Hola girls!
Remember how to say hi in Spanish?
I’m hoping that you are all very well and very relaxed after your Wellness Week last week. It really made me very happy seeing photos of Love poems, Worry Lorries, Mindful colouring, nature bracelets and yummy baked creations! Well done I’m very proud!
Summer has really arrived with lovely warm weather (even though it was a little bit chilly over last few days!), shorts, t-shirts, flipflops, long evenings and everything all around is blooming and bursting with life. Great times to be out and about.
This week we are having Tour and Memory Week. Have a look at virtual tours on the links below to see and learn about the animals and complete some of the activities and sheets from your envelope. I have also included some photos of How To Draw Animals below if you want to give some of them a go! Remember we did one when you drew the cows?
Enjoy investigating minibeasts/bugs and doing the fun things included for them.
Enjoy a picnic and finally have a trip down memory lane, remembering all the great things you did and enjoyed when you were in 1st class room 6. If you find it hard to remember look back at some of the photos I posted since September to jog your memory.
I will be busy this week in school getting all your lovely art, folders, copies etc. together in bundles for you. I will hold on to your tin whistle, music copy and dictionary for you for September. Don’t forget to keep your Jolly Phonics, diary cover and Rubbish Monster to give back to me for September. You can put them in a bag with your name on them and hopefully we will get to swap over bundles the following week. Mrs. Andrews will be in touch about all of this.
If your parents want you to continue with some English, Maths or other subjects that’s great but there’s no pressure to do so.
Have a really fun week. Email me lots of photos of what you get up to on your Safari, Minibeast Hunt, picnic and memory activities.
Miss you,
Lots of love and enormous hugs,
Ms.Maggie O’Brien. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1st and 2nd Tour/Memory Week 8th June to 12th June.
Day 1 and 2:
We can visit Fota and Dublin Zoo online! I know it’s not the same as visiting the real places but maybe not too far into the future after June 29th you might be able to visit Fota or Dublin Zoo.
- Have a look around and see what animals you can spot and tick them off the Zoo Hunt sheet (from your envelope) when you spot them.
Fota virtual tour:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8905347,-8.3081553,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syT3G47sx2-8DBgtD0k8lFA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Dublin zoo virtual tours:
https://www.dublinzoo.ie/event/virtual-tour/
https://www.dublinzoo.ie/virtual-tours-2/
Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari: This is an amazing website where you can see videos of all the different animals you click on and get really up close to them. Click on link and scroll down to the end to find the list of animals and click on whichever one you would like to see and learn about. Pick some of your favourites, there are so many!There are also loads of art ideas!
http://cincinnatizoo.org/home-safari-resources/?fbclid=IwAR2B1B3Bo8yqLkydE0tsf0pOd_-EDvj3RJvvsR8yb4FwCcMK7toCdoxSi9Q
- Do your Zoo Animal Wordsearch (from your envelope).
- Draw or make some of your favourite animals you saw.
- Make your own Zoo or Wildlife Park on paper or 3D.
Inside or Outside. Make with lego, blocks, clay, cardboard, twigs, leaves, boxes, tubes, recycled materials etc. Paint or Draw.
- Read this poem and then maybe you might write your own.
THE LOVE SONG OF HARRY HIPPO
By Larry O’Loughlin
Harry Hippo fell in love
One Sunday afternoon
And sang his girlfriend love songs
beneath the jungle moon.
‘Oh marry me,’ sang Harry
and I’ll cover you in kisses
and be so proud when you become
my hippopotamissus.’
Day 3 and 4:
Minibeasts:
- Make a pooter (see photo below) or get a jar with holes in the lid.
- Explore Bug hotel you made or under bricks, stones, logs etc. in the garden. Be gentle.
- Place bug in pooter or jar to view.
- Open umbrella turn upside down under a tree/shrub, shake carefully and examine bugs that have fallen into umbrella.
- Tick the Minibeast Hunt sheet (from your envelope) as you find.
- Count how many of the same bug you found and write beside on sheet.
- Be gentle. Don’t hurt them
- Set them free after 15mins max.
- Draw some of your favourite minibeasts.
- Take photographs of them.
- Do your Minibeast Wordsearch (from your envelope).
- Make a Bug Hotel if you haven’t already. See my post on website 3rd May under Extra Activities Geography and SPHE
https://www.cashelgirlsschool.ie/news/keep-up-the-great-work-1st-room-6/?p=1&tags=,1074,
Dr Seuss’ All About Insects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWdBjRrusy0
Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et9oHM62UF4
Diary of an Earthworm by Doreen Cronin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y6Mtll5b0w
Day 5:
Picnic and School Memories:
- Plan your picnic: What will I eat? What will I drink? Where will I sit? What do I need?
- Prepare the picnic.
- Pack the picnic.
- Enjoy the picnic.
- Take photos.
- Draw 4 of your favourite memories in the bubbles of 1st Class Memory Sheet (from your envelope). Pick 4 activities from school since last September that make you feel happy and warm inside when you remember them. It could be something new that you learned, some art that you did, a subject that you loved, a song, a dance, a story, the show, an activity we did outside, a friend you sat with, a game you played………..
It might be hard for you to remember things at first but close your eyes and be still for a while and memories will come trickling in or flooding in!!!! I don’t want to name specific things because I want you to remember for yourself. When you are happy you have four draw, colour, decorate and label.
Enjoy your week girls! Have lots of fun!
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