Mini Project Texaco competition
Well done to everyone who took part in the Jerusalema challenge!
Friday 26th of February
Well done, you have completed another week of online learning.
I am looking forward to seeing you all for the zoom call today. The link is here: Zoom drop in and use the same passwords as previous weeks. If you need the password again please email me. Ahead of todays zoom I am going to show you one of the pictures we normally do, can you find the 6 words before you join the zoom call at 1?
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Test |
Just like previous weeks take out your copy and rule it as you would for a test. Get someone at home to call out your Gaeilge and English spellings. When you have finished the test go back and correct it. For your tables test you will find the link to daily 10 here: Daily 10 I would like you to pick division by 7 and see if you can get them all in 5 seconds. If you do not make sure to work on division by 7 next week. |
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Maths |
Correct your PM work from yesterday. Long multiplication Today is our last day with the chapter on long multiplication. In the picture below there are ten problems involving multiplication sums. Some of them are short multiplication and some of them are long. Write the sum into your copy and figure out the answer. Can you get 10 out of 10? Click on the link here or the image below to make it bigger for you to read. Maths |
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English |
Reading: 15 minutes reading a book: https://www.getepic.com/students (class code: vmr3147) Activity: Take a break from English writing today! Have a listen to the short story of ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds here: The Dot by Peter Reynolds Now I want you to use you imagination and see what you can make. It can be anything you want it to be. You can print the page out or else you can just draw a dot in the middle of your page and create your drawing on that. GET CREATIVE!!
Here are some examples: |
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Gaeilge |
Today is the last day of the theme eadai. Open up the double page where you did the brainstorm on the first day on February. Today I would like you to do the same brainstorm and see how much more vocab and phrases you now know. Abair Liom p96. Listen to the video below to figure out what the children are wearing to the party. Draw each child into your copy with the correct clothes. |
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Art |
You can work on your art lesson over the weekend is you want to. You are going to create your own character. Have a look at the ideas below to give you some ideas. Don’t forget to give you character a name! |
Thursday 25th of February
Good morning boys and girls, well done for everyone who completed their work yesterday. The mini project and art competition details can be found at the top of the page for anyone still looking for them. I am looking forward to seeing you all for our 1 o clock zoom tomorrow. I will post the link for you on the website tomorrow. Some of you might have spotted Mr. O Connell put your Jerusalema video up on the schools Facebook page if you would like to share it with aunts or uncles! Good luck with all of your work today.
I have attached a poem written by Reina below I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Maths |
Correct your PM work from yesterday.
Tables Continue to revise you tables at least 10 minutes every day should be spent doing tables. Daily 10 (try to do level 5 in one of the tables to challenge yourself) and Hit the button are great to help you revise your tables. The game again today is: Meteor Multiplication
Long multiplication PM p89 do C. Be careful with number 1, it is a trick question. Make sure to read it fully before you start to work anything out! |
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English |
Spellings: Click the link to see your spelling for tonight. Don’t forget to do the short activity to go with tonight’s spellings: Spellings-for-the-week Reading: 15 minutes reading a book: Get Epic (class code: vmr3147) Dictionary word game: https://wordwall.net/resource/11377105
Activity: Starlight p131 A1, 3+4 and B 3 Listening: Six seconds is getting very interesting, I really wanted to listen ahead to episode 22 but I managed to stop myself. I can’t wait to hear what happens next. Have a listen to episode 20 Back to the Beginning and episode 21 at Sea. Who do you think is in the helicopter? If you were Holiday would you jump into the van with them? I wonder what is going to happen next?
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Gaeilge |
1. F+F p68 do G+H 2. Vocab sheet – continue revising your vocab from your sheet. 3. Abair Liom p104. Describe what the man and woman are wearing. Try to write two short paragraphs just like the ones you wrote yesterday. E.g. Tá an fear ag caitheamh hata ard dubh. Use the words at the bottom of the page to help you, make sure you use the correct adjectives to go with each item of clothing. |
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SPHE |
You have been working so hard for the last seven weeks. For the next two weeks while we are waiting to get back to school I am going to post some mindful moments for you. They are only 10 minutes long but it is important to take time out sometimes. Find a space in your house that you love being, grab you favourite cushion or blanket and get comfy while you listen to this. Close your eyes and relax: Mindful moments I enjoying doing some mindful colouring to help me relax so I have attached a picture for you to colour if you would like here: We chatted a few weeks ago about gratitude and we came up with some things we can be grateful for. I would like you do a gratitude list again today. You can print the picture out below or you can just draw them into your copy!
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RE |
This week we are looking at p46 – 48 in your Grow in Love. You will find the resources for today online at growinlove.ie: fourth class theme 5, lesson 4. You can log in using the following details: username: trial@growinlove.ie. password: growinlove |
Wednesday 24th of February
This is a picture Eabha is thinking of using for the Texaco art competition.
You will find the link to the mini project and the art competition at the top of the page today.
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Maths |
Correct your PM work from yesterday.
Tables Continue to revise you tables at least 10 minutes every day should be spent doing tables. Daily 10 (try to do level 5 in one of the tables to challenge yourself) and Hit the button are great to help you revise your tables. The new game today is: Meteor Multiplication Long multiplication PM p89 do B 1+2. Ten sums to do today. Can you remember out trick for when we are multiplying by a decibel (multiple of 10)? For number 2 you might not have to work the whole sum out, can you figure out what the answer is by process of elimination? Watch this if you need a reminder on how to multiply by a decable. |
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English |
Spellings: Click the link to see your spelling for tonight. Don’t forget to do the short activity to go with tonight’s spellings: Spellings-for-the-week Reading: Starlight read p130 Dictionary word game: https://wordwall.net/resource/11377105 Activity: Starlight p132 do all of E One of the most used (and boring) words in the English language is ‘said.’ Imagine if ‘said’ was dead and you weren’t allowed use it anymore. In activity E in your Starlight you just have to write a different word for said for the first five sentences, you do not have to write the full sentence. Use the pictures below to help you pick suitable replacements for the word said. For the bottom 6 sentences write the whole sentence out. Make it as funny or as crazy as you like. Use your imagination. Get Epic: 15 minutes reading a book: https://www.getepic.com/students (class code: vmr3147) |
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Gaeilge |
1. F+F p68 do E+F 2. Vocab sheet – continue revising your vocab from your sheet. 3. We only have three days left on the theme of eadaí. For the last three days we are going to plan a mini fashion show. If you have a printer you can print out the activity sheet otherwise just write it into your copy. Have a look at my example to help you with what to write. Before you begin you need to decide what ‘post’ (job) you would prefer. Would you prefer to be ‘ag caitheamh na headaí faiseanta’ (wearing the clothes) or would you prefer to be the ‘láithreoir’ (presenter). In my example Sean is the model and Liam is the presenter. Don’t forget to draw your picture! Or why not dress up yourself in your own clothes and take a picture and then describe yourself! Watch this video if you need a little more help in understanding what to do.
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Science |
Food Glorious Food. Why do we need food to survive? What would happen if we only ever ate chocolate? Would it be healthy is we only ever ate carrots? Today we are going to look at why we actually need food and why it is so important to have a balanced diet. Healthy food – watch this video as an introduction before we start. You can see from the video why it is important to eat now lets take a look at how food is divided up into different groups. The main ones are carbohydrates, proteins, fats and vitamins and minerals. Can you think of any foods you eat that might fit into these groups before we read about them?
A balanced diet will contain foods from all of the groups. Here is a picture of how much of each of the foods is recommended.
For the activity for Science today you have a choice. You can either do activity 1 or activity 2. Do both activities if you want to! Activity 1: Choose three foods you have at home and make a prediction of how much carbs, protein or fat it contains. The picture below will help show you what to do.
Activity 2: Food quiz Take the quiz above and see if you can place all the foods in the correct place on the food pyramid. |
Correct your answers from yesterday. 
Tuesday 23rd of February
I was delighted some of you took part in the dancing challenge last week.
Here are some clips of you dancing. Hope you enjoy it!
Lots of you wrote some brilliant poems last week about when you become president. Here is Charlottes one, click on the image to make it bigger if you cannot read it.
Some of your mini projects are coming in of your towers and some of them are really big. Just like the dream bedroom I will put all the towers together and show you next week.
It was lovely to hear from a lot of you yesterday again. Please let me know if you are finding anything tricky and I will try to help you.
Good luck with your work today.
| Maths |
Correct your PM work from yesterday. The answers are below:
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| English |
Spellings: Click the link to see your spelling for each night of this week. There is a short activity I would like you to do with each set of spellings each night: Spellings-for-the-week Activity: Starlight p131 Vocabulary C (full sentences) Get Epic: 15 minutes reading a book: Get Epic (class code: vmr3147) |
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1. F+F p68 do C+D 2. Vocab sheet – you should know all your vocab and phrases by this week. It would be really good if you could practice your comhra with someone at home. A great idea would be to do a zoom with your friend in class and practice your vocab. 3. Pick the correct clothes to go in the box. Can you do it faster then you did yesterday? Eadai game 4. Just like yesterday you are going to pick two items of clothing but I want you to pick things you would not like to wear this time. Use the activity sheet to help you.
Here is my example: Is fuath liom an mála beag. Tá dath glas agus liath. Ní oirfigh sé dom. Tá sé ró-gheal. (Can you see which bag I am describing?)
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You will find a link to a HIIT workout below. HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training. This workout is 30 mins long and will definitely get your heart rate up and help to improve your fitness. PE lesson Of course, you can also do the Joe Wicks workout, try one of the Cork GAA videos or get outside for a walk, a run, a cycle or to play in the garden or on a trampoline if you are lucky enough to have one! Children of your age should aim for 60 minutes of exercise per day. Keep an eye on your activity this week and see if you are achieving this most days, |
| Mini project. | We are continuing with our project from last week. Can you build a tower? Mini Project |
| Art |
As I mentioned yesterday, we have some incredible artists in the class and some of the art I have been receiving pictures of would definitely be in with a shot of winning the Texaco art competition. You do not have to enter it if you do not want to but it might be something nice to work on in your spare time over the next few weeks. All of the information you need is here: Texaco competition Or you can go on to the Texaco website and get your information there: https://www.texacochildrensart.com/ You will be submitting the art work yourself by post but I would love to see pictures of your drawings before you send them off. |
Monday 22nd of February
I hope you enjoyed your extra few days off and are ready to start back into work again this week. Its hard to believe we are starting our 7th week of online learning! It has been 10 weeks since I have seen you all in the classroom. Hopefully it wont be too much longer before we are all back into school again.
I loved watching all of your videos of the Jerusalema dance challenge. I’m sure those of you who sent in your video enjoyed receiving you work off pass too! I am nearly finished editing the video so I will post it tomorrow. Anyone who wants to send in a last minute video make sure to send it in today!
Have a look at Eabha’s SCRATCH project here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/489000349
| Maths | We are not going back to MYM this week yet so I want you to spend the extra maths time revising and speeding up with your tables. It will really help you get faster at your long multiplication sums. Tables Continue to revise you tables at least 10 minutes every day should be spent doing tables. Daily 10 (try to do level 5 in one of the tables to challenge yourself) and Hit the button are great to help you revise your tables. The new game today is: Multiplication blocks Long multiplication We are going to continue on with long multiplication this week before moving onto something new next week. Please let me know if you are finding them tricky or need lots of help from someone at home when you send your email. PM p88 do A 4-8 (that is only 6 long multiplication sums for you to do so please take your time and check back over them) |
| English | Spellings: Click the link to see your spelling for each night of this week. There is a short activity I would like you to do with each set of spellings each night: Spellings-for-the-week Dictionary words: Find the following words in your dictionary and write the definitions into your copy: suffocating, urge, drone, incident, hurtling, deliberately, mooches Reading: Starlight p128 Get Epic: 15 minutes reading a book: Get Epic (class code: vmr3147) |
| Gaeilge |
1. F+F p67 unit 22 do A+B VIDEO Here is my example: Is breá liom an gúna glas.Tá dath glas agus donn ar an gúna. Tá sé galánta agus faiseanta. Caithfidh mé é nuair atá mé ag dul go dtí an bialann.
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| Geography |
City Life vs Island Life Now I would like to take out your atlas and open up a page on Ireland. If you would prefer you can use Google maps instead. First you need to find Clare Island and then find Cork City. When you have those find all of the five places listed below and try to decide is Clare Island or Cork city closer to it. Remember it is ‘as the crow flies.’  |
| Mini project. |
We are continuing with our project from last week. How high can you build your tower? Mini Project |
| Art |
Since we had so many winners in the Cork Heritage project I thought we could enter this competition. We have some incredible artists in the class and some of the art I have been receiving pictures of would definitely be in with a shot of winning. It is the Texaco art competition. Or you can go on to the Texaco website and get your information there: https://www.texacochildrensart.com/ |
