KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK 1ST ROOM 6!

3rd May 2020

Hi wonderful girls,

I hope you and all your families are well. It was so good to get emails and photos from some of you during the week. It made me very happy indeed. I’d be thrilled to get more emails next week. Maybe you could send some news to me. If you include photos of yourself I can put them on the website with parent's permission.Can’t wait! Did you see the photos that went up over the last few days? Beautiful!

I hope you are getting on ok with the work and doing some of the fun stuff too like learning songs and making boats that don’t sink!! Also check out "Soothing Sounds On Spotify" that I posted on website 31st March for some quiet time and relaxing music and listen to "Huge Bag of Worries" story in the letter I wrote "How's it Going?" with the picture of the moon 19th April if you haven't already.

I have more work here if you need it. The extra activities if you get to do some, are for 2 weeks.

Remember to dance lots, practise your ball and skipping skills and do any exercise your parents want you to do.

Miss you,

Stay in touch,

Big massive hugs,

Ms. Maggie O’Brien

5^th May to 8^th May

Continue with work already assigned or start more if you are ready!

Maths:

Mental Maths:

Planet Maths p.125
Maths Challenge: P. 41+42 (Test 37+38).
Continue to use Khan Academy App to revise topics.
Don’t forget 100 square, Buzz and card games from last 2 weeks!

3D Shape:

3D Shape Hunt: Look for spheres, cylinders, cubes and cuboids in the home and outside
Write a list for each shape or draw or take photos.

Here is one of each to start you off.

sphere: ball

cylinder: tin of beans

cuboid: cereal box

cube: dice

Count the faces, edges and corners.
Look and see do some have 2D shapes as faces.
Which shapes roll and which shapes stack?
Planet maths121, 122, 123, 124.

English:

Keep writing your daily diary/news.
Write list of objects for 3D shapes maths hunt.
Continue reading Rubbish Monster P.32-36.
Read Tom Crean’s Rabbit again p.54 and listen to the story in history activities.
Read something every day. You can find lots of ebooks from your downloaded Khan Academy Kids App and https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

This new shelf might suit you: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/library-page?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+6-7&level=oxford+level+6&level_select=oxford+level+6&book_type=&series=#

Exercise Your English: Comprehension p.56 Penguins and Question marks p. 57.
No new Spellbound. Instead learn Jolly Phonics list p.30 and 32 and LCWC.
Jolly Phonics: p.32
Khan Academy Kids App to play Sentence Part, Punctuation, Verb games, Magic ‘e’, Diagraph and blends and sight word games.(Go to Library, Reading)

Gaeilge:

Play a game from Séideán Sí that will really help your Irish!

Rang a hAon, Céim 1, Ord agus Eagar. Click below to start you off on the first one

https://seideansi.ie/rang1/gniomhaiocht-2/L1/1/V1/Ceim1/SciobLaFliuch/

Abair Liom: No new chapter this week. Instead pick one or 2 of your favourite Ceachtanna (lessons) that we did and do the comhrá, póstaer, songs, poems and games for those lessons and see can you write your own sentences in Irish independently.
https://www.folensonline.ie/home/library/programmes/abair-liom-1st-class/resources/

Extra activities: SESE and Arts: 2 weeks work 5^th May to 15^th May

History and English: Tom Crean

Tom Crean’s nickname was Tom the Pole. Watch this video to learn about him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QstUmloiSpU

Listen to the telling of the story of Tom Crean’s Rabbit here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTQKeJkcG98

Read the Powerpoint (see Download section) about Tom Crean’s life.

Then see if you can you answer these questions

1.What county was Tom Crean from?

2.What did he do when he was 15?

3.Where did he meet Captain Robert Scott?

4.What was the name of the 2^nd ship that Tom Crean went to Antarctica on?

5.Did Tom Crean get to the South Pole?

Write one or 2 facts you have learned about Tom Crean and draw a picture.

Science: Wildflowers

Look at the photos below of three of the many wildflowers I have in my garden, a dandelion, a bluebell and a primrose.
Do you know which is which?
See can you find one or all 3 of these outside.
Look at the petals. Can you count them?
Look at the stem. Is it long, short, thin, thick, cylindrical?
Look at the leaves of each flower. What shape are they?
How are the flowers different? How are their leaves different?
Record your investigations by sketching the flowers, stems and leaves.

Geography and SPHE: Caring for my Locality

Concentrate on looking after our environment by continuing to:

Pick up litter
Reduce waste
Reuse materials
Recycle materials
Look after our Local Wildlife (Plant, let wildflowers grow and Mind Our Bugs!)

The main reason we need insects is because they pollinate plants and if we didn’t have them then 80% of all the plants we use for food would disappear.It is essential that we stop using poisonous sprays on our crops and instead encourage a balance of insects to do the work for us. The main pollinating insects are: bees, butterflies, moths, flies, ants and beetles.

To help these good bugs thrive and survive you could make a bug hotel in your own garden using odds and ends! Click on the link for help and look at the photos below for ideas….It doesn’t have to be a fancy hotel, bugs aren’t fussy!!

http://bioweb.ie/bug-hotel/

Materials you can use…………………

Plant pots - plastic and ceramic
Plastic and ceramic pipes of all sizes
Roof tiles
Brick and concrete blocks
Sand
Plastic drinks bottles
Drinking straws
Plastic pen casings

· Hollow bamboo canes
· Pallets or strips of untreated wood
· Dead wood - logs, sticks and twigs
· Logs drills with holes of various sizes
· Pine cones, dry seedheads
· Straw, hay, dry leaf litter
Cardboard tubes and corrugated card (be sure to keep them dry)

I bet in no time your hotel will be full of the most amazing creatures.

The insects will naturally find their way into it as they like dark squashed places.

Just be a bit careful sticking your fingers in – remember some insects nip and sting!

If you can’t or don’t want to build a hotel yourself just go and look under a flower pot or brick at home, I bet you’ll find lots of woodlice, beetles and worms.

Art: