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This challenge is for all our pupils. Take a photo of a healthy meal this week. Remember to take a photo before you eat it and ask a parent or guardian to send the photo to this email address: challenge@stpatricksgirls.net
Just put your first name on your work. We can’t wait to see it. We wish we could taste it. We will display this work on the website next week
Here’s one from Ms Conran to whet your appetites
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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.
Gabriela 27/04/2020,
Megan 01/05/2020,
Laila 07/05/20
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
Shauna 29/05/2020,
Kim 30/05/2020,
Cathy 30/05/2020
Molly 31/05/2020
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This will be updated shortly
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Click here to download Week 6 – 1st Class – Ms Gleeson
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Dear parents/guardians of 1st class students,
It was lovely to speak to you and the girls this week. I am blown away by the effort everyone is making to keep up with some school work at home. This week I am giving a menu of activities to choose from for active home week. I know you are all already doing lots of physical activities with your daughter so keep these up and add in others that suit your circumstances. Choose activities that are practical for your family to engage in and feel free to select your own activities instead of those presented below.
Best wishes,
Sharon Gleeson.
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Dear 1st class girls,
It was lovely to speak to you this week! I hope you’re rested and ready for a very active week at home! You all seem to be having fun keeping very active already so this week should be a bit of fun. With your parents choose the activities that you want to do this week. Track your activity with a physical activity journal. Fill it in after you do each activity during the day. Make sure you get outside for a walk every day this week.
Keep moving,
Ms. Gleeson.
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Use the sample below to help design your own activity journal. All you need is a sheet of paper and a pencil to make your own. I recommend you make your journal on Tuesday morning so you can record your activities for the rest of the week! The dates on this sheet are for last week so remember to do your own.
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Wake up Shake up!
Stretch it out and salute the sun every morning this week!
https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/how-to-salute-the-sun
Dare to Believe Circuit Challenge
Cosmic Yoga – Pokemon!
Mindfulness – Celebrate the little things! Create a poster to celebrate the little things you’re thankful for this week.
https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/celebrate-the-little-things
Joe Wicks – PE with Joe
9am Monday – Friday
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Daily Dance
Just Dance
https://www.youtube.com/user/justdancegame?app=desktop
Dance Moves Lesson
https://youtu.be/z7tbdF6lSK0?list=PLC2C841486EB885F1
Fun2BFit
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-NSIvwOMzpjjSVitPGjyvA?app=desktop
Newspaper Dance
Kidz Bop
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKE0Xnj818IDaHvIcRiq0Bg?app=desktop
Rince Réabhlóideach
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Long Jump Challenge
https://www.athleticsireland.ie/news/social-distancing-long-jump-challenge
Skipping Challenge
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Healthy Eating
Design your own healthy lunch poster. Draw and label what you would put in your healthy lunch.
Healthier Treat Baking
Try one of the recipes below/use your own healthier treat recipe or make a smoothie this week!
Banana Bread
https://www.odlums.ie/recipes/banana-and-walnut-bread/
Granola Bars
https://www.odlums.ie/recipes/chewy-granola-bars/
Banana Oat Pancakes
https://www.flahavans.ie/recipe/banana-oat-pancakes/
Procedure Writing
Choose any sport you like and design your own PE class for our class to do when we get back to school.
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Click here for 1st class English groups Ms Crosse week 6
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Click to download 1st class Ms Hogan Reading Group 1 Week 6
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Click here to download Week 6 Mrs. Quill 2nd Class Letters and Homework
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Dear girls,
Lovely to hear your beautiful voices last week! This week’s work is a little bit different. You will be exercising your mind and body and giving the books and pencils a rest! You can still tune in to the Home-school Hub at 11am on RTE2 every day. Below is a menu with PE lessons, art ideas, yoga, dance videos and outdoor fun. I’m sure you can think of other activities yourself. If the weather is nice, spend time exploring outside and if it’s cold or raining, play board games or cards. Keep busy and happy, ladies!
Lots of love,
Mrs. Quill.
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Dear Parents,
It was lovely to speak to many of you last week and to hear that you are doing ok in this different normality. This is Week 6 of our closure according to the school calendar, and for a change we’ll focus on mind and body. These days we need to take care of ourselves and it’s good to let the girls see that exercise and outdoor activities play an important part in our general wellbeing. Hope you enjoy doing these activities too!
Thank you for your continued support and interest.
Mrs. Quill.
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try to fit this in at some stage in the week
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.
Keep practising the Communion prayers p. 64 and 65.
Go to page 25 of your book and keep singing 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).
(We will lift the roof off the church on your Communion day!)
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Try drawing this into your copy and fill in every day. Then, each day, write in the different activities that you do and record how long you spent at them. Add all the times up and put your total answer in the total time column – we’re aiming for 60 minutes each day!
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- Yoga – try these 12 poses. Try to hold each pose for 1 minute! Maybe you can make up your own one.
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- Listen to Ms. Coughlan’s lovely calm voice as she shows you how to draw your own unique design.
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Can you find any of these minibeasts outside?
Did you know woodlice love damp, dark places? That’s why you’ll always find them under something. What about making a minibeast hotel? Place a cardboard box with toilet roll tubes under a bush and check after a few days to see have any “guests” booked in. Maybe put some leaves in too to make it more interesting for them! This is a picture of my minibeast hotel that I made using an old Easter egg box.
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This video shows you how to make the paper fortune teller and also how to play the game. Some ideas for the messages inside are:
– I love your smile.
– Your hugs are great.
– You are a funny bunny.
You can think of your own to fill the rest of the spaces!
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Play a game of ‘Snap!’ with cards with someone at home.
Be gentle!
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Ask an adult to blow up a balloon.
On your own or with a partner, see can you keep tapping it upwards with your hand and try not to let it touch the ground for 5 minutes. You could even make this into a competition.
Try it another time using your foot.
Place the balloon between your knees and try jumping up and down the hall or outside 20 times without letting it fall.
With a partner place the balloon between your tummies and walk sideways along the hall or in the garden 20 times.
Take the balloon outside and play volleyball over the clothes line!
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- Art Activity
On the same balloon, use a marker to carefully draw two big eyes, a nose and a mouth. Cut strips of paper from a magazine or newspaper and stick it on as hair. Think of a nice name for your balloon! Mine is called Belinda!
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Can you find three small stones of similar size that would fit on the back of your hand. Start with one stone, flick up your hand so that the stone goes up in the air and catch it with the same hand as it falls. When you’re good at this, try two stones and then three. Here’s a video of me giving it a go! If you can do four or five stones – you’re a champion!
See “Mrs Quill showing you how to play Pitch and Toss”
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Look at this video and try some of the moves. Balancing is a skill which improves with practise.
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- Make a Heart Mobile
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- Beanbag Games
If you haven’t got a beanbag use a balled-up pair of old socks or an old sock filled with dried rice, then knotted.
1) Balance the beanbag on different parts of your body.
2) Throw and catch the beanbag in different ways, either solo or with a partner (e.g. clap once before catching, clap twice before catching, clap once and spin around before catching, throw under one leg, throw backwards etc.)
3) See how far you can throw the beanbag. Mark your distance and see if you can throw it further each time.
4) Make an obstacle course and try to complete it while balancing the beanbag on your head, or while throwing and catching the beanbag.
5) Throw the beanbag in the air and try to catch it using different parts of your body.
6) Make different targets for throwing the beanbag into (e.g. buckets, plastic bowls, clothes basket, paper plates). Assign a different number of points to each target. Write down how many points you score for each throw and calculate your total score. See if you can beat this score next time.
7) Make a line on the floor with masking tape (inside) or chalk (outside). Walk along the line like a tightrope walker, keeping the beanbag balanced on your head.
8) Place the beanbag between your knees and see how many jumps you can do without dropping it. Or have a ‘beanbag between the knees’ race.
9) Arrange empty plastic bottles or toilet/kitchen roll tubes in lines like bowling pins and throw beanbag from a distance to try to knock them over.
10) Place the beanbag on your foot without bending your upper body. See how high you can lift your leg in front and to the side while keeping the beanbag on your foot. See how far you can walk while keeping the beanbag on your foot. Then try with the other foot.
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Watch this video.
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On Friday’s Joe Wicks usually dresses up. You can dress up too if you like (as anything you want) and try this workout.
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Watch this video to show you how to draw and play hopscotch with a stone. You can draw the hopscotch with chalk or else use a stone to draw it.
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Watch this video for some help.
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Decide on a base e.g your kitchen table.
Each person must find objects which start with each of the letters in their own first name. The first person to make it back to the base with their objects to match all the letters in their name wins!
E.g if my name is Mary, I would bring back to the base:
– M – Money
– A – Apple
– R – Rug
– Y – Yoyo.
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Listen to a story on https://www.storylineonline.net/
And relax after a busy and active week
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Click for 2nd class maths Ms Hogan week 6
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Click here for 2nd Class Maths group Ms Crosse week 6
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Click here for 2nd Book club Ms Crosse week 6
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Click here to download Ms Coughlan Week 6
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A Chailíní
Welcome to Active School’s week. We are taking a break from heavy work this week to give you a chance to exercise your minds and bodies in different ways. You will still be learning but in a different way. Do try to look at Home School Hub at 11 am on RTE 2 daily. Each day I have a menu. Choose what suits you.Try your best. Do what you can. Be active above all. Together with P.E lessons, dance videos and yoga, aim for 60 minutes of activity a day. Dance to the radio. Skip. Ye are all experts. 1,609 skips = 1 mile. Do laps of your garden. Do jumping jacks in your bedroom. Get outside and explore the nature in your garden. Celebrate the great person that you are. Practise mindfulness and be calm. Play simple board games with those you love.
Lots of love
Ms Coughlan
P.S Corrections for last week’s work are at the end of the lists.
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Dear Parents
Hope you are all well. This is week 6 of our closure according to the school calendar, and for a change it’s got a different focus – healthy mind and body. Why?
I suppose difficult times call for self- care. There still will be plenty of learning but with a different approach. Keep up the good work.
Regards
Margaret Coughlan
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Keep practising the Communion prayers and mass responses (back of the book p.64 and 65). Our Communion will happen down the road Please God).
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. Go to page 25 to revise the psalm for your family ( website- Theme 4 , Lesson 1 – psalm – The Lord is My Shepherd).
P.45. After Easter. Again look at the website. Theme 8. Lesson 2
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Checklist
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Find your favourite pose. You can only imagine me trying to balance myself!!
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Mother / Father May I?
No. of Players: 2 or more
Indoor or Outdoor.
Equipment: None
How to play: One player is chosen to be the “Mother” or “Father” and they stand at the front. The other players line up about 10 meters away. The “Mother” or “Father” calls each players name and asks them to take a number of special steps forward. The player must say “Mother may I” or “Father may I” before they move. The answer is always yes. If the player forgets to ask “Mother/Father may I” they cannot move. The first one to reach “Mother/Father” becomes the new “Mother/Father”.
Types of steps: * Giant step – one long step * Baby step – one foot in front of the other * Scissors step – jump once crossing your feet and jump again uncrossing your feet. * Banana step – lie down with your feet in the same spot as the top of your head – body bent like a banana. * Bunny step – one hop Umbrella step – twirl around Choo-choo step – like a train. Create your own steps!
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Try some mindful drawing – see my video.
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Dance with the Kids Bop Gang
and
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Time to explore your garden. Can you spot any of these. Make some sketches.
Window boxes make good habitats for insects.
The Ladybird My favourite. Some facts –
- They have 7 spots.
- They eat tiny insects called aphids.
- They are very good at playing dead.
- They live for about 2 years.
- They live on grasses, trees and bushes.
- They hibernate in winter.
- They flash their wings 85 times per second.
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P.E. Class – Coach Clare
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Celebrate you! draw yourself and draw a rainbow coloured frame around you or copy this:
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Dice connect 4. Draw the grid below.
You can advance the game by using a grid with higher number and more dice. Board games are a great way to spend time with family.
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Cosmic kids yoga – https://www.cosmickids.com/
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Skills work – A great one – Running https://vimeo.com/404404521
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Tip the can 
No. of Players: 4 or more Indoor or Outdoor
Equipment: An item to tip such as a can, wall, schoolbag etc
How to play: One player is chosen to be on. They count to thirty while the other players run to hide. When they reach thirty they go to find the others. 18 When they find a player hiding they have to run back to tip the can/wall/etc and say “tip the can I see (name)..” If the player who is on catches everyone the first person caught is on next. A player who is hiding can win the game by touching the can and shouting “tip the can I free all”.
Or
Play volley ball with a balloon or beachball over the clothes line. Score if your opponent fails to return the ball over the line or misses the ball. With the same ball, have a giggle. Balance the ball/balloon between your tummy and your sister’s or brother’s or parent’s tummy. Then try to balance between feet, noses, ears etc.
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or design an emoji puppy
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Wear yellow if you like!
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Time to explore the outdoors again.
Trees. What can you see?
The oak – the king of the forest?
or the horsechestnut? 
or maybe a beech? 
Trees have the following structure;
Time to forage for leaves, petals and twigs in your garden and create a tree picture or any picture you please.
Kate made this one –
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Copy the gameboard. Roll the dice to move. When you land on a feeling, mime it and tell about a time you experienced that feeling.
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In My Heart – A book about feelings.
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Balancing https://vimeo.com/409588960
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Beanbags. If you haven’t got a beanbag use a balled-up pair of old socks or an old sock filled with dried rice, then knotted.
1) Balance the beanbag on different parts of your body.
2) Throw and catch the beanbag in different ways, either solo or with a partner (e.g. clap
once before catching, clap twice before catching, clap once and spin around before catching,
throw under one leg, throw backwards etc.)
3) See how far you can throw the beanbag. Mark your distance and see if you can throw it
further each time.
4) Make an obstacle course and try to complete it while balancing the beanbag on your head,
or while throwing and catching the beanbag.
5) Throw the beanbag in the air and try to catch it using different parts of your body.
6) Make different targets for throwing the beanbag into (e.g. buckets, plastic bowls, clothes
basket, paper plates). Assign a different number of points to each target. Write down how
many points you score for each throw and calculate your total score. See if you can beat this
score next time.
7) Make a line on the floor with masking tape (inside) or chalk (outside).
Walk along the line like a tightrope walker, keeping the beanbag balanced on your head.
8) Place the beanbag between your knees and see how many jumps you can do without
dropping it. Or have a ‘beanbag between the knees’ race.
9) Arrange empty plastic bottles or toilet/kitchen roll tubes in lines like bowling pins and
throw beanbag from a distance to try to knock them over.
10) Place the beanbag on your foot without bending your upper body. See how high you can
lift your leg in front and to the side while keeping the beanbag on your foot. See how far you
can walk while keeping the beanbag on your foot. Then try with the other foot.
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Dance –Hip hop
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Make a bird feeder for birds to enjoy.
Decorate. You can then enjoy the colours of your visitors. Make some sketches.
Food for Birds: Some do’s and don’ts
- Peanuts, sunflowers and mixed seed in mesh and plastic feeders are ideal for many small
birds.
- Over-ripe or slightly spoilt fruit is ideal for Blackcaps and thrushes, either left on the ground or
speared onto a branch.
- Some crumbs and stale cake will be mopped up by sparrows and larger birds
Remember the swallow? They are back! See page 11 of “What a Wonderful World to remind you”.
How do we know where they go?
People used to think that swallows hibernated during winter at the bottom of ponds.
Years ago, one man wanted to tell his garden birds apart from each other so
he caught them and put unique rings on their legs. Then in 1912 an amazing discovery
was made… he got a letter to say a swallow that he’d put a ring on was found all the way
down in South Africa!
This is how we found out that swallows migrate to Africa. Ringing is now commonly
used by scientists to track where birds and other animals go.
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And this is how we do it!
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Storytime – a story about being kind. Do something kind today.
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Play hopscotch.
Get everyone involved. Use chalk for outdoors, or get creative indoors with paper and cardboard pieces and masking tape on tiled floors. (warning -wear sensible grip footwear).
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Skill work-Throwing https://vimeo.com/402212771 What a great skill for games
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Make a bug hotel. Collect toilet roll tubes. Paint or decorate with crayoned designs. Pack in an open box tightly. Place under a bush. Check to see if any bugs have checked in after a few days.
Or another idea. Make a fortune teller with creative kindness. Here are can some creative notes you can add in:
I love your smile,
Your hugs are great
You are a funny bunny
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Dancing – have fun with gonoodle.com
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Test how healthy your environment is.
Lichens
Have you ever heard of Lichens? They are living things that you will have seen but probably not noticed. They are mostly seen growing on rocks and tree trunks. Most lichens cannot survive in places with polluted air so if you see an area with lots of lichens the air is probably nice and clean there. Here are some of the lichens we find in Ireland. Take a look outside at the tree trunks, rocks and walls around to see if you can spot lichens.
Draw the patterns you see.
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Another Joe Wicks – a fun one- . You can dress up too?
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Here are 3 games – a language game, a skills game and a physical game.
- Language scavenger hunt. Take your name eg Mary. Find something in your house or garden that begins with each letter of your name. M – Mop, A – apple, R- rake, Y – yogurt.
- Pitch and toss. Watch Mrs Quill’s video on how to play this cool game. Very skilful! I’m impressed!
Start with one stone (not too big). Keep adding more. You will be ace if you can do 5!
3.Physical activity game:
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S.P.H.E Healthy Eating. Remember our food pyramid.
It doesn’t have to be today, but try to design a smoothie. Here is one I like.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1508656122478911 Test it out.
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https://www.storylineonline.net/ You choose today!
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Corrections from Last Week
Subtraction challenges
Monday 44-17=27
Tuesday 47-28=19
Wednesday 52-37=15
Thursday 71-44=27
Friday 62-35=27
Work It Out. I’m attaching week 26.
Pelé – filling in the blanks; The words that were missing last week are underlined.
Pelé was born in Brazil in 1940. His real name was Edison. His father taught him how to play soccer. He was so poor he had to make his own ball. He played in four World Cups.
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Click here for 2nd Class Maths group Ms Crosse week 6
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Click here for 2nd class maths Ms Hogan week 6
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Click here for 2nd Book club Ms Crosse week 6
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Dea