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Subject: English Strand: Writing Strand Units: Creating and fostering the impulse to write Developing competence, Confidence and the ability to write independently Developing Emotional and Imaginative Life through Writing
1. On what date is Europe Day? ________________
2. On what date is International Museum Day? ________________
3. Which company makes the Eiffel Tower 3D Puzzle? ________________
4. How many eggs did the wagtail lay in Joe O’Neill’s tractor? ________________
5. Which city will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest? ________________
6. Which island produces most of Japan’s potatoes? ________________
7. UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, is the leader of which political party? ________________
8. Where was Michael Collins killed? ________________
9. Cad is brí le S.M.I.R.K.? ________________
10. In which city is Banks O’Dee FC? ________________
11. Which Belfast hotel advised patrons against dancing in its lifts? ________________
12. In what year was the film The Curse of the Black Pearl released? ________________
13. When will Salazar’s Revenge be in cinemas? ________________
14. Who wrote the song ‘Cannonball’? ________________
15. Which American movie star wants his children to go to the Gaeltacht? ________________
16. Ireland’s favourite school photographer for over 40 years? ________________
17. In which county is Kilglas Lake? ________________
18. In what year did Volvo begin fitting their cars with two-point safety belts? ________________
19. Who is President of the European Commission? ________________
20. Which ocean is to the north of Europe? ________________
21. Is Iceland a member of the EU? ________________
22. What is the capital of Slovakia? ________________
23. What does Shane call his three hens? ________________
24. How long did the journey home from the concert take? ________________
25. Planet Sudoku: in the top right square, which digit goes before 6? ________________
26. Which scientist led the team which discovered QSCR? ________________
27. Which supermarket chain intend powering their trucks with waste food? ________________
28. Who founded the monastery at Clonard in the 6th century? ________________
29. Which vitamin do we get from the sun? ________________
30. Describe Grandad’s socks? ________________
31. In which county is Brittas Bay? ________________
32. Parvana is the main character in which novel? ________________
33. How much does it cost to subscribe to the Beano for 50 weeks? ________________
34. How many stars are on the EU flag? ________________
35. Who is the manager of the Armagh football team? ________________
36. DeKalb High School is in which US state? ________________
37. Who holds the record for the fastest century in Cricket World Cup history? ________________
38. David Moyes is the manager of which soccer team? ________________
39. Sean O’Brien comes from which county? ________________
40. When does The Primary Planet special offer end? ________________
What prize does the winner of the Short Story Competition receive? ________________
1. Which nomadic tribe are known as the ‘People of the Veil’? ________________
2. In which book may you read about the history of the golden snitch? ________________
The Primary Planet May Quiz
40 Questions based on the 40 pages in this month’s paper - 1 Question per page
Subject: Gaeilge Strand: Leitheoireacht
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Sampla- Lch 5: Rugadh Brian Friel sa bhliain seo. 1929
FICHE CEIST
Bealtaine 2017
1. (Lch. 2) Beidh Lá Idirnáisiúnta na Músaem ar an lá seo. _______________
2. (Lch. 5) Cé mhéad uair a bhuaigh Éire an Eurovision? _______________
3. (Lch. 6) Cén stáit ina bhfuil Pairc Dúlra Okeefenokee. _______________
4. (Lch. 7) Beidh olltoghacháin sa Ríocht Aontaithe (UK) ar an lá seo. _______________
5. (Lch. 8) Rugadh Michael Collins sa bhliain seo. _______________
6. (Lch. 9) Cén dath a bhí ar an mála leis an gaireas frithchrioscaíola air? _______________
7. (Lch. 10). Nuair a fuair Emma Morano bás, cén aois a bhí aici? _______________
8. (Lch. 15) Cá raibh bainis Rory McIlroy? _______________
9. (Lch. 18) Cén tír as a thagann Volvo? _______________
10. (Lch. 19) Cá bhfuil ceannáras (HQ) Comhairle na hEorpa? _______________
11. (Lch. 20) Cé acu is mó, an Bheilg (Belgium) nó an Albáin (Albania). _______________
12. (Lch. 21) Cad é príomhchathair na Laitvia? _______________
13. (Lch. 22) Tá Cív (Kiev) sa tír seo. _______________
14. (Lch. 28) Bíonn rásaiocht chapall ar an trá anseo? _______________
15. (Lch. 32) Cá bhfuil cónaí ar Pierrot sa leabhar a scríobh John Boyne? _______________
16. (Lch. 35) Imríonn Denise Gaule camógaíocht leis an bhfoireann seo. _______________
17. (Lch. 36) Imríonn Sam agus Chloe Magee an sport seo? _______________
18. (Lch. 37) Curadh snúcair an domhain faoi láthair. _______________
19. (Lch. 38) Bainisteoir Chelsea FC. _______________
20. (Lch. 8 ) Cén aois é Tadhg Furlong? _______________
Tá siad simplí agus tá fiche freagra le fáil. Féach tríd an nuachtán!
Subject: English Strand: Strand: Competence and confidence in using language Strand Units: Reading: developing interests, attitudes, information retrieval skills and the ability to think
Are you a good detective? The Vocabulary Constabulary needs your help. This is all you have to do. You can often detect the meaning of a word by reading it in context, that is, by reading the other words around it in a piece of text. Find the page and the article in TPP and then detect the word that solves the clue to its meaning. The number of letters and the starting letter of the solution are in brackets after each clue.
Vocabulary Constabulary May 2017
LOCATION, Article Title CLUE (number of letters, first letter) SOLUTION
1. P1, All EU Need to Know any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (9) __________________
2. P8, Michael Collins agreement, truce, settlement, pact (6,t) __________________
3. P 10, Long Ball a long story of heroic achievement (4,s) __________________
4. P10, Holy Cow strange, curious, inexplicable, weird (7,b) __________________
5. P11, RuBIG Cube huge, massive, immense, enormous (8,c) __________________
6. P11, Easter Egg Expiry take away, seize, sequester, impound (10,c) __________________
7. P12, Captain Underpants bright idea, inspiration, clever notion (7,b) __________________
8. P16, International Day variety, assortment, mixture, range (9,d) __________________
9. P17, Our Ski Day run-down, derelict, ramshackle, decrepit (11,d) __________________
10. P18, VW is Buzz-ing cool, hip, trendy, groovy (f,5) __________________
11. P19, European Union a system of money in general use in a particular country (8,c) __________________
12. P22, Did you know? completely surrounded by land, non-coastal (10,l) __________________
13. P24, GR8 Concert a bargain, a surprisingly cheap item (1, & 4,s)) __________________
14. P26, Charging Rooms nearness, closeness, in the vicinity of (9,p) __________________
15. P27, Prynt Photos from … souvenirs, reminders, keepsakes, (8,m) __________________
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Subject: English Strand: Writing Strand Units: Creating and fostering the impulse to write Developing competence, Confidence and the ability to write independently Developing Emotional and Imaginative Life through Writing
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Dolphins
Fill in the blanks with words from the word bank. REMEMBER – each sentence should make sense!
(This is an excerpt from an article which first appeared in the April, 2014, edition of The Primary Planet)
Dolphins are very charismatic, intelligent, and playful creatures. They inhabit most of the
____________ (1) in the world, and travel around in large groups of about 500, called pods.
They are part of the cetacean family that ____________ (2) toothed whales and orcas. They are
generally grey in colour, with their backs darker than the rest of their body. They are
____________ (3) and consume a diet of fish, squid, and crustaceans, which are in plentiful
supply in the shallow ____________ (4) of the continental shelf.
Dolphins are well known for their ____________ (5) behaviour and are popular in theme parks,
and with whale watchers. Many species ____________ (6) vertically out of the water and some
follow ____________, (7) often synchronizing their movements with one another. They also
conserve ____________ (8) by riding alongside the bow waves of ships.
Dolphins use ____________ (9) to find their prey, and work together to ____________ (10)
schools of fish. They ____________ (11) the fish until they form a tight ball. They then take
turns swimming through the centre of the school to eat the fish.
There is a great range and variety of dolphins. The common ____________ (12) dolphin is about
2.5m long and weighs about 270kg. Maui’s dolphin is the rarest and smallest of all dolphins. It is
only found off the west ____________ (13) of New Zealand’s North Island, is just over a metre
long, and only weighs about 20kg. Compare this to the largest dolphin, the orca or killer whale,
who can reach almost 8m in ____________ (14) and weighs in at 860kg. Dolphins also live long
lives, with the bottle nose dolphin averaging 40 years, while the orca can live to the ripe old
____________ (15) of 70.
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carnivores coast playful echolocation length
ships age circle oceans leap
trap energy waters bottlenose includes
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Subject: English Strand: Writing Strand Units: Creating and fostering the impulse to write Developing competence, Confidence and the ability to write independently Developing Emotional and Imaginative Life through Writing
Name:__________________________________________
Find and record interesting facts that you read in this month’s paper, in your own words. Illustrate each fact or import a suitable image. The first one is done for you!
Did you know about Europe?
Europe Day is celebrated on May 9, each year. There are 51 countries
in Europe and 28 of them make up the European Union (EU). The EU
was founded in 1958 and was called the European Economic
Community (EEC) at that time. The EU members allow people from
other member states to live in their countries. They also trade freely
with other EU members. Nineteen of the EU countries, including
Ireland, use the Euro as their currency. In the next few years the UK
will become the first member to leave the EU since it was founded.
(You can find out more about Justin Timberlake on page 14 of the February 2017 edition of The Primary Planet)
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Subject: English Strand: Writing Strand Units: Creating and fostering the impulse to write Developing competence, Confidence and the ability to write independently Developing Emotional and Imaginative Life through Writing
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Subject: SPHE Strand: Strand: Myself and Others Strand Units: My Friends and Other People
Editing- a vital skil!
Can you find the errors in the story below? There are ten spelling mistakes, five capital letters
have been omitted and five full stops have also been left out.
Aviation Takes Off (This is an extract from an article first published in the May 2014 edition of TPP.)
Air travel as we know it has come a long way since the first successfull aeroplane was invented and flown by
the Wright brothers of Ohio in 1903. Orville and Wilbur Wright credited their interest in aviation to a toy
helicoptor given to them by their father when they were children The two boys played with the toy until it
broke and then made one of their own.
Inspired by Otto Lilienthal, (known as the Glider King of germany), the brothers initially worked on glider
desings, before turning their efforts to powered aircraft. not satisfied with the results they acheived with
gliders, the brothers constructed their own wind tunnel and did hundreds of experiments to measure the
forces of drag and lift While other aviators of the time didn’t seem to worry about safety and control, these
were the Wright brothers’ main concerns, and were a big influence on their designs.
The Wrights made the first powred, controlled, heavier than air, manned flight on December 17, 1903 at Kill
Devil Hills, near Kittyhawk, in North Carolina. The first flight was made by orville and he flew a distence of 36
metres in 12 seconds Later on the same day, Wilbur Wright flew 260 metres in 59 seconds. After hundreds of
years of trying, man had, at last, learnt to fly, and the advances that followed over the next few years were all
based on these first flights by the Wright brothers.
Aeroplanes were quickly adopted by the militery for use in combat, and played a major role in both World
Wars Better design and technological advances soon led to sleeker, faster planes and before long, pilots were
competeing with one another for cash prizes which were given for distance and speed records.
The first non-stop transatlantic aeroplain flight, from Newfoundland to clifden in County Galway on 14th June
1919, won its pilots, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur brown, a prize of $65,000 There are two
monumints in County Galway near the site where the Vickers Vimy bomber plane landed after less than
fifteen hours of flying and the pilots gave their first interview to the Connacht Tribune newspaper.
Subject: English Strand: Strand: Competence and confidence in using language Strand Units: Reading: developing interests, attitudes, information retrieval skills and the ability to think
Fun Puzzles
1. Doublets
Doublets are word puzzles invented by Lewis Carroll. Transform one word into another by changing a single letter in each step, so that each link in the chain is a valid word. For example, to change MORE into LESS with 3 links: MORE, lore, lose, loss, LESS (There will often be several ways to solve the doublet but remember, each link must be a valid word!)
Now try these Change CLAM into SHIP with 3 links Change POND into BARN with 3 links Change CLIP into SHOT with 3 links
2. General Knowledge Quiz
Solve the general knowledge quiz and the first letters of the answers will reveal an Irish poet killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele on July 31, 1917. Use your research skills to help you find the answers and one of his poems which begins with the lines
She leans across an orchard gate somewhere, Bending from out the shadows to the light,
1. Which material is made from fibres of the flax plant? ___________________ (5) 2. Which birthstone is associated with the month of May? ___________________ (7) 3. To which country do the Faroe Islands belong? ___________________ (7) 4. In which Abbey is Isaac Newton buried? ___________________ (11) 5. Boise is the capital of which US state? ___________________ (5) 6. Vampire created by Bram Stoker – Count _________. ___________________ (7) 7. Aegean Airlines is the biggest airline of which country? ___________________ (6) 8. How many players are there on an American Football team? ___________________ (6)
3. Timothy Tourist
Timothy Tourist intends to see ten places or things associated with Cavan. Unscramble the letters so Timothy can begin his travels. Use your research skills to help you find the answers on page 28 of the April 2017 edition of The Primary Planet.
1 ROBNESUHA
2 YOBEN
3 RAAT
4 ORTHATA
5 KERBCAWALT
6 GENWARENG 7 SLELK
8 NODCARL 9 TOYLAWN
10 CANNYVOCAL
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Subject: English Strand: Writing Strand Units: Creating and fostering the impulse to write Developing competence, Confidence and the ability to write independently Developing Emotional and Imaginative Life through Writing
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Michael CollinsDead Famous Series – Part 9
Write full sentences for your answers. Read the key words in the questions so that you can give key words in your answers.
1. When and where was Michael Collins born?2. Why did he go to London in 1906?3. Where was Collins during the Easter Rising in 1916?4. Write two things that happened to Collins between 1916 and 1918.5. Use your research skills to find out what guerrilla warfare is.6. In your opinion what was terrible about the civil war in Ireland?7. Was Michael Collins popular in Ireland? Give reasons for your answer.8. Write out five questions you would ask Michael Collins, if you were a TV reporter
interviewing him during his lifetime.9. Think up a name for your own newspaper and design the front page headline
announcing the death of Michael Collins.10. Use your research skills to find out five further facts about Michael Collins.
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WORDSEARCH- Europe Day Special
See if you can find all 28 member states of the European Union. And when your finished, why not make a list of their capitals!
Answers May #63
Planet Crossword:
It’s Mental:
1. How many quarters in 12 whole units? 48
2. How many obtuse angles in a square? Zero
3. Add half of fifty to half of one hundred. 75
4. Write 26 minutes to 9 in digital. 8.34
5. What are the chances of rolling a 2 on a die? 1 in 6
6. Write the numeral – one hundred thousand and twenty 100,020
7. Complete this sequence: 3, 6, 10, 15, ____ 21
8. Subtract 19 from 51. 32
9. Which is longer: 123,000m or 1.24Km 123,000m
10. Multiply 3 x 4 x 5 60
Countdown:
6 x 50 = 300 x 2 = 600 – (10 / (8/4)) = 595
Planet Sudoku:
Maths Questions Page 24
1. Friday May 26
2. €1,400,000
3. €52,500
4. 4.41 p.m. or 16:41
5. €32
6. 8.35 p.m. or 20:35
7. Burger €5.20 and chips €1.30
8. 2 hrs 16 mins
9. 1.14 a.m. or 01:14
10. €39.68
Fun Puzzles
Doublets:
CLAM, CLAP, CLIP, CHIP, SHIP
POND, BOND, BAND, BARD, BARN
CLIP, SLIP, SLIT, SLOT, SHOT
General Knowledge Quiz
1. Linen
2. Emerald
3. Denmark
4. Westminster
5. Idaho
6. Dracula
7. Greece
8. Eleven
Poet – Francis LEDWIDGE
Timothy Tourist
1. Ashbourne
2. Boyne
3. Tara
4. Ratoath
5. Blackwater
6. Newgrange
7. Kells
8. Clonard
9. Laytown
10. Clonycavan
Editing – A Vital Skil
Air travel as we know it has come a long way since the first successfull
aeroplane was invented and flown by the Wright brothers of Ohio in 1903.
Orville and Wilbur Wright credited their interest in aviation to a toy helicoptor
given to them by their father when they were children. The two boys played
with the toy until it broke and then made one of their own.
Inspired by Otto Lilienthal, (known as the Glider King of germany), the brothers
initially worked on glider desings, before turning their efforts to powered
aircraft. not satisfied with the results they acheived with gliders, the brothers
constructed their own wind tunnel and did hundreds of experiments to
measure the forces of drag and lift. While other aviators of the time didn’t
seem to worry about safety and control, these were the Wright brothers’ main
concerns, and were a big influence on their designs.
The Wrights made the first powred, controlled, heavier than air, manned flight
on December 17, 1903 at Kill Devil Hills, near Kittyhawk, in North Carolina. The
first flight was made by orville and he flew a distence of 36 metres in 12
seconds. Later on the same day, Wilbur Wright flew 260 metres in 59
seconds. After hundreds of years of trying, man had, at last, learnt to fly, and
the advances that followed over the next few years were all based on these
first flights by the Wright brothers.
Aeroplanes were quickly adopted by the militery for use in combat, and played
a major role in both World Wars. Better design and technological advances
soon led to sleeker, faster planes and before long, pilots were competeing with
one another for cash prizes which were given for distance and speed records.
The first non-stop transatlantic aeroplain flight, from Newfoundland to clifden
in County Galway on 14th June 1919, won its pilots, Captain John Alcock and
Lieutenant Arthur brown, a prize of $65,000. There are two monumints in
County Galway near the site where the Vickers Vimy bomber plane landed
after less than fifteen hours of flying and the pilots gave their first interview to
the Connacht Tribune newspaper.
Spelling mistakes are highlighted in yellow, omitted capital letters are
highlighted in green and omitted full stops are red and underlined.
Cloze
1. oceans
2. includes
3. carnivores
4. waters
5. playful
6. leap
7. ships
8. energy
9. echolocation
10. trap
11. Circle
12. Bottlenose
13. Coast
14. Length
15. Age
Vocabulary Constabulary
1. continent
2. treaty
3. saga
4. bizarre
5. colossal
6. confiscate
7. brainwave
8. diversity
9. dilapidated
10. funky
11. Currency
12. landlocked
13. a snip
14. Proximity
15. Mementos
40-Quiz
1. May 9
2. May 18
3. Ravensburger
4. 4
5. Kiev
6. Hokkaido
7. Conservative party
8. Béal na Bláth
9. Special Ministry of Intelligent Rotters Kommittee
10. Aberdeen
11. Premier Inn
12. 2003
13. May 25
14. Damien Rice
15. Matthew McConaughey
16. Countyphotos
17. Roscommon
18. 1957
19. Jean-Claude Juncker
20. Arctic Ocean
21. No
22. Bratislava
23. The Three Musketeers
24. 38 minutes
25. 2
26. Adamson Sample
27. Waitrose
28. St Finian
29. Vitamin D
30. White with red lines at the top
31. Wicklow
32. The Breadwinner
33. €127
34. 12
35. Kieran McGeeney
36. Illinois
37. Kevin O’Brien
38. Sunderland
39. Carlow
40. May 31
Fiche Ceist
1. 18 Bealtaine
2. 7
3. Georgia
4. 8 Meitheamh