Miss Horan- Term 3 week 4

Hi girls!
I hope you have had a good week.
Thank you for your emails during the week. I received such wonderful news, ideas, pictures and work samples. I miss seeing you all at school so it is so nice to see hear from you and see your pictures. I am so proud of the work that you are all doing.

This week coming our theme will be Nature. It is a good one for us this week because I know lots of you are spending lots of time outside in your gardens and going for lovely walks and cycles.

Have a great week everyone and be sure to keep those emails coming.
Keep safe everyone.
Ms. Frances Horan

Term 3, Week 4 Monday 11th May – Friday 15th May
Parents- Here are some activities for this week coming. If any of you would like additional support or resources from an subject area, please do contact me and I will be very happy to help.
fhorancashelgirls@gmail.com

Monday 11th May 2020
English: Reading – “New Runners for Jill” read pages 16 and 17 of the book linked below. https://my.cjfallon.ie/preview/student/1424/18

News – Write about, draw pictures and label your news. I always love to hear what you have been up to.

Maths Money- Coin Rubbings; Can you put a coin under a piece of paper, and lightly colour over it with a pencil or crayon- what happens? Try these coins;
1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c
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Tuesday 12th May 2020
English: Reading – “New Runners for Jill” read page 18 of the book linked below.
https://my.cjfallon.ie/preview/student/1424/18

Phonics; sh, th Can you find things in your house with these sounds? Practice writing words with these sounds.

Maths – Money- Kitchen Shop; with help from someone at home put prices on things in your kitchen presses? (1c- 10c). What can you buy? Draw pictures of what you bought!

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Wednesday 13th May 2020

English: Reading – “New Runners for Jill” read pages 19 and 20 of the book linked below.
https://my.cjfallon.ie/preview/student/1424/18

Handwriting- uU, jJ, dD - Practice writing these letters as perfectly as you can. Check your own work. Could have any of your letters be better?

Phonics – y, x, ch Can you find things in your house with these sounds? Practice writing words with these sounds.

Maths – Money- different ways; How many different ways can you make different amounts (up to 10c)? E.g; 6c= 1c+1c+1c+1c-1c+1c
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Thursday 14th May 2020

English: Reading – “New Runners for Jill” read page 21 of the book linked below.
https://my.cjfallon.ie/preview/student/1424/18

Writing: Nature Can you write a list of 10 things you can find in nature? Try your best to sound out each word! Draw a picture or maybe stick the item beside each!

Maths – Money- adding;
Put different coins (a few 1cs, 2cs, 5cs) in a hat. Close your eyes and pick out two coins. Can you add them? Write your adding sum. How many different sums can you make?

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Friday 15th May 2020
English – Tricky words – Can you spot these tricky words in books at home once, always, also
 

Reading – revise and read aloud “New Runners for Jill”.

https://my.cjfallon.ie/preview/student/1424/18

Maths – Maths; Colour by number;
Get a 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c and 20c coin and a white piece of paper. Use a pencil to draw around the coins. Colour/Paint; 1cs- green, 2cs red, 5cs purple, 10cs blue and 20cs-orange!

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Other subject ideas for the week:
Religion- The month of May is dedicated each year to Our Lady. Practice your prayer Hail Mary each day. Draw a picture of Our Lady.
Gaeilge- Practice the conversation and sing the song “Cad atá sa chistin?”. The video will be linked with this post.
PE. – Practice skipping, jumping, hopping and running. Practice throwing and catching a ball with someone at home.

This week’s theme is Nature.
Listen to Eric Carls story “The Tiny Seed”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_A_e6h-DhU

S.E.S.E -Nature:
Nature walk- Go on a nature walk close to your home. Take pictures of or collect interesting things that you see. Don’t forget to wear gloves and wash your hands after. Draw pictures of the things that you find.

Tree bark rubbings- Using paper and crayons, lean against the bark of a tree and colour in. If possible do bark rubbings of multiple trees and compare your results. Examine the interesting and different textures of each tree.

Stone and rock collection- If possible collect various types of pebbles and stones. Explore their different shapes and textures. Sort and classify your collection (big ones, small ones, rough ones, smooth ones etc)

Art-  Nature
Still life drawing- if possible pick some wild flowers (daisies/dandelions etc), arrange the flowers nicely perhaps in a little cup or glass. Draw or paint the flowers.

Flower petal picture- Pick petals of flowers if possible. (NB. Discuss how to, when and where you are allowed to pick flowers!) Using paper and glue, create a picture using the petals that you found.

Painting stones- Use some of the stones that you collected and paint them. You could paint a ladybird or a monster maybe.

Additional website that have some excellent resources for additional activities.
The CJ Fallon website is absolutely excellent and all resources are free, accessible and easily downloaded if any of you are looking for additional material.

https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources

These websites have been recommended by some of you in our class. The contain some brilliant resources and ideas.

https://readingeggs.co.uk/

https://www.easypeasyandfun.com/