Junior infants
Reading: The Lost Ball
Reading zone activity book pages 18-21
Jolly phonics: letter w. Use cd or you tube for songs. Talk about things beginning with w
Sounds make words page 63
Ready steady write book A ( big & small books) letter w formation
Gaeilge: Bua Na cainte: ÉADAÍ: revise all lessons and games on this topic (bua na cainte is free for parents online)
Maths: number 6 booklet. Order 1-6 / 6-1. Make sets up to 6 , use pasta/ pegs…
Weight: compare light and heavy. Planet maths pages 98 & 99
SESE: signs of spring ( talk about changes from winter to spring, trees, weather, new life, time change… Draw a spring picture and write 1 or 2 sentences, eg; I can see a tree. I can see a lamb….
SPHE ; topic 5: Strangers. Read Maria’s Story and complete worksheet 11. Stranger danger songs and videos can be found on you tube.
Best wishes
Ciara
capacity. Pages 104-106 Mental maths pg 107
There are some online games related to each maths topic on www.folensonline.ie
Choose from a variety of maths games on www.topmarks.co.uk
Gaeilge: Bua na Cainte- Cáisc lch 93
The following links include yoga, cartoons and games through Irish.
https://rtejr.rte.ie/category/rtejr-blog/yoga/
https://www.seideansi.ie/rang1.php
SESE: What a Wonderful World –Habitats
Children can explore their gardens and identify any plants and animals that live there.
Draw and record the different plants and animals that live in your local area. Page 44
Draw and write about suitable habitats for the animals on page 45.
Art: Draw or paint a picture of some spring flowers in your garden.
2nd class
Please register with folensonline.ie to access resources.Click on teacher , fill in information and For Roll no. Use Prim20.
Reading: English: Continue reading your novel or log into your getepic account and continue reading. Irish: Am Don Leamh pg 22 An Socas. Read and discuss story and complete exercises orally. The book can be accessed on www.folensonline.ie and searching ‘Am Don Leamh 2’
Maths: Complete your ‘Mental Maths’ daily. Tables Champion pg 29- Put on your timers and record how long it takes you to each column.
Planet Maths 2: Algebra pg 25-27. Practise your skip counting songs. (2,3,4,5,6,10)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10:
English: The following programmes can be accessed through the website folensonline.ie and searching ‘Starlight 2nd class’. Poster 12: Extreme Environments. Discuss what you can see on the poster. Listen to the story/flyers. Label the poster, answer the questions and complete the activity. Read ‘The Sahara Desert ‘. Answer questions on pg 31. Write down your answers for part A(if you wish) and complete B and C orally. (Don’t forget your capital letters, full stops and cursive handwriting.)
Irish: Watch some cartoons in Irish such as Horrid Henry or Spongebob Square Pants J https://www.cula4.com/en/
Handwriting pg 39
SESE: The water cycle. Watch the following video on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncORPosDrjI Listen to the water cycle song and make up your own actions to remember the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts Draw a picture of the water cycle. You may also like to do the following experiment to watch how the water cycle happens. (all you need is a plastic bottle ) https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/water-cycle-bottle-science-experiment/
I have also assigned books about water/the water cycle to you on getepic.
SPHE: Discuss the importance of water safety. You can access the website PAWS for videos and games about water safety http://paws.edco.ie/first-and-second-classes/
Art: Design a water safety poster-use lots of colours and illustrations.
3rd Class
Please register with folensonline.ie to access resources. Click on teacher, fill in information and For Roll no. Use Prim20.
Mathemagic ebook available for free also at cjfallon.ie
English:
Reading: Continue reading daily – read books sent home and log onto getepic.com where books have been assigned to your child. (class code: YNB3561 – DURING SCHOOL HOURS ONLY )
Reading Zone 3: Unit 21 – The Dreamer – ebook on folensonline. Read and complete parts A – G over the course of the week.
Oral: Starlight 3: interactive Poster 12 folensonline: Fantastic Creatures. Explore the poster, answer the questions orally, discuss. Listen to the poem ‘A Dragun in the Classroom’. Read this poem with expression. Discuss the features of the dragon.
Handwriting: Ready, Steady, Write- half a page each day
Maths :
Mathemagic 3 ebook online
Chapter 22 and 23 pgs 107-110 multiply and divide in groups of 7.
Revise 7 times tables on topmarks.co.uk
Tables champion and mental math each day. Friday review.
Gaeilge:
Abair Liom E – ebook on folensonline.
Use resources section first before opening ebook to become familiar with new words.
Póstaer 9 + Comhrá 9 – An t-ionad siopadóireachta – listen to stories here, play vocab games, answer questions orally in interactive section
Proceed to ebook of Abair Liom E – pgs 74, 75, 76
https://www.rte.ie/player/series/is-mise/TG4_061792?epguid=061799 watch some of these episodes for fun while listening to these children speak i ngaeilge
SESE:
History Quest ebook: cjfallon.ie
Ch 3 – Christopher Columbus – Explorers
Answer questions at end of chapter
Link with art and English by making tea stained paper and writing diary entries on what it might have been like onboard the Nina, Pinta, or Sancta Maria on the way to the new world.
STEM to link exploration:
Try some floating and sinking activities with recycled materials. Can you construct a vessel that would be sea worthy while carrying a load? Would a sail help? What about a rudder? Can you fashion something to calculate the depth of the water? Make a compass to tell which direction you are travelling?
Art:
Why not try some tin foil Easter art?
4th class:
Monday:
- Reading Zone. Read Unit 25 and complete activity A and B.
- Table Champions: Monday.
- Mental Maths: Monday.
- Mathemagic Shadow Book: Page 18, numbers 1 and 2.
- Bua Na Cainte 4: Page 126. https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
- Complete next half of page in handwriting.
Tuesday:
- Reading Zone. Read Unit 25 and complete activity C and D.
- Table Champions: Tuesday.
- Mental Maths: Tuesday.
- Mathemagic Shadow Book: Page 18, numbers 3 – 10.
- Bua Na Cainte 4: Page 127 https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
- Complete next half of page in handwriting.
Wednesday:
- Reading Zone. Read Unit 25 and complete E and F.
- Table Champions: Wednesday.
- Mental Maths: Wednesday.
- Mathemagic Shadow Book: Page 52, numbers 1 – 3.
- Bua Na Cainte 4: Page 192 https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
- Complete next half of page in handwriting.
Thursday:
- Table Champions: Thursday.
- Mental Maths: Thursday
- Mathemagic Shadow Book: Page 52, numbers 4 – 6
- Bua na Cainte: Page 193 https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
- Am don Leamh 4: https://www.folensonline.ie/home/library/programmes/amdonleamh-4/ebook/
- getepic.com. Children can log into their accounts and read a book or comic of their choice.
Friday:
- Mental Maths: Friday review and problem solving.
- Mathemagic Shadow Book: page 52, number 7.
- Bua na Cainte: Page 194. https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
- getepic.com. Children can log into their accounts and read a book or comic of their choice.
- Rewrite the Easter story in your own words. Illustrate your story.
- Art: Design and make an Easter card.
5th class
Be creative and try some Easter Art of you choice
Monday
Reading Zone Unit 23 Call of the Sea-Read, Activity A and Dictionary Work
Spellbound Unit 22 Ex. A+B
Bua na Cainte p.123 https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
Mental Math Week 26
Busy at Math p. 136-139
Reading
Tuesday
Reading Zone Unit 23 Call of the Sea- Activites B and C
Spellbound Unit 22 Ex. C+D
Bua na Cainte p.124 https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
Mental Math Week 26
Busy at Math p. 137
Reading 4 pages of class novel
Wednesday
Reading Zone Unit 23 Call of the Sea- Activities D and E
Spellbound Unit 22 Ex. E+F
Bua na Cainte p.126 https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
Mental Math Week 26
Busy at Math p. 138 no. 1-6
Reading 4 pages of class novel
Thursday
Reading Zone Unit 23 Call of the Sea Ex. G
Spellbound Unit 22 Ex. G+H
Bua na Cainte p.127 https://buanacainte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bua-na-Cainte-4-Optimised-3.pdf
Mental Math Week 26
Busy at Math p. 138 no. 7-11
Reading 4 pages of class novel
Friday
SESE Chapter 9 World War 1 https://my.cjfallon.ie/preview/index/1413/75
Spelling-Test yourself or have someone call them out to you!
Reading 4 pages of class novel
Mental Math Week 26
Busy at Math p. 139 Tutorial to help http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/20707/BAM5_Tutorial_082/lessons/BAM5_Tutorial_082/index.html
Am don Léamh p. 50/51 https://www.folensonline.ie/home/library/programmes/amdonleamh-5/ebook/
6th class
All work can be accessed and submitted through Seesaw if you wish.
The following work is for the week beginning 30/3/20
Mental Maths Unit 26
Busy at Maths Chapter 29
Am Don Leamh (accessible through seesaw)
Reading Zone unit 24 (available on the folens website) https://www.folensonline.ie/registration/?r=t (Roll Number: PRIM20)
Spellbound unit 26
Handwriting
Art: Easter Art of your choice
Research Saints name and say why you chose it.