Pheasants........Stay Tuned!!
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With the help of an adult why not try making your own bird box or bug hotel.
If you get a chance why not explore your local area with a parent and see what you can find......here's a few tips from Ira and I below.
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Energy & Forces
This week we are going to explore the topics of 'Gravity' and 'Air Resistance'.
Watch the Video below 'Defining Gravity' and 'Danger!Falling Objects', watch Felix Baumgartner Sky Dive from Space and make your very own 'Lego man Parachute'. (If you don't have a Lego man you can make a cardboard man etc.)
Here are some questions to investigate:
• Which shape of parachute gives the slowest fall to a Lego Man? Round? Square? Rectangular? Big? Small? Hole? No hole?
• What material makes a parachute that gives the slowest fall to a Lego man?
They're Here!!!
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We are almost there!!
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Geronimo The Giant
Monday 27th - Friday 31st
Over the Easter break our eggs arrived!! The following videos will show you how our incubator was set up and how to care for the eggs. As they have been incubating for about two weeks later in the week I will be uploading a video to show how to test to see if the eggs have live chicks in them.
We have four different breeds in our Incubator. They are as follows:
French Copper Maran a dark brown egg. Cream Legbar a sky blue egg. Bluebell a cream/white egg. Light Sussex a light brown egg. You can pick a breed to find out some more information about them, maybe where they originate from, their colour, size. Try drawing one you like or design a new breed, with colours you'd like. It Just so happens that our goose is hatching at the minute as well. Here is a picture of her with the Gander and her nest of eggs.
Easter
Have a great Easter Gang, hope ye get lot's of eggs, hopefully with no surprises...unlike the egg i got in the video below.
Thursday Trees Did you know that there are about 7,500 different species of trees in Ireland? Not all of these are native. A native tree is one that has not been introduced by man, but that grows naturally in an area.Native trees started to grow in Ireland after the last Ice Age, about 15,000 years ago. The video below gives a short insight into the two types, coniferous/ evergreen and deciduous trees. Explore the following link http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/5th-+-6th-class/5th-+-6th-class-environme/leafy-lovelies/trees/ to learn about our own native trees. See which ones you can identify out your window...not too easy without their leaves! You can also tell the age of trees by counting their annual rings (this also shows how much they've grown each year)! Look at the word document below, how old is it? Why not check the age of some around your house, look at logs for the fire or dead branches on the ground, LEAVE THE CHAINSAWS IN THE SHED!
Today I'd like you to meet Judy and Jimeen
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The Donkey
Poem
I saw a donkey
One day old,
His head was too big
For his neck to hold;
His legs were shaky
And long and loose,
They rocked and staggered
And weren't much use.
He tried to gambol
And frisk a bit,
But he wasn't quite sure
Of the trick of it.
His queer little coat
Was soft and grey,
And curled at his neck
In a lovely way.
His face was wistful
And left no doubt
That he felt life needed
Some thinking about.
So he blundered round
In venturesome quest,
And then lay flat
On the ground to rest.
He looked so little
And weak and slim,
I prayed the world
Might be good to him
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Hi guys, it’s hard being at home away from friends, I tried making new ones today but they didn’t seem to like me (check the video below for proof)! Check in here each day and I might have something uploaded for you to watch or see. Don’t forget to answer the questions on them!!
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Farm activities:
Sheep and Lambs.
1. Look at the two photos carefully and answer the following questions:
2. How many sheep in the first picture/ how many lambs?
3. How many sheep in the second picture/how many lambs?
4. Can you find the black lamb?
5. How many feet in the field? Count in 4's or 2's twice for each animal?
6. Can you spot any numbers on the lambs or sheep?
7. What is the highest/lowest number you can find?
8. Is there any purple dots on the sheep?
That means they have twins or triplets...can you find them close to her?
Sheep and Lambs.
1. Look at the two photos carefully and answer the following questions:
2. How many sheep in the first picture/ how many lambs?
3. How many sheep in the second picture/how many lambs?
4. Can you find the black lamb?
5. How many feet in the field? Count in 4's or 2's twice for each animal?
6. Can you spot any numbers on the lambs or sheep?
7. What is the highest/lowest number you can find?
8. Is there any purple dots on the sheep?
That means they have twins or triplets...can you find them close to her?
Senior Infants
Literacy
20-30 mins
Read stories with your child
- Listen to nursery rhymes
- Alphabet Guessing Game/ I Spy/ Who Am I/ What am I
- Online Suggested Resources:
- www.getepic.com - thousands of amazing books online for free
- www.literacyshed.com
- www.storynory.com - audio stories online
- Twinkl (free membership for the next month)
- www.scoilnet.ie(scroll to the bottom and click on world book online)
- www.teachyourmonstertoread.com (Free membership at the moment)
- Weekly continuation of tricky words in red sounds book can be practiced.
- Free writing copies that has also been sent home can be continued daily, topics could include
- Diary entries: A day to day entry of life at home and how they are finding the experience, what they are doing etc
- Recount Writing - Something I did, somewhere I went, my weekend, a holiday I went on, a party I went to
- Report writing – movies I have seen, books I have read, my family, my pet, animals, food, football team, football player, Co Mayo, Ireland
- Procedural Writing – How to play a game, write a recipe, list of instructions
- Three Stars and a Wish - Write three things they are happy about and one thing they would like to change (good mindfulness activity)
- Become an author – write your own story
- Become a poet – write your own poem
- Write a letter
- Designing – birthday invitation, magazine cover, clothes, cake, DVD/CD cover
Maths
20 mins
Numeracy
- Games/Counting/matching/sorting/playing shop
- Water play (full/empty/how many cups fill)
- Playdough - make numbers 1-10/Play Shop - using 1c/2c and 5c coins
- Mathletics - https://login.mathletics.com/
- www.topmarks.com- simple games based on number/counting
- Data counting Knives, forks, spoons sorting and recording.
- Looking again at our numbers individually and how we can make them in different ways..8 = 4+4, 6+2, 5+3 etc.
Gaeilge
20 mins
Gaeilge - TG4 Cúla 4
Scealta www.seideansi.ie
Abair liom Senior Infants can be accessed through www.folensonline.ie they have lots of games and activities to revise topics covered to date.
Continued revision of vocabulary copy.
SESE
Active Learning
Arts
30 mins
Cutting/ sticking/ make a picture
Baking/ gardening/ digging / sow a seed
Threading/ clothes pegs
Take a line for a walk with chalk
PE
As much as Possible!
Be Active
Spend time outside - be a detective what can you see/ hear smell
Jumping/ skipping/ hopping/ balance on one foot/ running/
sprinting
www.youtube.com- cosmic yoga & ‘Just Dance’
www.gonoodle.com
10@10 RTE Junior (movement break)
Daily Mindful Moment-3 stars and a wish
First Class (senior infants)
Reading
If your child needs books / reading materials we suggest:
- Epic app - this app offers a free months trial when you sign up. It offers a variety of lovely books in which your child can read along with audio, or read alone or simply just listen to and enjoy audio stories.
- The Literacy Shed www.literacyshed.com/home.html - The website is all about visual literacy. It provides high quality films and animations that can be used to enhance reading and writing. Click into any type of 'Shed', watch the animation and read through, and complete the activities under it.
- Storynory www.storynory.com - Storynory provides audio stories online
- If your child has a Mayo County library membership they can use the library app ‘BorrowBox’ which can be downloaded from the app store. It has lots of ebooks and audiobooks to choose from. BorrowBox Mayo County Library's new e-book and e-audiobook online lending service, allows you to borrow five e-books and five e-audio books from a wide selection of children's titles. You may choose to read or listen to your borrowed titles on your
PC, smart phone or tablet, providing a fully mobile, 24/7 online service. To begin using the service, please click E-Books & E-Audiobooks and use your library card number and PIN number.
1. readtheory.org When entering the site you will need to sign up. Enter a user name and a password (you don't need to enter a class code) and submit. An initial test once they log in establishes their standard.
Free Writing
Children can choose to write about whatever topic or idea they like. The following are a list of suggestions if children are struggling to come up with ideas themselves:
- Diary entries: A day to day entry of life at home and how they are finding the experience, what they are doing etc
- Recount Writing - Something I did, somewhere I went, my weekend, a holiday I went on, a party I went to
- Report writing – movies I have seen, books I have read, my family, my pet, animals, food, football team, football player, Co Mayo, Ireland
- Procedural Writing – How to play a game, write a recipe, list of instructions
- Three Stars and a Wish - Write three things they are happy about and one thing they would like to change (good mindfulness activity)
- Become an author – write your own story
- Become a poet – write your own poem
- Write a letter
- Designing – birthday invitation, magazine cover, clothes, cake, DVD/CD cover
Try encourage your children to watch some programmes daily on Cúla4 - the TnaG channel www.cula4.com/en/ e.g. Cata Hata, Spongebob, Garfield, Clarence, Lurgan2k17.
If you do not have access to TnaG, use TnaG playback online. Search TnaG player, Genre, Young People.
If you wish you can download the documents below for some Irish reading/Comprehension activities. There is also an audio file to correspond which each page. Your child can listen to the short story while following it with their finger. After listening to the story, encourage your child to read it independently. The questions can be answered orally or written.
There are some examples of written activities shown in a separate file below.
ocras_L21
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Audio Ocras 21
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tart_L22
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Audio Tart 22
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te_agus_fuar L25
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Audio Te agus Fuar 25
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an_aimsir_inniu L26
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Audio An Aimsir 26
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examples_of_written_activities.docx
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If you wish to access more reading and comprehension material like the above, you can register on the following link https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/resources and access 'Léigh sa Bhaile' online book and audio resources for free.
Maths
Skip counting– please encourage your child to work on their skip counting. Children can jump/hop/skip/clap etc while practising counting in 2's, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s.
Websites such as Top Marks offer good interactive games which will reinforce their learning. I suggest the following:
- 'Hit the Button' www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- 'Mental Maths Train' www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
- 'Coconut Multiplies' www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
- Try out Mathletics mathletics.com . When you access the site you'll need to sign up for free as student. There is a 30 free trial which requires no payment details; only your email, user name and password. Once you are logged in you will need to 'Manage your Subscriptions' and 'Add a student'. You will then receive another email with your child's login details. Go back to the main site and press 'log in' at the top of the screen and enter the details from the email.
1. Children may choose their own topic of interest if they wish, e.g. an animal/ famous person/ sports/ farming etc. They can research the topic and create a project/presentation on the topic - facts, drawings, paintings, pictures etc.
2. National Geographic Kids kids.nationalgeographic.com/ also offers games, quizzes, interactive activities and more for your child to engage with.
3. Twinkl www.twinkl.ie offers fantastic PowerPoints and activities on a range of different topics.
4. BBC Bitesize www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn offers a wide variety of topics and subjects for children to explore
P.E
Useful websites such as the following offer good movement break activities for children, and are good fun to use.
- Just Dance justdancenow.com/
- Go Noodle www.gonoodle.com/
- CosmicYoga www.cosmickids.com/
- The Body Coach (Joe Wicks) is holding LIVE PE lessons at 9am Monday-Friday on his YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 for children of ALL ages
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