First Class May 5th – 8th

                      First Class May 5th – 8th
English:
Reader: Dance Shoes for GG. This week I’m hoping the boys will finish reading the story “Denzel’s Holiday”.
Ask them to summarise the story. Explain that in order to summarise, boys will have to think about the main events and leave out unimportant details.
Talk about the story ending. Is that how you expected the story to end?
Pick your favourite part of the story and practise rereading it.
 

• Treasury : Don’t work on this as it’s a short week and continue with the other activities instead.
• Sounds in Action: Continue on (maybe a page a day). This is revision of previous class work.
• Read At Home: Week 20
• Free writing or Discussion work ( link with Read at Home story) What would you use to design a rocket? Draw and label the parts. Where would you go? What would you see?  
• Spellbound Unit 19 ( learn 3 boxes only)

Use the correct method:  Look, Cover, Write, Read and Check.
Have your test on Friday, just like we do in school.
Use https://www.spellingcity.com/users/mrsdlinehan as a link to access lots of spelling games based on Spellbound. Find ‘Unit 19’, ‘Try a game’.

• Phonics : Magic e in ‘u’ words

Same rule as last week = Magic e cannot make any sound so he reaches in and pinches the nearest vowel .In these words “u” gets such a fright he screams out his name.
Some magic e words to practise reading :
Use, cube, cure, fuse, fumes, June, mule, rude, rule ,ruler, sure, tube, tune, huge, flute, dune, cute, brute, amuse, confuse, reduce, introduce.
 
Further practice activities on IXL website. You are familiar with this site for Maths but this time click on English- First Class- activities H1 and H2 ( I have them starred).

 
 
 
Maths:

• Tables: Revision work pgs. 52-53. Revise -9.

Continue on each day as we do in school. Remember addition and subtraction are related e.g.20-9=11 ….. 11+9= 20
You can use the fun ‘Tables Challenge’ game on our 1st & 2nd class blog page on our school website ( Scroll down the right side)

• Mathemagic1 This week’s theme is Capacity pgs. 129 – 132

( Don’t spill too much water!!)
Key vocabulary: full, empty, half full, holds more/less, holds most/least, capacity, litres, millilitres, measuring jug, measure,
Further activities if needed in Figure It Out 1 pg.54

• New Wave Week 30…some ideas to expand  learning

Tuesday: No.4 – Continue counting in 5’s to 100. What do your answers end in?  
Wednesday: No. 2 = How many days would you usually go to school in March? What date/day is St. Patrick’s day? What day/date is the last day in March? When is 1st April?
Thursday: No.4 = Name the four seasons. What  season  have we now? How many months in each season?
Friday: No. 6 =Count back in 10s from 100 to 0.
 
Problemsolving: Remember underline key words. Draw pictures to help. Use “ RUDE”
R= Read
U = Underline
D = Draw
E = Evaluate. .Does your answer  make sense?
 
Remember mistakes are good when we learn from them.
 
 

Grow in Love:
Free access to Grow in Love online. Simply login on the www.growinlove.ie website with the following details
Username: trial@growinlove.ie
Password: growinlove
When logged in go to 1st Class. Click on Theme 6 : Lesson 3: “We are nourished by receiving Holy Communion”. Pick and choose out of this lesson as some of the content is for 2nd class who will be receiving their First Holy Communion.
Look at and discuss video clips and pictures. Complete workbook pg.38.

 
Irish:
     Bua na Cainte 2
  
Continue with the theme ‘ÉADAÍ’ ( Clothes) particularly the games, songs and poems. Your child will be familiar with the format of these lessons .
 
If you just want your child to listen to the Irish language I would recommend Cúla 4, An Siopa Ealaíne or Spongebob ( Irish version).
 

 
 
 
 
 
EXTRAS:
         Museum Of Childhood Ireland
         Wouldn’t it be a great achievement to have a piece of your
         work on display in a museum. The Museum of Ireland are
         looking for children’s art/poems/stories for an online
         display  #Project2020Together in museumofchildhood.ie
         Themes = My Family,
                         My Friends
                         My Favourite Game
                         Places I miss most
                         Sports I can practice at home
                         My Favourite Book
         Send entries to info@museumofchildhood.ie
 

• Music lessons with Mylene Klass. Youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ
 

• Develop fine motor skills e.g Make pasta bracelets, paper tearing…different textures and thicknesses…they can be scrunched up to make a collage, draw around stencils, trace pictures or shapes,  jigsaw puzzles.

 
Lovely Art ideas in https:// www.redtedart.com
 

• Physical exercise every day e.g. Scavenger hunt, kitchen utensil bubble wands, cycle, have fun with balloons

 ( https://handsonaswegrow.com/28-ways-to-play-with-balloons) or if it’s raining  join in with 10 at 10 on rtejr.
 

•  Cosmic Yoga:

Children enjoy this site and engage with yoga lessons.
https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
 
https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/category/get-kids-cooking/