Hello sixth class,
Monday marks the beginning of Phase 1 in the Governments roadmap for easing Covid 19 restrictions.
Most of the changes in Phase one will make little difference to your lives, however, it is the beginning of the end of the lockdown. It is exciting to think that we all be able to see our friends and family very, very, soon.
Last week we introduced a Photograph Challenge – I hope that you are having lots of fun taking the photographs. Get them in to my by this Friday.
This week we are introducing our School Time Capsule for 5th and 6th Class.
A time capsule is a container that holds present day items, such as photos, newspapers, letters and more. It's typically hidden away for your future self or someone of your choosing to open.
Each week we will set a task for you to complete.
Keep the activities safe. We will organise to collect your work from you in June.
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.
With just six weeks to go to the end of the school year it is time to start bringing your time in St. John the Baptist Girls’ School to a close. Over the next six weeks we will be celebrating all that you have achieved during your time in our school and looking forward to your next big step in Secondary School.
Keep sending me your photographs and work girls – it really makes my day to see how hard you are working! I am so proud of each and every one of you for sticking with the work during – I know that working at home isn’t easy!
You have been fantastic role models for the younger girls in our school throughout the year and I know that you will continue to give 100% until June 26th!
Have a great week,
Mrs. Kealy
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Have you photographs of your first day in school, your First Holy Communion, Confirmation or any other school events?
Every year we ask 6th class to bring in photographs of their time in our school to use as part of the end of year celebrations, we would love you to send any photographs you may have to me by email or by post (please put your name on the back so we can return them).
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Gaeilge
RTE Home School Hub.
This week Muinteoir Cliona will be looking at “Eadai” in Gaeilge on the RTE Home School Hub on Tuesday. So do try to watch and listen on Tuesday at about 11.40 a.m.
Did you watch the Home School Hub on Friday. Muinteoir Cliona looked at the rooms of the house and showed you how to make a plan of your house.
Na Briathra Neamhrialta
There are 11 irregular verbs in Irish – you learned them off in Miss. Ryan’s class (and did a big test) but we hadn’t revised them yet this year.
This week we are going to revise the next 3 - take one a day and practice them!
Download the activities below – you can print them or write into your copy. Learn the verbs and do the activities.
Eleathanach
Download this weeks eleathanach. Try to read Matt Damon anseo in Éirinn & Cá raibh a bhríste? The foclór in the bosca will help you.
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Matt Damon anseo in Éirinn
lena – with his
bean cheile – wife
ag aisteoireacht – acting
bhí orthú – they had to
críoch a chur leis – end (críochnaithe)
toisc – because
mhuintir na hÉireann – the Irish people
mar gheall ar – because of
an ceantar – the area
Bhí ionadh ar gach duine – everyone was surprised
na láithreoirí – the presenters
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Cá raibh a bhríste?
An cuimhin libh – do ye remember
B’aisteoir cáiliúil é – famous actor
a mhac – his son
ar an gclár – on the programme (clár teilifise)
ag taifeadadh – recording
toisc – because
níor bhac sé – he didn’t bother
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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 this interactive game
Match the clue with the word e.g. ólaim é – deoch http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/Rang6_Ceacht1.html
English
Spellbound: Unit 31
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 Novel
Did any of you read on in Holes? Did you finish reading it?
You brought the novel home on the last day of school. Read chapter 44- 47 this week and we will finish reading the book next week.
You can listen to the book read aloud here & follow it in your book.
Chapter 44 – 45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuXYGqcxo8
Chapter 46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j5GxIkGD60
Chapter 47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_RTk-5El0
Palindromes
“Stanley Yelnats” is a palindrome, spelled the same both forward and backward. Other palindromes include the words mom, radar, and racecar, and the names Elle, Anna, and Otto.
Whole phrases can be palindromes, too, such as “A daffodil slid off Ada” and “Rats live on no evil star.”
Come up with some palindromes of your own, or make your name into a palindrome.
Apostrophes
Some girls were caught out by the apostrophes exercise last week. There is a sheet to download with extra practice of apostrophes - you only have to do C.
Maths – Money
This week we will be covering money. Mrs. Andrews has covered calculating VAT and interest with you.
1. Finding the best value
Planet Maths pg132 A
Changing Euros into other currencies
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Quick tip: to remember what to do:
When we are going on holidays we want as much money as possible to spend. So think this, we have euros and want to multiply to get as much foreign currency to spend on holidays in that country. Multiply the euros by the foreign exchange rate.
However, when coming home from holidays we have a smaller amount of foreign currency. So we convert our foreign currency to euro by dividing by the foreign exchange rate)
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Try these out and see how you get on.
Planet Maths pg. 134 (A & B)
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Parental Involvement
- Discussing different currencies and countries.
- Ask an older relative do they have any old Irish currency, i.e. notes and coins. Examine size, colour, material, weight, design, artwork, symbols used, graphics, etc.
- Look at how bills are calculated, e.g. plumber, mechanic, electrician to include parts, labour and VAT.
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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!
Confirmation Scrapbook.
Your Confirmation Scrapbook is a memento of your Confirmation Day – something you will bring out in years to come to remember the occasion.
You put a lot of the work into your scrapbook before the school closed but there were a few things left for us to do over the next few weeks.
My Confirmation Day
What are your memories of your Confirmation Day?
Write an account of your Confirmation Day including the following;
- a brief description of how you prepared for your Confirmation Day
- a description of the Ceremony. Who accompanied you to the church? What was your role in the Ceremony? What are your memories of the ceremony? How did you feel during the ceremony?
- A description of how you celebrated your Confirmation. Who celebrated with you? Where did you celebrate? What are your memories of the celebrations?
You will be able to include a photograph with your writing.
This is a Recount: Look at pg 6 and pg 12 of your Word Wizard for guidelines on how you should structure your Recount.
Design your Scrapbook Cover.
Design your scrapbook cover on a plain A4 page. We will then cover the scrapbook (like we did for our writing scrapbook) and stick the A4 page on the front
Write “My Confirmation Scrapbook 2020” on the cover and decorate it.
There is a lot of work in designing the cover so you can complete it over the next few weeks.
There are some images in the downloads for inspiration.
Time Capsule Activity
Write a letter to yourself ten years from now.
This is the first item we are asking you to complete for the time capsule.
We would like you to reflect on this experience and think about the future.
We will hold on to your letter until 2030 for you!
Your letter should include
- Greeting “Dear future me, “
- Opening – Reason for contact
- Main message you would like to convey, e.g. What you would like to remember from this time. What you hope you will achieve by 2030 (college, job, travel etc.)
- Include some questions and how they might respond e.g. What is technology like in the future? What will the world be like?
- Greeting and farewell.
‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’
(Extra Activity)
If you enjoyed listening to Chapter 1 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Strom Chapter 2 ‘The Vanishing Glass,’ Chapter 3 ‘The Letters from No One’ and Chapter 4 ‘The Keeper of the Keys’ are available to watch now using the following links. You can also listen to it on Spotify.
https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-vanishing-glass
https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-letters-from-no-one
https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-keeper-of-the-keys
You’ll find activities for each chapter if you click on the ‘Chapter Challenge’ below each video.
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