5th Class Room 11 - 25th May 2020

Hello everyone,

It’s hard to believe that it’s the last week of May already! Only five weeks until our summer holidays - I bet you are all looking forward to a break from home schooling. I’m sure that your parents are looking forward to a break from home schooling too! 

I was able to go into school on Tuesday evening for a couple of hours. Even though I miss school it was so strange and eerie to be back in the classroom. The classroom was exactly as we left it on March 12^th but the school was far too quiet!

We have been having lots of Staff Meetings (on Zoom) and we have lots of exciting things planned for the last five weeks of the year.

Plans are underway for a Bake Off Challenge, a 5^th and 6^th Class Quiz, a Wellness Week, a School Memories Week, a Green Schools Week and an Active Schools Week – all during the month of June!!! 

A big well done to everyone who sent in photographs for the Photograph Challenge. We have really enjoyed looking at all your photos and we will be putting the compilation together very soon. If you haven’t sent a photograph yet it's not too late you can still send them to me this week.

The Scribbler Magazine will go ahead this year thanks to Miss. Perdue. There are lots of budding authors in our class so make sure to send your stories, poems, drawings, reviews etc. for the Scribbler to mperduecashelgirls@gmail.com by Tuesday 2^nd June. As the senior girls in the school I know that everyone in fifth class will make a huge effort to contribute to the Scribbler. 

Continue to email me at any time with updates on your work, questions or even just to say hello! I am here to help you in any way that I can. It is very reassuring to know that you are all working hard at home and I am always delighted to see your work every week.  

Have a productive week everyone! 

Mrs. Kealy

Gaeilge

RTE School Hub

Ar an Cheadaoin beidh Muinteoir Cliona ag déanamh rang Gaeilge ar “RTE School Hub”.

Tá an samhradh beagnach linn agus tá spleodar an nádúir le feiceáil mórthimpeall orainn. Beidh Múinteoir Cliona ag labhairt faoin samhradh!

So do try to watch the RTE School Hub on Wednesday at about 11.40 am. Muinteoir Cliona will be talking about the Summer and the splendor of nature all around us. 

Scríbhneoireacht

Is breá liom a bheith ag imirt gailf. 

Dul siar ar caitheamh aimsire. Críochnaigh na habairtí. 

Revision of pastimes. Finish the sentences. 

Download the activity and write the sentences in your copy. 

Dán 

Éist leis an dán seo "Éirigí a Pháistí" anseo. Listen to the poem "Éirigí a Pháistí" here. 

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/seo_leat/SL_5C_T06_U20/index.html

Eleathanach

Download the Eleathanach for this week and read about Lá Domhanda na mBeach (Wold Day for Bees)

Online Activities

Here is a link to an online English/ Irish dictionary https://www.focloir.ie/

Try out www.duolingo.com  Practice your Irish daily for five mins to build your streak. 

Play these interactive games

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/Rang5_Ceacht15.html

http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/Rang5_Ceacht16.html

Maths

Lets start with a problem. I have one AM Office Supplies voucher left to be in with a chance to win it send the answer to this problem to me by Friday evening. 

Maths Challenge: You can work at your own pace in Maths Challenge for the rest of the year. You can do one a week, one a day – it’s up to you!

Money

How did you get on with last weeks money questions? This week we are looking at value for money - which is better value?

To do this you find the cost of one item and then compare.

Planet Maths pg 116 (A)

Real life maths 

Download the real life maths activity at the bottom of this page. It is based on the SuperValu online shopping website. 

Online Activity

If you had €10.00 to spend for a party – what would you buy. Here is the link to the Supervalu sweets and crisps.

Sweets https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/food-cupboard-chocolate-sweets/c-150200325

Crisps https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/food-cupboard-crisps-snacks-nuts-popcorn/c-150200330

Drinks https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/drinks/c-150100050

English

Spellbound: Unit 32

Please look over the vocabulary at the start of the week. You can use https://www.dictionary.com/ to check the meaning if you don't have a dictionary at home. You can also how the word is pronounced.  

LCWC: we will only do LCWC once a week - choose 4 difficult words and do LCWC for them

Holes

This week we will finish the Novel Holes. You can listen to the last three chapters of the novel here or maybe you would prefer to read it yourself.

Chapter 48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8QwF5Hy0qs

Chapter 49 & 50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAVWEVL4YCk

Holes Activities.

Think

1. Would you like to have Stanley as a friend? Why?
2. Do you think that it’s a coincidence that rain falls for the first time in 100 years? Explain why.

Write

Do you like the ending of the book? Is there anything you would like to have turned out differently? Give reasons for your answer.

I wonder ….

In Chapter 50 the reader is told “You have to fill in the holes yourself!” What questions do you have at the end of the book? In your copy draw four thought bubbles and write an “I wonder question in each thought bubble.

Watch

I would recommend that you watch the movie of Holes during the summer if you haven’t already watched it.

Independent Project on a topic of your choice.

I hope that you have a lot of research done on your projects. I am looking forward to seeing what you have chosen to do your project on and learning about your interests. 

Send photographs of your projects to me - I would love to see them. 

It isn't every day that you get to teach your teacher!  

You can choose to do your project on either

1. A person you admire (e.g. a famous sports person, a person from history, an author).
2. A hobby you are interested in e.g. a sport or a game

You learned about report writing with Miss. Clohessy. The purpose of the project is to present factual information to the reader.

Your project should include:

• An introduction: A definition or a short description of the person/ hobby
• A detailed description of all the sub-headings.
• A conclusion: A summary of the topic or an impersonal comment
• You can include fact boxes, a timeline, a labelled diagram, a glossary of vocabulary, a graph or table.

Here are some sub-headings you could use for a person

1. Early- life
2. Achievement
3. Later life and/or their influence

Here are some sub-headings you could use for a hobby

1. History/ origins of the activity e.g. when/ where/ how did it begin
2. The activity today e.g. how many people take part, competitions, has the activity changed
3. Famous people who take part e.g. famous camogie players

Look at page 66 and page 72 of your Word Wizard to revise the features of report writing.

Steps

1. Research your person or hobby using the internet, books etc.
2. Use your research to complete a mind map for your chosen person or hobby. (see pg 66 Word Wizard).
3. Using the information in your mind map write your first draft in your own words.

Time Capsule

Last week we told you about our exciting School Time Capsule Project.

All the work, along with your photographs will be put together in a School Time Capsule to be hidden away by Mrs. Andrews until 2030.

Each one of you will be invited back to Time Capsule opening. It will be an exciting event as everyone looks back on this time and sees how far they have all come.

Here are the activities for the Time Capsule.

Handprint

If you have paint at home you can make handprints on an A4 page. If you don’t have paint you could draw your handprints.

You’re not Stuck at home.

Some days I really missing work, visiting my friends and family, shopping or days out. I have to remind myself how luck I am to be safe at home with my family.

For this next activity you will be drawing picture to show what you are doing at home.

On an A4 page write “You are not stuck at home, you are safe at home” as your heading. (You can write it in bubble writing)

Write “What I am doing to keep busy” in the centre of the page in a cloud.

Around the cloud draw four pictures to show what you have been doing to keep busy since the school closed.

Special Occasions

What occasions did you celebrate during this time? (St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Birthdays, Anniversaries)

• Divide an A4 page in 4 (or more if you had a lot of Celebrations)
• Write Special Occasions as your heading. (You can use bubble writing)
• Write the Date and Name of the event in each box and then write and/or draw a picture of how you celebrated each event.

Note: There is a template for these activity in the downloads. You can print it if you like but you don’t have to.  

Remember to keep the activities safe. We will organise to collect your work from you in June.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’.

(Extra Work)

Have you been listening to Harry Potter and the Philisopher's Stone? 

You can still start listening to the story - just go back to my post from last week and the week before. I plan to listen to the book, whenever I get a break!!!!

Chapter 5 ‘Diagon Alley’ and chapter 6 ‘The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters’ are available to watch now using the following links. You can also listen to it on Spotify.

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-diagon-alley

https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-journey-from-platform-nine-and-three-quarters