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17th May 2020
Dear parents, guardians and girls,
There have been many changes to our way of life in the last few weeks and the pressure and strain of the experience has and is affecting everybody.
At St. Patrick’s Girls National School, we have endeavoured, to the best of our ability, to provide our usual level of ‘Dóchas agus Grá’ using Distance Learning through our Covid 19 Home Work, School Meals, supportive phone calls, school challenges and now the emails.
We would like to thank you, our parents and guardians for the incredible support, loyalty and patience that you have demonstrated during this very challenging time. Your expressions of gratitude and your support are most welcome by all of us.
We would particularly like to thank our girls who continue to work with us during this very tough experience.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary people and the staff at St. Patrick’s Girls National School have responded magnificently by making great efforts to stay healthy and safe while working their socks off for our school community.
At St. Patrick’s Girls National School, we are constantly reviewing our policies and practice especially during this school closure keeping your daughter’s safety and well being in mind. To that end, we are constantly reviewing our policies such as our Child Safeguarding Risk Assessment, our Acceptable Use Policy and our Critical Incident Policy. We are also examining our Safety Statement looking to the future and our return to school.
Once again, we are committed to providing a safe environment for our staff and pupils. Not all of our efforts have been received well all of the time, but we will continue to make the necessary decisions, popular or not, to keep our girls safe physically and mentally.
This situation is far from ideal and therefore we ask you for your support, understanding and assistance.
“If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere” (Seamus Heaney)
Thank you for your support,
Eileen Kelly
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A chailíní,
Conas atá sibh go léir. Tá súil agam nach bhfuil éinne in umar na haimiléise agus go bhfuil sibh go léir go maith, go hiontach, ar fheabhas nó ar mhuin na muice. B’fhéidir go bhfuil sceitimímí athais ar roinnt mhaith díobh. The múinteoirí were sona sásta to get your emails this week and I hope you will continue to email them.
Ná déan dearmad, the email addresses to contact your múinteoirí are as follows:
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Listen to the message above and send your entries to challenge@stpatricksgirls.net We can’t wait to see your posters poems and songs about Summer.
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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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Dear parents/guardians of 1st class students,
I hope you’re keeping well. It was great to see some of the girl’s work last week. I will reply to all emails so do keep them coming! I know it may be difficult to keep your child motivated to do school work, especially with the great weather we are getting, so I tried to include lots of fun activities for the week. I hope ye enjoy them!
Best wishes,
Sharon Gleeson.
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Dear 1st class girls,
I loved seeing some of your work this week. I loved reading your creative stories! I’m so impressed by how hard you are all working! This week we have a lot of PE planned so enjoy doing your exercise out in the sunshine!
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)
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| 9.30-10.45 | Work on the Core Subjects (English/Irish/Maths)
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| 10.45-11.00 | Small Break-Have a snack and go outside for a run/play
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| 11.00-12.00 | RTE School Hub
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| 12.00-12.45 | Project Work
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| 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 instead of school work 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.
See Project Work/Active Breaks section for more!
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
Family Fun – Movement Dice
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1st class English Group 1 week 8
1st class English group 2 week 8
1st class English group 3 week 8
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1st class reading group 1 Ms Hogan pdf
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1st class Tips for Parents Number Bonds – Five and Ten Frames
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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
The GAA interactive activities: Talk about the poster and play some of the interactive activities.
https://rainbow.cjfallon.ie/#/units/first/15
Task: Design your own drill to teach a sport skill. Use whatever equipment you have at home. For example, if you have a football you might design a drill to practice the hand pass/ if you have a hurley and sliotar you might design a drill striking the sliotar. Practice your drill with someone in your house.
Starlight Combined Reading and Skills Book
p.50 – 53 ‘How to make cupcakes’
Do 1 page per day only.
Spellbound
p.70 + 71 (Week 34). Revision
2 sentences in copy each day (like you used to do for homework)
Reading
Continue to encourage your daughter to read any books you have at home and read to your daughter daily.
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Cracking Maths – continue with any unfinished work
Spatial Awareness p.139
Subtraction p.140 – 141
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:
Close Call – card game – if adding 2-digit numbers is too challenging adapt game by making 1-digit numbers only and see who gets closer to 10. Click on link below:
https://www.mathsweek.ie/2019/maths-at-home-activities/#activityclosecall
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Bua na Cainte: Finish any pages not completed.
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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My Favourite Animal p.69 – Pretend to be your favourite animal. Write a report about it. Tell us your favourite food and where you live.
Animal Groups p.46 – Sort a range of animals into three groups – wild, farm and pets.
Our World p.70 – Learn about the good and bad things we can do for our world.
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Keep active this week. Get at least 60 minutes of exercise a day.
This week try out the first 20 exercises of our Active 100. You will get 20 to work on each week until we reach 100!
My Favourite Animal Project
Create a poster telling us all about your favourite animal!
Our Families
Our Families discusses the role of families in the local economy.
These activities aim to introduce students to ‘jobs’ and ‘entrepreneurship’. You will learn about the jobs that family members have and how people need to earn money to provide for a family’s needs and wants.
https://www.jai.ie/images/stories/editors/images/JAIatHomeResources/Our_Families_Worksheet.pdf
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Dear girls,
Hope you are all keeping well, busy and happy. As always, do your best with the work I’ve given you to do. You can send on a photo to me of the part of your homework you’re most proud of using this email address 2ndclass@stpatricksgirls.net. I was thinking of you all on Saturday 9th May on what should have been our First Communion Day – it will be an even better celebration when we’re all together.
Lots of love,
Mrs. Quill.
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Dear Parents,
Hope everybody is doing ok. Below is the work for Week 8 of our school closure.
Thank you for your continued support and interest.
Mrs. Quill.
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Religion for the week.
Grow in Love book – continue practising the ‘Liturgy of the Word’ responses on inside of the back cover of the book, and also the psalm ‘The Lord, he is my shepherd’ – instructions to find this below:
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.
Go to page 25 of your book to learn the psalm with your family. (On the website, click on Theme 4 and then scroll down and click on the icon with the musical note called ‘The Lord, He is my Shepherd’ – see image below to help).
As this month of May is the month of Mary, turn to page 54 of your Grow in Love book which has a picture of rosary beads. You might also have beads at home. When saying the rosary we say one Our Father, ten Hail Marys and one Glory be to the Father (all prayers on page 64). We then repeat all of that four more times. It would be nice to make a little May altar in your room or living room – a statue or picture of Mary and flowers.
Maths
- Work It Out p. 60 (Monday)
- Cracking Maths p. 145
Talk about ways of making €2 using different coins.
Complete the page.
- Cracking Maths p. 125 No 3. Crack the Code (Teeth). To practise your subtraction
- Here are the corrections for Cracking Maths p. 109 – p. 112.
- Here are the corrections for Work It Out p. 56, 57, 58 and 59.
English
- Spellbound p. 60 (first box – write 2 sentences as usual).
- Discussion – you have probably heard of people working on the ‘front-line’. They are working in jobs where they are really needed at this time. They are meeting people everyday and have to protect themselves against the virus. Talk about front-line workers with somebody at home – ie. talk about nurses, doctors, people working in supermarkets etc.
- Reading
In our reading this week we will read about a very caring nurse called Florence Nightingale. You can read the whole piece every day or a little every day.
Florence Nightingale
What job would you like to do when you grow up and why would you like to do it? Write a few sentences in your copy telling me about you dream job and draw a little picture too.
Correct your work from last week on the animal groups.
Gaeilge
- Bua na Cainte p. 93 Complete the sentences after watching me explain it in this video.
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Religion
Explained on Monday.
Maths
- Work It Out p. 60 (Tuesday).
- Cracking Maths p. 146. Complete the page.
- Practise counting in 5s and 10s out loud up to 100, forwards and backwards.
English
- Spellbound p. 60 Box 2 – Write 2 sentences.
- Reading
Read Florence Nightingale story (in Monday’s section) again.
Write these sentences in your copy and fill in the blanks.
- Florence Nightingale was born in _____________ (country).
- She was born __________ years ago.
- She came from a ___________ family.
- She dreamed of becoming a _______________.
- She was sent to ______________ during the Crimean __________.
- The solders called her ‘The _________ of the ____________’.
- She realised more soldiers were dying from _____________ than from their wounds.
- Florence improved the __h____________ in hospitals.
- When she returned to England, she set up a _________________ ________________.
- She received ____________ for her great work.
Gaeilge
- Bua na Cainte p. 96 Complete the sentences after listening to Ms. Coughlan in this video.
Music
Listen to the song that was supposed to be Iceland’s entry in the Eurovision this year.
This is their music video and it’s supposed to be a family doing their party pieces. Look at the cool guitars! Maybe you could teach yourself the dance.
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Religion
Explained on Monday.
Maths
- Work It Out p. 61 (Wednesday).
- Cracking Maths p. 147 (You might need some help – I’ll put up the answers next week).
English
- Spellbound p. 60 Box 3 Write 2 sentences.
- Reading
Read Florence Nightingale story (in Monday’s section) again.
- Writing
Write a thank-you letter to Florence Nightlingale from a soldier who was wounded during the Crimean war. In it he would thank he for caring for him. (Idea: To make a page look old, rub a wet teabag across a page and let it dry. It will be a light brown colour and might have crinkled up a little. If you write your letter on this, it will look like a very old letter!)
Gaeilge
- Read through the scéal on p.96 Bua na Cainte again.
With a partner, maybe you could play the memory game “I went to the shop and I bought a ……”. But now you will say “Chuaigh mé go dtí an siopa agus cheannaigh mé ……..’.
Remember you can buy anything (liathróid, cabáiste, bainne etc. )
SESE
- What a Wonderful World p. 73.
Experiment to test which materials are absorbent or waterproof. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have all the materials – just try the ones you have.
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Religion
Explained on Monday.
Maths
- Work it Out p. 61 (Thursday).
- Cracking Maths p. 126. Crack the Code – Giraffe.
English
- Spellbound p. 60 (last box) p.61 Complete all exercises.
- Writing
What a Wonderful World p. 50 and 51. Read Florence Nightingale’s timeline and then write your own for yourself. Think about important dates in your life e.g the date you were born, the year you started school, a special holiday, the arrival of a baby sister or brother. If you like you could end with ‘March 2020 – School closed for months due to Coronavirus!’.
Gaeilge
Bua na Cainte p. 86.
No writing today! I just want you to listen to this video and practise saying the words.
Art
Draw a Treasure Map.
Start by taking a sheet of paper and just like we did with the soldier’s letter, use a wet teabag and rub it all over the page and then let it dry.
Then follow this video where I explain how to draw the map and include some nice ideas.
https://www.loom.com/share/e04bb09cc5ec4aa080d4d2217ddd5997
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Religion
Explained on Monday.
Maths
- Cracking Maths p. 149 – this is a bit like last week where we had to work out change by taking jumps with coins in mind.
English
- Spelling Test (Yippee!)
Ask an adult to call out any ten spellings from p. 60 of Spellbound. Correct them and give yourself a pat on the back!
- Listen to a story on https://www.storylineonline.net/
Gaeilge
- Bua na Cainte p. 86 Complete the exercise. Listen to this video of Mrs. Quill explaining how to do it.
SPHE
Watch this video about the importance of being kind and how kindness is catching!
PE
- Joe Wicks’ PE Class. This one has some easy Maths too!
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2nd class Maths Group Ms Hogan
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2nd Maths group Ms Crosse week 8
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2nd Book club Ms Crosse week 8
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Click here to download Ms Coughlan Week 8 Videos not Included here
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Dear girls,
How are you all? Can you believe we are well into May? I was thinking of you all on May 9th. I hope you had your own fun and we will have our day together please God.
I hope you are getting out on the nice days. Bit by bit things are picking up. You have been wonderful and brave and hardworking! Keep it up. Email me, if you like, to show me something you are proud of, to say hello or to ask for help.
Love,
Ms Coughlan.
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Dear Parents
Thankyou for all your support. Another week of work is attached from which you can select.
Regards,
Margaret Coughlan
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Religion
It is May – Mary’s month. See how your May altar is coming along. We often sing these during our May procession at school.
Draw a nice picture of Our Lady. Practise the Hail Mary. If you haven’t already got a chance, try the activities on p. 54 and 55 in Grow in Love. The Rosary is the focus. It is a special prayer to Our Lady. https://www.growinlove.ie/en/ Login in with an email of trial@growinlove.ie and a password of growinlove. Theme 11, lesson 1, The Rosary. Try the actions for the Hail Mary as shown in the video.
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What a Wonderful World; p. 35
- Lough Allen B. Lough Ree C . Lough Derg
- Portumna B. Athone C.Carrick-on-Shannon
- Limerick
- Atlantic
- River Lee.
Work It Out Week 27
Report cloze
Ireland
(definition)Ireland is an island off the west coast of Europe.
(Country facts)The capital is Dublin. The main language is English. Its currency is the euro. Nearly 5 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 Kerry 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 river. Our Irish music and dancing are very popular.
(food facts) Traditional meals from Ireland are stew, bacon 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 green, white and gold, Ireland is famous all over the world, especially on our national holiday – March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day.
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English
Spellbound, Week 29. P.60. Learn first 4 spellings. Pick one word and put it into a sentence.
Starlight
Watch this video about Italy.
Read my facts about Italy.
Italy
Italy is European country,-shaped like a boot –that “kicks” an island called Sicily into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy borders six countries: France, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Vatican City and San Marino. 62 million people live in Italy. Its capital is Rome. The people speak Italian. Like us, their currency is the euro. Their National Day is June 2nd.
Italy is popular for its beaches and mountain ranges. The highest mountain peak in Italy is Mont Blanc in the Alps. The longest river in Italy is the Po River in Northern Italy. Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy.
Did you know that in Italy, there are still active volcanos? These are: Vesuvius near Naples, Etna on Sicily and Stromboli off the Coast of Italy. Tourists love to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Venice’s canals and ancient Rome. Italians love soccer.
Italian dishes are pasta, tomatoes, pizza and lasagne.
Many famous people came from Italy like Christopher Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci. Did you know that Italians also invented the piano, ice-cream and the thermometer?
Let’s build a report on Italy using that information. Look at Starlight p.33 and fill in the plan using my facts above. I have underlined all the important facts above for your activity in your book. We will come back to it tomorrow then.
Irish
Ag siopadóireacht (shopping) is our focus again. Go to Bua na Cainte p.94. Tá leitís uaim = I would like lettuce.
Tá leitís uaidh= He would like lettuce.
Tá leitís uaithi= She would like lettuce.
We are only doing the top half today. Watch my video to explain it.
Maths
Work It Out week 28 Monday
Let’s look at 100plus square counting again.
Go to p.138 and use the 100-200 square to work out the patterns.
You are counting backwards. See my video.
198-8=
188-8=…….Notice the pattern.(8-8=)
190-7=
180-7=…….Notice the pattern.(10-7=)
193-6=
183-6= …….Notice the pattern.(13-6=)
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English
Spellbound. Week 29. P.60. Next 4 spellings. Pick one word to put into a sentence. Try exercise 1.
Starlight
I wrote a report on Italy using the plan we worked on. Here is my plan.
Yours maybe a bit different but that’s ok.
Here is my “Italy” report – built from the facts above -for you to read and fill in any missing words.
(Title)Italy
(Definition) Italy is a _________-shaped country that is in the continent of ____________.
(facts) Italy is bordered by F______, A________, S__________, Slovenia, Vatican City and San Marino. The capital city is _________. ___ million people live there. People there speak __________. The currency is the ______. Italy’s flag is ________, ________ and ________. Italians love the sport of _________.
(Food)Italy is famous for its food such as ________________ ________________________________________________.
(Tourism) Tourists love to see the sights, like the Leaning ________ of ______. Many people go there on _____________ holidays in the mountains.
(Conclusion) Italy is a very interesting country and guess what it is the home of ice-cream!
Irish
Ag siopadóireacht.
Go to Bua na Cainte p.94. Remember –
Tá leitís uaim = I would like lettuce.
Tá leitís uaidh= He would like lettuce.
Tá leitís uaithi= She would like lettuce.
We are doing the bottom half today. Watch my video to explain it.
Maths
Work It Out week 28
Back to money. 100c is €1.00. To help us in our work this week, we go need to go over hundreds, tens and units.
Remember we used the arrow cards to build numbers. So 853 os made up of 800 and 50 and 3.
124 is 100 and 20 and 4. Every 100c makes a euro. So if we have 124c, the hundred goes into the euro department.
And then the 24 cent are put in the cent department. The euro sign is more powerful than the cent sign and so that is the one we use.
€ 1. 24
Remember;-100c is €1.00.
So we can write money in two different ways.
110c=€1.10
157c=€1.57 – the 100 cent of 157 is recorded as 1 euro to the left of the dot or “decimal point”. The left over 57c is written on the right side of the decimal point…which is the cent department…but don’t write cent. Only use one sign or the other ever. € sign is used when using the decimal point.
p.110 Cracking Maths will give you some practice.
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English
Spellbound. Week 29. P.60. Write the words you have found hardest this week in rainbow colours.
Next 4 spellings. Try exercise 2, p.61 – the word snake.
Read a report about old Italy – Ancient Rome on page 28 of Feena’s Second Book of Facts.
Irish
Ag siopadóireacht. We have a story on p. 96 of Bua na Cainte. No writing today.
Maths
Work It Out week 28
Money.
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Thursday
English
Spellbound. Week 29. P.60. Finish the list. Wordbuilding! See how many words you can make that end in –ark. Try as many of Exercise 4 on p.61 as you can.
Florence is in Italy. Florence Nightingale was born there. Remember we read about her on p.50 of What a Wonderful World? Look back over it. Now read more.
At this time we celebrate the front-line workers, especially nurses. Florence was a famous nurse known as the “lady of the Lamp”.
She was born in Florence on May 12th in 1820 into a wealthy English family and showed great talent in mathematics from an early age.
She was never content to be what society expected of a lady of those times – hosting tea parties and wearing fancy clothes. She wanted to become a nurse That is what she did! She trained in Germany.
Florence went to the Crimean War in Turkey in 1854 to care for injured soldiers. There she found that far more soldiers were dying of disease than wounds. She tried to improve hygiene.
Using data (number information) she had gathered, she had lots of facts about wounds, infections and the importance of handwashing and clean bandages. She developed visual displays (maths picture) similar to the pie chart that is common today. A pie chart is another form of bar chart. (See p.29 of Cracking Maths for an example of a bar chart). Here is what a pie chart looks like. This one is about how people get to school. People like the way you can read the information quickly from a pie chart.
With her data and pie charts she got politicians to listen to her advice and work for change. This had a huge impact on the design and work practices of hospitals resulting in a significant drop in death rates. On her return to England she educated nurses.
Florence died in London in 1910.
To summarise, Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing and the 12th of May (last week), was the 200th anniversary of her birth – her birthday. She was great at maths and used it to fight the spread of illness. May 12th is also designated as International Women in Mathematics day.
Write these sentences in your copy and fill in the blanks.
- Florence was born __________ years ago.
- She came from a ___________ family.
- From an early age she was good at ____________.
- She dreamed of becoming a _______________.
- She was sent to nurse soldiers during the Crimean __________.
- The soldiers called her ‘The _________ of the ____________’.
- She realised more soldiers were dying from _____________ than from their wounds.
- Florence worked to improve h____________ in hospitals.
Draw Florence at work.
Irish
Ag siopadóireacht. Back to p.96 of Bua na Cainte. Watch my video to help you do the activity.
Maths
Work It Out week 28
Try this website for money games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money/eur Click on mixed coins – and then up to one euro. Experiment with under two euro.
More shopping bills. A little challenge – these needs you to think bigger than a euro but the idea is the same.
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English
Spellbound. Week 29. P.60
Let’s have fun with words and be poets! Look at p. 45 of you Starlight for a framework on writing a list poem. Verse 1 of the poem “Not-So Fast Food” on p.42 is an example. It could be a list for Art, sport, a sleepover…You choose.
Irish and Maths
Ag siopadóireacht. Make up a shop. Get toys, or books or clothes – or whatever you like. Make price tags for each item and attach. Keep the prices low… each under €1.
Make a sign – Siopa (shop). Give yourself a nametag – eg Siopadóir Máire (Shopkeeper Mary). A doll or teddy can be a customer if no one is free at home.
Useful phrases. Listen to my audio.
Dia duit…Dia’s Muire duit(hello)
Conas atá tú ?…How are you?
Tá mé ar mhuin na muice. (I’m fantastic….on the pig’s back is the literal translation).
Cad atá uait? What would you like?
Tá …… uaim. I would like…
Tá ……uaidh. He would like…
Tá …..uaithi. She would like..
Más é do thoil é…please
Go raibh maith agat…thankyou
Slán (bye)
You can practice saying the amounts in Irish. You can add up in English and practise saying the amounts in both cent and in euro.
Map Work
What a Wonderful World
p.53
Here is a map. Find the bank. Now compare the distance from the bank of different locations. See which is furthest. (Questions 1,2,3).
Now find Green Park. This time you will be looking for places that are nearest to the park. (Questions 4,5,6)
Time to have fun and create a treasure map. Here is one Mrs Quill did.
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SPHE
Be proud of you. -My favourite bit of TV on Home School Hub in recent weeks:
PE: Design your own hopscotch game.
Watch a Joewicks PE coaching session or GoNoodle.
Write a postcard to a relation of friend.
Draw a portrait.
Listen to the songs- https://youtu.be/m2uTFF_3MaA
Pick your favourite.
Pick an Irish creature – fox, hare, badger etc. Look up images. Sketch. Write 4 sentences sharing facts that you know.
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2nd Maths group Ms Crosse week 8
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2nd class Maths Group Ms Hogan
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2nd Book club Ms Crosse week 8
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Dear Girls and Parents,
We are so glad that Summer has arrived and that you are able to get outside and enjoy the
sunny days. It is hard to believe that this is Week 8 and 10 weeks have passed since we were in
the classroom together.!
We are really enjoying getting all your emails, it is lovely to hear what you have been up to and
to see your artwork and pictures of all your yummy baking.
Keep sending those emails please.
Wednesday is a fun day again this week and we hope you enjoy the activities. We will post your
letters to the class next week so you can read what your friends are getting up to.
Before you begin this week’s work scroll down to Friday and have a look at “Our Happyself
Journal”, We would like you to start a Happyself Journal and we have given you 2 examples of
what to write for 2 days . We hope this will help you to stay positive and motivated and to
keep you happy .
Stay safe and keep washing your hands.
Regards,
Miss Finn and Miss Linehan
Click here to download Week 8-Ms Finn and Ms Linehan
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Dear girls, parents and guardians,
I hope you’re all continuing to keep well and safe.
Firstly, thank you for all the emails. It’s absolutely brilliant to see the great work that’s being done in all your homes. Great credit goes to all of you who are sitting down and focusing on your work and keeping busy.
I was delighted to see so many of your projects. You’ve been working really hard. This week’s project is to design a brochure/information booklet/page about a town in Munster. You can choose any town you want. Perhaps you may have visited a place (before the lockdown!) or you might be interested in certain aspects of a place. Try to select a town outside of Cork if possible. I have included lots of links and ideas to help you so take time to have a look through them.
There was some great tables challenges this week on Maths Mayhem. I appreciate that some of you can’t access it as it requires adobe flash player. If you can, log on everyday at 10.30am this week and we’ll do division tables.
Take care and keep safe,
Joan-Marie Healy
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Click here to download the timetable and overview
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Click here to download the plan of work Week 8 May 18th to May 22nd
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Click here to download Week 7 Work It Out answers
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9am-9.30 Kids workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCM0C6GnrY
Joe Wicks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
10 minute workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4QS2USKmk
Fun workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYd2qFR45o
Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-0bmtDPnk
GO Noodle Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfkYzUwYFk
Jump on your trampoline
Play hopscotch outside.
9.30am-9.50am Gaeilge
1)Click here for link to a video on TG4 about Ríona who goes ag snámh. Éist leis
2) Seo Leat p12-13 Revise this scéal “Rógaire”. You can have a look at the questions on the next page and do them orally if you can. It’s all revision!
3)Seo Leat p 126/127 Do revise these pages every day and make up sentences using the vocabulary. Some girls have emailed their sentences……….agus tá siad go hiontach ar fad. Maith sibh
9.50-10.10 English
1) Spellbound p 66 no 1&3
2) Let’s Go p172-178 Read “Ghost Stories”. You can read and answer the questions on p180 and 181 – just orally. If you’d like to, perhaps you could write your own narrative “Ghost Story”
10.10-10.30 Maths
1) Work It Out Wk 24 Wednesday
2) Busy at Maths p105-110 (Try p105 and 106 today, multiplication and division)
Chapter on Money. Have a look at this chapter and try a few questions everyday. Don’t do all of them, just try a selection. If you have difficulty with any part of the chapter, ask someone at home or you can let me know. I’ll send all of the answers next week to you can see how you get on with them.
10.30 – 10.45am Maths Mayhem Division Tables Challenge
Click here to access the game. This week we will focus on DIVISION. Well done to the girls who did the tables challenge at 10.30am every day this week. There were a few star performers and some great matches. What was brilliant was that your total scores got higher and higher – just goes to show that practice does make perfect!!
10.45-11am Break
11am-12noon RTÉ HOME SCHOOL HUB ON RTÉ 2 AT 11AM
12noon – 1pm Project Work
Select 3 or 4 towns in each of the 6 counties of Munster and learn their names. Be able to locate them on the map.
Project for Week 8
Your project for this week is to select a town in any county in Munster. Research this town and write a report about the town. Your report should take the form of a BROCHURE/INFORMATION BOOKLET advertising the town.
Remember to use very positive words and phrases as you are trying to encourage and persuade people to visit the town. You can include some or all of the following points;
- Location of the town (include a map if possible) – where in the county? How to get there? Is there a train station?
- Geography of the area, local rivers, lakes, mountains, – is there a river/bridge in the town?
- History of the town – is it a Norman settlement, is there a castle nearby? Can you find old photographs of the town?
- Tourist sites – castles, parks, caves, old buildings, museums, exhibitions
- Things to do (for adults and children) – water activities, playgrounds, walks and trails, cycle tracks
- Entertainment – theatres, fairy trails, festivals, street markets or performances
- Where to stay – hotels, hostels, camp sites, B&Bs
- Places to eat – is there a wide choice of restaurants presenting a vast and varied selection of food
- Any other interesting facts about the town?
After you’ve done a draft and edited it, the final publication should have a clear layout, be easy to read and be eye-catching.
Resources – where to find the information
Geography Quest Chapter 11 Tourism. Read this to help you to prepare for the project.
CJ Fallon website, click on “primary, atlas and map, Map Skills 1” p3-59 has lots of maps and ideas.
Click here for a map of cities and towns
Click here for a map of mountains
Click here for a map of rivers and lakes
Kerry Tourism Brochure this is a sample
Belfast Tourism Guide this is a sample
The following links are all on the CJ Fallon website. Links are only to the first page of each chapter.
Click here for a link to “Small World Geography 4th class” Chapter 8 P 47-51 Ireland; People and Places
Click here for “Small World Geography 6th class” Chapter 1 P 6-10 Life in Rural Tipperary
Click here for“Small World Geography 6th class” Chapter5 P 26-30 Sligo (Just for ideas – I know it’s a county in Connacht!!)
Click here for Killarney National Park map
Click here for Killarney Valley map
Click here for “Small World Geography 5th class” Chapter 1 P 6-10 Buildings and Settlements
Click here for “Small World Geography 6th class” Chapter 6 P33-39 The Burren in Co. Clare
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9am-9.30 Kids workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCM0C6GnrY
Joe Wicks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
10 minute workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4QS2USKmk
Fun workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYd2qFR45o
Yoga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-0bmtDPnk
GO Noodle Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfkYzUwYFk
Jump on your trampoline
Play hopscotch outside.
9.30am-9.50am Gaeilge
1) Click here for a link to a video on TG4 about Cóil ag déanamh brioscaí sa chistin.
2) Seo Leat p18-19 Revise this scéal “Pléascóga”. You can have a look at the questions on the next page and do them orally if you can. It’s all revision!
3) Seo Leat p 126/127 Do revise these pages every day and make up sentences using the vocabulary. Some girls have emailed their sentences……….agus tá siad go hiontach ar fad. Maith sibh
9.50-10.10 English
1) Spellbound p 66 no 2
2) Let’s Go p 179. Read the poem “From a Railway Carriage”. Robert Louis Stevenson describes all the things he can see from the train.
Click here to hear the poem Click here for explanation about the poem
10.10-10.30 Maths
1) Work It Out Wk 24 Thursday
2) Busy at Maths p105-110 (Try p 107 and 108 today – problem solving)
Chapter on Money. Have a look at this chapter and try a few questions everyday. Don’t do all of them, just try a selection. If you have difficulty with any part of the chapter, ask someone at home or you can let me know.
10.30 – 10.45am Maths Mayhem Division Tables Challenge
Click here to access the game. This week we will focus on DIVISION.
10.45-11am Break
11am-12noon RTÉ HOME SCHOOL HUB ON RTÉ 2 AT 11AM
12noon – 1pm Revise the counties of Munster and Connacht
Geography Quest p38
Click here to practise the counties of Ireland
Continue with project work about a town in Munster, that was explained on Monday’s work
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- Choose a few of these activities to do with your siblings or altogether as a family.
- Wellness Wednesdays are all about doing things that you enjoy
Exercise
- Kids workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCM0C6GnrY
- Joe Wicks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
- 10 minute workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4QS2USKmk
- Fun workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDYd2qFR45o
- Yoga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-0bmtDPnk
- GO Noodle Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfkYzUwYFk
- Jump on your trampoline , play hopscotch outside, skip, cycle, dance, go for a walk
Art
- ‘Draw with Don’ YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIr-LtOFkMM
- ‘Art Attack’ series on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dsb_r8qDss
- Mindfulness colouring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dsb_r8qDss
- Free drawing
- Draw with Will Sliney https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtQsXI3211I2eumTVKh4Kg
Gardening
- Pull weeds, gather leaves
- Water flowers
- Plant new flowers
Skills / Talents
- Baking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JYNbNYqMTk
- Knitting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHlsW0wI144
- Learn to juggle
- Write a play, a poem or a story
- Sing a song!
Meditation
- Headspace for kids (app) https://www.headspace.com/meditation/kids
- Cosmic Yoga Cosmic Yoga
- Organise possessions (eg. toys, clothes, tidy bedroom) or read a book
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 B