Try to choose a book that is not too easy but not too difficult for you, and is something that you will enjoy reading. You can access both fiction and non-fiction books on this site.
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 25th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Read the narrative from last week ‘Our Summer Bucket List’ again. 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?). Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 65 of your Skills Books. Today you are going to plan a story about something that happened during the summer holidays. You can draw pictures or write sentences to show the main events. Remember this is a narrative, so you should have characters in your story, a setting and a plot. Try to include an exciting event/accident in your plot! (Next week you will write out the story properly).
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- ‘er’ 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.
‘er’
mud
jam
sent
term
summer
river
number
always
also
woodpecker
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘er’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8_kUg3454
Watch these videos with words containing the ‘er’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taa3ANEyN_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf7b2rO5iIY
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘er’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Can you spot the ‘er’ words in this story?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-m-27702-er-phoneme-spotter-story
Play this ‘er’ boardgame. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526246-reading-er-sounds-board-game
Complete this ‘er’ flower worksheet https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526404-er-sound-spelling-flowers-activity-sheet
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 56. Learn to join ‘ur’ and ‘gg’.
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 58, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 7+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Let’s revise the new counting sequence you were practising last week. Use your hundred square to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. First, do this twice times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all.
Tuesday 26th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’.
Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section B and C on page 60 of your Starlight Combines Reading and Skills Book. (You completed section A last week). Use ‘I’ or ‘me’ and ‘is’ or ‘are’ to complete the sentences.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 58, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you will revise the last 6 number facts from the 7+ tables.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Today, you are going to use your hundred square to practise counting back in 3s. First revise counting up in 3s from 1 to 100. Now start at 100 and count slowly back in 3s to 70. You’ll need to do this a few times using your finger, as it’s quite tricky! Now try doing this without looking at your hundred square.
Continue to study the May 2020 calendar.
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 Mondays/Wednesdays/Sundays 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 8th/23th/ 30th May fall on?
6. What date is the 3rd Wednesday or 4th Sunday etc. in May?
7. How many days between today (Tuesday 26th 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: Science/Geography.
Plants and flowers
Plants are really important for the planet and for all living things. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen from their leaves, which humans and other animals need to breathe. Living things need plants to live - they eat them and live in them. Flowers not only look pretty and smell beautiful, they are living things and so are very important to life on earth. Flowers' importance in nature is everywhere—they can feed insects, birds, animals and humans; they provide natural medicines for humans and some animals; and help in a plant's reproduction. Flowers also brighten up our word and make it a happier place!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-sc-272-ks1-all-about-plants-powerpoint Take a look at this powerpoint to learn all about plants.
The lifecycle of a plant- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2546339-life-cycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint
The lifecycle of a flower - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/lifecycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint-t-t-2547035
Cut out and glue the lifecycle of a flower in the correct order.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/90/72/t-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf?__token__=exp=1590058982~acl=%2Fresource%2F90%2F72%2Ft-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf%2A~hmac=b2582dbd052e84981366c08e3a86b9ccc523331d2bc17cc2d97fdd3b9a71fbf4
Plants and flowers are made up of different parts, just like humans! Take a look at this powerpoint that explains each part of a plant and its importance.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10000130-parts-of-a-plant-powerpoint-
Do you recognise some of these plants and flowers? Can you name them? Many of these flowers you will find in your garden, the street outside your home, a field or in your local park. Open this link to view some common plants and flowers we see around us every day.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/fb/3f/t-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf?__token__=exp=1590059388~acl=%2Fresource%2Ffb%2F3f%2Ft-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf%2A~hmac=0a98e2c64bec720cce7dbe31e790024ca4da169d9dd763a91a4b547d1426357f
or watch this video!
https://youtu.be/yp1NpIvwwj4
Activity
Go on a plant and flower scavenger hunt in your garden or to your local park. Use this worksheet to tick off the plant or flower as you find them!
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/d8/ca/t-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet-_ver_6.pdf?__token__=exp=1590060744~acl=%2Fresource%2Fd8%2Fca%2Ft-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet-_ver_6.pdf%2A~hmac=22a6251014bbca0ffed29a3740909b888cc850f13b6ac441d19df6eb4ffdc6c7
Here are some other nice activities you might like to try:
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ca-sc-50-putting-together-a-flower-activity Cut out and put together your own flower.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10560-plant-growth-sequencing-activity Try this sequencing activity.
Wednesday 27th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ Learn the focus words for this narrative.
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-8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of the focus words for this narrative. 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- ‘er’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 57. Learn to join letters ‘ha’ and ‘ug’. 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 59, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 8+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 70. Now, use your finger to count back from 70 to 40 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 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 67 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 59, 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 8+ tables.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 40. Now use your finger to count back from 40 to 1 in 3s two or three times. Then see how far you can get without looking at the hundred square at all.
Friday 22nd May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn focus words for this narrative. We will be continuing with this narrative next week so no need to have all of the words ticked on your checklist by today.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘er’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. There is always mud in that river.
2. I sent the letter in the summer term.
3. I also saw a woodpecker in the woods.
4. What number did you pick?
5. I like butter and jam on my toast.
Complete the grammar activity in section 8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ in the online Starlight resources, in which you have to decide whether a word is a noun, adjective or a verb.
Remember:
A noun is a person, place or thing e.g. Ben, school, table.
A verb is a doing word e.g. to read, to dance, to cook
An adjective is a describing word e.g. shiny, blue, smooth.
This grammar activity is not associated with any particular page in your Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book this week.
Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSwetS2IPS4&t=7s Follow this video that will give you step by step instructions on how to draw a summer beach scene, then colour it in!
Maths: Mixed speed test on 7+ and 8+ tables. (2 minutes)
Use your hundred square to revise counting back in 3s. First, count all the way back from 100 to 1 two or three times whilst using your finger. Then see how far you can get without looking at the square at all. It will be very impressive if you can count all the way back to 1!
Friday Maths Challenge
Use your maths skills and hundred square to answer these questions.
What number am I?
I have 2 sides, one curved and one straight. I have 2 corners. I am a ____________.
I am a 3D shape. I can roll. I have no vertices or edges and I have one curved face. I am a ____________.
6. ** Mystery Number**
Lots of you enjoyed the mystery number challenge a few weeks ago, so here’s another you can try!
(a) Start with the number 4.
(b) Add on the number of sides on a triangle.
(c) Double it.
(d) Take away 5.
(e) Now take away the number of sides you would find on a rectangle.
The mystery number is ….?
Here are some fun maths activities and games you can try today!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
Practise your tables and mental maths with this game!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition
Practise adding and taking away. You have to listen carefully and use the hundred square to help.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
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. ‘Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home’ Read this lovely story to find out how Winnie and Wilbur are staying safe at home.
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: Botanical Art
Tuesday- Science: Forces and Friction
Wednesday- English: The Black Sheep
Thursday- Gaeilge: Mé Féin agus Mothúcháin
Friday- Music: Choral Singing
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.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-c-012-summer-bucket-list Complete this ‘Summer Bucketlist’ worksheet, make a list of all the things you would like to do this summer.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/nz-t-t-5589-summer-acrostic-poem-template Use this template to write a ‘Summer’ acrostic poem. Remember each sentence must start with a word that begins with S-U-M-M-E-R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rTmH6SVcI Keeping with our plant and flower theme this week, join in with this mindfulness meditation called ‘The Flower’. Find a quiet space in your home and follow along with the video. Then you can complete some of these flower mindfulness colouring sheets.https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-26967-plants-and-growth-themed-mindfulness- colouring-sheets Take your time, relax and enjoy some quiet time colouring! J
Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for families 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
Happy Monday! It's hard to believe we are already into the last week of May, the weeks are just flying by! I hope you all had a nice weekend and are keeping well. We are in for another week of fabulous weather so make sure to get out and enjoy the sunshine. It was lovely to see some of you and your parents outside the school last week when you were collecting the rest of your school books. Enjoy the week ahead and remember to keep following our government's guidelines on staying safe. Ms Byrne
This week I would like you to send me a photo of your narrative plan from page 65 of your Skills book or some photos of your plant and flower scavenger hunt. You could also send me a photo of your art work from this week, ‘A Summer Beach Scene’. 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!
The red, yellow and blue are the simpler readers, and the green, orange, turquoise and purple are more challenging. Gold, white and lime are the most challenging. Try to choose a book that is not too easy but not too difficult for you, and is something that you will enjoy reading. You can access both fiction and non-fiction books on this site.
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 25th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Read the narrative from last week ‘Our Summer Bucket List’ again. 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?). Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 65 of your Skills Books. Today you are going to plan a story about something that happened during the summer holidays. You can draw pictures or write sentences to show the main events. Remember this is a narrative, so you should have characters in your story, a setting and a plot. Try to include an exciting event/accident in your plot! (Next week you will write out the story properly).
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- ‘er’ 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.
‘er’
mud
jam
sent
term
summer
river
number
always
also
woodpecker
Geraldine the Giraffe learns the ‘er’ sound too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8_kUg3454
Watch these videos with words containing the ‘er’ sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taa3ANEyN_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf7b2rO5iIY
Play some games on the ‘Phonicsplay’ website to practise the ‘er’ sound and other digraphs.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Can you spot the ‘er’ words in this story?
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-m-27702-er-phoneme-spotter-story
Play this ‘er’ boardgame. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526246-reading-er-sounds-board-game
Complete this ‘er’ flower worksheet https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/cfe-l-526404-er-sound-spelling-flowers-activity-sheet
Handwriting- 'Go with the Flow' page 56. Learn to join ‘ur’ and ‘gg’.
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 58, Monday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: This Monday and Tuesday you are going to revise the 7+ tables. Please revise the first 7 number facts today.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Let’s revise the new counting sequence you were practising last week. Use your hundred square to count up in 3s from 1 to 100. First, do this twice times whilst using your finger on the hundred square. Then, see how far you can get without looking at the square at all.
Tuesday 26th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘Our Summer Bucket List’.
Revise the focus words for this narrative.
Complete section B and C on page 60 of your Starlight Combines Reading and Skills Book. (You completed section A last week). Use ‘I’ or ‘me’ and ‘is’ or ‘are’ to complete the sentences.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spellings 4-6 from list.
Maths: Master your Maths page 58, Tuesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today you will revise the last 6 number facts from the 7+ tables.
7+ 0 = 7
7 + 1 = 8
7 + 2 = 9
7 + 3 = 10
7 + 4 = 11
7 + 5 = 12
7 + 6 = 13
7 + 7 = 14
7 + 8 = 15
7 + 9 = 16
7 + 10 = 17
7 + 11 = 18
7 + 12 = 19
Today, you are going to use your hundred square to practise counting back in 3s. First revise counting up in 3s from 1 to 100. Now start at 100 and count slowly back in 3s to 70. You’ll need to do this a few times using your finger, as it’s quite tricky! Now try doing this without looking at your hundred square.
Continue to study the May 2020 calendar.
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 Mondays/Wednesdays/Sundays 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 8th/23th/ 30th May fall on?
6. What date is the 3rd Wednesday or 4th Sunday etc. in May?
7. How many days between today (Tuesday 26th 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: Science/Geography.
Plants and flowers
Plants are really important for the planet and for all living things. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen from their leaves, which humans and other animals need to breathe. Living things need plants to live - they eat them and live in them. Flowers not only look pretty and smell beautiful, they are living things and so are very important to life on earth. Flowers' importance in nature is everywhere—they can feed insects, birds, animals and humans; they provide natural medicines for humans and some animals; and help in a plant's reproduction. Flowers also brighten up our word and make it a happier place!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-sc-272-ks1-all-about-plants-powerpoint Take a look at this powerpoint to learn all about plants.
The lifecycle of a plant- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2546339-life-cycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint
The lifecycle of a flower - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/lifecycle-of-a-plant-powerpoint-t-t-2547035
Cut out and glue the lifecycle of a flower in the correct order.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/90/72/t-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf?__token__=exp=1590058982~acl=%2Fresource%2F90%2F72%2Ft-t-28937-life-cycle-of-a-flower-cut-and-paste-activity.pdf%2A~hmac=b2582dbd052e84981366c08e3a86b9ccc523331d2bc17cc2d97fdd3b9a71fbf4
Plants and flowers are made up of different parts, just like humans! Take a look at this powerpoint that explains each part of a plant and its importance.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10000130-parts-of-a-plant-powerpoint-
Do you recognise some of these plants and flowers? Can you name them? Many of these flowers you will find in your garden, the street outside your home, a field or in your local park. Open this link to view some common plants and flowers we see around us every day.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/fb/3f/t-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf?__token__=exp=1590059388~acl=%2Fresource%2Ffb%2F3f%2Ft-t-29218-plants-and-flowers-flashcards-_ver_2.pdf%2A~hmac=0a98e2c64bec720cce7dbe31e790024ca4da169d9dd763a91a4b547d1426357f
or watch this video!
https://youtu.be/yp1NpIvwwj4
Activity
Go on a plant and flower scavenger hunt in your garden or to your local park. Use this worksheet to tick off the plant or flower as you find them!
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/d8/ca/t-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet-_ver_6.pdf?__token__=exp=1590060744~acl=%2Fresource%2Fd8%2Fca%2Ft-t-1103-plants-and-flowers-hunt-sheet-_ver_6.pdf%2A~hmac=22a6251014bbca0ffed29a3740909b888cc850f13b6ac441d19df6eb4ffdc6c7
Here are some other nice activities you might like to try:
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ca-sc-50-putting-together-a-flower-activity Cut out and put together your own flower.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-10560-plant-growth-sequencing-activity Try this sequencing activity.
Wednesday 27th May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 66. Read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ Learn the focus words for this narrative.
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-8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ which, amongst other things, contains an activity that displays pictures of each of the focus words for this narrative. 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- ‘er’ learn spellings 7-9 from list.
Handwriting-'Go with the Flow' page 57. Learn to join letters ‘ha’ and ‘ug’. 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 59, Wednesday section. Please write number sentences (sums) for the word problems 11&12.
Tables: Today and tomorrow you are going to revise the 8+ tables. Please revise the first 7 numbers facts today.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 70. Now, use your finger to count back from 70 to 40 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 66. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn the focus words for this narrative.
Complete page 67 of your Skills Books. Remember to use full sentences to answer the comprehension questions and don’t forget your capital letters and full stops.
Spellings- ‘er’ learn spelling 10 from the list and revise all.
Maths: Master your Maths page 59, 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 8+ tables.
8 + 0 = 8
8 + 1 = 9
8 + 2 = 10
8 + 3 = 11
8 + 4 = 12
8 + 5 = 13
8 + 6 = 14
8 + 7 = 15
8 + 8 = 16
8 + 9 = 17
8 + 10 = 18
8 + 11 = 19
8 + 12 = 20
Continue to use your hundred square to learn how to count back in 3s from 1 to 100. First revise counting back from 100 to 40. Now use your finger to count back from 40 to 1 in 3s two or three times. Then see how far you can get without looking at the hundred square at all.
Friday 22nd May
English: Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book page 62. Re-read ‘The Circus Comes to Town’. Learn focus words for this narrative. We will be continuing with this narrative next week so no need to have all of the words ticked on your checklist by today.
Spellings- Ask a parent to test you on the ‘er’ spelling list by calling out these sentences for you to write down. The 10 words from the list are in bold.
1. There is always mud in that river.
2. I sent the letter in the summer term.
3. I also saw a woodpecker in the woods.
4. What number did you pick?
5. I like butter and jam on my toast.
Complete the grammar activity in section 8b ‘The Circus Comes to Town’ in the online Starlight resources, in which you have to decide whether a word is a noun, adjective or a verb.
Remember:
A noun is a person, place or thing e.g. Ben, school, table.
A verb is a doing word e.g. to read, to dance, to cook
An adjective is a describing word e.g. shiny, blue, smooth.
This grammar activity is not associated with any particular page in your Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book this week.
Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSwetS2IPS4&t=7s Follow this video that will give you step by step instructions on how to draw a summer beach scene, then colour it in!
Maths: Mixed speed test on 7+ and 8+ tables. (2 minutes)
Use your hundred square to revise counting back in 3s. First, count all the way back from 100 to 1 two or three times whilst using your finger. Then see how far you can get without looking at the square at all. It will be very impressive if you can count all the way back to 1!
Friday Maths Challenge
Use your maths skills and hundred square to answer these questions.
What number am I?
- I am an odd number. I have 3 units and 7 tens. _______
- What digit is underlined in the following numbers? Tens or Units.
- Guess the shape.
I have 2 sides, one curved and one straight. I have 2 corners. I am a ____________.
I am a 3D shape. I can roll. I have no vertices or edges and I have one curved face. I am a ____________.
- There are three children in the family- Ava is 10, Mark is 7 and Chloe is 4. What is the total sum of their ages? Remember to write the sum!
- 10 – 4 =? Can you write a word problem to tell the story of this number sentence?
6. ** Mystery Number**
Lots of you enjoyed the mystery number challenge a few weeks ago, so here’s another you can try!
(a) Start with the number 4.
(b) Add on the number of sides on a triangle.
(c) Double it.
(d) Take away 5.
(e) Now take away the number of sides you would find on a rectangle.
The mystery number is ….?
Here are some fun maths activities and games you can try today!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
Practise your tables and mental maths with this game!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition
Practise adding and taking away. You have to listen carefully and use the hundred square to help.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
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. ‘Winnie and Wilbur Stay at Home’ Read this lovely story to find out how Winnie and Wilbur are staying safe at home.
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: Botanical Art
Tuesday- Science: Forces and Friction
Wednesday- English: The Black Sheep
Thursday- Gaeilge: Mé Féin agus Mothúcháin
Friday- Music: Choral Singing
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.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-c-012-summer-bucket-list Complete this ‘Summer Bucketlist’ worksheet, make a list of all the things you would like to do this summer.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/nz-t-t-5589-summer-acrostic-poem-template Use this template to write a ‘Summer’ acrostic poem. Remember each sentence must start with a word that begins with S-U-M-M-E-R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rTmH6SVcI Keeping with our plant and flower theme this week, join in with this mindfulness meditation called ‘The Flower’. Find a quiet space in your home and follow along with the video. Then you can complete some of these flower mindfulness colouring sheets.https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-26967-plants-and-growth-themed-mindfulness- colouring-sheets Take your time, relax and enjoy some quiet time colouring! J
Librarians from all over Ireland are producing Storytime videos for families 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