I hope everyone had a lovely Easter and are keeping safe and well! :)
Below are some suggested activities for this week. Remember to take regular movement breaks to help focus and attention. These could be: playing a game outside, going for a walk, doing a Joe Wicks or Go Noodle, practicing some yoga, doing some quick indoor quick exercises. Mindfulness activities, like creating mandalas or mindful colouring, are also great!. :) :)
Below are some suggested activities for this week. Remember to take regular movement breaks to help focus and attention. These could be: playing a game outside, going for a walk, doing a Joe Wicks or Go Noodle, practicing some yoga, doing some quick indoor quick exercises. Mindfulness activities, like creating mandalas or mindful colouring, are also great!. :) :)
ART
Create something for our whole school gallery- details on main blog! Send your creations to katiemag95@gmail.com by Friday to be included on the blog! :)
ENGLISH
READING:
- Collins Connect (login details on previous blog post). Please read one assigned reader and complete comprehension and writing activity. Further activities and suggestions can be found on the 'teacher resource' link with the story.
3rd Class: White band: 'Antarctica Land of the Penguins' OR Purple band: Captain Scott: Journey to the South Pole
2nd Class: Turquoise band: The Journey of the Humpback Whale OR Orange band: The Titanic
- See https://www.getepic.com/students for more assigned readers (choose from list. I will update again in the coming days): login code is ulu6346 and click on your child's name to access assigned books
SPELLINGS
Spellwell: Week 26 activities, spelling test on Friday
Spellwell: Week 26 activities, spelling test on Friday
WRITING
Creative Writing: Create your own superhero, and write a comic strip adventure story about them (at least 1 page!) Templates for comics can be found on twinkl https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-2163-comic-book-flashback-templates or in this weeks email, or you can create your own templates on a blank page :)
Creative Writing: Create your own superhero, and write a comic strip adventure story about them (at least 1 page!) Templates for comics can be found on twinkl https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-l-2163-comic-book-flashback-templates or in this weeks email, or you can create your own templates on a blank page :)
MATHS
Maths Time - Week 26
Tables: Use daily ten to practice tables :)
3rd Class: x6, x7
2nd Class: -6, -7
Complete Splash Maths activities
3D Shapes:
Worksheets and powerpoints:
Online games:
3D Shapes:
Worksheets and powerpoints:
Online games:
Offline Activities:
- Name and describe 3D shapes- How many faces? How many corners/vertices? How many edges?
- Go on a 3D shape hunt around the house- photograph or draw and then label shapes you find
- Draw the nets of some 3D shapes and construct them
- Create or draw a robot/sculpture using 3D shapes
*See blog post on 'offline maths activies and games' for fun ways to practice maths throughout the day :)
GAEILGE
Fuaimeanna & focail - week 26
Béal Beo 3 - Complete activities based on week one of 'AN TEILIFÍS' (pg 117-122 for book work)https://www.edcolearning.ie/
Further activities, games and powerpoints with vocabulary linking to the theme of 'An Teilifís' can be found on twinkl:
2nd class: https://www.twinkl.ie/resources/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-1st-2nd-class-gaeilge/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-1st-2nd-class-gaeilge-themes-teama/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-1st-2nd-class-gaeilge-themes-teama-teilifis
3rd class: https://www.twinkl.ie/resources/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-3rd-4th-class-gaeilge/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-3rd-4th-class-gaeilge-themes-teamai/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-3rd-4th-class-gaeilge-themes-teamai-teilifis
An Nuacht: In class we write our news in Irish every Monday. Try to write news at least once a week, and practice saying the day, date and a bit about the weather each day. There is a powerpoint entitiled 'An Nuacht' from twinkl which has the layout and vocabulary for news, and the first three slides have the vocabulary for day/date/weather . It can be found on twinkl by searching 'an nuacht' https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi2-gl-53607-our-daily-news-nuacht-an-lae-powerpoint-gaeilge or in this weeks email :)
Further activities, games and powerpoints with vocabulary linking to the theme of 'An Teilifís' can be found on twinkl:
2nd class: https://www.twinkl.ie/resources/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-1st-2nd-class-gaeilge/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-1st-2nd-class-gaeilge-themes-teama/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-1st-2nd-class-gaeilge-themes-teama-teilifis
3rd class: https://www.twinkl.ie/resources/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-3rd-4th-class-gaeilge/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-3rd-4th-class-gaeilge-themes-teamai/reading-comprehension-worksheets-roi-resources-3rd-4th-class-gaeilge-themes-teamai-teilifis
An Nuacht: In class we write our news in Irish every Monday. Try to write news at least once a week, and practice saying the day, date and a bit about the weather each day. There is a powerpoint entitiled 'An Nuacht' from twinkl which has the layout and vocabulary for news, and the first three slides have the vocabulary for day/date/weather . It can be found on twinkl by searching 'an nuacht' https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi2-gl-53607-our-daily-news-nuacht-an-lae-powerpoint-gaeilge or in this weeks email :)
Watch programmes on TG4: https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories/childrens-tv-shows/ and listen to songs as Gaeilge- some nice ones can be found on the Colaiste Lurgan website here: https://lurgan.biz/lurganlingo/
PROJECT WORK
***Choose another project from the earlier blog post 'Project work and art activities'. Please email any project work or photographs to katiemag95@gmail.com to be added to our classroom blog :)
TOUCH TYPING
Touch typing login details are the same as last years. See earlier blog post 'touch typing' for link to touch typing website and access to activities
NESSY
Please continue Nessy if you attend Ms. Kilrane
