Welcome to Ms. Claire Carolan's Page
clairecarolan2020@gmail.com
30th June
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to congratulate you all on your great work over the last few months. I am very proud of you all. It has been a very strange time, being out of school but still doing your school work. I'm sure you've all missed your routine and your friends. I have missed teaching all of you. I can't wait to see you all after the break. I hope you have a lovely summer and enjoy your holidays.
Stay safe and stay well!
Ms. Carolan
Hi everyone!
I just wanted to congratulate you all on your great work over the last few months. I am very proud of you all. It has been a very strange time, being out of school but still doing your school work. I'm sure you've all missed your routine and your friends. I have missed teaching all of you. I can't wait to see you all after the break. I hope you have a lovely summer and enjoy your holidays.
Stay safe and stay well!
Ms. Carolan
15th June
Well done everybody, I hope you enjoyed our "Health & Well Being Week".
Congratulations to you all, for all of your hard work over the last few weeks, it hasn't been easy but I am very proud of you. For the next two weeks we are going to change our focus to activities, see the link below for some great ideas or look at the "Friday Ideas" in Our Daily 5.
Please continue to read everyday, you've come so far keep up the great work!
Well done everybody, I hope you enjoyed our "Health & Well Being Week".
Congratulations to you all, for all of your hard work over the last few weeks, it hasn't been easy but I am very proud of you. For the next two weeks we are going to change our focus to activities, see the link below for some great ideas or look at the "Friday Ideas" in Our Daily 5.
Please continue to read everyday, you've come so far keep up the great work!
June 15th - 30th: click here for a message and activity ideas.
8th June
Hello everyone!
This week we are taking a break from Our Daily 5, to focus on the activities for our Health & Well Being Week! (See the link on your class page) Try to continue to read a little everyday and play lots of games. Be sure to have lots of fun.
Hello everyone!
This week we are taking a break from Our Daily 5, to focus on the activities for our Health & Well Being Week! (See the link on your class page) Try to continue to read a little everyday and play lots of games. Be sure to have lots of fun.
20th April
Welcome back everyone! I hope you had a lovely Easter and enjoyed all of the beautiful sunshine.
Looks like we are going to be Learning at Home for a little bit longer so if everyone can follow Our Daily 5 below that would be great. Just check back each week for that weeks spellings.
If you would like to send me some photos of your work or video clips of you reading I would love that, or maybe you might like to send me an email and let me know all of the wonderful things you've been doing while we've been away from school or maybe Mam or Dad might have a question and would like to contact me. My email address is clairecarolan2020@gmail.com
Welcome back everyone! I hope you had a lovely Easter and enjoyed all of the beautiful sunshine.
Looks like we are going to be Learning at Home for a little bit longer so if everyone can follow Our Daily 5 below that would be great. Just check back each week for that weeks spellings.
If you would like to send me some photos of your work or video clips of you reading I would love that, or maybe you might like to send me an email and let me know all of the wonderful things you've been doing while we've been away from school or maybe Mam or Dad might have a question and would like to contact me. My email address is clairecarolan2020@gmail.com
Ms Claire Carolan English Classes
Learning at Home
30-35 minutes Monday to Friday would be plenty.
Don't worry if you can't manage that each day - remember a little is better than nothing.
If your child gets a bit squirmy/ fidgety why not play one of the sight vocabulary games involving movement ( See link below.)
Learning at Home
30-35 minutes Monday to Friday would be plenty.
Don't worry if you can't manage that each day - remember a little is better than nothing.
If your child gets a bit squirmy/ fidgety why not play one of the sight vocabulary games involving movement ( See link below.)
Our Daily 5 (Mon-Thurs...Fri= Spellings test + lots of fun!)
1. Read Every Day
Please read every day to keep up the great progress the children have made.
Go to: https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/Portal.aspx
Click on the Teacher portal and enter
Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk
Password: Parents 20!
Click on Login and then select Collins Big Cat.
There are lots of books available at each level to read.
Start with Red or Yellow bands and work on from there.
Turn the volume down on your device and let the children read aloud.
Ask the children questions about the text or to retell the story or facts to check their understanding.
Keep a record of the books they read in their copies and I'll add them to their reading logs when we
get back to school!
2. Spellings
Write the words out four times. Remember: Look, Say, Write, Cover, Write and Check...Repeat
(Scroll down to see spellings for each class group)
3. Sentences
Put each of the spellings into a sentence and/or write the exercises from Spellbound 1/ Spell Well 1 into
your copy
Go to: cjfallon.ie
4. Play Sight Vocabulary Games
We had been working on the First 100 High Frequency Words (the last two columns are next)
Go to: www.highfrequencywords.org
*If your child can read these words with ease then use the Dolch 220 List
Pick 4 words, the children find difficult, to work on per week along with others they know.
Use the games and ideas suggested on the websites below
Go to: www.sightwords.com and click on Sight Words Games or
Go to: www.education.com/games/sight-words
We usually play Word Snakes and ladders, Kaboom (Boom) and bingo in school but Word Hopscotch
Word Stepping Stones/Pathways or Word Bean Bag Toss might be helpful games to give the children a
little movement break.
5. Children's Choice
Go to: cjallon.ie
Search for My Read At Home Book 1, pick a page that interests your child.
Let your child read the text and ask them the questions. They don't have to write the answers but they
should organise their answers into full sentences.
1. Read Every Day
Please read every day to keep up the great progress the children have made.
Go to: https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/Portal.aspx
Click on the Teacher portal and enter
Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk
Password: Parents 20!
Click on Login and then select Collins Big Cat.
There are lots of books available at each level to read.
Start with Red or Yellow bands and work on from there.
Turn the volume down on your device and let the children read aloud.
Ask the children questions about the text or to retell the story or facts to check their understanding.
Keep a record of the books they read in their copies and I'll add them to their reading logs when we
get back to school!
2. Spellings
Write the words out four times. Remember: Look, Say, Write, Cover, Write and Check...Repeat
(Scroll down to see spellings for each class group)
3. Sentences
Put each of the spellings into a sentence and/or write the exercises from Spellbound 1/ Spell Well 1 into
your copy
Go to: cjfallon.ie
4. Play Sight Vocabulary Games
We had been working on the First 100 High Frequency Words (the last two columns are next)
Go to: www.highfrequencywords.org
*If your child can read these words with ease then use the Dolch 220 List
Pick 4 words, the children find difficult, to work on per week along with others they know.
Use the games and ideas suggested on the websites below
Go to: www.sightwords.com and click on Sight Words Games or
Go to: www.education.com/games/sight-words
We usually play Word Snakes and ladders, Kaboom (Boom) and bingo in school but Word Hopscotch
Word Stepping Stones/Pathways or Word Bean Bag Toss might be helpful games to give the children a
little movement break.
5. Children's Choice
Go to: cjallon.ie
Search for My Read At Home Book 1, pick a page that interests your child.
Let your child read the text and ask them the questions. They don't have to write the answers but they
should organise their answers into full sentences.
First Class Spellings :
15th June - 30th June: Activities
Reading and Activities (See Friday Ideas below and link above)
8th June: Health & Well Being Week!
Reading and See Activities link on Class Page
2nd June Spell Bound 1 Week 30 Pages 62 & 63
Tues: group, ankle, where, which
Wed: flask, house, mouse, money
Thurs: table, woman, every, never
25th May Spell Bound 1 Week 29 Pages 60 & 61
Mon: clap, slap, back, sack
Tues: also, girl, give, live
Wed: move, lose, does, over
Thurs: this, want, were, last
18th May Spell Bound 1 Week 28 Pages 58 &59
Mon: bold, cold, fold, told
Tues: bend, send, went, sent
Wed: best, nest, test, rest
Thurs: must, dust, rust, just
11th May Spell Bound 1 Week 27 Pages 56 &57
Mon: done, gone, none, home
Tues: bask, mask, task, cask
Wed: farm, harm, come, some
Thurs: ever, very, sure, pure
5th May Spell Bound 1 Week 26 Pages 54 &55
Tues: bank, sank, tank, cure
Wed: cage, page, mule, rule
Thurs: cube, tube, huge, tune
27th April Spell Bound 1 Week 25 Pages 52 & 53
Mon: cone, bone, lone, zone
Tues: coke, poke, joke, woke
Wed: note, rode, mole, pole
Thurs: more, home, nose, rose
20th April Spell Bound 1 Week 24 Revision Weeks 17 to 23
Mon: hook, foot, good, head
Tues: four, pour, town, down
Wed: coat, goat, road, soap
Thurs: race, gate, made, like
30th March Spell bound 1 Week 23 Pages 48 &49 Magic e
Mon: life, wife, pile, tile
Tues: fire, wire, rise, wise
Wed: five, hive, dive, bite
Thurs: lime, mime, dime, time
2nd Class Spellings:
15th June - 30th June: Activities
Reading and Activities (See Friday Ideas below and link above)
8th June: Health & Well Being Week!
Reading and see Activities link on Class Page
2nd June Spell Well 1 Week 33 Pages 68&69
Tues: gas, next, still, that
Wed: sick, trick, black, track
Thurs: ask, mask, task, flask
25th May Spell Well 1 Week 32 Pages 66 & 67
Mon: dark, dry, line, wind
Tues: few, blew, drew, screw
Wed: road, toad, boat, float
Thurs: boil, soil, noise, point
18th May Spell Well 1 Week 31 Pages 64 & 65
Mon: best, grew, lay, lie
Tues: ace, face, race, place
Wed: ice, nice, rice, spice
Thurs: age, cage, rage, stage
11th May Spell Well 1 Week 30 Revision Magic e Pages 62 & 63
Mon: late, gave, take, make
Tues: like, ride, fire, time
Wed: home, bone, smoke, woke
Thurs: use, June, cure, cube
5th May Spell Well 1 Week 29 Pages 60 &61 Magic e
Tues: June, tune, use, fuse
Wed: cute, mute, huge, duke
Thurs: cure, pure, sure flute
27th April Spell Well 1 Week 28 Pages 58 & 59 Magic e
Mon: even, say, soft, test
Tues: poke, joke, woke, smoke
Wed: bone, cone, tone, zone
Thurs: home, nose, more, sore
20th April Spell Well 1 Week 27 Pages 56 & 57 Magic e
Mon: ago, move, park, sea
Tues: hide, ride, side, wide
Wed: bike, like, pipe, ripe
Thurs: bite, kite, fire, time
30th March Spell Well 1 Week 26 Pages 54 & 55 Magic e
Mon: have, most, try, why
Tues: ate, date, gate, late
Wed: bake, cake, fake, take
Thurs: gave, save, name, sale
Fun Friday Ideas:
Become a Baker or Chef
Choose a recipe: read it, plan it and with help bake it or make it
Become an Illustrator
Choose any poem from My Read At Home Book and draw a picture about it
Draw a picture about your favourite story that you read this week
Create your own comic strip
Become a Scientist
Write about an experiment or investigation you've done this week
Become a Teacher
Give Mam or Dad a spelling test and correct it
Give Mam or Dad a set of instructions to draw a picture as you draw it and see what they come up with!
Other Ideas
Make a card or write a letter to someone
Write a diary about what you did this week
Write a book review about your favourite story this week
Draw a picture using www.artforkidshub.com
Make a jigsaw
Play a board game or a game of cards
Build something with Lego
Build a fort
Draw a map of where you went for a walk, cycle or scoot this week
…..have fun and enjoy the sunshine!!!
Become a Baker or Chef
Choose a recipe: read it, plan it and with help bake it or make it
Become an Illustrator
Choose any poem from My Read At Home Book and draw a picture about it
Draw a picture about your favourite story that you read this week
Create your own comic strip
Become a Scientist
Write about an experiment or investigation you've done this week
Become a Teacher
Give Mam or Dad a spelling test and correct it
Give Mam or Dad a set of instructions to draw a picture as you draw it and see what they come up with!
Other Ideas
Make a card or write a letter to someone
Write a diary about what you did this week
Write a book review about your favourite story this week
Draw a picture using www.artforkidshub.com
Make a jigsaw
Play a board game or a game of cards
Build something with Lego
Build a fort
Draw a map of where you went for a walk, cycle or scoot this week
…..have fun and enjoy the sunshine!!!
