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Ms. O'Shea's Class Blog

Amazing work from last week!

15/6/2020

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15th - 19th June

Hi everyone, and welcome back to more fun online learning. I can't wait for you to see all of the fun things we are getting up to this week. But first, I want to show you what work I'd like you to do.
English:
  1. I suggest that you continue to practice your reading on                               www.connect.collins.co.uk.
  2. Sounds, tricky words, word lists
  3. My News - you could do this on any day this week. Maybe you are doing something exciting this week and you'd like to write about it after. Don't forget to add words/sentences to your picture!
  4. Handwriting (see more below)
  5. Dictation (see more below)
  6. Read a story - if you don't have access to books, youtube have lots.
  7. Play an Oral Language game eg. I spy with my little eye, I went to the supermarket and I bought and apple, banana, carrot etc. (alphabetical order).
Handwriting
Revision - pages 62 & 63
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Extra Revision (Suggested letters)
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Suggested words for dictation:
  • bun
  • wig
  • hat
  • mix
  • hot
  • red
  • shut
  • wish
  • chest
  • punch
  • string
  • cloth
Maths:
  1. Revise different ways of making 5 - use what you have at home eg. 3 green lego pieces and 2 red legos pieces is the same a 5.
  2. Stop and start eg. start counting at 3 and stop at 8, will you remember to stop?
  3. Sets of 1-10 (see below - Q and As)
  4. Suggested Busy work - Busy at Maths pages 35 & 39.
  5. Check out Ms. Brooks' Maths game for this week!
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Can you make an array like this 1-10 using items from your home?
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Or what about this?
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What did I take away in each of these?
5 FUN ACTIVITIES
Monday
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Music with Ms. Keogh
Tuesday
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Making play dough with Ms. Maguire
Wednesday
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Maths with Ms. Brooks
Thursday
Friday
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Science with Ms. O'Shea
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Baking with Ms. McSweeney

Music
with Ms Keogh

We will be looking at 3 different things in music today!
The Orchestra
First of all we will be learning a little bit about the orchestra!
​The main vocabulary to take from this lesson is orchestra, conductor, musicians, strings, woodwind, percussion and brass!
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Body Percussion/ Beat
Now, we will be learning about beat in a song and how our bodies can act as instruments through body percussion! There's lots of standing up and joining in for this one!!
Remember: A beat is a steady sound/pulse in the back of a song (kind of like a heartbeat💗)
Here's the fun popcorn song that you can try again if you'd like!
Rhythm 
I am going to introduce you to Granny Semibreve, Mr Minim, Mr Crochet and Little Miss Quaver! These are different rhythms in music. After watching this video try and clap along with the song from Moana below! 😊
Thanks so much to everyone for watching Music with Ms Keogh. I will be back next week with another fun activity! 😊

Playdough
with Ms. Maguire

Ingredients:
- 1 cup of flour
- 1/2 cup of salt
- 1 cup of water
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice OR 4 tablespoons cream of tartar  
(I couldn't find cream of tartar anywhere but lemon juice is a god substitute)
- 2/3 spoons food colouring

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Method
- Mix the flour and salt together
- Add the wet ingredients (water, oil, lemon juice and food colouring)
- Mix together
- Microwave for 4/5 minutes
- Let it cool
- Mix
- Lightly flour counter and knead the mixture

​Here are a few fun ideas for your new playdough...

Maths
with Ms. Brooks
Science
with Ms. O'Shea
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 Hello again everyone! Today's experiment requires minimal resources. We will be making our own Lava Lamps, how cool! The super thing about these is you can choose your own colour by changing the food colouring. I really hope you enjoy it, and have FUN!!

You will need:
  • Water
  • Oil
  • Food colouring
  • A clear container ie. a glass
  • 1 Alka-Seltzer
Extension - add some drops of red food colouring and then some blue, what do you think will happen? Try some other mixtures!

Don't forget to send on pictures and videos!!!  :)

The procedural writing is just an option you could do at the end, you may also like to do it orally to test memory!


​Baking

with Ms. McSweeney

​

Today we are going to make fairy cakes! I have used a simple all in one recipe so that it's easy to make, and have little ones join in on the process. I hope that you enjoy and that they taste great!
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Ingredients - Fairy Cakes
  • 6oz flour
  • 6oz sugar
  • 6oz butter
  • 3 eggs
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Equipment
  • bowl
  • weighing scales
  • mixer
  • bun tray and bun cases
Ingredients - Icing
  • 6oz icing sugar
  • 2-3 tbsp warm water
  • few drops of food colouring (optional)
  • extra toppings (optional)


​​Have Fun and Enjoy!

1 Comment
Ms Mc Donnell link
21/6/2020 09:35:49 am

Congrats Ms . O Shea , girls and boys on the great work in distance learning.

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