Ms Noonan's 4th Class 2021/22
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3rd Class 2020/21
Learning from home January 2021
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Mr Ryan,s 2nd Class 2019/2020 Learning at Home Activities
Dear Parents,
I hope you and your families are keeping safe and well at this time. During this difficult period, it is important that the children continue with their learning. The Learning at Home link above includes lots of useful activities that the children can engage in. As always, they can read and write regularly at home as well as practice their tables and problem solving skills. Below I will lay out some activities in certain subject areas that they can also engage with at home.
I will continue to post activities and work on a regular basis over the coming weeks so please check back in regularly for these updates.
This is also a great opportunity for the children to learn basic life skills at home such as taking care of themselves, tying their shoe laces, helping around the house etc.
Hope you all remain safe and well and I hope to see you very soon.
Mr. Ryan
I hope you and your families are keeping safe and well at this time. During this difficult period, it is important that the children continue with their learning. The Learning at Home link above includes lots of useful activities that the children can engage in. As always, they can read and write regularly at home as well as practice their tables and problem solving skills. Below I will lay out some activities in certain subject areas that they can also engage with at home.
I will continue to post activities and work on a regular basis over the coming weeks so please check back in regularly for these updates.
This is also a great opportunity for the children to learn basic life skills at home such as taking care of themselves, tying their shoe laces, helping around the house etc.
Hope you all remain safe and well and I hope to see you very soon.
Mr. Ryan
Monday May 18th Updated Work
Maths
3D and 2D Shapes
Name and identify 3D and 2D shapes.
3D video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg-Uc556-Q
2D video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRCt9Ch7oR0
Identify edges, faces and corners on 3D shapes.
Create 3D shapes using nets.
List how many sides each 2D shape has.
Identify what 2D shapes make up 3D shapes; for example a cube is made up of 6 squares.
** Weekly Challenge**
Pick any room in your house.
See how many 2D and 3D shapes you can find in the whole room.
If you can, take pictures of the objects. Feel free to send them to me too via email! :)
For example, if you’re in the sitting room - your telly is what shape?
If you are in your bedroom - What shape is your mattress/ door?
Get creative - Draw pictures using only 2D shapes.
Go on a 2D/ 3D shape hunt around your estate/ in the park. Take pictures of what shapes you see.
Word Problems
Children read word problems and try and solve them independently.
Again, encourage children to use the RUDE problem solving aid.
R - Read
U - Underline (important words - altogether/ gave away/ left/ total etc)
D - Draw (pictures help visual learners see the problem)
E - Estimate (make a guess as to how they will solve it)
Then work out the word problem.
**Weekly Challenge**
Write your own word problems.
They can be addition/ subtraction.
Send them to me via email and let me solve them with you! :)
English
** Give Spellbound a break this week**
We will start revising weeks and blocks in Spellbound again next week.
This week we want you getting creative. We are looking at Story Writing.
Each day will be a step by step to writing your own story by the end of the week.
Monday - Make your plan. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-e-088-story-planning-frame
This writing should be daily 10-15 minutes only.
Tuesday - Start writing your story. Beginning and the build up to the problem.
10-15 minutes of writing. Re-read at the end of the 15 minutes.
Wednesday - Top of the mountain (the problem - what happens??)
Thursday - Resolution. Fixing the problem for your character.
Friday - The ending. Re-read the whole thing.
Other writing activities for the week ;
Gaeilge
Revision Topic: An Aimsir (The Weather)
Encourage your child to say the following weather related words:
-Grianmhar (sunny)
-Scamallach (cloudy)
-Dorcha (dark)
-Te (warm)
-Fuar (cold)
-Fliuch (wet)
-Ag cur báistí (raining)
-Stoirmiúil (stormy)
-Geal (bright)
-Gaofar (windy)
Encourage your child to observe the weather each day and to try and make sentences such as “Inniu (Today) tá sé (It is) grianmhar (sunny), te (warm) agus geal (bright)”.
“Níl sé ag cur báistí inniu”.
“Inniu tá sé scamallach(cloudy) agus ag cur báistí (raining)”.
You can also encourage your child to visually represent the weather each day by drawing pictures and write the words under each picture.
By the end of the week they could have a weather diary for the week.
Children could pretend they are a weather reporter and use an object for speaking. They could have a map of Ireland on display in the background to make it more fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suE0WKELous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nWybb-X6Q8
Activities and videos to support this topic:
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-t-9087-draw-the-weather-activity-sheet
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-gl-53580-aimsir-bileog-oibre-dhifreailte-ag-meaitseail-focail-agus-pictiur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peq67T4VyU0
SESE
Geography
Country Fact File- Australia
Land Down Under, Small World pg. 56/ 57- Read about the different aspects of Australia and complete the activities.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-or-258-part-of-the-party-all-about-amazing-australia-powerpoint
Child should develop an awareness of people and places in Australia and become familiar with some aspects of life there.
Learn about the culture of the country: flag, language, people, activities- put particular focus on the Aborigines and how their way of life differs from our own or other people in Australia.
Identify the location of Australia on a map and learn about different locations there: capital city, other major cities, famous landmarks and buildings etc
Learn about the climate in Australia. Link this to the recent bushfires experienced in Australia and how this a common occurrence due to the warm weather
Learn about animals that are native to Australia e.g. Kangaroos and Koalas
If your child would like, they could complete a poster project on Australia and include the flag, facts about the country, pictures of famous places, animals etc, fun facts.
History
Story- The Giant from Scotland, Small World pg. 66/ 67- Read the story and answer the questions
Read the Irish Legend of Fionn and the Giant and be able to retell the story in the correct order.
Become familiar with the main characters in the story and the role they played.
Focus on the link between this story and the famous Irish landmark, The Giant’s Causeway. Discuss where the Giant’s Causeway is(locate it on a map) , have you ever been there?, what it looks like. Etc.
You could have fun with the story and include your family in your learning by acting out the story in a drama and each member of your family can play a different character in the story.
You might also like to write the story out in your own words in your copy and include your own drawings.
Science
Food Chains, Small World pg.80/81- Read about different plants and animals and what they need to eat in order to get energy needed to survive.
Learn that plants and animals need energy to grow and to survive.
Plants get their energy from the sun in a process called photosynthesis.
Animals must get their energy from eating plants and other animals.
Look at different types of animals based on their particular diet. Herbivores (eat plants only), Carnivores (eat meat only) and omnivores (eat plants and animals)- Sort different animals into each category
A food chain shows how each living thing gets its energy starting with a plant and ending with the animal.
Examine different food chains and how it begins and ends. Notice it almost always starts with plants which are eaten by a smaller animal and eaten by a larger animal.
Briefly discuss the words predator and prey and this relationship in relation to animals.
As a simple activity you could make your own food chain in your copies starting with the sun/plant and ending with an animal.
3D and 2D Shapes
Name and identify 3D and 2D shapes.
3D video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg-Uc556-Q
2D video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRCt9Ch7oR0
Identify edges, faces and corners on 3D shapes.
Create 3D shapes using nets.
List how many sides each 2D shape has.
Identify what 2D shapes make up 3D shapes; for example a cube is made up of 6 squares.
** Weekly Challenge**
Pick any room in your house.
See how many 2D and 3D shapes you can find in the whole room.
If you can, take pictures of the objects. Feel free to send them to me too via email! :)
For example, if you’re in the sitting room - your telly is what shape?
If you are in your bedroom - What shape is your mattress/ door?
Get creative - Draw pictures using only 2D shapes.
Go on a 2D/ 3D shape hunt around your estate/ in the park. Take pictures of what shapes you see.
Word Problems
Children read word problems and try and solve them independently.
Again, encourage children to use the RUDE problem solving aid.
R - Read
U - Underline (important words - altogether/ gave away/ left/ total etc)
D - Draw (pictures help visual learners see the problem)
E - Estimate (make a guess as to how they will solve it)
Then work out the word problem.
**Weekly Challenge**
Write your own word problems.
They can be addition/ subtraction.
Send them to me via email and let me solve them with you! :)
English
** Give Spellbound a break this week**
We will start revising weeks and blocks in Spellbound again next week.
This week we want you getting creative. We are looking at Story Writing.
Each day will be a step by step to writing your own story by the end of the week.
Monday - Make your plan. https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-e-088-story-planning-frame
- Title
- Characters
- Beginning - where your story is going to take place.
- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4471-sentence-openers-mat
- Lead your characters to the main problem.
This writing should be daily 10-15 minutes only.
Tuesday - Start writing your story. Beginning and the build up to the problem.
10-15 minutes of writing. Re-read at the end of the 15 minutes.
Wednesday - Top of the mountain (the problem - what happens??)
Thursday - Resolution. Fixing the problem for your character.
Friday - The ending. Re-read the whole thing.
Other writing activities for the week ;
- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-8624-story-settings-description-writing-frames
- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-s-3564-picture-and-prompts-writing-template
- Re-write your favourite story.
- Create a character profile - make a funny character/ scary character/ mean character.
- Draw a comic strip - No writing!! :) :)
Gaeilge
Revision Topic: An Aimsir (The Weather)
Encourage your child to say the following weather related words:
-Grianmhar (sunny)
-Scamallach (cloudy)
-Dorcha (dark)
-Te (warm)
-Fuar (cold)
-Fliuch (wet)
-Ag cur báistí (raining)
-Stoirmiúil (stormy)
-Geal (bright)
-Gaofar (windy)
Encourage your child to observe the weather each day and to try and make sentences such as “Inniu (Today) tá sé (It is) grianmhar (sunny), te (warm) agus geal (bright)”.
“Níl sé ag cur báistí inniu”.
“Inniu tá sé scamallach(cloudy) agus ag cur báistí (raining)”.
You can also encourage your child to visually represent the weather each day by drawing pictures and write the words under each picture.
By the end of the week they could have a weather diary for the week.
Children could pretend they are a weather reporter and use an object for speaking. They could have a map of Ireland on display in the background to make it more fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suE0WKELous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nWybb-X6Q8
Activities and videos to support this topic:
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-t-9087-draw-the-weather-activity-sheet
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-gl-53580-aimsir-bileog-oibre-dhifreailte-ag-meaitseail-focail-agus-pictiur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peq67T4VyU0
SESE
Geography
Country Fact File- Australia
Land Down Under, Small World pg. 56/ 57- Read about the different aspects of Australia and complete the activities.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-or-258-part-of-the-party-all-about-amazing-australia-powerpoint
Child should develop an awareness of people and places in Australia and become familiar with some aspects of life there.
Learn about the culture of the country: flag, language, people, activities- put particular focus on the Aborigines and how their way of life differs from our own or other people in Australia.
Identify the location of Australia on a map and learn about different locations there: capital city, other major cities, famous landmarks and buildings etc
Learn about the climate in Australia. Link this to the recent bushfires experienced in Australia and how this a common occurrence due to the warm weather
Learn about animals that are native to Australia e.g. Kangaroos and Koalas
If your child would like, they could complete a poster project on Australia and include the flag, facts about the country, pictures of famous places, animals etc, fun facts.
History
Story- The Giant from Scotland, Small World pg. 66/ 67- Read the story and answer the questions
Read the Irish Legend of Fionn and the Giant and be able to retell the story in the correct order.
Become familiar with the main characters in the story and the role they played.
Focus on the link between this story and the famous Irish landmark, The Giant’s Causeway. Discuss where the Giant’s Causeway is(locate it on a map) , have you ever been there?, what it looks like. Etc.
You could have fun with the story and include your family in your learning by acting out the story in a drama and each member of your family can play a different character in the story.
You might also like to write the story out in your own words in your copy and include your own drawings.
Science
Food Chains, Small World pg.80/81- Read about different plants and animals and what they need to eat in order to get energy needed to survive.
Learn that plants and animals need energy to grow and to survive.
Plants get their energy from the sun in a process called photosynthesis.
Animals must get their energy from eating plants and other animals.
Look at different types of animals based on their particular diet. Herbivores (eat plants only), Carnivores (eat meat only) and omnivores (eat plants and animals)- Sort different animals into each category
A food chain shows how each living thing gets its energy starting with a plant and ending with the animal.
Examine different food chains and how it begins and ends. Notice it almost always starts with plants which are eaten by a smaller animal and eaten by a larger animal.
Briefly discuss the words predator and prey and this relationship in relation to animals.
As a simple activity you could make your own food chain in your copies starting with the sun/plant and ending with an animal.
First Holy Communion Message
Hello boys and girls,
I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. Hope you have all received your postcards by now and enjoyed reading them. I know we were supposed to celebrate our First Holy Communion on Saturday the 16th of May and we were all very excited about it. Unfortunately the date is postponed for now but I hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow with your family. Don't worry, your special day will come and it will be even more exciting and special when it does. It will most definitely be worth the wait. Ms Hyland, Ms. Ruddy and I thought it might be a nice idea to post our own First Holy Communion pictures. I'm sure you will all have a laugh at them. Can you tell me apart from my twin brother?
I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. Hope you have all received your postcards by now and enjoyed reading them. I know we were supposed to celebrate our First Holy Communion on Saturday the 16th of May and we were all very excited about it. Unfortunately the date is postponed for now but I hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow with your family. Don't worry, your special day will come and it will be even more exciting and special when it does. It will most definitely be worth the wait. Ms Hyland, Ms. Ruddy and I thought it might be a nice idea to post our own First Holy Communion pictures. I'm sure you will all have a laugh at them. Can you tell me apart from my twin brother?
Dear parents and children,
I hope you are all continuing to keep safe and well at home. Please see below the updated work for the coming week. Again do not feel under pressure to complete all the work, it is suggested work. Also just a reminder to please contact me on my email [email protected] with updates on how your child is getting on at home and if you have any queries with regards to their work. Thank you to those parents who have already contacted me with updates on how their child is getting on at home and also with examples of work and activities that you are being completed. It really is great to see learning continuing to happen from home and I appreciate all your efforts in helping your child with their learning during this time.
Looking forward to getting back to school and seeing everyone again. For now please continue to be safe and healthy and keep up the good work!
Mr.Ryan
I hope you are all continuing to keep safe and well at home. Please see below the updated work for the coming week. Again do not feel under pressure to complete all the work, it is suggested work. Also just a reminder to please contact me on my email [email protected] with updates on how your child is getting on at home and if you have any queries with regards to their work. Thank you to those parents who have already contacted me with updates on how their child is getting on at home and also with examples of work and activities that you are being completed. It really is great to see learning continuing to happen from home and I appreciate all your efforts in helping your child with their learning during this time.
Looking forward to getting back to school and seeing everyone again. For now please continue to be safe and healthy and keep up the good work!
Mr.Ryan
May 5th Updated Work
Maths
Time
Talk to your child about time - discuss the clock (small hour hand, big minute hand and seconds hand) and how it rotates
Help your child memorise time facts (60 minutes in 1 hour, 30 minutes in half an hour etc)
Use a clock/ watch to show and tell the time (o’ clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to)
Make a list of times and let your child draw them on a clock
You can introduce digital time ( hour and half hour) and show them how this looks on a digital clock.
You can encourage the children to draw a time both on the analog clock and digitally.
You can challenge your child with questions such as “If it is 6 o’ clock now what time will it be in two hours?”, “What is half an hour later than 3 o’ clock?”, “If it is 4 o’ clock now what time was it two hours ago?”, “If it is 6 o’ clock now, what time will it be in an hour and a half?”.
A real clock may be needed for this if that is not possible you can use this interactive clock here https://toytheater.com/clock/
English
Children can continue with their Spellbound - 4 words per day, 4 sentences and activities in the book.
Children can revise the long ‘i’ sound this week. Remember ‘igh’ and ‘ie’ make the long ‘i’ sound like the words night, high right, light, might and pie, tie, lie, cried, fried.
Magic E can also make some words say the the ‘i’ name such as bite, file, kite, wipe, nine, time and hide.
Encourage your child to make a list of words for each one ‘igh’, ‘ie’ and magic e words with i.
Encourage your child to keep reading and retell the story in their own words. Parents can ask questions to check for understanding.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/igh-ie-i-e-y-phoneme-spotter-story-activity-sheet-t-l-9198
Gaeilge
Caitheamh Aimsire (Hobbies/Interests)
Encourage your child to act out the following and say the words:
Ag rith (running)
Ag siúl (walking)
Ag snámh (swimming)
Ag léamh (reading)
Ag péinteáil (painting)
Ag imirt sacair (soccer), peile (football), cispheil (basketball), leadóige (tennis), iománaíochta (hurling)
Ag damhsa (dancing)
Ag rothaíocht (cycling)
Ag éisteacht le ceol (listening to music)
Ag féachaint ar an teilifís (watching television)
Ag seinm ceoil (playing music)
Ag imirt cluichí (playing games)
Encourage your child to make sentences “Tá mé ag rith/ag léim” while acting out each one.
You can play “Deir ó Grádaigh” (Simon Says) and give your child the instruction to carry out “Deir ó Grádaigh bí ag rith/ag léim…)
Children can tell you their favourite hobby “Is maith liom a bheith ag .. imirt sacair, ag damhsa agus ag péinteáil”.
They can also write these words and draw a picture to go with each hobby. Children could write the sentence of their favourite hobby and draw a picture to go with it.
SESE
History- May/ May Day
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-2546971-all-about-may-day-information-powerpoint
May Day is a festival celebrated on the 1st May. Long ago Irish People celebrated the start of summer on May Day and there are many traditions associated with this day. Some of these traditions included dressing up ( girls dressing up as the May Queen), dancing, putting flowers on doorsteps, decorating the hawthorn bush and May dew.
Discuss with your child that May Day was a festival celebrated long ago in Ireland to mark the beginning of summer.
Learn about some of the traditions and discuss what it would have been like to celebrate this day sixty years ago or more.
Talk to your parents/ grandparents that may have celebrated May Day and ask how they would have celebrated this day.
Recognise that this tradition is no longer celebrated widely in Ireland
As an activity, you can write a few sentences in your copy about what May Day is, what it celebrates and maybe one or two traditions you learned about. You can also draw a picture to go with your sentences.
My CJ Fallon Website Login
https://my.cjfallon.ie/login/index
You can access Small Word- Second Class textbook for free on this website and it has lots of information and activities associated with May Day. They can be found on pages 78-79.
Science- Life Cycle of a butterfly
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-sc-219-life-cycle-of-a-butterfly-powerpoint
Children can learn about the life cycle of a butterfly.
Discuss with your child what a life cycle is (different stages in the life of a plant/ animal)
Talk about other common life cycles in nature e.g. frog, dandelion.
Talk about each stage of the life cycle with your child. (1. butterfly lays eggs, 2. hatches into caterpillar, 3.caterpillar grows and changes in a cocoon/ chrysalis, 4. butterfly emerges from cocoon.)
Children should become familiar with vocabulary associated with the life cycle e.g. eggs, caterpillar, cocoon, chrysalis, changes, hatches, butterfly.
Activity
Write about the stages involved in the life cycle of a butterfly.
Divide your copy page into 4 and write a brief description with a picture of each stage as described above of the life cycle of a butterfly.
Time
Talk to your child about time - discuss the clock (small hour hand, big minute hand and seconds hand) and how it rotates
Help your child memorise time facts (60 minutes in 1 hour, 30 minutes in half an hour etc)
Use a clock/ watch to show and tell the time (o’ clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to)
Make a list of times and let your child draw them on a clock
You can introduce digital time ( hour and half hour) and show them how this looks on a digital clock.
You can encourage the children to draw a time both on the analog clock and digitally.
You can challenge your child with questions such as “If it is 6 o’ clock now what time will it be in two hours?”, “What is half an hour later than 3 o’ clock?”, “If it is 4 o’ clock now what time was it two hours ago?”, “If it is 6 o’ clock now, what time will it be in an hour and a half?”.
A real clock may be needed for this if that is not possible you can use this interactive clock here https://toytheater.com/clock/
English
Children can continue with their Spellbound - 4 words per day, 4 sentences and activities in the book.
Children can revise the long ‘i’ sound this week. Remember ‘igh’ and ‘ie’ make the long ‘i’ sound like the words night, high right, light, might and pie, tie, lie, cried, fried.
Magic E can also make some words say the the ‘i’ name such as bite, file, kite, wipe, nine, time and hide.
Encourage your child to make a list of words for each one ‘igh’, ‘ie’ and magic e words with i.
Encourage your child to keep reading and retell the story in their own words. Parents can ask questions to check for understanding.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/igh-ie-i-e-y-phoneme-spotter-story-activity-sheet-t-l-9198
Gaeilge
Caitheamh Aimsire (Hobbies/Interests)
Encourage your child to act out the following and say the words:
Ag rith (running)
Ag siúl (walking)
Ag snámh (swimming)
Ag léamh (reading)
Ag péinteáil (painting)
Ag imirt sacair (soccer), peile (football), cispheil (basketball), leadóige (tennis), iománaíochta (hurling)
Ag damhsa (dancing)
Ag rothaíocht (cycling)
Ag éisteacht le ceol (listening to music)
Ag féachaint ar an teilifís (watching television)
Ag seinm ceoil (playing music)
Ag imirt cluichí (playing games)
Encourage your child to make sentences “Tá mé ag rith/ag léim” while acting out each one.
You can play “Deir ó Grádaigh” (Simon Says) and give your child the instruction to carry out “Deir ó Grádaigh bí ag rith/ag léim…)
Children can tell you their favourite hobby “Is maith liom a bheith ag .. imirt sacair, ag damhsa agus ag péinteáil”.
They can also write these words and draw a picture to go with each hobby. Children could write the sentence of their favourite hobby and draw a picture to go with it.
SESE
History- May/ May Day
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-2546971-all-about-may-day-information-powerpoint
May Day is a festival celebrated on the 1st May. Long ago Irish People celebrated the start of summer on May Day and there are many traditions associated with this day. Some of these traditions included dressing up ( girls dressing up as the May Queen), dancing, putting flowers on doorsteps, decorating the hawthorn bush and May dew.
Discuss with your child that May Day was a festival celebrated long ago in Ireland to mark the beginning of summer.
Learn about some of the traditions and discuss what it would have been like to celebrate this day sixty years ago or more.
Talk to your parents/ grandparents that may have celebrated May Day and ask how they would have celebrated this day.
Recognise that this tradition is no longer celebrated widely in Ireland
As an activity, you can write a few sentences in your copy about what May Day is, what it celebrates and maybe one or two traditions you learned about. You can also draw a picture to go with your sentences.
My CJ Fallon Website Login
https://my.cjfallon.ie/login/index
You can access Small Word- Second Class textbook for free on this website and it has lots of information and activities associated with May Day. They can be found on pages 78-79.
Science- Life Cycle of a butterfly
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-sc-219-life-cycle-of-a-butterfly-powerpoint
Children can learn about the life cycle of a butterfly.
Discuss with your child what a life cycle is (different stages in the life of a plant/ animal)
Talk about other common life cycles in nature e.g. frog, dandelion.
Talk about each stage of the life cycle with your child. (1. butterfly lays eggs, 2. hatches into caterpillar, 3.caterpillar grows and changes in a cocoon/ chrysalis, 4. butterfly emerges from cocoon.)
Children should become familiar with vocabulary associated with the life cycle e.g. eggs, caterpillar, cocoon, chrysalis, changes, hatches, butterfly.
Activity
Write about the stages involved in the life cycle of a butterfly.
Divide your copy page into 4 and write a brief description with a picture of each stage as described above of the life cycle of a butterfly.
Dear parents,
Please encourage your children to take part in the activities for Active Home Week this week. You can find lots of fun activities and record sheets to track your progress by clicking on the link above. These activities can be be done instead of a piece of written work this week. Again, it is important to remain active while staying at home so please give them a go each day and if you would like you can send pictures and videos along with your work to my email.
Please encourage your children to take part in the activities for Active Home Week this week. You can find lots of fun activities and record sheets to track your progress by clicking on the link above. These activities can be be done instead of a piece of written work this week. Again, it is important to remain active while staying at home so please give them a go each day and if you would like you can send pictures and videos along with your work to my email.
**New** Monday April 20th
Dear parents and children,
I hope you all had a lovely Easter and are keeping well during this time. Well done for staying at home and continuing to work and learn from home. It is important that we continue to do this over the coming weeks and I will be updating this page weekly with work for the children to engage in. I have set up an email [email protected] for you to contact me with any questions you may have and also for the children to send on any activities/ artwork they complete or have completed already. I would love to see all the work you have been doing at home. Please feel free to contact me any time with any queries you may have.
I hope you all had a lovely Easter and are keeping well during this time. Well done for staying at home and continuing to work and learn from home. It is important that we continue to do this over the coming weeks and I will be updating this page weekly with work for the children to engage in. I have set up an email [email protected] for you to contact me with any questions you may have and also for the children to send on any activities/ artwork they complete or have completed already. I would love to see all the work you have been doing at home. Please feel free to contact me any time with any queries you may have.
Literacy
· Continue with Spellbound programme. Complete 1 block per day. Go through the spelling pattern. Discover the meaning of the word and put each word into an interesting sentence.
· Make sure each sentence you write starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.
· Complete one exercise from Spellbound per day.
· ‘My Easter Holidays’. I would love to see the children complete some recount writing on what they did over their Easter holidays.
· This is an activity we do every week in school. The children write about the events of the weekend/ the last holidays we were on.
· Easter holidays writing template - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-5019-my-easter-holiday-writing-frames
· Easter holidays pictures - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-e-3025-easter-holiday-snapshots-writing-frame
· This week we are going to revise capital letters and full stops.
· We use capital letters for months of the year and days of the week, the word ‘I’, names of people and places, titles, and for the start of a sentence.
· We use full stops at the end of our sentences.
· Complete a home scavenger hunt and see if you can find any capital letters. Take some pictures of them!
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-53628-year-1-full-stops-and-capital-letters-warm-up-powerpoint
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t2-e-854-where-should-capital-letters-go-powerpoint
· Capital letters worksheets - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-l-320-alien-capital-letters-and-periods-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-l-571-using-capital-letters-activity-sheet
· This week we are going to revise Magic E!
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-86-magic-e-display-poster
· Magic E goes to the end of a word and says nothing. Magic E makes the vowel in the middle of the word say its name. Hat à Hate. Man à Mane
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3oA4wfUBak
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhl6YcrxZQ
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTqgFj-gWek
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· Magic E worksheets - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53773-magic-e-with-a-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53776-magic-e-with-i-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53754-magic-e-with-o-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53762-magic-e-with-u-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4148--phase-5-roll-and-read-mat-a-e
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4150-phase-5-roll-and-read-mat-i-e
· Continue to read books every day.
· Read quietly to yourself, read to your Mam/Dad/brother/sister.
· Record yourself reading and play it back.
· Continue to look up popular stories on YouTube and listen to them.
Oral language
The topic of the rainforest in SESE allows for lots of discussion with your child about what is going on in the world today. You can discuss the importance of the Rainforest for providing humans with oxygen, as an important home for many unique and endangered animals and also touch on the issue of deforestation.
The children may also come across some new tricky vocabulary such as: canopy, ecosystem, temperate(cool), tropical (warm), vegetation, endangered and deforestation.
You can showcase your learning by putting this work together to make a little project if you wish and maybe even present it to their family!
· Make sure each sentence you write starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.
· Complete one exercise from Spellbound per day.
· ‘My Easter Holidays’. I would love to see the children complete some recount writing on what they did over their Easter holidays.
· This is an activity we do every week in school. The children write about the events of the weekend/ the last holidays we were on.
· Easter holidays writing template - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-5019-my-easter-holiday-writing-frames
· Easter holidays pictures - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-e-3025-easter-holiday-snapshots-writing-frame
· This week we are going to revise capital letters and full stops.
· We use capital letters for months of the year and days of the week, the word ‘I’, names of people and places, titles, and for the start of a sentence.
· We use full stops at the end of our sentences.
· Complete a home scavenger hunt and see if you can find any capital letters. Take some pictures of them!
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-53628-year-1-full-stops-and-capital-letters-warm-up-powerpoint
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-t2-e-854-where-should-capital-letters-go-powerpoint
· Capital letters worksheets - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-l-320-alien-capital-letters-and-periods-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-l-571-using-capital-letters-activity-sheet
· This week we are going to revise Magic E!
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-86-magic-e-display-poster
· Magic E goes to the end of a word and says nothing. Magic E makes the vowel in the middle of the word say its name. Hat à Hate. Man à Mane
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3oA4wfUBak
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhl6YcrxZQ
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTqgFj-gWek
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· Magic E worksheets - https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53773-magic-e-with-a-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53776-magic-e-with-i-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53754-magic-e-with-o-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-l-53762-magic-e-with-u-e-read-and-write-activity-sheet
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4148--phase-5-roll-and-read-mat-a-e
· https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-4150-phase-5-roll-and-read-mat-i-e
· Continue to read books every day.
· Read quietly to yourself, read to your Mam/Dad/brother/sister.
· Record yourself reading and play it back.
· Continue to look up popular stories on YouTube and listen to them.
Oral language
The topic of the rainforest in SESE allows for lots of discussion with your child about what is going on in the world today. You can discuss the importance of the Rainforest for providing humans with oxygen, as an important home for many unique and endangered animals and also touch on the issue of deforestation.
The children may also come across some new tricky vocabulary such as: canopy, ecosystem, temperate(cool), tropical (warm), vegetation, endangered and deforestation.
You can showcase your learning by putting this work together to make a little project if you wish and maybe even present it to their family!
Maths
As RTE Home School Hub are exploring the topic of Data in Maths for 1st and 2nd classes this week, here are some ideas of what parents can do at home to support this topic:
Remember Data is a fancy word for information!
You can collect your own Data through surveys and questionnaires and present it nicely on a graph. There are many different types of graphs but we are learning about block graphs.
Let your child decide on a topic/idea they would like to collect data on such as the family’s favourite ‘sport/fruit/chocolate’ etc.
Encourage your child to ask each family member the question and record how many people vote for each one.
You can use coloured blocks or coloured pieces of paper to make the block graph on a page.
You can ask questions such as ‘Which is the most popular/least favourite?’, ‘How many more people preferred oranges to apples?’ and ‘How many people were in the
You can also give your child a simple set of data and ask them to represent it using the pieces of coloured paper/counters etc.
A simple set of data may look something like this:
Eye Colours in my class
Brown Eyes - 9
Blue Eyes - 7
Green Eyes - 4
Hazel Eyes -3
Have fun collecting data and making your own block graphs!
More activities here
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2823-food-bar-graph-activity-sheet
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2830-minibeasts-bar-graph-activity-sheet
Remember Data is a fancy word for information!
You can collect your own Data through surveys and questionnaires and present it nicely on a graph. There are many different types of graphs but we are learning about block graphs.
Let your child decide on a topic/idea they would like to collect data on such as the family’s favourite ‘sport/fruit/chocolate’ etc.
Encourage your child to ask each family member the question and record how many people vote for each one.
You can use coloured blocks or coloured pieces of paper to make the block graph on a page.
You can ask questions such as ‘Which is the most popular/least favourite?’, ‘How many more people preferred oranges to apples?’ and ‘How many people were in the
You can also give your child a simple set of data and ask them to represent it using the pieces of coloured paper/counters etc.
A simple set of data may look something like this:
Eye Colours in my class
Brown Eyes - 9
Blue Eyes - 7
Green Eyes - 4
Hazel Eyes -3
Have fun collecting data and making your own block graphs!
More activities here
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2823-food-bar-graph-activity-sheet
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2830-minibeasts-bar-graph-activity-sheet
Gaeilge
As RTE Home School Hub are covering the topic of éadaí (clothes) this week for 1st and 2nd Classes here are a few ideas you can do to revise this topic as we have completed it in school already:
Encourage the children to name as many clothing items as possible such as t-léine (t-shirt), bríste, bróga, stocaí, sciorta, gúna, geansaí, léine (shirt), carbhat (tie), bróga reatha (runners), bríste gearra (shorts).
Encourage the children to tell you what they are wearing everyday using the “Tá geansaí orm” agus “Tá bríste orm”.
They can include the dathanna (colours) then to say “Tá geansaí dearg orm agus tá bróga dubh orm’.
They can also practise writing the sentences “Tá sciorta dearg orm” etc.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-gl-253-label-the-clothes-activity-sheet-gaeilge
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-171-eadai-clothes-activity-sheets-pack-irish-gaeilge
Encourage the children to name as many clothing items as possible such as t-léine (t-shirt), bríste, bróga, stocaí, sciorta, gúna, geansaí, léine (shirt), carbhat (tie), bróga reatha (runners), bríste gearra (shorts).
Encourage the children to tell you what they are wearing everyday using the “Tá geansaí orm” agus “Tá bríste orm”.
They can include the dathanna (colours) then to say “Tá geansaí dearg orm agus tá bróga dubh orm’.
They can also practise writing the sentences “Tá sciorta dearg orm” etc.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-gl-253-label-the-clothes-activity-sheet-gaeilge
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-t-171-eadai-clothes-activity-sheets-pack-irish-gaeilge
SESE
This week we celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday 22nd April. We have decided to focus on the theme of Our Environment and look at different ways we can care for our environment and combat issues such as climate change. Earth Day, which was established in 1970 in the US, is celebrated on 22nd April each year. It is a day to think about our planet and what we can do to keep it special; to think about saving water and energy, reducing pollution, recycling, protecting our animals, trees and plants, and generally getting kids interested in protecting their environment
Here are some quick ideas for celebrating Earth Day with your children:
Below I have included some useful links to some reading material and activities that the children might enjoy engaging with. You can discuss topics such as recycling and the 3 R’s Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and also rainforests and ways in which they are being harmed and what we can do to help them. You might have fun researching an animal found in the rainforest and complete a fact file based on this animal.
Recycling
Recycling Information Powerpoint- Earth Day
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-2545890-earth-day-powerpoint
Recycling Sorting Activity
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-2765-recycling-sorting-activity
Recycling Reading Comprehension/ Questions
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526381-ks1-earth-day-2018-end-plastic-pollution-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity
Design a Recycling Poster PDF- (found below)
Rainforests ( see also Oral Langauge above)
Children can locate where the Rainforests of the world are on a world map with assistance of an adult.
Children can explore and investigate the Amazon Rainforest in more detail if they wish.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-s-244-rainforest-information-powerpoint-and-worksheet-pack
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2548660-layers-of-the-rainforest-powerpoint
Rainforest reading comprehension
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ks1-rainforests-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity-t-l-9586
Rainforest Animal Fact File
The Rainforest is a home to many fascinating and unique animals such as Jaguars, toucans, snakes, different types of frogs and many insects why not choose some of your favourites to research and write a fact file all about them!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/differentiated-rainforest-animal-fact-file-activity-sheets-t-g-396
Earth Day Story Paper PDF (below)
You could use this Earth Day story paper to write about everything you do at home to help the environment and our planet or write about a specific topic, such as how plastic is threatening the earth and what we can do to help stop this. Remember to colour in the fun picture too
Window on the World
My CJ Fallon Website Login
https://my.cjfallon.ie/login/index
Barry the Binman page 62/63
In our 2nd Class Window on the World SESE books page 62/63 (which can be accessed on the My CJ Fallon website-link above), there is a chapter called Barry the Bin Man which the children might enjoy reading about the problems caused by littering and all about recycling. There are also activities to be completed on the topic.
For extra Science activities the children might enjoy learning about heat and temperature and also electricity. We can talk about ways in which we can save electricity (much like the water conservation work before Easter).
These can also be found in our Window on the World books
Heat and Temperature page 34/35
What is temperature? Talk about high and low temperature and what we use to measure temperature. There is also a fun experiment on heat insulation- finding the best material to keep your cup of tea/ hot chocolate warm.
Electricity page 42/43
There are also fun activities in the book on the topic of electricity. Each activity involves using static electricity. Discuss the uses of electricity but also importantly the dangers of using electricity at home and other places. As mentioned before We can talk about ways in which we can save electricity (much like the water conservation work before Easter).
Here are some quick ideas for celebrating Earth Day with your children:
- Plant a tree
- Go for a bike ride or a long walk
- Hold a nature "scavenger hunt" (send the kids out into the garden to collect - or spot - various items on a list you provide)
- Talk about saving water when brushing teeth and saving energy by turning off the lights when you leave a room
- Bake your favourite cookie or biscuit recipe and let the kids decorate with icing to look like the planet earth
- Set up a recycling centre in your home
Below I have included some useful links to some reading material and activities that the children might enjoy engaging with. You can discuss topics such as recycling and the 3 R’s Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and also rainforests and ways in which they are being harmed and what we can do to help them. You might have fun researching an animal found in the rainforest and complete a fact file based on this animal.
Recycling
Recycling Information Powerpoint- Earth Day
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-2545890-earth-day-powerpoint
Recycling Sorting Activity
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-t-2765-recycling-sorting-activity
Recycling Reading Comprehension/ Questions
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-526381-ks1-earth-day-2018-end-plastic-pollution-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity
Design a Recycling Poster PDF- (found below)
Rainforests ( see also Oral Langauge above)
Children can locate where the Rainforests of the world are on a world map with assistance of an adult.
Children can explore and investigate the Amazon Rainforest in more detail if they wish.
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t2-s-244-rainforest-information-powerpoint-and-worksheet-pack
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/us-t-2548660-layers-of-the-rainforest-powerpoint
Rainforest reading comprehension
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ks1-rainforests-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity-t-l-9586
Rainforest Animal Fact File
The Rainforest is a home to many fascinating and unique animals such as Jaguars, toucans, snakes, different types of frogs and many insects why not choose some of your favourites to research and write a fact file all about them!
https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/differentiated-rainforest-animal-fact-file-activity-sheets-t-g-396
Earth Day Story Paper PDF (below)
You could use this Earth Day story paper to write about everything you do at home to help the environment and our planet or write about a specific topic, such as how plastic is threatening the earth and what we can do to help stop this. Remember to colour in the fun picture too
Window on the World
My CJ Fallon Website Login
https://my.cjfallon.ie/login/index
Barry the Binman page 62/63
In our 2nd Class Window on the World SESE books page 62/63 (which can be accessed on the My CJ Fallon website-link above), there is a chapter called Barry the Bin Man which the children might enjoy reading about the problems caused by littering and all about recycling. There are also activities to be completed on the topic.
For extra Science activities the children might enjoy learning about heat and temperature and also electricity. We can talk about ways in which we can save electricity (much like the water conservation work before Easter).
These can also be found in our Window on the World books
Heat and Temperature page 34/35
What is temperature? Talk about high and low temperature and what we use to measure temperature. There is also a fun experiment on heat insulation- finding the best material to keep your cup of tea/ hot chocolate warm.
Electricity page 42/43
There are also fun activities in the book on the topic of electricity. Each activity involves using static electricity. Discuss the uses of electricity but also importantly the dangers of using electricity at home and other places. As mentioned before We can talk about ways in which we can save electricity (much like the water conservation work before Easter).
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| earth_day_alphabet_challenge.pdf |
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Stay Fit and Healthy !!
It is important that we remain active at home as it is often very easy to sit down and watch TV or play the playstation for large parts of the day so here's a reminder of some useful sites to keep active and healthy.
You might like to follow the Body Coach- Joe Wicks on Youtube each morning at 9am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
10@ 10 on RTE Player is something the children are familiar with and might like to try again
https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
Just Dance and GoNoodle are class favourites and have a huge variety of videos on their websites which you may like to try out.
Yoga for Kids on Youtube might also be something you would be interested in trying with your children.
Again lots of different videos to choose from.
TJ Reid (Kilkenny Hurler and health and fitness instructor) is offering free PE lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 noon for those who would be interested
You might like to follow the Body Coach- Joe Wicks on Youtube each morning at 9am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
10@ 10 on RTE Player is something the children are familiar with and might like to try again
https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
Just Dance and GoNoodle are class favourites and have a huge variety of videos on their websites which you may like to try out.
Yoga for Kids on Youtube might also be something you would be interested in trying with your children.
Again lots of different videos to choose from.
TJ Reid (Kilkenny Hurler and health and fitness instructor) is offering free PE lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 noon for those who would be interested
RTE Home School Hub-starts Monday 30th March
RTE have launched a Home School Hub which is suitable for primary school pupils from 1st to 6th Class.
Starting on RTÉ2 from Monday 30 March, teachers on the RTÉ Home School Hub will present three short class segments aimed at 1st and 2nd class, 3rd and 4th class and 5th and 6th class. Classes will start each morning from 11am to 12pm.
Classes will start on television, for an hour, before directing the kids to fun content and projects on rte.ie/learn and the RTÉ Player.
And then we let the kids takeover, as RTÉ Home School Extra kicks off at 4.15pm where kids from all over the country can reconnect by uploading and posting video messages and content.
Starting on RTÉ2 from Monday 30 March, teachers on the RTÉ Home School Hub will present three short class segments aimed at 1st and 2nd class, 3rd and 4th class and 5th and 6th class. Classes will start each morning from 11am to 12pm.
Classes will start on television, for an hour, before directing the kids to fun content and projects on rte.ie/learn and the RTÉ Player.
And then we let the kids takeover, as RTÉ Home School Extra kicks off at 4.15pm where kids from all over the country can reconnect by uploading and posting video messages and content.
Literacy
- Children can continue with their Spellbound work and do the daily activities as usual. Start a new week next week.
- For this week children can revise the weeks they have already done and pick 4 words to make interesting sentences with
- Write out a daily schedule every day
- Write diary entries every second or third day
- Have a family story writing competition
- Host a family 'Author's Chair' where children can read what they have written
- Encourage your children to read every day
- Listen to stories on Youtube
- Write a book review on books the children have already read
- Have a family 'read-aloud'
- These choice boards may come in handy. The children can choose their own reading/ writing activity for the day
Maths
- Continue with Master Your Maths Daily
- Revise number facts and tables every day. Learn off tables from +1 to +12, -1 to -12
- Revise skip counting in 2's, 3's, 4's etc.
- Revise friendly numbers e.g. 3+7=10. 6+4 =10
- Go on a 2D and 3D shape hunt inside the house and in the garden
- Create a shop at home.Price up items you have at home, add totals and calculate change
- Telling Time-Children find this topic tricky. Ask them the time throughout the day- o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to
- Measure the weight of food items
- Measure the lengths of different objects around the house
- Problem Solving- read written problems and try and solve them independently. Use MYM for example problems
- When problem solving use the RUDE Strategy
- R- Read
- U- Underline ( important words)
- D- Draw (a picture of the problem)
- Estimate- (Guess the answer)
- Then solve the problem
- Below is a choice board based on maths activities which you may find useful
SESE(Science, Geography and History)
Our theme for the month of March is Water. We had learned all about the uses of water and methods of water conservation. We had started the water cycle so the children can continue to learn all about how this works and can conduct their own experiments and make projects on these topics.
The CJ Fallon website allows free access to their books online and I would recommend using the Small World Second Class book which covers the topic well and has a variety of useful activities. It also has lots of work covering the topic of Spring.
The link to this website is below and should be very easy to access.
https://my.cjfallon.ie/login/index
Twinkl is another useful website which allows free access to their excellent resources and you will find lots of useful resources for the topics suggested below on this website. I have attached this link also:
https://www.twinkl.ie/sign-in
The children can engage in Project Work on these topics and can do their own research, write about them in their copies or make fun posters with facts and drawings.
- Suggested Topics
Water Conservation
The Water Cycle https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/au-us-sc-314-water-cycle-in-the-bag-model-science-experimen
Floating and Sinking Science Experiment - Small World
Using recycled water bottles to create bird feeders/ plant pots etc.
Spring ( Trees, Plants and Animals)
Complete a project on your favourite animal
Planting Seeds- What do plants need to grow
Conduct interviews with people in your family to see how life has cahnges ( phone interviews in some cases)
Research a country ( Learn about the culture, lifestyle , food and climate)
Easter SESE Activity- Easter Egg Treasure Hunt Map
Children can have a lot of fun with this one and be as creative and imaginative as they want. They must draw a simple map of a small area (e.g. back garden) and mark off where the easter eggs/treats are hidden or include clues as to where they might be hidden.
The children may find it challenging at first to visualise the map of the area in their heads so may need your help. Skills such as their Spatial Thinking and awareness and sense of direction will be improved greatly during this activity. It may be best to start with a small area (e.g one room) This can be done several times and as the children get better at drawing their maps, they can maybe expand it to include a larger area. ( e.g. different rooms in the house) Enjoy the treats at the end!!
Link below to a useful resource from Twinkl for this activity !
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/1d/30/T-T-19010-Easter-Egg-Hunt-Treasure-Map-Aerial-View.pdf?__token__=exp=1585581553~acl=%2Fresource%2F1d%2F30%2FT-T-19010-Easter-Egg-Hunt-Treasure-Map-Aerial-View.pdf%2A~hmac=3353157a6088917bf8ae3d965c3565a2fdf2b93805450b5972a6613af1fd1ef9
Physical Education
Children should be getting out for regular exercise and continue to work on and improve their fundamental movement skills such as walking, running, jumping, balance as well as ball skills such as catching, throwing and kicking.
Children might like to follow the Body Coach- Joe Wicks on Youtube each morning at 9am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
10@ 10 on RTE Player is something the children are familiar with and might like to try again
https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
Just Dance and GoNoodle are class favourites and have a huge variety of videos on their websites which you may like to try out.
Yoga for Kids on Youtube might also be something you would be interested in trying with your children.
Again lots of different videos to choose from.
TJ Reid (Kilkenny Hurler and health and fitness instructor) is offering free PE lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 noon for those who would be interested
https://twitter.com/_tjreid/status/1244721306760855554?s=12
There are also a lot of fun challenges doing the rounds on social media which may be a fun way to get your child active. Toilet Roll Keepy-uppies and GAA Skills challenges are some examples which you may like to try.
Children might like to follow the Body Coach- Joe Wicks on Youtube each morning at 9am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
10@ 10 on RTE Player is something the children are familiar with and might like to try again
https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
Just Dance and GoNoodle are class favourites and have a huge variety of videos on their websites which you may like to try out.
Yoga for Kids on Youtube might also be something you would be interested in trying with your children.
Again lots of different videos to choose from.
TJ Reid (Kilkenny Hurler and health and fitness instructor) is offering free PE lessons Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 noon for those who would be interested
https://twitter.com/_tjreid/status/1244721306760855554?s=12
There are also a lot of fun challenges doing the rounds on social media which may be a fun way to get your child active. Toilet Roll Keepy-uppies and GAA Skills challenges are some examples which you may like to try.
Art
Children can practice their drawing, colouring and painting while at home. They can practice by colouring some everyday objects at home or fruit bowl still lifes for example.
There are also a variety of competitions and challenges available for kids which can be found online and on Twitter. I have linked a few of these pages below.
One artist Will Sliney sets simple drawing/ colouring challenges every day for children and these can be sent back to him on Twitter.
Will Sliney #Wewilldraw Daily Challenges- found on Twitter
GAA Colouring Book
FAI #wewilldraw Ireland International Stars
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xt8352nbd6196ho/GAA_Heroes_Colouring_Book.pdf?dl=0
https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/wewilldraw-ireland-international-stars
How to Draw videos have also proved very popular in the classroom and there is a huge Variety of these to be found on Youtube so the children can choose what they would like to draw
Easter Art
Children can complete art activities using a variety of materials that may be found at home.
Some ideas may include:
Easter Bonnets- as done every year in the school
Easter Bunny crafts
Easter Egg mosaic art/ Mindfulness colouring.
Again Twinkl and Pinterest are some useful Websites for these ideas
There are also a variety of competitions and challenges available for kids which can be found online and on Twitter. I have linked a few of these pages below.
One artist Will Sliney sets simple drawing/ colouring challenges every day for children and these can be sent back to him on Twitter.
Will Sliney #Wewilldraw Daily Challenges- found on Twitter
GAA Colouring Book
FAI #wewilldraw Ireland International Stars
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xt8352nbd6196ho/GAA_Heroes_Colouring_Book.pdf?dl=0
https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/wewilldraw-ireland-international-stars
How to Draw videos have also proved very popular in the classroom and there is a huge Variety of these to be found on Youtube so the children can choose what they would like to draw
Easter Art
Children can complete art activities using a variety of materials that may be found at home.
Some ideas may include:
Easter Bonnets- as done every year in the school
Easter Bunny crafts
Easter Egg mosaic art/ Mindfulness colouring.
Again Twinkl and Pinterest are some useful Websites for these ideas
1st Class
School Tour to Lullymore - May 2019
First Class really enjoyed their school tour to Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park this week. Great fun was had by all on the day.
Well done to those who received their certificates for full attendance during Term 2.
Easter Bonnet Parade- April 2019
Great fun was had by everyone during our Easter Bonnet parade. Some very impressive bonnets on display on the day!!
World Book Day- March 2019
We had great fun dressing up as our favourite book characters for World Book Day!
Yummy Rice Krispie Buns!!
Working Hard - February 2019
Terms1 + 2 Full Attendance
Well done to those who received their certificates for full attendance during Terms 1 and 2.
Christmas 2018!!
Nature Walk- October 2018
Space Week - October 2018
We really enjoyed learning about the solar system during Space Week and had fun making our own planets and rockets to create our own classroom solar system.
Fun in the yard - September 2018
Senior Infants 2018/19
IMAGINOSITY - Senior Infant School Tour May 2018
A world of imagination - All the children (and the adults!!) had great fun at Imaginosity today and we were lucky enough to have time for Corkagh Park too.
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Children were treated to a magic show which showed us all the importance of recycling. Great fun was had by all - children and teachers included!
GREEN FINGERS
We were learning how to grow tomatoes this April. We waited patiently for our seeds to grow. The children got to bring home their plants in May and have all been encouraged to look after their plants at home. We are looking forward to lots of tomato dishes this summer!
AISTEAR - HOSPITAL
Our doctors and nurses have been busy carrying out major operations and fixing broken bones and even broken hearts!
WINTER TIME
Winter is here and we can certainly feel it these days as the children are wrapping up in their hats, coats, scarves and gloves to play in the yard. We are learning all about winter in our Gaeilge and SESE lessons and getting to enjoy the snow during our Aistear time. The children have been creating winter scenes with our sensory/investigation area making it snow, building snowmen and creating all sorts of scenarios. Its winter on our farm and we are making sure to keep all the animals warm and fed and in our farmhouse. We have painted some beautiful winter scenes as we wait and hope for a white Christmas.
OUR BOOK CLUB
We have organised our very own book club here in senior infants where we get to read and share some of our favourite books with our friends. We all loved showing off how great we are at reading and our favourite part of course was the delicious hot chocolate!!
Houses and Homes
This month in our class our theme is Houses and Homes. We will be learning through stories, Aistear, history, writing and many other ways. During Aistear we will be creating home scenes in our role play area, building all sorts of houses and homes in our construction area and designing houses and homes in our creative area.
Halloween Fun
We all had lots of fun dressing up for Halloween. There was great excitement in the weeks leading up to it creating our skeletons and making our pom-pom monsters. We loved clearing out our pumpkins to get them ready for carving. We all got to show off our dance moves during our Halloween party!
SPACE WEEK
October 2017
The children really enjoyed dressing up and creating their chalk drawings based on the Solar System.
AUTUMN
Everyone has been very creative with our Autumn theme. We set up our investigation station and made leaf rubbings and painted our Autumn trees.
PATTERNS
Sept/Oct 2017
The children were learning about patterns in Maths - they were very creative with their patterned patchwork art piece and came up with lots of different patterns using shapes.
PAIRED READING
Sept/Oct 2017
The children were so proud to share their classroom with their family members this week and loved reading together.
CLASS ACTIVITIES
Sept 2017
SENIOR INFANTS
PUPIL OF THE WEEK AND GAEILGEOIR NA SEACHTAINE
NOAH'S ARK
The children really enjoyed reading Noah's Ark and creating their art display.
Welcome back to Senior Infants. Lovely to see all these happy faces again. Look how much they have grown!
Junior Infants 2016/17
Our First Week in School
Pupils of the Week!
We're Working Very Hard in Junior Infants....
But We Have Time to Have Fun Too!
We Did Some Lovely Autumn Leaf Rubbings...
And Some Beautiful Autumn Trees
We made pictures in the style of Kandinsky's Concentric Circles
Self Portraits in the Style of Van Gogh......
Our Spooky Halloween Pictures!
Our Scary Halloween Costumes at the Halloween Parade....
Waiting to Meet Sam! 8th December
Christmas.......
Some of Our Favourite Toys
We Learned All About Penguins in Antarctica
Grandparents Day......
We welcomed our grandparents in to school today, 3rd February. They had a ceremony in the hall and then came in to our classroom to see all of our work and photos.
We welcomed our grandparents in to school today, 3rd February. They had a ceremony in the hall and then came in to our classroom to see all of our work and photos.
Operation transformation 10@10!!
We all went to the yard to get active and get some exercise...
Our Spring Flowers
World Book Day.......
We all dressed up as our favourite book characters
We all dressed up as our favourite book characters
And parents and grandparents came in to read with us!
Seachtain na Gaeilge.....
We performed Teidí Beag Álainn agus Luascadar Luascadar Luch at the Ceolchoirm
Clonburris Spring Clean Day...
We cleaned up the junior infant yard!
Easter Bonnet Competition
We made lovely Easter bonnets at home for the big day!
AISTEAR - LEARNING THROUGH PLAY
OUR SPECIAL VISITORS - BUTTERFLIES
We looked after our caterpillars until they hid in their cocoons and came out as beautiful butterflies. We then set them free in our garden. Their was great excitement with all the boys and girls.
