Ms. Carney 19/20

Today is the last day of school! Well done to all the children in 1st class. You were all amazing! Hope you all have a great Summer!

Take care,

Ms Carney

Dear parents and children,

As this is our last posting before the summer, I have left you a little voice note to say goodbye until we see each other again after the holidays.

We have reached the final week of school! Let me start by saying how proud I am of all of you for the extraordinary effort you have made over the last three and a half months. A huge thank you to parents who doubled as parents and teachers during this time. It can’t have been easy, but we really appreciate all of your hard work.

It has been amazing keeping in touch with you all during this time. Your emails and pictures have been superb and it has been great to see how busy you all were at home.

The Summer holidays will begin this Friday. I’d encourage you all to keep reading books, keep as active as you have and stay safe on roads, farms and near water.

This week, we have a variety of fun activities for you to enjoy. We will go on Upper Glanmire National School’s first ever Virtual School tour. We will get to hear the last two chapters of Stanley. I hope you are enjoying it so far! Lastly, we will be having a School Sports week with different activities every day for you to at home with your families. Watch out for some familiar faces in the videos!!!!

On Monday the 22nd of June, the school will be open from 10am-12pm for return of book rental books, but I collected all of those before the children left so they have nothing to return. I have the children’s scrapbooks and copies kept safely and will return them on the first day back to school, or if you would prefer to collect them on Monday you can email me to make an appointment and I will let them outside the school for collection. Please adhere to the safety advice from Mr O’Connell with regard to visiting the school premises. You can send me an email to organise a time on h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie .

I would like to wish Lauren and Henry Proos a very happy birthday for this Monday. I hope you have a great day and lots of cake!

Finally I would like to send some happy birthday wishes to Abbie, Maggie, Rosie and Shane for their July birthdays and to Olivia, Clara , Oscar, Ruby and David for their birthdays in August. Enjoy the celebrations and have a lovely day.

I hope you all have a fantastic, sunny, fun-filled Summer. I look forward to seeing you all in September,

Best wishes,

Ms. Carney

 

 

Monday

Monday – Running

Today was due to be the date of our annual 5K race so today try to get out there for a walk/run and share your experience on the school’s Facebook page and by e-mail to me! If you’re going to be running in your garden you could try some WACKY LAPS to make you laps more fun and interesting. Run every lap a different way, you could run the first lap to music, the second lap backwards, the third as slowly as possible, the fourth moving your hands in a funny way and so on.

School Tour Day 1

 

It’s very important that we don’t forget anything for our virtual school tour. Use the checklist below and gather everything together for tomorrow!


It’s going to be a very long journey to America on a plane. Make a list of songs we can sing on the plane! The poor teachers will have awful headaches with the singing!!!

 

 

When we get there, keep an eye out for the picture below. When you spot it, it will be time for an exercise challenge!

When you spot this image, it’ll be Joke time!

 

See you all tomorrow when we will begin our virtual school tour!!!

 

Flat Stanley

This week we have two chapters to listen to, one read by me and the other by Ms. Carney.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhYXhkCKq – Chapter Four

Chapter Five

 

 

Activities:

See if you can answer these questions about the story:

 

Tuesday

School Tour Day 2

Let’s get started!

 

 

Welcome to the Aquarium of the Pacific!  Here is a map of the Aquarium. There are lots of different parts, we won’t get around to all of them today but you can go back and visit again with your family. You can also download a map to your device if you wish by clicking here:

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/visit/app/aquarium_visitor_guide_mobile_app

See if you can find the following places we will be visiting on the map:

 

  • Penguin Habitat
  • Shark Lagoon
  • Moon Jelly Touch Lab
  • Tropical Reef
  • Honda Blue Cavern

Before we start our journey around the aquarium. Did you ever wonder…what makes a fish a fish?

Listen to Captain Joe and Scuba Shara tell you all about how fish swim and breathe underwater and how a scuba diver swims through the ocean

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/teachers/webcamkits/fish_for_a_day

 

All this talk about fish and diving has made me want to go swimming in my garden. Pretend to swim around your garden for 1 minute. Use different strokes and see how fast you can go!

We have a very busy day tomorrow. Get a good sleep tonight and we’ll see you all tomorrow!

 

Flat Stanley

You can enjoy listening to the two new chapters of Flat Stanley again today.

  • I think it rather be flattened….how about you?! Have a look at ‘Would You Rather,,,’

Maybe make up some ‘Would You Rather..’ questions for your family or email them to me to answer 😊

 

Wednesday

School Tour Day 3: Get out your map and see where we are off to!

Stop 1: The Penguin Habitat 

At the edge of the rocky beach, penguins hop in and out of the water. Watch as they swim and float on the surface.

Live viewing of penguins:

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/exhibits/webcams/penguin_cam_above

Tour guide lesson on penguins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWc0beWUP24&feature=youtu.be

Instead of walking to Stop 2, why not jumping jack your way! Keep going for one minute and we’ll be ready to see some sharks!

 

Stop 2: Shark Lagoon

A great white shark swimming with a slight smile on its face just below the surface. The environment is the deep blue ocean. The shark looks to be in hunting mode.

 

Live viewing of sharks:

 http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/exhibits/webcams/webcam_shark_lagoon

Tour guide lesson on sharks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=E8HJv XWnIR4&feature=emb_logo

I think its time for you to sing or play the song ‘Baby Shark’ at home and dance around the kitchen with the actions! Next we’re off to see some very cool jellyfish!

 

 

I’m exhausted after those 2 stops. Time for some food and a drink from your lunchbox! See you all tomorrow!

Flat Stanley

Create a passport for Stanley and take him with you wherever your go. You could stamp it or draw or write where he goes so over the summer even if it’s to the park or the supermarket!

You could keep a journal about where he goes like the one below.

Enjoy a word search, see if you can beat your friend and time yourself!

Thursday: School Tour Day 4

Time to get moving again. Check your map. We’re off to see Moon Jellies (not edible!!!) and a Tropical Reef. Exciting!!!!

 

Stop 3: Moon Jellies

 

Live viewing of Moon Jellies

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/exhibits/webcams/webcam_moon_jellies

 

Tour guide lesson on moon jellies and other ocean drifters:

To get to the next stop, your teacher has put a spell on your legs and they are like jelly. See can you walk for one minute with your jelly legs and get us to the next stop!

 

Stop 4: The Tropical Reef

The Tropical Reef Habitat is the Aquarium’s largest exhibit, containing 350,000 gallons of water and over 1,000 animals!

 Live viewing of the tropical reef:  

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/exhibits/webcams/webcam_tropical_reef

Tour guide lesson on the reef and other ocean habitats

 

That was amazing. Time for big lunch and a few games outside! See you all tomorrow for our final day!

 

Friday-Our last day of school!!!!

School Tour Day 5

One more fantastic place to see in the Aquarium! Get your map and we’re ready

to go!

Stop 5: Honda Blue Cavern

This shows an example of a Kelp Forest. Kelp forests are undereater forests that provide food and shelter to lots of sea creatures.

Live viewing of the Honda Blue Cavern:

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/exhibits/webcams/webcam_blue_cavern

Visiting the Honda Blue Cavern reminds me of the game ‘Blinds Man Buff’. Ask your parents how to play the game and have fun!!!

It’s time for you to tell us a joke! If you come up with one, send it on!!!

 

Thanks for visiting the aquarium. I hope you enjoyed your virtual school tour! Have a super Summer and take care!

 

First Class

15th – 19th June

Dear Parents and Children,

It’s hard to believe we’re into the second last week of school. I hope you are all well. I’ve been delighted to see how you are all doing at home, it has been really great to be able to see some work, some pictures and even some videos of what you’ve all been doing. Thank you for sending them to me. We’re really getting into summer now so there are even more summer themes for this week! There is a video again to help with Irish and Maths. Thank you for all your hard work over the past couple of weeks.

 

I hope you all have a lovely week and let me know if I can help with anything at h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie .

Take care,

Ms. Carney

Monday

English:

Spellings:

Unit 32-Set 1 Activities A+B

As this is our last unit of spellings, you can use any of the ideas we’ve used over the last three months to learn your spellings!

Writing

English in Practise-Complete a revision unit at the back of the book.

Reading:

Summer Bucket List

Flat Stanley: Chapter 3

Flat Stanley:

·         This week it’s Ms. O’Shea reading chapter three of Flat Stanley!

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhY6gkCEA

Flat Stanley loves to travel the world and learn some new languages. See how you get on with this!

 

Maths:

This Week’s Maths Video

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1X2hCYid

 

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

 

Tables:

Use video link above for help with this week’s maths

Planet Maths pg 155

Irish

Please click on this link for a video on this week’s Irish reading and activities. I hope it makes it easier at home for you all.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1X2CCYD8

 

Reading: Lá Spōirt (Sports Day)

 

Tuesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 32-Set 2 Activities C+D

 

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete a revision unit at the back of the book

Re-read Monday’s reading and see can you answer these questions orally

Flat Stanley-Chapter 3

You could listen to chapter three again if you like.

Take a look at these activities:

You could draw your own Flat Stanley or cut this one out and send him on a trip to someone you know! Remember to pop him into an envelope look below for how to write an address!

Maths:

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

Tables: (as above)

Planet Maths pg 156

 

Irish (See video link)

Irish-Tuesday

Abairti Beaga-Write 5 sentences using the words below.

 

Wednesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 32-Set 3 Activities E+F

 

Reading:

Spend 15 minutes today reading the book of your choice. Pick somewhere quiet to relax and enjoy the story.

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions and one revision unit

 

Flat Stanley Chapter 3

Listen/Read chapter 3 if you need to remember what happened.

Maths:

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

Tables: As above

Planet Maths:  pg 160

 

Irish

Irish-Wednesday

Reading-Lá Spōirt

Read the story below and write your own story about a Lá Spōirt in Scoil Naomh Micheál.

Thursday

English:

Spellings: Unit 32-Set 4 Activity G

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete two more days and a revision unit at the back of the book.

Flat Stanley Chapter 3

 

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

Tables: As above

Maths Activity: If you enjoyed colouring the clown, why not create your own ‘Paint by Numbers’ activity over the next two days. You could use a picture from an old colouring book or draw your own. I would love to see what yours turns out like. Here are some examples using easier sums. Try make yours as hard as you can!

 

Irish

Irish-Thursday

Complete the Focal Cuardach below or create your own one using the same words that are listed at the side.

Friday

Spellings: Complete a spelling test for the week’s spellings and correct errors together.

Maths: 

Test your addition tables.

Maths Trail to try at home

Irish:

Look at the clothes lines below. What clothes would you wear to a Sports Day.

Tá ___, ____, ____, agus _______ orm le haghaigh an Lá Spóirt.

(I have _____, _______,______ and ______on me for the Sport’s Day)

Extra Suggested Activities

Summer Challenge
Build a fort!

Science Experiment

Create a solar oven to melt or cook things, use this to have a go!

Art Ideas
Sunglasses and ice-cream is what summer is made of!

Or:
Read about the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian, and his use of Primary Colours, black and white, and his use of lines. You could try out your own Mondrian creation!

Next Sunday is Father’s Day. Here are some ideas for homemade gifts and cards.

P.E. Ideas

 

Stem Challenges

Baking
If you have a birthday coming up in your family over the summer this would be a good one to try!

Music
Listen to this piece of music:

What is the music about? Here are a few hints:

or sing along to The Bare Necessities


Lego Challenges

Poetry
Here’s a nice summer poem for you to enjoy!
A compound word is when two words are put together to make a new word like rain+bow=rainbow.
A contraction is when words are shortened or put together and shortened like: It is = It’s or would have =would’ve

Water Safety:

Here’s a great website to read about how to be careful around water: Read the pdf book and then challenge yourself to some questions to see what you’ve learned!

Click to access PAWS+2+ENGLISH+WEB.pdf

http://paws.edco.ie/first-and-second-classes/ for interactive activities.

First Class

8th-12th June

 

Dear Parents and Children,

I hope this finds you all in good health. We’re into the second week of June so there are a lot of summer themes this week! There is a summer project for those that are interested including an activity based around water safety which might help children to learn how to be careful in and around water which I think is very important this especially this time of year when we are allowed to travel further afield! You can see details that you might include in this summer project below.

 

I hope you have a lovely week and as always if you’d like to get in touch, please email me on h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie

Take care,

Ms Carney

 

Monday

English:

Spellings:

Unit 31-Set 1 Activities A+B

Create your own ‘Go Fish’ game and play it this week to help you learn your spellings. Cut up a cereal box and make 32 squares. Write each word on 2 cards. Mix them up and lay them out on the table. Take turns to match the words!

 

Writing

English in Practise-Complete the next day of activities

Reading:

Mini beasts

Part 1

 

Flat Stanley: Chapter 2

  • Listen to chapter two and have a look at the activities below:

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhqoIkz8V

Maths:

This Week’s Maths Video

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1flwpL59

 

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

 

Tables:

Money (Use video link above for help with this week’s maths)

Planet Maths pg 154`( you 100 square will help you with these sums)

Irish

Please click on this link for a video on this week’s Irish reading and activities. I hope it makes it easier at home for you all.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1f6qpLrH

 

Eádaí Samhraidh: Summer clothes

Listen to the video and learn how to say these words.

Tuesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 31-Set 2 Activities C+D

‘Go Fish’ Game

Reading:

Minibeasts Part 2

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete a revision unit at the back of the book

 

Flat Stanley-Chapter 2

Take a look at these activities. You could listen to chapter two again if you like.

Maths:

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

Tables: (as above)

Maths Topic  (See video)

Activity Page 1 (This does not need to written, just complete with coins at home)

 

 

Irish (See video link)

Look at the poster below and see can you say the four words.

Read the instructions below to dress the boy. You could draw it in your copy and label the clothes.

Remember we say ‘air’ when talking about a boy.

 

 

Wednesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 31-Set 3 Activities E+F

 

Written Activities:

Minibeasts questions (these can be written or completed orally)

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

 

Flat Stanley Chapter 2

Listen/Read chapter 2 if you need to remember what happened. Pick one or more of these places below and draw Flat Stanley in the place you’ve chosen. Include the name of the place, the weather in the background and show what Flat Stanley.

 

 

 

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

Tables: +3

Maths Topic: Money

Activity Page 2

Irish

Read the instructions and dress the girl. You could draw her in your copy and label the clothes. Remember we use ‘uirthi’ when talking about what clothes a girl is wearing.

 

Thursday

English:

 

Spellings: Unit 29-Set 4 Activity G

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete  a revision unit at the back of the book.

Minibeasts Questions

  

Flat Stanley Chapter 2

See if you remember what happened in chapter 1 and 2.

You could draw a body or use the one provided. Find a picture of yourself and cut out your head. Stick it on the body and write about your adventures as a flat person! You could talk about how you became flat, where you went, how you got there, what the weather was like, the people you met and maybe a problem you encountered! You don’t have to finish it this week, you could write a little this week and next.

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

As the book is almost completed, go back and fill in a day you may have missed or check back on some your tests and see can you correct some of the sums you may have gotten wrong. (5 minutes max)

Tables  +4

Maths Topic: Money

Activity Page 3

 

Irish

Write about what summer clothes you are wearing.

Try to make 5 sentences:

Tá ______orm. (I’m wearing). You could draw yourself and label the clothes. I’d love to see the pictures.

 

 

Friday

Spellings: Complete a spelling test for the week’s spellings and correct errors together.

Maths: 

Test your addition tables from +1 to +4

Planet Maths Pg 158 + 159

 

Activity Time: I love planning what I’ll do for my Summer Holidays! Enjoy this activity!

Draw a bucket and make a list of all the nice things you plan to do on your Summer holidays

Extra Suggested Activities

Summer Challenge

Can you make a piece of grass whistle? Look at the instructions below and see can you do it! Best of luck!!

Science Experiment

Did you watch the astronauts going to the International Space Station? You could try to make your own rocket!

See can you try this simple activity at home.

https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/grow-a-rainbow-experiment/

Art and Drawing and Summer Colouring Ideas

 

If you would like to make a paper gun that shoots paper balls, have a look at the link below. Have fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2DgW32Y748

 

P.E. Ideas

If the weather changes, here’s 100 activities you could do indoors!

STEM Challenges

Baking

Rocky Road is one of my favourite treats. Enjoy!

Music

Have you heard of Baby Beluga?? Have a listen to this song. Try make up a few actions to go along with the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQa3UDV_AM

Lego Challenges

Poetry

Have fun learning these two poems at home.

First Class

June 3rd– 5th 2020

Dear Parents and Children,

I hope everyone is doing well and keeping safe and I hope you all enjoyed the fabulous weather last week. It’s the first week of June so this week we are going to start a class novel as we would in school for anyone who would like to take part.  We will  to provide a link to a pdf of the Flat Stanley novel if the children would like to read it themselves or with their parents or alternatively there is a link to the text being read by myself, Ms. Brady or Ms. O’Shea each week if the children would like to read along and listen to the chapter being read by us. It’s a fun novel and we’ll add in some fun activities to do along with it as we get into it each week. We hope to do a chapter per week, it’s nice and short and it’ll give us a few giggles!

Thank you all again for your hard work, emails, pictures and more. It’s been so great to see how everyone is getting on at home. I hope you all have a great week and I’m here at h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie if I can help with anything. There are videos again this week to help with the activities. As it is a Bank Holiday the activities are organised under subjects rather than days so you can pick and choose what to do on the days that suit you.

Also, I’d like to wish a big summer happy birthday to Daniel Fitzgerald who turns 8 this week. Have a great day Daniel, hope the sun shines for you!

Take care,

Ms Carney

 

English

Spellings

Unit 30-The Seaside

Complete exercises over the three days and complete weekly test at the end of the week.

As a fun activity, see can you unscramble these seaside themed words

 

New Wave English Activity Book

Complete the next three days of activities

Flat Stanley-The Original Adventure

Here’s a link to Flat Stanley if you’d like to listen to Ms. Brady this week and read along with her. Make some predictions before you start.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhqldkaso

Alternatively, you can read the PDF of the story at home together

http://class2ab.weebly.com/uploads/8/1/6/5/8165075/stanley.pdf

After listening to chapter one, have a chat about it using these activities

If you’d like to do a little extra..

Extra Suggested Activities for English

  • Let’s Get Talking! Would you rather….

Next time you have dinner with your family, see can you answer some of these questions????

*You could make up a would you rather question for your teacher and ask me in an email! Make it very tricky or very funny!

Writing Ideas

  • Keep a diary/write your daily news
  • Create your own ice-pop. Draw a picture of what the wrapper would like and describe the taste.
  • Write a Summer adventure story. You could be the main character!
  • In a few weeks time, you’ll be going to the beach for a whole day. Write a list of what you’ll need to bring with you!

Maths

This short video may help with this week’s maths work.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhUXHpUtQ

New Topic: Money

Maths Money Game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money/eur

Planet Maths Pg 151-153

Master your Maths

As we’ve just about completed this book, look back through the pages and fill in 2 or 3 that are not finished.

Irish

The video link below will help with you Irish reading and activities this week.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhUQBpUek

Irish Reading- Lá Te (A hot day)

Bua Na Cainte- Read the words, colour the picture and complete the wordsearch on page 94

Irish Reading-Laethanta Saoire (Holidays)

Try this short activity to write a short story.

 

Additional Irish Ideas

  • There are two fantastic cartoons are on each morning on TG4. PJ Masks and Curious George are well worth a watch!
  • Have a listen to this lovely story from the ‘Sceal don Lae’ series about poor Ruairi’s trip to the hospital!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiK4jmYJC4I

 

Ulster

This is the last of the four provinces.

Geography: Ulster and its counties

-Take a look at the provinces of Ireland. Which counties are in the province of Ulster?

 

-Ulster Flag: Use the image below to help you draw the flag of Ulster with the correct colours.

 

Folk Tales from Ulster

One of Ireland’s most beautiful tourist attractions is the Giant’s Causeway. It is located on the coast of Antrim. Have a listen to the folk tale of Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHygfkHD5TE

Timer Challenge

See can you name the counties of Ireland using the blank map. Record your time! You can scroll down for the answers!

 

Answers…

Science and Technology Challenges

Music

Do you recognise these hilarious characters from the Lion King movie?? They sing a fantastic song called ‘Hakuna Matata’ which means no worries! It’s a great song to sing along with it! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7pbs4En0tI

P.E.

Art Ideas

Let’s get drawing. Have fun trying these step by step pictures at home.

If you would like to look up ‘Draw with Don’, he has lots of fabulous videos showing you how to draw. One of my favourites is this fantastic clown. Give it a go and enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CRFX5zUdbk

 

Outdoor Art Ideas:

Riddles for fun!

Get your brain working with these riddles. See can you figure them out!

Baking

No weighing scales are needed this week. Use a tablespoon and get baking!

 

Lego Ideas

Poetry

Try these two Summer themed poems

 

 

 

First Class

25th– 29th May

Dear Parents and Children,

I hope everyone is in good spirits and keeping well. Again, I would like to say well done on all the work and activities I saw from your emails last week. It looks like everyone is busy doing lots of different things which is great to see. I hope some of you got out to the garden to celebrate National Biodiversity Week last week and maybe you spotted a few bees and butterflies and read about how we can help them. This week there are some videos as always to help with maths and Irish activities if you need them and please email me at h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie if I can help with anything else. I greatly appreciate the feedback you all have given to date. As I always say, please don’t feel obliged to complete everything, this is a daily guide with some activities children may like to engage in depending on their interests. I hope you all have a great week and it’ll be June before we know it!

Stay safe,

Ms. Carney

 

 

Monday

English:

Spellings:

Unit 29-Set 1 Activities A+B

This week, we are going to become code detectives! Look at the code boxes below, choose one and see can you write today’s spellings. You could write a code for your family to try crack or design your own code!

 

Reading:

The Last Chapter!!!!

Two Little Frogs Unit 23 ‘The Biggest Fish’ (pg 92)

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 93 Activity A

Roll a Silly Sentence! (No need to write, just complete orally-optional)

 

Maths:

This Week’s Maths Video

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYh3l7k85O

Master your Maths:

New Week-Complete Monday

Tables:

  • Table topper sheets are available on Folens online website.

 

Click on the video above for help with this week’s maths.

  • Planet Maths pg 144

 

Irish

Please click on this link for a video on this week’s Irish reading and activities. I hope it makes it easier at home for you all.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYh3Ihk8Hu

 

Reading: Cōisir Lá Breithe (A Birthday Party)

Cén aois thú? (How old are you?)

 

Tuesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 29-Set 2 Activities C+D

 

Reading: The Biggest Fish

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 93 Activity B

Two Little Frogs pg 94 Activities A + B

 

Creative Writing:

Have a listen to this story and see can you list some of the qualities of the Rainbow Fish. (For example-kind, caring etc)

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

Complete Tuesday

Tables: (as above)

Maths Topic  (See video)

Planet Maths pg 145

Irish (See video link)

Bua na Cainte Page 91 Read the word and colour in the picture.

Wednesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 29-Set 3 Activities E+F

 

Reading: Take 20 minutes today and read a book from your own library at home.

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 94. Activity C+ D

Two Little Frogs pg 95 Activity B. If you need help with this activity, please use the posters below.

 

 

 

 

Maths:

Master your Maths: New Week-Complete Wednesday

Tables: -10, -11

Planet Maths pg 148

 

Irish

Over the next two days, try this poem at home (the video link above might be helpful). You could take one verse per day. See can you say the poem while doing frog jumps!!!!

 

 

Thursday

English:

Reading: Poetry

Read the poem below, ‘Be Glad your Nose is on your Face’. I hope you find it as funny as I did! Why not draw a picture for each verse or make up your own verse! Hope you have good fun with the voices!!!

 

 

 

Spellings: Unit 29-Set 4 Activity G

 

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 95 Activity A

Maths:

Master your Maths: New Week-Complete Thursday

Planet Maths: pg 149

Irish

Irish Poem (See Wednesday)

 

Friday

Spellings: Complete a spelling test for the week’s spellings and correct errors together.

Maths: 

Master Your Maths Weekly Test and test your -12 tables

Planet Maths pg 150

Story Time: This is one of my favourites! Enjoy!

https://www.storylineonline.net/books/carlas-sandwich/

Additional Irish Ideas

  • Do you like Alvin and the Chipmunks? Tune in to TG4 weekdays at 4pm to see Alvin, Theodore and Simon get up to mischief as Gaeilge!
  • Have a listen to this lovely story from the ‘Sceal don Lae’ series about a cake for a king!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN3Wmi8Ux6c

The Olympics

Th Olympics were due to take place this Summer in Tokyo. Unfortunately, they had to be postponed until next Summer. Have a look at the poster below.

The five joining rings are the Olympic emblem. See can you find out what each ring stands for. You could recreate the Olympic logo at home yourself. Here’s some ideas to help you create them.

The Olympics began in Ancient Greece. Click on the links below to read about the first Olympics and to see what sports they competed in.

https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-greek-olympics.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87tn39/articles/z36j7ty

Imagine if Ireland were to host the 2024 Olympics. Design a poster for the games including the Olympic rings.

See can you figure out this code breaker about sport!

Leinster

Geography: Leinster and its counties

-Take a look at the provinces of Ireland. Which counties are in the province of Leinster?

 

 

-Leinster Flag: Use the image above to help you draw the flag of Leinster with the correct colours.

 

 

Folk Tales from Leinster

The story below took place in Co. Meath on the banks of the River Boyne. Design a cover page for this story. Make your salmon as colourful as you can.

 

 

Timer Challenge

Set a timer and see how many of these counties you can unjumble in two minutes! The first one is done for you.

 

Science and Technology Challenges

Music

Have you ever read the book ‘Matilda’ written by Roald Dahl? The book was so popular and enjoyed by so many children that they made it into a movie and now a musical. The music in the show is fantastic. This is one of my favourites. It is called ‘When I Grow Up’.

Have a listen and enjoy!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0tRDhEmdO4

 

If you would like to listen to the story, click on the link below to hear Kate Winslet narrate the story.

https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/roald-dahl-matilda-kate-winslet

P.E.

Skipping Rhymes

Do you have a skipping rope at home? While you are skipping, see can you recite these rhymes.

Art Ideas

 

Stone Art and Activities

 

GET CREATIVE WITH DAISIES AND DANDELIONS

  • Using cardboard, punch holes using a fork and thread dandelions to create a shape or your name.
  • Gardens are full of daisies at this time of year. See can you make a daisy chain.

Riddles for fun!

Get your brain working with these riddles. See can you figure them out!

Baking

Lego Ideas

Poetry

Try learning this poem and recite it for you family at home.

 

 

 

 

 

Good morning!

This week is National Biodiversity week and today is also National Bee Day. As this is our current Green Schools theme, I thought I would share some information and resources with you. This year a lot of the content has been moved online and might be of interest. You will find a lot of information on the National Biodiversity Week 2020 Facebook page. Here is an article that lists some of the many activities happening this week.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/what-s-on-for-national-biodiversity-week-1.4256128

 

Living Earth are conducting a “biodiversity virtual tour” every day at 5pm from their website. For World Bee Day, which is today (20/5) there will be a livestream all about bees and their role in biodiversity. Tomorrow’s (21/5) livestream is a guided wellness walk through JFK Memorial Park and Arboretum. On Friday (22/5) they will be doing a livestreamed tour of the Wexford Seal Rescue. Click on the link below for details of these and other events.

 

http://www.livingearth.ie/living-earth-tv/

 

Biodiversity Ireland are undertaking many surveys and studies that you can participate in from your garden including a butterfly monitoring scheme. Click on the link below for more details.

 

https://www.biodiversityireland.ie/

 

Finally, here is an animated video all about bees, why we need them and how we can help them.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBIKqFywxTY

 

There’s some lovely pdf’s with outdoor activities for kids too if you’d like to take a look.

Garden-Wildlife-Booklet-web (002)

Junior Ranger Book

 

Have a great week and I hope you get to spend some time outside and enjoy nature 😊

Ms. Carney.

 

 

First Class

18th – 22nd May

Dear Parents and Children,

We’re entering the second last week of May and I would like to say a huge well done on all the hard work parents and children have been doing to date. I’ve been delighted with all the emails, videos and pictures of work and activities. It looks like there’s great work being done by all whether it’s in the books, out in the garden, baking, building, playing a musical instrument or reading. All these skills are of huge benefit to children. Below is the work for the week and as always it is a guide for you with extra activities and ideas for your child if they are interested. There is a video to go this week’s Irish and Maths. Well done on all the hard work and as usual if you need any help please contact me on h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie if I can help in any way.

Lastly, I’d like to wish George a very happy birthday for this Thursday. Have a great day!

Take care,

Ms Carney

Monday

English:

Spellings:

Unit 28-Set 1 Activities A+B

For this week, get a stopwatch or timer. Give each word 30 seconds and see how many times you can write the word! Record your scores and see what word wins at the end of the week!

Reading:

Two Little Frogs Unit 21 ‘Three Naughty Ostriches’ (pg 88)

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 89 Activities A + B

  • For activity A, you can write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false.
  • In the game below, see can you find another word or the opposite for each of the pictures.

 

 

Maths:

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhXDqgCWm

Master your Maths:

New Week-Complete Monday  (See video above for help with some of the harder ones this week)

 

Tables:

 

Planet Maths pg 141

  • Section A 1+2
  • Section B 1+2

 

Irish

Please click on this link for a video on this week’s Irish reading and activities. I hope it makes it easier at home for you all.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhXD1gCsx

 

 

Bua an Cainte pg 76 and 77 (First five sentences)

 

 

Tuesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 28-Set 2 Activities C+D

 

Reading: Three Naughty Ostriches

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 90 Activity A +B

 

Creative Writing:

Bart Simpson is after getting in trouble with Principal Skinner again! What did he do? What punishment did Principal Skinner give Bart?

 

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

Complete Tuesday

Tables: (as above)

Maths Topic  (See video)

Planet Maths pg 141- Complete the page.

Irish (See video link)

Bua na Cainte

  • Finish the sentences on pg 77. Try add your own sentence at the bottom. You could pick one of the toys from the poster below.

 

 

Wednesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 28-Set 3 Activities E+F

 

Reading: Take 20 minutes today and read a book from your own library at home.

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 91. Activity A. Read the advice from Captain Capital below before you try activity A to make the activity easier.

 

 

 

Maths:

Master your Maths: New Week-Complete Wednesday

Tables: -1 and -2

Planet Maths pg 142 (If you need extra help with these sums, have a look at the video link above.)

For Activity C, write them as castle sums to make it easier to figure out.

 

Irish (See video link above)

Bua na Cainte

Page 78 Fill in the sentences using this sentence.

Cheannaigh ________ an ___________.

 

 

Thursday

English:

Reading: Poetry

Read the poem below. If your dog could talk, what would he say? If you have a different pet, you can write about them or if you have no pets, create an imaginary pet!

 

 

Spellings: Unit 27-Set 4 Activity G

 

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 91. Unscramble the sentences and write on the line below.

Unscramble these Summer themed words.

 

Maths:

Master your Maths: New Week-Complete Thursday

Planet Maths: pg 143 Mental Maths 8

Irish

Bua na Cainte

Page 80- Feicim le mo shúile

Page 81-Irish Reading-Léigh an Scéal

 

Friday

Spellings: Complete a spelling test for the week’s spellings and correct errors together. Pick your favourite wild animal and write an acrostic poem about the animal!

Here’s one I wrote myself!

 

Zooming through the jungle,

Eating grass,

Be careful, they’re endangered,

Related to horses,

A beautiful wild animal.

 

 

Maths: 

Master Your Maths Weekly Test (Week 29) and test your -11 tables

Irish:

Bua na Cainte pg 81 Colour the picture

Story Time

https://www.storylineonline.net/books/harry-the-dirty-dog/  Enjoy!

 

Additional Irish Ideas

  • Join this TG4 Artist and see can you draw along with him as he teaches the presenter how to draw a zombie!

https://youtu.be/faZ5TaC-GsY

 

  • If you like Horrid Henry, tune in to TG4 each weekday at 4.15 for Dōnall Dána.

 

Suggested Extra Activities

-Continue to keep a record of the books you have read at home.

-Geography: Connaught and its counties

-Take a look at the provinces of Ireland. Which counties are in the province of Connaught?

  • Connaught is the smallest of the four provinces. The 5 counties are Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon. See can you find 5 facts about the province. Here’s a poem to help you learn the counties.

 

-Connaught Flag: Use the image above to help you draw the flag of Connaught with the correct colours.

Folk Stories from Connaught

Have a read of this story and draw a picture of your favourite part. (It’s from a book you’ll be reading next year)

 

 

-The Wild Atlantic Way runs along the whole west coast of Ireland. Have a look at this tourist map and make a plan of what you’d like to visit and activities you would like to try! Pick one place you’ve never heard of and see can you find pictures of it on the internet.

Science and Technology Challenges

 

Lava Lamps

P.E. :

Baking:

Lego:

Art

Get your colours and get creative!

 

 

Mindfulness Yoga

Music Ideas

Did you see Mary Poppins when it was in the cinema? One of the most famous songs from the film was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

See can you sing along with this version of the song. See how fast you can sing it!

https://youtu.be/uZNRzc3hWvE

 

 

Dingabats

A dingbat is a letter, picture or word puzzle for you to figure out. The first two are

  1. Seven Seas
  2. Split Level

Have a go at the rest of the puzzles and see how many you can guess. If you need the answers, just send me a message by email! Best of luck!

 

Drama Ideas

Here’s some ideas for drama that you can do together at home

  1. Crossing the Space. (Children line up at one side of the garden or room). Get them to move from one side to the other giving them a different scenario each time. Ideas for it could include; crossing the Sahara, walking in quick drying cement, a very steep mountain, a dense jungle, walking on the moon, wearing bouncy shoes or climbing through laser beams.
  2. Playing games like ‘In my Granny’s Closet’ or ‘On the Shipwreck I found’. These are great memory games
  3. https://www.hooplaimpro.com/improv-exercises-games-formats.html  Have a try at some of these improvisation games
  4. Hot Potato for telling a story. Each person around the kitchen table and each person comes up with a line of a story and the next person follows on with the story. Record and listen back. Use a potato or beanbag as a microphone!
  5. Charades
  6. Mirror imaging of each other’s actions/ Mime activities

Poetry: Try this poem at home. 

First Class

11th-15th May

Dear Parents and Children,

I hope you are all keeping well. Last week was a pretty wet one so here’s hoping the sun will shine this week for us all! Again, I would like to thank you all for your correspondence and for keeping in touch. It’s great to see that the children are doing so well at home and getting through a little bit of work each day. I was delighted to get some pictures of stories, delicious looking treats that the children have made at home, emails about books they have been reading, what they thought of the characters and lots more. This week there are videos again to help you with maths and Irish and please email me at h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie if there is anything else that I can do to help. There is a lot of work posted here each week. As always there is no obligation to complete everything, the suggested extra activities are to cater for all the different interests and talents that the children have so please don’t feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you see. The extra games and activities in addition to bookwork are only to provide you with more visual or fun ways to work with your child if they need it. Everyone learns differently. Everyone is doing their best and that’s all we can do in a time like this! The closing date for our Summer Poetry competition if you’d like to enter is the 18th of May. I look forward to seeing more Summer poems this week.

I like to wish Sam a very happy birthday for this Monday, the 11th. Hope you have great day!

Have a great week everyone and well done on all the great work.

Stay safe and take care,

Ms. Carney

 

This week there is an art competition which looks like great fun for any child interested. I think it’s a lovely idea to remind us to keep connected with our family and friends during this time.

 

 

 

Monday

English:

Spellings:

Unit 27-Set 1 Activities A+B

For this week, you can use this dice activity to help you learn you spellings.

On Thursday, I have a wordsearch for you to try before you do your Friday test.

 

Reading:

Two Little Frogs Unit 21 ‘The Lion with the Smelly Breath’ (pg 84)

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 85 Activity A

  • For activity A, try your best to remember capital letters at the start of each sentences and people’s names and full stops at the end of each sentence.
  • If you’d like to try an easy game to revise capital letters, click on the link below

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/capital-letter-beginner-1.html

  • Have a go at this worksheet and see can you figure out which words need capital letters.

 

Creative Writing

  • Mr O’Connell has asked you to take the class for an hour of P.E. What would you do during the class? How would you warm up and cool down? What games would you play? What equipment would you need?
  • Keep a diary or write your news.

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

New Week-Complete Monday

Tables:

 

Maths

Click on the video below for help with this week’s maths.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhjIkgZoc

Planet Maths pg 137

Additional Worksheet (Optional)

 

Irish

Please click on this link for a video on this week’s Irish reading and activities. I hope it makes it easier at home for you all.

http://somup.com/cYhjIMjQcj

Irish reading:

Try this short reading today at home.

Is Maith Liom! (I like)

 

Tuesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 27-Set 2 Activities C+D

Reading: The Lion with the Smelly Breath

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 85 Activity B

Creative Writing:

  • If I had a time machine…. (Ignore the 150 words)

  • Keep a diary or write your news.

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

Complete Tuesday

Tables: (as above)

Maths Topic  (See video)

Planet Maths pg 138

Irish (See video link)

Irish Reading: Nī maith liom! (I don’t like)

See can you write a short story about the foods you like and dislike. Use the poster to help.

 Wednesday

English:

Spellings: Unit 27-Set 3 Activities E+F

Reading: The Lion with Smelly Breath

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 86 Activities A and B

Have a look at these activities below and see can you figure them out.

 

 

Creative Writing:

  • Roll a Starter Story. Have fun!

Maths:

Master your Maths: New Week-Complete Wednesday

Tables: -9 and -10

Planet Maths pg 139 (Before you try this page, have a look at the video above or have a look at this Youtube video. The video below revises the castle sums we looked at a few weeks and then looks at examples of this week’s sums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFAh4VNMFA

 

Irish (See video link above)

Irish reading: Féach! (Look!)

Have a go at reading this short piece of reading today.

 

Thursday

English:

Reading: Try this tongue twister story and see how fast you can say it!

Spellings: Unit 27-Set 4 Activity G+H

Written Activities:

New Wave English-Complete the next day of questions

Two Little Frogs pg 87

When you put two words together to make another word, it is called a compound word.

Examples

  • sun + shine= sunshine
  • rain + bow = rainbow

Have a look at this worksheet and see can you match the words to make new words.

 

Creative Writing

  • You are walking along the beach and find a glass bottle with a letter in it. What is written in the letter? Who is it?

 Maths:

Master your Maths: New Week-Complete Thursday

Planet Maths: pg 140.

If you would like to practise some more subtraction sums, try this worksheet. (optional)

 

 

 

Irish

Try this short writing activity. It is based on yesterday’s reading.

 

Friday

Spellings: Complete a spelling test for the week’s spellings and correct errors together.

Maths: 

Master Your Maths Weekly Test and test your -10 tables

Irish: Read back over the three Irish stories. Pretend you are on TG4 reading them your stories!

 

Additional Irish Ideas

  • Cad atá ar siúl ar an teilifís?

What’s on the t.v.?

You could make your own tv and draw your favourite programme in it like this one!

 

 

  • Story: Garfield as Gaeilge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgWASkuqkQo

Suggested Extra Activities

Continue to keep a record of the books you have read at home

 

Geography: Munster and its counties

-Take a look at the provinces of Ireland. Which counties are in the province of Munster?

-Here’s a poem to remember the counties of Munster. If you want the full version for the whole of Ireland let me know and I will send it to you!

-Munster Flag: Find out the colours of the flag of Munster.

-See if you can find out the nicknames for the counties in Munster, for example we’re know as the Rebels! Email me if you find out!

-Find out the colours of the flags of the counties in Munster.

-We live in the south of Ireland. Have a look at this and see if you know north, south, east and west!

SPHE:

Here’s a link for this lovely book for children who are a little worried about the virus.

https://en.calameo.com/read/000777721945cfe5bb9cc?authid=Xu9pcOzU3TQx

 

Maybe you’d like to create a worry jar:

 

Tongue Twisters:

P.E. :

How many can you do in 100 seconds?

If anyone at home has time to play, this could be fun or you could create your own fitness board game!

 

 

Baking:

I enjoyed making and eating this! It’s a little bit more tricky than the other recipes we’ve tried but give it a go!

 

Lego:

 

Pick your favourite animal and write an information report on your animal.

 

  • Keep an ‘I can’ Journal this week

 

 

 

Conversation Starters!

We hope you have fun with our conversation ideas for dinner at the kitchen table.

Here’s some more to keep you all talking!

Art

  • Design your own Island. Design a legend (on the right hand side of the Foot Island) at the side to show where everything will be and come up with a name.

 

  • Have you seen the Cherry Blossom trees in full bloom? Create your own tree using paint, cotton buds, tissue paper or the real flowers.

Mindfulness Activities

Draw and create your own dream catcher. Use a cereal box/paper plate, twine and leaves/flower petals from the garden.

Music Ideas

Have a look at this 12 year old girl on an American Talent Show. She is able to yodel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00nfVc4FPI

Why not try it yourself with this song!

An Austrian went Yodelling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDVK-CSeUc

 

Yoga in the Garden

Once the rain stops, get out to the garden and try these!

A Wish Jar

Get an empty jar and place it in your kitchen/sitting. Each day, write one thing that you plan to do once the government restrictions are lifted. When I did my jar over the weekend, my notes were to call over to my grandparents, visit the beach and get a 99 ice-cream cone with a flake!!

 

First Class

6th – 8th May

Dear Parents and Children,

I hope this finds you all safe and healthy. Again, thank you for all the pictures and emails, it was so great to engage with so many of you and hear how everything is going and what you’ve all been up to. This week we were supposed to be off for Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday so the layout of the work will be under subjects this week for you to work on as you wish throughout the week instead of daily. There are videos to help with this week’s Irish and Maths.

The summer has officially arrived! I would love to kick this off with a summer poem competition. The winning poem will be posted on the website. Have a look under the English section for more details.

Take care,

Ms Carney  (h.carney@upperglanmirens.ie)

English:

Spellings:

Unit 27

Complete the exercises over the three days. (no need for sentences for these words)

Over the past few weeks we have tried different activities to practise writing our spellings. Pick you favourite and try it this week!

  • A tray of sand, salt or flour and trace the words
  • Trace the words on sandpaper
  • Make a hair gel or paint ziplock. Seal and attach to the window and spell out the words.
  • Use one of the roll dice games that we have tried or create your own. (If you decide to design your own, please email it on and we can share it with your friends)
  • Make the words out of lego, blocks or playdough.
  • See can you find this week’s words in this wordsearch.

New Wave English Workbook

The next three days of exercises

Reading:

Two Little Frogs Unit 20 ’Rumpelstiltskin’ (pg 80)

Written Activities:

Complete pages 81-83

On Page 82, we are learning about magic ‘e’ with ‘o’. If you go to Unit 21 of your Spellbound workbook, you can revise the magic ‘e’ with ‘o’ words. Have a go at these two worksheets and try this dice game.

 

 

 

Extra Ideas

  • Summer poem competition: Write a poem to celebrate the arrival of summer.

Here are some ideas to help you get going!

  • Let’s Get Talking!

Next time you have dinner with your family, see can you answer some of  these questions????

 

  • Creative Writing

  1. Have a look at this pathway through the forest. What’s at the end of the pathway??? Tell me what you find! (If you find this tricky to think of something, use your senses to help. What can you see, hear, feel, taste and smell?? Write a sentence for each)
  2. Keep a diary or write your news.
  3. Write a letter to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar or Minister for health, Simon Harris. You could maybe thank them for all their hard work or ask them a question about the Coronavirus
  4. Roll a Fairytale and get writing!!!

  1. David Walliams has asked you to write a new character for his ‘World’s Worst Children’ series. Use the template below and some of the words from the character traits list to create your character.

 

Maths:

Master your Maths:

This week, I’ve prepared a video looking at some of the sums you might find tricky on this week’s Master your Maths. You can complete the four days over the week. You don’t need to do the test this week.

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYheF6BpsZ

 

Tables: