Rang a Dó Week 7 : 11 th – 15 th May

Week’s Schedule:

Monday : Gaeilge Tuesday: Gaeilge

Maths Maths

English English

Science and PE Geography and PE

Wednesday: Gaeilge Thursday: Gaeilge

Maths Maths

English English

History and PE Music and PE

Friday : Gaeilge

Maths

English Spelling Test

Art and PE

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A Word From Teacher

Good Morning everyone,

I hope you are all well – rested after the weekend?

We have lots of lovely activities and lessons set out for this week. I hope you enjoy them.

Remember to try your best, keep that writing nice and tidy and don’t worry if anything is too tricky. You will have lots of help when you come back to school.

Who signed up on Mangahigh?? If you didn’t make sure you do. It’s great fun! I will set a new challenge each week.

https://app.mangahigh.com/register-student/453801?p=546924

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Each week I will mention the wonderful boys and girls that have submitted their writing for our ‘We are Writers’’ Book. This week I have to say a big well done to Eoghan H who did an interview with his grandparents. I’m sure he learned a lot from the process and that his grandparents were delighted to be part of his ‘We are Writers’ project. Well done Eoghan!

Parents, it has been really lovely to talk to you all over the last couple of weeks. You really are all doing an amazing job by the sounds of it. I know it is far from easy. As mentioned we are all still here for further support in any area. Just contact the school at st.colmcilles1@gmail.com

Some more things to remember for this week:

We are back to our Oxford Readers this week Go to www.oxfordowl.co.uk and click on MyClass login at the top of the page.

Username: Tullydonnell Tigers

Password: MsKeegan ( with capital M and K)

Click on the age group tab and select readers through the week.

Go up or down the age group if reader is too difficult, too easy. Remember reading is not just about reading the words with fluency and expression, but most importantly it’s about comprehension ( reading for understanding) . Therefore question your child on what they have read before moving onto a new reader.

I have attached your spelling sheet for this week. Use it in the same way as normal. Ask an adult to give you a mini- test on Friday.

I have attached the new wordmat for this month’s Class Reader. P.E. continues to be part of each day’s timetable. Go to the Active School tab on

the website for lots of fun activities. Getting active each day is very important. Mangahigh , a maths site is up and running for everyone. Well done to all that have

already signed up. I recommend anyone who has not signed up yet to do so. It is great fun! This will be our Maths Warm Up this week. You can find the link on the text from the school.

You will need to access Abair Liom resources this week again on https://www.folensonline.ie/registration/

The closing date for entries for ‘We are Writers’ task is May 29th . You might like to put this task in, in place of a different lesson one of the days. I hope all of your tasks go well for you this week. The answer sheet is available on the website to use daily.

Ms. Keegan

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These are your new words for your next class reader story. Take a few each day

to practise. New Words: Camping FunThese are our new words for our next

book.

camping practicing badgeBeavers leader skillsgained Scouts lifeboatstation rescued whaledolphin stranded injuredfellow adventure centre

honked waving nervouslygathered orienteering pitch

shaky points controlcompass instruction

simpatient

peered brave travelnorth squirrel muddytracks footprints dartedcalmed followed mistakeafraid activities obstaclecourse sledges campfire

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comfortable earned stretchedSpellings for this week. Practise every day. Tick the box when done .

This week’s phonics is ‘ee’ once more.

thirteenfourteenfifteensixteen

seventeeneighteennineteenbetween

puttoowhereevery

Litriú:

1. Tá an aimsir go deas. ( The weather is lovely.)2. Tá sé ag cur báistí. ( It is raining)

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Monday May 11th Gaeilge ( Revision)Topic: A Stoirm

To listen to the vocab and play the games follow these instructions:

Tasc 1: go to https://www.folensonline.ie/home/

Go to Abair Liom D and ’17. An Stoirm’ in ‘Lessons’ tab

Open poster

And Foclóir 1 , Foclóir 26

Play the game!

Monday May 11th Maths

1. Warm up: Mangahigh ( use the link from school text message if you have not yet registered.)

2. Topic: Area- estimate and measure area using non- standard objects.

Vocabulary: estimate cover surface edge flat fit space overlap same area as greater/smaller area than compare

Area is the amount of space taken up by the surface of an object.

eg. Your kitchen table

Today we will do some estimating.

You will need copies, books (same size), a set of envelopes, a pack of post-it notes or a deck of cards.

Estimate how many books/envelopes/ playing cards it will take to cover the following

surfaces.

Surface of .. EstimateKitchen tableSeat of chairScreen of the television

If you have playing cards or a set of envelopes, find out how many it takes to cover seat of your chair.________

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Was your estimate close? _______

Monday May 11th English

1. Spellings Tick when done 2. Wordmat Tick when done

3. This week we will base all of our English lessons on the wonderful story ‘On the way home’ by Jill Murphy. If you are lucky enough to have this story in your house, great! Otherwise, you can find the story with the following link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URRAMHToe4s

Activity 1- Take a look at the front cover of the book. Make a PREDICTION about what you think the story is about. Remembe , a prediction is a guess.

My Prediction: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Activity 2: Listen to the story

Activity 3: Did you hear any adjectives?Remember- adjectives are describing words. They tell us more about the noun.Example: I saw a cat in his bed. I saw a big, fluffy cat in his comfortable, warm bed.

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Add two more adjectives to the stars below.

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Monday May 11th Science

Topic: Sound

I hope your ‘sail- cars’ worked for you last week?

For the next few weeks we will be learning about sound.

Today we will focus on exploring environmental sounds- sounds in the world around us.

1. Watch this video to introduce us to sound and how sounds happen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-xKZKxXuu0

2. Game: Let’s try to identify sounds from the world around us.Go to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1m4h79JZsoYou will need to pause the video after each sound to make your guess.

Write the correct number beside each picture.

We will just do the first 8 sounds.

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Listen carefully!

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Tuesday May 12th Gaeilge (Revision)

Topic: An Stoirm

Tasc 1: go to https://www.folensonline.ie/home/ and follow yesterday’s instructions to play Focloir 1 and Focloir 2 again.

Tasc 2: Cén sort aimsir atá ann? ( What is the weather like?)

Léigh agus Líon na bearnaí. (Read and fill in the gaps.)

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Tuesday May 12th Maths

1. Warm up: Mangahigh ( use the link from school text message if you have not yet registered.)

2. Area

We learned yesterday that area is the space that the surface of an object takes up.

You used non- standard units of measurement (e.g. deck of cards, set of books, set of envelopes) to estimate and then measure the area of surfaces in your home.

You can also you blocks, cubes, crayons, markers, paper- clips as long as each set is the same size and you have enough of them.

Task 1: If you have enough of any of the above, or maybe you thought of your own non- standard unit of measurement, choose a surface in your home and complete the table below.

Surface Non- standard unit of measurement

My Estimate Amount

Task 2: Let’s try to decide from these pictures which shape has the greatest area.

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Tuesday May 12th English

1. Spellings Tick when done 2. Wordmat Tick when done 3. Topic: Story: ‘On the way home.’- Adjectives

Listen to the story : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URRAMHToe4s

Can you add more adjectives to describe the different characters from the story?

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Tuesday May 12th Geography

Topic: Water Pollution

We learned all about water pollution last week and the different ways our rivers and seas can get polluted. This week I would like you to design a poster to encourage people to take care of our rivers.

Teacher Tips: Make it colourful Make any letters/ writing big Think about what people could do to keep rivers clean Think about the plants, animals, fish and insects Maybe you can think of a slogan for your poster

When your poster is finished, you can send it to st.colmcilles1@gmail.com . An adult must give permission in the email for the photo to be uploaded to the website.

Good Job, you are finished Tuesday’s challenges.

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Wednesday May 13th Gaeilge ( Revision)

Topic: Éadaí Scoile

Rólimirt (roleplay)

Tasc 1: go to https://www.folensonline.ie/home/

Go to Abair Liom D and ‘An Stoirm’ in ‘Lessons’ tab

Open ‘Comhrá’

Listen to the ‘comhrá’

Tasc 2: Déan on rólimirt- Now try it for yourself. An adult or two could play some of the parts with you!

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Also available on the ebook for Abair Liom D page 86

Wednesday May 13th Maths

1. Warm up: Mangahigh ( use the link from school text message if you have not yet registered) or Mental Maths Book page 50

2. Area3.

Task 1 : Here is another example of covering the area of a table with non- standard units of measurement. This time with copies.

How many copies cover the area of the table above? __________

Task 2: Answer the following true or false questions.

Remember, you are using your estimation skills and you can’t get the actual area.

Good job!

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Wednesday 13th May English

1. Spellings Tick when done 2. Wordmat Tick when done

3. Topic: Story ‘ On the way home.’- Comprehension

Activity 1 : Listen to the story one more time. I wonder can you join in with some of the words now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URRAMHToe4s

Activity 2: Answer the following questions about the story. Remember to always use full sentences in your answers.

1. What did Claire hurt? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What adjectives were used to describe the snake?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What was the true story of how Claire hurt her knee?

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Why do you think Claire made up so many stories about how she hurt her knee?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Wednesday May 13th History

Topic: Mary Seacole

Last week we read the story of a wonderful, caring and brave nurse called Mary Seacole. Read the story one more time and try the activity below the story.

You can also watch this video for more research

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obY-ESNXr3U

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Drama:

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Thursday May 14th Gaeilge

Topic: An Stoirm

1. Do your ’comhrá’ with an adult.

2. Tarraing pictiúir ( Draw pictures)

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Remember to go to ‘comhrá’ on the folens webite if you need help.

Thursday May 14th Maths

1. Warm up: Mangahigh ( use the link from school text message if you have not yet registered) or Mental Maths Book page 50

2. Topic: Area

You will need to get at least two smaller non- standard units of measurement ready if possible. E.g. paper- clips, crayons, pasta pieces

Complete the table below.

How many of your objects would you need to cover the area of the orange rectangle below?

object estimate measure

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Thursday May 14th English

1. Spellings Tick when done 2. Wordmat Tick when done

3. Topic: Story ‘ On the way home.’- Writing

You will be very familiar with our story by now. I hope you have been enjoying it. The little girl Claire has a brilliant imagination. She makes up lots of stories about what happened to her knee throughout the story. Read one of Claire’s imaginative stories below:

Then Claire met her friend Celia“Look at my bad knee”, said Claire.“How did you do it?”, asked Celia.“Well”, said Claire, “there was a gigantic giant and he came stomping through the houses, and he picked me up and said …Fee, fi , fo , fum, a tasty girl for my hungry tum.”“But I punched him on the nose so hard that he let me fall. And that’s how I got my bad knee. “

Today I want you to think of one more story for Claire. Let’s pretend Claire bumped into one more friend named Tom on the way home. Write your story below.

** Remember to use adjectives to describe your imaginative character, just as Claire did. Can you find interesting verbs (action words) for your story also? Example: Instead of walked, you could use stomped, tip-toed, instead of ran , you could use dashed, fled, zoomed.

Then Claire met her friend Tom.

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“Look at my bad knee”, said Claire.

“How did you do it?”, asked Tom.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Draw your picture here:

Thursday May 14th Music

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We have started learning about sound this week in Science. On Tuesday, you had to listen very carefully to sounds to identify what makes that sound.

As we know musical instruments make lots of sounds.

We use different instruments in different ways to make the sound.

In your activity today, I want you to find out which instrument make sounds by shaking, plucking or strumming, banging or hitting and blowing.

Cut and stick the following instruments into the correct boxes on the next page.

electric guitar

tambourine maracas

flute harp

trumpet

Teacher tip: One of these instruments can be used to 2 ways.

Draw an arrow to the second box you think it belongs to also.

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Shake to make a sound Pluck or strum to make a sound

Bang or hit to make a sound Blow to make a sound

Thumbs up! You have finished today’s challenges.

Friday May 15th Gaeilge

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Topic: An Stoirm

1. Déan comhrá – do your comhrá with an adult.2. Scríobh an abairt mar is ceart. ( Write the sentence correctly.)

Friday May 15th Maths

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Mini Maths Test

Topic: Area and adding tens and units1. T U

5 8+ 3 5_________

2. T U 3 5+2 5_________

3. What is area? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Name three examples of non- standard units of measurement that you might find in your home? ____________ ____________ ____________________

5. Which of these has the greatest surface area? A Plate or a bed?

or

Mark out of 5

Friday Spelling Test

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Ask an adult to call out 8 spellings from this week’s spelling list- Mixing some from each box.

1._____________________________

2.__________________________3.__________________________4.__________________________5._________________________6.___________________________7.___________________________8.__________________________

MARK OUT OF 8

Now ask the adult to put some of the words together to call out a silly sentence. Write

the sentence that you hear below. DON’T FORGET: WHAT GOES AT THE START OF A SENTENCE? AND AT THE END OF A SENTENCE?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Mark out of 5 (Deduct a mark for no capital letter, no full stop, and mark away for each spelling error.)

Friday May 15th Art

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Construction

Make a musical instrument

Instruction on video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8AcriiK5n0

Maracas:

You will need:

A plastic bottle

Tape

A toilet roll or kitchen roll cylinder

Something to make noise inside bottle- pasta, rice, paper clips are options

Why not try to make two different maracas with different sounds?

Once your instrument is ready SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE!!!

Now play this tune and SHAKE IT OFF!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIOVMHMNfJ4

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND. AMAZING JOB THIS WEEK. WELL DONE!!!

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