Week 7

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Listen to the message above and send your entries to challenge@stpatricksgirls.net  We can’t wait to see the lists of things to look forward to when this lockdown is over.

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Just a quick note to say we are all thinking of you on what would have been your special day. We know you worked very hard for this day. But don’t worry, your special day will come when this is all over.

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We may not be able to do assembly in the Halla but we can still wish our girls a Happy Birthday.

Megan 01/05/2020

Laila 07/05/2020

Kaci-Mai 12/05/2020

Ava 16/05/2020

Zara 16/05/2020

Katie 17/05/2020

Katie 19/05/2020

Sally 20/05/2020

Julia 21/05/2020

Hannah 24/05/2020

Mai 28/05/2020

Sháuna  29/05/2020

Kim 30/05/2020

Cathy 30/05/2020

Molly 31/05/2020

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A Chailíní, 

I hope you are all doing well. I have some news for you. Your teacher has an email address.  We need to set a few ground rules. You must use your parent or guardian’s email to contact your teacher. This is in accordance with our Child Safeguarding Procedures and Acceptable Use Policy.   

 This week we are asking you to submit a photo of one piece of work that you are really proud of. The teachers are really excited about seeing this work. 

If you have a question about your work, you can send teacher an email. Remember, your teacher will probably have a lot of questions to answer so you must give your teacher some time to answer. 

Remember the rules for writing an email too. Remember to put a greeting at the beginning and ask how they are keeping.  Use paragraphs for each question you might have. Don’t forget to sign off nicely too. 

We look forward to hearing from you soon, 

 Kind regards, 

 Mrs Kelly

 You can send your teacher an email at 1stclass@stpatricksgirls.net and if you have a question for Ms Crosse, Ms. Conran or Ms. Hogan, their email address is learningsupport@stpatricksgirls.net

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Dear parents/guardians of 1^st class students,

I hope you enjoyed an active week with your daughter last week. It is one of my favourite weeks in school as there is a lot of fun to be had. Hopefully sending an email of a piece of work helps to boost motivation in your house this week! Take care and talk soon.

Best wishes,

Sharon Gleeson.

Click here to download Week 7 (1)

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Dear 1^st class girls,

I hope active home week was a fun and energetic week in your home! I am so excited to see a piece of your best work this week! It can be anything you would like to show me from Art to English, Maths or even baking that you do during the week.

Be kind,

Ms. Gleeson

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Suggested Daily Timetable

 

9.00-9.30	Exercise (JoeWicks live (Youtube) / Cosmic Yoga (Youtube)/ Go Noodle website/ Active Break Ideas  (see below)
9.30-10.45	Work on the Core Subjects (English/Irish/Maths)
10.45-11.00	Small Break-Have a snack and go outside for a run/play
11.00-12.00	RTE School Hub
12.00-12.45	Project Work
12.45-1.15	Lunch
1.15 onwards	Free Time

 

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Please choose a few of these activities to do with your siblings or altogether as a family a day this week.

Wellness Wednesdays are all about doing things that bring enjoyment and happiness.

​Exercise

Joe Wick’s PE workout every weekday at 9am

Go Noodle

Cosmic Yoga

Skipping, cycling, dancing, going for a walks..

 

Art

‘Draw with Don’ YouTube channel

‘Art Attack’ series on YouTube

Mindfulness colouring

Free drawing

Paint (with Bob Ross on Netflix / YouTube)

Origami

Sculpt with clay

 

Gardening

Pull weeds

Water flowers

Plant new flowers

 

Skills / Talents

Baking

Knitting

Learn to juggle

Do a magic trick

Write a play, a poem or a story

 

Meditation

Headspace for kids (app)

Cosmic Yoga

Read for pleasure

‘Spark joy!’ and organise possessions (eg. toys, clothes..)

 

Games

Board games (eg. Scrabble, Articulate, Headbands…)

Cards (eg. Snap, Go Fish, Solitaire…)

Pen and paper games (eg. X’s and O’s, Stop the bus…)

Music games (eg. Karaoke, Musical statues..)

Outdoor games (eg. Obstacle course, football..)

 

Music 

Learn to play an instrument or learn a new song

Listen to different genres or decades of music

Compose a song or piece of music

Strictly Come Dancing: Pick a song and prepare a dance routine

Do a music quiz

 

Television

RTE’s School Hub

Favourite movie/ T.V programme

Nature programmes eg. David Attenborough’s Blue Planet

 

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Cosmic Kids Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Dance – An Wop

Kids Bop

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKE0Xnj818IDaHvIcRiq0Bg?app=desktop

Weekly Challenge – Teddy Bear Challenge

 

 Family Fun – Homemade Frisbee Fling

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Click to download 1st class English Group 1 week 7

Click to download 1st class English group 2 week 7

Click to download 1st class English group 3 week 7

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Click to download 1st class Reading week 7

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Keep going with your daily news and video calls with relatives./friends. Lots of learning and confidence building takes place during these interactions.

School Sports Day Oral Language Activities

School Sports Day interactive activities:

https://rainbow.cjfallon.ie/#/units/first/16

Sports Day Afternoon

Plan your own sports day afternoon in your garden. Design 3 activities that you and your family have to compete in!

Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book

p.46 – 49 (How to make a pizza).

Do 1 page per day only.

Writing

Write your own pizza recipe. Maybe you will have time this week to make the pizza!

Spellbound

p.68 + 69 (Week 33). Revision

2 sentences in copy each day (like your daughter does for homework)

Reading

Continue to encourage your daughter to read any books you have at home and read to your daughter daily.

 Class Story

Gruffalo stayed in the cave

By Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson’s

Click on link below and enjoy the story together

https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2020/apr/04/gruffalo-axel-scheffler-and-julia-donaldsons-coronavirus-cartoons#img-12

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Cracking Maths – continue with any unfinished work

Time p.129 – 131

Addition 6 p. 132 – 138

Please correct any work your daughter does with her and help her learn from mistakes.

 Work it Out – Catch up/finish a week you missed/ have not completed.

 Class Game:

Make 10 Again!

https://www.mathsweek.ie/2019/maths-at-home-activities/?fbclid=IwAR1HggJ7CtDG28BOuXljhuTxTrjASlO8l63vXrB6kJRN5VjtUssyN6Y_KEI#activitymaketenagain

Online Maths Games

Counting:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Ordering:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/37/placing_numbers_on_a_number_line

Addition and Subtraction:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids

Shape:

https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/apps/geoboard

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Bua na Cainte: An Trá p.94

An Wop dance – See Active Breaks section

You can use https://www.focloir.ie/en/ to translate any words. The great thing is that almost every word on the website has an audio recording of it so you can listen to how to pronounce the words! As a family, you could try and learn a few words every day!Another idea is to sign up to https://www.duolingo.com/course/ga/en/Learn-Irish to learn some Irish – 5 to 10 minutes a day and who knows how fluent you’ll be when you get back!

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Signs of Summer (p.60) – Draw pictures to show the different signs of summer we are noticing!

Dandelions (p.61) – Go out to your garden/green and pick a dandelion. Use your book to examine the dandelion.

Fruits and Seeds (p.64) – Choose 4 different pieces of fruit. Use your book to help you examine each fruit. Eat and enjoy after or paint it and create some print art!

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Sports day at home

Plan a sports day afternoon that you can have in your garden/green. Compete in activities with you family e.g. egg and spoon race/ three legged race/fill a bucket with water race.

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Children’s art competition: Keeping Connected

Draw a poster showing how you are keeping in contact with someone you can’t see at the moment. You can enter your piece of art in the competition below or you could post it to the person you make it about!

https://into.newsweaver.ie/icfiles/1/3461/226109/6348250/d3753eda05503f31bd8d3f3e/art%20competition%20-%20european%20day%20of%20solidarity%20between%20generations.pdf

Making Shapes Art

https://www.mathsweek.ie/2019/maths-at-home-activities/?fbclid=IwAR1HggJ7CtDG28BOuXljhuTxTrjASlO8l63vXrB6kJRN5VjtUssyN6Y_KEI#activitymakingshapes

Create a summer picture using shapes.

Fruit Art

Use the fruit you cut open for your Science investigation to make print art. Paint the half a piece of fruit and create a print.

Ice-cream Cone

Decorate 2 cupcake cases with markers to look like 2 scoops of ice cream. On a coloured piece of card draw a triangle shape to be a cone. Glue the cupcake cases on top of the cone!

Make a Pizza

Use your recipe from English writing to make a pizza this week! If you don’t have the ingredients you could make a pizza out of paper! Draw your favourite toppings and glue them on.

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Dear girls,

Hope you are all ok and that you enjoyed your ‘Activity Week’ last week. I have some more work here – do your best with it! I might even get to see some of your work as Mrs. Kelly is busy setting up a special email address. Looking forward to seeing your best efforts! Keep smiling!

Lots of love,

Mrs. Quill.

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Dear Parents,

Hope everybody is doing ok. Below is the work for Week 7 of our school closure. As you know we are not returning before the summer, but we will keep ourselves busy in the meantime. Keep an eye on the website for a special email address to which work may be submitted.

Thank you for your continued support and interest.

Mrs. Quill.

Click here to download Week 7 Mrs. Quill 2nd Class Letters and Homework-Videos not included in this

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Religion

Grow in Love book – read ‘Liturgy of the Word’ responses on inside of the back cover of the book.

Fill in the blanks to these responses on p. 27.

Listen to the story The Hare and the Tortoise:

Go to the website  https://www.growinlove.ie/en/

Login in with the email trial@growinlove.ie  and the password growinlove.

When in the website click on the image of the textbook – Second Class /P4.

Choose Theme 4, Lesson 1 and click on this icon

 

Maths

 

• Work It Out p. 58 (Monday).
• Watch this video of me explaining how to calculate ‘change’ using money.

 

• After watching the video, try Cracking Maths p. 109. Here is a short video of some tips for completing this page.

• Please correct your work that we did two weeks ago (Work It Out p. 54 and 55).

English

• Spellbound p. 58 Box 1. Write 2 sentences with spellings.
• Reading: Starlight p. 30 The Sahara Desert.

Read this slowly with an adult.

 

Word study: Words in bold print

Rarely – hardly ever

Adapted – become used to.

Harsh environment – difficult to live there because of extreme heat.

Absorb – take in or soak up.

Scarce – there isn’t much of it.

Oasis – a place in the desert where there is water.

Nomads – people who travel looking for food and water, and don’t stay long in one place.

 

Discussion: Chat about the Sahara Desert. Did you know that it’s not all sand? There are rocky areas and mountains too. People live near an oasis for water so there are actually towns in the desert. One town is called Timbuktu!

 

• Writing

Starlight p. 31 Section A

Write the answers in your copy with full sentences eg. The Sahara Desert is in Africa.

 

Gaeilge

• Bua na Cainte p. 95. Listen and repeat the money value after me as Gaeilge.

Write in the answers.

SESE

• What a Wonderful World p. 54. Places of Work. Complete parts 1,2 and 3.

Talk about different jobs e.g some people work at night,  outdoors, drive a vehicle, wear a uniform, work with animals.

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Religion

Read over responses to Liturgy of the Word (inside back cover of Grow in Love).

Maths

• Work It Out p. 58 (Tuesday).
• Cracking Maths p. 111

English

• Spellbound p. 58 Box 2 – Write 2 sentences.
• Reading

Starlight p. 30 The Sahara Desert. See can you explain each of the words in bold print.

• Write p. 31 sections B and C into the book.

Gaeilge

• Bua na Cainte p. 97. Listen to me explaining the exercise and the new words.

Music

• Song ‘Over in the Meadow’, watch the video in the link below and sing along.

 

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Religion

Read over responses to Liturgy of the Word (inside back cover of Grow in Love).

Maths

• Work It Out p. 59 (Wednesday).
• Cracking Maths p. 110 (Complete this page if not already done)

Talk about the grey boxes at the top. There are two ways to write amounts of money. You can use the € sign (€1.50) or you can write the amount in cents (150 c)

English

• Spellbound p. 58 Box 3 Write 2 sentences.
• Reading

Starlight p. 30 Read over the Sahara Desert for the last time!

• Writing

In this report about the desert they have given us some facts about camels. Write some more facts about camels in your copy – you can look them up!

Gaeilge

• Bua na Cainte p. 97 Practise with a partner asking how much is the ………? And giving the answer. Listen to this audio from yesterday again:

E.g Cé mhéad atá ar an luch?

Deich euro.

SESE

• What a Wonderful World p. 48 Natural Materials (Natural means it is just there, nobody made it. Man-made means it was made by humans or in a factory/by a machine).

Read p. 48. Fill in the 4 boxes. Some might be tricky. I will put up the answers next week.

Did you know that natural rubber is a milky liquid that comes from the rubber tree? A tyre is made from this and other types of rubber too.

Glass is made when sand is heated to a very hot temperature in a furnace.

 

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Religion

Read over responses to Liturgy of the Word (inside back cover of Grow in Love).

Maths

• Work it Out p. 59 (Thursday).
• Cracking Maths p. 112. Be careful: 2 spooky toffees cost 80c (40c + 40c).

English

• Spellbound p. 58 (last box)

1. 59 Complete all exercises.

• Writing

Starlight p. 32 Prepositions.

Prepositions are words which tell us where something is (on, under, in front of). Complete A and B in your book and complete part C in your copy (1 sentence will do).

Gaeilge

• Bua na Cainte p. 98 An Nuacht. Fill in the blanks.

Chuaigh mé =  I went.

Chonaic mé = I saw.

SESE

• What a Wonderful World p. 49 Investigate these 5 objects and fill in your answers (YES/NO).

 

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Religion

Read over responses to Liturgy of the Word (inside back cover of Grow in Love).

Maths

• Cracking Maths p. 125 – crack the code no. 2 (cow).

First work out the answers. Remember, some might be tricky.

English

• Spelling Test (Yippee!)

Ask an adult to call out any ten spellings from p. 58 of Spellbound. Correct them and give yourself a pat on the back!

Did you know a group of camels is called a caravan of camels? In your copy write these down. Ask for help to fill in the blanks.

1. A f____________ of sheep.
2. A l_____________ of kittens or puppies.
3. A h _____________ of cows.
4. A p______________ of dolphins (sometimes it’s called a school too)
5. A c______________ of penguins.
6. A p____________ of lions.

Gaeilge

• Listen to Mrs. Quill reading the story of the Hare and the Tortoise as Gaeilge.

‘An Giorria agus an Toirtís’ (it’s on p. 92 of Bua na Cainte – Colour the picture).

Art and Craft

Making a turtle with a paper plate. Watch this video to show you what to do. (Don’t worry if you don’t have a paper plate or green paper – you can draw a circle on cardboard (cereal box) and cut it out for the shell and colour white paper green to make the legs and head).

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Joe Wicks’ Fun PE Class.

On Friday’s Joe Wicks usually dresses up. You can dress up too if you like (as anything you want) and try this workout.

 

• Storytime

Listen to a story on https://www.storylineonline.net/

 

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Click to download 2nd class Maths Ms Hogan Wk 7

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Click to download 2nd Maths group Ms Crosse week 7

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Click to download 2nd Book club Ms Crosse week 7

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Dear girls,

How are you all? Keep up all the good work. I’m sure you are ready to go again after a fun active school’s week. Looking forward to seeing some of it soon. Your parents will fill you in on our exciting plan.

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Dear parents,

Hope you are well. Well done on the great work you are doing. It’s not easy but it will pay off. You are probably blue in the face from me writing and saying this but don’t expect to cover everything. Consider everything you cover a success. All children are different and all have different learning appetites daily.

Keep an eye out for a special email address Mrs Kelly will be notifying you of. You will be able to send some photographs of work samples to me on it! It might be a nice motivator for the children.

Regards

Margaret Coughlan

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Again let’s follow the timetable of one and a quarter to one and a half hours a day on the core subjects, with a bit of RTE Home School Hub. The fun ideas at the end are for those thirsty for more, but play, art, board games and good old fashioned running around are important too.

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Religion. Revise all prayers. Log on to Grow in Love. https://www.growinlove.ie/en/    Login in with an email of trial@growinlove.ie  and a password of growinlove. When in the website click on the image of the text book – Second Class /P4.Theme 8 Lesson 2. P.46 of the textbook revises Easter and after.

Encourage your child to build a May altar to Mary… blue cloth a candle and a picture of Mary like this one…

Practise the Hail Mary.

Here is a nice video link.

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English

Spellbound. This week it’s p.58, week 7.

Today’s words “track, smack, stack and quack” all end in – “ack”. Let’s word-build. With ack as an ending, put the following sounds in front of it. Write out the new words you have made and read the list.

j, b,h,l,p,r,t,   bl,  cr,  kn.

What a Wonderful World;Read p. 35 about Ireland. Answer the questions.

Here is some help.

The word “island” has a silent “s”, and means a land surrounded by water.

Here are hints to help with each question.

1. A lough is another word for a lake.
2. Towns are not cities. They are smaller. So don’t choose Cork, Limerick, Dublin or Belfast!
3. The mouth of a river is where it goes into the sea.
4. Look to the west or the left for the ocean.
5. Our nearby river is the L_ _. Hint; There is a song about it! On The Banks of My Own Lovely ___.

 

I love Irish legends. Remember we read the story of the “Salmon of Knowledge” before (p.36 and 37 What a Wonderful World).  Listen to me read it to you.

So what else happened to Fionn?

Here is a story about when Fionn grew up and met a giant from Scotland.

Note

A causeway is like a bridge made of land.

Maths

Work It Out Week 27 p.58 Monday

Money.

Take out your coins 1c up to one euro in value.  Using your coins do p.108 Cracking Maths, where you are making a euro in different ways.

Irish

Siopadóireacht = shopping

Airgead (money)p.97  Bua na Cainte. Listen to our good friend Mrs Quill talk you through the page.

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English

Spellbound. Today’s words end in  -“ ust”  , in –“ope”  and in –“ote” (trust, crust, slope and wrote).

Let’s word build. Build a list ending in –“ust”. Go through the alphabet for starting sounds to put before -“ust”.

“Wr” . The w is silent. Read this list of “wr” words.

Write                       Wrist

Wren                        Wrote

 

Pick one of the –wr- words and put it into a sentence.

Try exercise 1 p. 58.

Reading

Fionn and The Scottish Giant continued…

Note

A cradle is a cot.

A bonnet is a hat.

Here is map of Ireland. Find Co. Antrim. Hint – It is at the other end of the country to Cork!

Here is a map showing Scotland and Ireland.

Draw baby Fionn!

Make a list of things a baby needs.

Predict what will happen!

Maths

Work It Out Week 27 p.58 Tuesday

Money

Cracking Maths. P.109. As a shopkeeper or a shopper you have to be able to work out change. In each case imagine you have one euro and you need to be able to get the change when buying the lemons or the grapes etc. Watch Mrs Quill explain it really well in these two videos

Irish

Listen and repeat.

Ag Siopadóireacht = shopping

Más é do thoil é=please

Go raibh maith agat = thankyou

Ba mhaith liom = I would like

Siopa=shop

Siopadóir=shop keeper

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English

Spellbound. Today’s words end in  -“ove”.  Pick one word to put into a sentence.  Do exercise 2 p. 59(word worm).

 

Reading.

Let’s continue with the story. Try putting on a Scottish accent for the giant.

Here is a photo of the Giant’s Causeway.

Try these activities. You don’t have to write them. You can do them orally.

Maths

Work It Out Week 27 p.59 Wednesday

Money. More chances to get change – this time from 20c, 50c and one euro. See pg. 111 Cracking Maths.

 

Irish

Siopadóreacht=shopping.

A new shop today. Listen to the audio.

 

 

 

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English

Spellbound. Today’s words end in  -“uck”. Pick 4 words – one from each box and make a funny sentence. Here is mine;

I looked above the slope and saw a stack of gloves in a truck,

Now try Exercise 3 – sentences in order – p.59. Remember when to use capitals.

Don’t forget your fullstops.

Reading

Here is today’s story. It is a fable – a story written by a Greek man named Aesop who wrote stories to teach us a lesson.

What is the lesson?

Starlight Remember on Week 5, we filled in a factfile on Ireland (Starlight). Yours probably looked like this, you may have chosen different famous landmarks and information. That’s ok too.

I want to show you how to  build a report, using that information. Step one is a plan. Here is my plan.

-the title (Ireland)

-a definition (what is Ireland)

-country facts

-tourist facts

-food facts

-other facts

-ending or conclusion.

Now read the report. Don’t write it, but fill in any missing words as you go. I’ll show you half today and the rest tomorrow.

(Title)Ireland

(definition)Ireland is an island off the west coast of Europe.

 

(Country facts)The capital is ________. The main language is ___________. Its currency is the euro.  Nearly  __ million people live there.

 

Maths

Work It Out Week 27 p.59 Thursday

Money

There are 100c in a euro. If we had 120c we would write it as €1.20. If we had 175c we would write it as €1.75.

118c=€1.18.

101c=€1.01

Cracking Maths p.110

Irish

Aesop’s Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare in Irish – An Giorria agus an Toirtís. You don’t have to understand everything. It’s just good to hear Irish and practise the sounds.

Text is below.

Vocabulary

Giorria= hare       Toirtís= tortoise

An ghrian ag taitneamh = sun was shining

Bródúil = proud

Tapaigh= fast          mall=slow

Ag gáire= laughing

Rás =race       críoch=end

Sa choill= in the woods        crann=tree

Imithe=gone              codladh=sleep

Ribín = ribbon        dhúisigh=woke up

Bhuaigh=won

 

An Giorria agus an Toirtís

Bhí an ghrian ag taitneamh sa spéir. “Dia duit” arsa an giorria leis an toirtís. Bhí carbhat gorm agus cóta dearg air. Giorria bródúil ab ea é.

“Tá mé an-tapaidh ag rith”.

“Mise freisin” arsa an toirtís.

Thosaigh an giorria ag gáire.  Bhí rás acu. Bhí an toirtís mall. Bhí an giorria ag gáire. Chuaigh an giorria in a chodladh faoi chrann sa choill. Nuair a dhúisigh an giorria bhí an toirtís imithe. Ní raibh an giorria ag gáire. Rith an giorria go tapaidh. Chonaic sé an críoch agus bhí an toirtís ag an ribín. Bhuaigh an toirtís. Bhí an toirtís ag gáire anois!

Bua na Caint p. 92- colour some of the picture – save some until tomorrow.

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English

Spellbound. Revise the list. Do exercise 4 on page 58 to help you. Pick anything from 8-12 (your parents will know) and study them. Get an adult to test you.

 

Starlight

Let’s look at all that report on Ireland that we started yesterday.

(Title)Ireland

(definition)Ireland is an island off the west coast of Europe.

 

(Country facts)The capital is ________. The main language is ___________. Its currency is the euro.  Nearly  __ million people live there.

(tourist facts) Tourists love to visit Ireland.  The Phoenix Park is popular. It is home to our zoo. Our President Michael D Higgins lives in a beautiful white house there. The Ring of ______ in the south is very scenic. Many travel to see Fungi the dolphin off the coast of Dingle. You can take a cruise on the River Shannon – our longest ______. Our Irish music and dancing are very popular.

 

(food facts) Traditional meals from Ireland are stew, ________ and cabbage and potatoes.

 

(Other facts) Ireland has its own national sport called hurling. The girls’ version is called camogie.

 

(Conclusion) With its lovely flag of_______, white and gold, Ireland is famous all over the world, especially on our national holiday – March 17^th, St. Patrick’s Day.

Maths

Work It Out Next Friday test.

Time to revise the big numbers. Cracking Maths p.137. You are subtracting.

Watch my video to advise you on how to use the 100square.

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Irish

Finish colouring an Giorria agus an toirtís in Bua na Cainte p.92 . Listen to the story as gaeilge again.

Fun Projects

Story Writing

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Snow White and the 7 Chimpanzees.

Art

Let’s go to the National Art Gallery in Dublin. Have a look at these paintings.

By Monet

Elf-Hill by Harry Clarke.

What feelings do the paintings create for you?

Which do you prefer?

What did the artist use in each and how did they use their brushes – with precision or light stokes?

Create a picture you would like to see hung in the National Art Gallery. Pick any topic you like.

Or

Try some origami

https://www.redtedart.com/easy-origami-bird-for-kids/

 

Music  This so cute.  Mrs Quill found it. Listen to

Some relaxing piano music to dream to as you look at a Van Gogh painting.

Read – use any of the links provided in the past.

New; https://magicblox.com/

P.E

Go Noodle and cosmic kids are great fun. Practise skipping with a skipping rope or some of the throwing skills from last week.

Landing when jumping as a skill – see the following video.

https://vimeo.com/414564391

 SPHE    Draw a kindness poster for your family.

            Do one simple good deed at home.

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A Chailíní, 

I hope you are all doing well. I have some news for you. Your teacher has an email address.  We need to set a few ground rules. You must use your parent or guardian’s email to contact your teacher. This is in accordance with our Child Safeguarding Procedures and Acceptable Use Policy.   

 This week we are asking you to submit a photo of one piece of work that you are really proud of. The teachers are really excited about seeing this work. 

If you have a question about your work, you can send teacher an email. Remember, your teacher will probably have a lot of questions to answer so you must give your teacher some time to answer. 

Remember the rules for writing an email too. Put a greeting at the beginning and ask how they are keeping.  Use paragraphs for each question you might have. Don’t forget to sign off nicely too. 

We look forward to hearing from you soon, 

 Kind regards, 

 Mrs Kelly

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Dear Parents and Girls,

Hoping you are all keeping well and that you enjoyed Active Week. We were unlucky with the weather but luckily you could do most of the activities indoors. We now know that we will not be back in school until September, so it really is important to continue to do your schoolwork.  The Summer holidays are just around the corner, so we need to make a big effort until then.

A really good time to get your schoolwork done is in the morning and then you have the rest of the day to play. If you look at this week’s work we have a surprise for you on Friday !

We now have our 3^rd class email address. You can ask your parents to send us a piece of work that you are proud of this week.

We are really looking forward to hearing from you.

Stay Safe,

Regards,

Ms Finn and Ms Linehan

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