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Class Work 18th - 22nd May



















Sixth Class – Mrs. Meehan

Gaeilge

Abair Liom

Léigh ‘Tubaistí nádúrtha’ ar ln. 108 agus ar ln. 109.

Déan B. Freagair na ceisteanna ar ln 109.

Léigh C. Comhrá ar ln. 110

Déan D. Conas a bhíonn an aimsir in Éirinn? Ar ln. 110.

Déan G. Briathra: An Aimsir Fháisteneach – briathra neamhrialta ar ln. 112

Léigh sa Bhaile

Léigh na scéalta ar ln. 109, 110, 111, 112, 113

English

Flying High

27. Read ‘Japan’ pg. 204

Complete A, B, C and D pgs. 208-209

Read at Home Stories pg. 109, 110, 111, 112, 113

Spelling Made Fun Week 28

Maths

Planet Maths

Topic 28: Averages and Charts (Please use your calculator for all questions)

Complete B 1. (a-g) pg. 174 and C pg 174

Complete A, B pg. 176 and Complete B pg 177

Mental Maths: Week 32

SESE

Small World Geography and Science: Unit 19 ‘China’, pg 104

Complete Activities A and B pg. 108

SeeSaw

Check your SeeSaw account daily where you will be given an activity to do or may be asked to upload some of your work.

Fifth Class - Mrs. Mc Cann

Maths

Mental Arithmetic

Activities will be posted on Seesaw

Planet Maths- Weight

Pg. 152 B; Pg. 153 A and B;

Pg. 154 A and 6 items from B

Pg. 155 A and B

(I have uploaded the answers for the last weeks work to Seesaw also)

English

The majority of our English work over this fortnight will be based around the

novel ‘The Iron Man’- On Seesaw you will find a link to the story and activities

posted daily

Spellwell- List 31 and complete activities on pg. 66+67

Gaeilge

Abair Liom- Clann Lír- Lch. 134- G- Briathra

Lch. 135 H- Gramadach

Lch. 136 J and K- Léigh faoi chaitheamh aimsire Magda agus scríobh faoi do

chaitheamh aimsire féin

Lch. 137 An Cluiche-scríobh an scéal

Léigh sa Bhaile- ceacht ar Seesaw

Duolingo- Please try and spend 5-10 minutes per day on it

SESE

History: Echoes of the Decade Project on Seesaw

SPHE

Activity on Seesaw

Seesaw

Check your Seesaw account daily where I will be posting tutorials,

you will be given an activity to do or may be asked to upload some of your

work.

Fourth Class – Mrs. Collette O’Toole

Gaeilge

 Léigh sa Bhaile Continue to read one passage per day

 Abair Liom F P.161 F. Briathra: Aimsir Láithreach – briathra neamhrialta

P. 162 G. Éist agus líon na bearnaí.

https://www.folensonline.ie/home/library/programmes/abair-liom-4th-class/resources/

P. 162 H. Crosfhocal

P. 164 Léigh an scéal – Ar saoire sa Fhranc

P. 165 A. Freagair na ceisteanna.

P. 165 B Cad tá cearr sa phictiúr?

 Abair Liom F P.181 Learn from “ag léamh” - “ag cur fola”

English

 Lift Off! P.198 “A Long Walk to Water”

P. 204 Complete B Deeper Thinking

P.205 Complete D Working with Sounds:

Three- Syllable Words

P.205 Complete E Grammar: Adverbs

 Read at Home Continue to read one passage per day

 Spelling Made Fun E P.64, P65 Unit 30 (Learn Spellings)

 Reading Oxford Owl (Seesaw activities)

 Writing Genre: Recount Writing

Write Salva’s email to his family to tell them what happened to him on the day the soldiers came to his village.

Maths

 Planet Maths Topic 26 Capacity

P.157 B (For B2, draw and colour the containers)

P. 158 B, C and D

P. 159 B

P.160 A and B

P. 161 B

 Tables Revision 12

SESE Theme: Food and Farming

Geography

Farming in Ireland (See activities on Seesaw)

Science

The Human Body – Teeth

The Digestive System (See activities on Seesaw)

Third Class – Mrs. Canny

Maths

Tables Expert C – Pages 124 - 126, page per day

Planet Maths- Area Pages 138-141, check Seesaw every day for work

English

Ready to Go – Julius Caesar pg. 204-207

Activities A, B, C, E, F and G

Spelling Made Fun- Complete Unit 30

Read at Home- Read page per day

Novel- “The Angel of Nitshill Road” by Anne Fine- I will send the details on Seesaw

Gaeilge

Abair Liom-Chapter 19: An bhainis pages156-160.

Léigh sa Bhaile - page per day

SESE

Making Slime and Good Egg, Science Quest 3 on my.cjfallon.ie

I will outline on Seesaw what is to be done

SPHE

Mindful Matters –The effects of smoking on the body www.cjfallon.ie

Art

Drawing a Roman soldier - This will be a Seesaw activity

Check your Seesaw app daily for activities or where you may be asked to upload some of your work.

Mrs Kenny’s Third Class

Maths

Brain teasers – Mental maths problems on Seesaw

Tables Expert C – Week 24 Revision of division 3, 6 and 9 tables.

Complete a page per day.

Planet Maths- Division 3 pgs. 143-147

English

Ready to Go – Julius Caesar pg. 204-207

Activities A, B, C, E, F and G

Spelling Made Fun- Complete Unit 30

Handwriting- Complete page 53

Read at Home- Read page per day on Seesaw

Novel- “The Angel of Nitshill Road” by Anne Fine- Seesaw

Gaeilge

Abair Liom-Chapter 18: An bhainis pages156-160.

Cúla 4 have a Scéal an Lae and if possible listen to this.

SESE

Making Slime and Good Egg, Science Quest 3 on my.cjfallon.ie

I will outline on Seesaw what is to be done

SPHE

Mindful Matters –the effects of smoking on the body www.cjfallon.ie

Check your Seesaw app daily for activities or where you may be asked to

upload some of your work.

Mrs Kenny’s Second Class

Maths

Brain teasers – Mental maths problems on Seesaw

Tables- Revise +5 and -5 tables.

Operation Maths- pages 118-121

English

Skills Book –Starlight Unit 8b. Read “Dr. Scorpio Strikes again (part 2)”

Complete pages 66-69

Spelling Made Fun- Complete Unit 30

Handwriting- Complete page 48

Read at Home- Read page per day on Seesaw

Novel- “The Magic Finger” by Roald Dahl. See Seesaw for activities

Gaeilge

Bua na Cainte- “An Teilifís” Ceacht 1, 2 agus 3. eBook pgs. 86-88

Encourage children to listen and repeat the comhrá (conversation), play the

games and familiarise themselves with new vocabulary.

Cúla 4 have a Scéal an Lae and if possible listen to this.

SESE

Topic 9- Materials: Science

On www.folensonline.ie click into Explorers for 2 nd class. Click into the

eBook, go to page 70 and 71. Read “Which is the best material for the

job?” and “Design and make a house for a mouse” Complete exercises on

both pages in your copy or on a page.

Go to Resources section- topic 9 Materials, then Science and complete the

exercise.

SPHE

Mindful Matters Safety Rules in the Kitchen www.cjfallon.ie

Mass Responses Booklet

Learn page 1 and 2

First Class – Ms. Campbell

Spellings

· Spelling Made Fun- List 31

4 spellings per day. Complete the 3 pages in the chapter

Maths

· Master your Maths- we have finished Master your Maths. I have sent an email with a maths booklet for the children to work on over the next few weeks. Children are encouraged to do pages 1-4 this week.

· Operation Maths- p. 108,109, 110 and 111 (tens and units)

· Revision; There will be 3 activities posted on see saw throughout the week. One will be based on time and the other two will revise concepts covered earlier in the year.

· Times Tables- Revise tables 7+ and 8+

English

Reading;

Starlight Combined Reader and Skills Book- 8B The Circus Comes to Town

Record yourself reading this and upload to see saw if possible.

· Wordlist (circus, colourful, pretended, clumsy, acrobats, tightrope, trapeze, perform, waited, sounded, welcome, hoof)

Oxford Owls’ free ebooks- We will be reading pages from “Cornflake Coin” by Jonny Zucker https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-school/oxford-owl-ebook-collection?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age+7-9&series=&level=&book_type=&view_style=image#. Read pages 7-10 this week.

Writing;

· Starlight Combined Reader and Skills Book Activities- pgs 67-69 (onto a sheet of paper/ at the back of the booklet). If possible upload one of the pages to see saw.

· Shortened words (contractions)- Continuing on from last weeks work on shortening words, complete both pages from the twinkl link https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-318-shortened-words-activity-sheet (answers found on last two pages)

· Silent B- Complete the worksheet found at https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/b1/a0/roi-l-53955-silent-b-activity-sheet-english.pdf?__token__=exp=1589456440~acl=%2Fresource%2Fb1%2Fa0%2Froi-l-53955-silent-b-activity-sheet-english.pdf%2A~hmac=7f70bd695e9c06d8632777fc7db81b0a255f88d97d8fe1b275e786db33c2dcd1 (upload to See Saw)

Gaeilge

· Reading- we have also finished L sh Bh so we will now be using the CJ Fallon website for our Irish Reading. We will begin with the story Ag Súgradh (Leibheal 1). It can be found at https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources and you can sign up with your email address. It’s under the first class Gaeilge section. Read pgs 6-9.

· Bua na Cainte- An Teilifís (TV). Complete page 72 of Bua na Cainte and upload p.69 to See Saw. (edco.ie username; primaryedcobooks password; edco2020)

· See Saw activity- Using pg 74 of Bua na Cainte, there will be a recording on See Saw for the children to listen to based on “An Nuacht”. I will send a sheet with the vocabulary for the children to copy onto a sheet.

Handwriting

Just Handwriting- P. 56 and 57

Religion

Complete the worksheets;

“May is the month of Mary”

https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/b6/c0/roi-re-53-hail-mary-fill-in-the-blanks-activity-sheet_ver_1.pdf?__token__=exp=1589457125~acl=%2Fresource%2Fb6%2Fc0%2Froi-re-53-hail-mary-fill-in-the-blanks-activity-sheet_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=6d9c76f6621f9a74dbc1f06fa96761de47c1b491af001ea74a91fd4db7fc66e0

and “my special prayer to Mary”

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-208-prayer-template-my-prayer-to-mary-our-mother

PE/Art activities

Children have the option of completing 3 of the following (aim to do at least one active option) *upload one to seesaw*;

1. Cosmic Kids Yoga- Marv the Metal Detective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQcOLQeEbU

2. Two Joe Wicks workouts

3. A short cycle

4. How to draw Carl from Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdoQBvVQhgI

5. How to draw Stitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g4vy7H8bdo

6. How to draw a cartoon penguin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MilR2D3cJRY

Attachments area

Preview YouTube video Marv The Metal Detective | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure!

Preview YouTube video How To Draw Carl Fredricksen From Up

Preview YouTube video How To Draw Stitch From Lilo And Stitch

Preview YouTube video How To Draw A Cartoon Penguin

Senior Infants - Mrs. Carr

Monday

Maths Do pg. 113

English

Parents can sign up for a free account at www.folensonline.ie using ‘Prim20’ as the roll number.

 Go to the Folens website. Click into Starlight programme for Senior infants filter down the theme to Holidays. Click into the Poster The Beach and listen to the story. Do the labelling activity

 Read a book or the one assigned on Seesaw

 Write your news from the weekend.

 Do pg. 85 Just Phonics

 Learn spellings must rust run sun

SESE

Go to the Folens website

Log into Explorers SESE- Senior Infants – Click on the first downward pointing arrow. A list of units will appear, click on Seasons. In seasons, click on summer. Listen to the story about The Bee.

Do pg. 47 Explorers book

Tuesday

Maths Do pg. 114

English

 Go to the Folens website. Click into Starlight programme for Senior infants filter down the theme to Holidays. Click into the Poster The Beach and listen to the Poem, The Sunshine Tree and do the activity

 Read a book from home or the one assigned on Seesaw.

 Written work.: If you had a wish, what would you wish for?

 Do pg. 61 handwriting book

 Do pg. 86 Just phonics

 Learn spellings bun, fun, gun

Wednesday

Maths Do pg. 115

English

 Go to the Folens website. Click into Starlight programme for Senior infants filter down the theme to Holidays. Click into the Big Book Sammy to the Rescue and read the story

 Answer questions based on big book on Seesaw

 Do pg. 87 Just Phonics

 Learn spellings bug, hug, mug

SESE Log into Explorers SESE- Senior Infants – Click on the first downward pointing arrow. A list of units will appear, click on Animals and go into the history section.

Do pg. 48 Explorers book

Thursday

Maths Do pg. 116

English

 Go to the Folens website. Click into Starlight programme for Senior infants filter down the theme to Holidays. Click into the Big Book Sammy to the Rescue and read the story

 Write about a time when you went to the beach.

 Do pg. 62 Handwriting book

 Do pg. 88 Just Phonics

Friday

Maths do pg. 117

English

 Read a book from home or the one assigned on Seesaw

 Do pg. 63 Handwriting book

 Do a spelling test on the words covered this week.

If students are able to connect to Seesaw, please check in daily as there will be activities to complete. This may involve posting a photograph of work already completed so that it can be corrected.

Junior Infants- Miss Mc Donnell.

I would encourage you to tune into Joe Wicks P.E. (Search P.E. with Joe- The Body Coach on YouTube) sessions which will be live Monday- Friday at 9am.

If you would like additional reading materials oxfordowl.co.uk has a great selection of online readers which you can explore with your child!

Collins Big Cat e-books are also available for free online at the moment. Junior Infants could work on Bands

Pink A & Pink B and move on as they like.

To access: Go to www.connect.collins.co.uk

Sign in as teacher

Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk

Password: Parents20!

‘The king and his wish’ and ‘Peg It Up’ are our optional readers this week. They can be accessed through your oxford owl account.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/digital_books/1410.html

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/13012.html

Monday

 Revise Jolly Phonics sound cards- say the sound and identify words which begin with/contain the sound.

 Monday blending list and tricky words(available on Seesaw)

 Core reader 4 wordlist- Full list

 Read ‘Let’s make pancakes’- Starlight- Unit 13-

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/Starlight/JI/resources/corereaders/SL_JI_ACT_CH13_003/index.html

(Volume can be turned off to allow your child to read)

 Folens online (free account) – Starlight- Unit/Poster 14-interactive lesson ‘The supermarket’- story 2- listen and discuss. Complete labelling activity. (Revision)

 Just phonics- Page 76- ‘er’

 Operation Maths- At school book- Page 80- combining.

 Starlight Skills Book- P.21

 Letter formation practise- Focus on letter ‘o’

 Nursery Rhyme- Mary had a little lamb.

Tuesday

 Revise Jolly Phonics sound cards- say the sound and identify words which begin with/contain the sound.

 Core reader 4 wordlist- Full list (Post to Seesaw)

 Read ‘Let’s make pancakes’- Starlight- Unit 13

 Tuesday blending List and tricky words(Seesaw)

 Free writing.

 New Wave Handwriting- Page 59 ‘ar’

 Maths- Practise number formation and basic addition. (Worksheets on Seesaw for addition/ combining)

 www.folensonline.ie You can also sign up for a free account here using ‘Prim20’ as the roll number.

Explorers SESE- Junior Infants- Unit 9- History- Materials- Then and Now- listen to the story and complete the sort activity. Complete workbook page 42.

 Letter formation practise- Focus on letter ‘q’

 Nursery Ryhme- Mary had a little lamb.

Wednesday

 Revise Jolly Phonics sound cards- say the sound and identify words which begin with/contain the sound.

 Core reader 4 wordlist- Full list

 Wednesday blending list and tricky words (seesaw)

 Read ‘Let’s make pancakes’- Starlight- Unit 13

 Listen to big book ‘The Supermarket slip up’

 Starlight Skills Book- P.22

 Just phonics- Page 77- ‘ar’.

 Maths- Light/ Heavy- Activity on seesaw

 Letter formation practise- Focus on letter ‘r’

 Nursery Rhyme- Five little ducks

Thursday

 Revise Jolly Phonics sound cards- say the sound and identify words which begin with/contain the sound.

 Core reader 4 wordlist- Full list

 Read ‘Let’s make pancakes’- Starlight- Unit 13

 New- Wave handwriting- Page 60

 Thursday blending list and tricky words(seesaw)

 News- Copying of news and writing some news of their own.

o Today is Thursday.

o I am staying safe at home.

o Once your child has copied these three sentences, they should be encouraged to free write their own sentences by sounding out the words. (Encourage them not to worry about spelling/mistakes) Draw a picture to accompany your news.

 Maths- www.topmarks.co.uk parents can sign up for a free account. Select maths (subject) and Early Years (age) and complete two activities of choice.

 www.folensonline.ie You can also sign up for a free account here using ‘Prim20’ as the roll number.

Explorers SESE- Junior Infants- Unit 9- Materials- Geography – Dress for the weather- Activity 1 & 2. Complete workbook Page 43. (Post to Seesaw)

Friday

 Revise Jolly Phonics sound cards- say the sound and identify words which begin with/contain the sound.

 Core reader 4 wordlist- Full list

 Read ‘Let’s make pancakes’- Starlight- Unit 13

 Friday blending list and tricky words(seesaw)

 Just phonics- Page 78- choose the correct sound

 Operation Maths- At school book- Page 81- Circle the heavier person

 ‘it’ family activity (seesaw)

 Letter formation practise- Focus on letter ‘n’

 Nursery Rhyme- Five little ducks

 Cosmic Kids- choose one activity to complete- relax, and enjoy your weekend

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