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Thursday 30th April

30/4/2020

Happy Thursday everybody, I hope you are all well and have been behaving for all your families. The weather this week has not been as nice as it has been and I’m sad to say that after my calendar yesterday it rained all day. ☹️ Bright side my garden needed some watering 🤣.

📅Calendar📆

📒Dictation✏️

✏️Handwriting✏️

📚Storytime📚

🎵Dance and movement break🎵

Below you will find some videos to get your bodies moving and shake off any cobwebs 😄 enjoy.

📖Gaeilge📒

For Irish today I have placed lots of the videos we have done already as an introduction to the lesson, go through each video to continue practising your Irish.

For this activity, look at the picture and answer the question. Cad atá sa seomra Suí? Tá __________ as seomra Suí.

➕Maths➖

For today’s maths lesson let go back over our skip counting and doubles from yesterday, then we are going to be focusing on patterns. Pick one of the pages below to do, these can be done on a blank page.

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Wednesday 29th April

29/4/2020

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Good morning everybody, I hope you all had a lovely Tuesday and enjoyed yesterday’s blog. I had a lot of technical issues and it took the entire day for my videos to load so I was delighted when they finally did.

Calendar

The videos got a snazzy update with cover photos and sound effects now. 🤣🤣

Dictation

Handwriting

Storytime

Prediction time, for the activity in English today I would like you all to come up with a prediction as to how the story will end.

Dance Break

Maths

For today’s introduction to maths, below you will find a video for skip counting in 2’s and 10’s, I also started teaching skip counting in 5’s. Then we are also going to practice something new which is our doubles. E.g 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 3+3=6 etc.

Now for the written part of our maths, today we are focusing on data. This is revision as we have completed lots in class about data. Below you will find multiple options, pick and choose which you would like to do. These can lol be completed on a blank page, you would just need to draw an apple and then colour 4 boxes beside it for example.

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Tuesday 28th April

28/4/2020

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Happy Tuesday everybody, apologies yesterday some of my videos would not load so I didn’t get to upload my calendar and other subject videos. Hopefully you got on ok without them.

We are very lucky as Ms. Callan and Ms. Fallon have made us videos of some lovely stories. Ms. Callan is reading a story called "Be Gentle" by Virginia Miller and Ms. Fallon is reading the story "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" by Judith Kerr. I am going to link them below for you to listen too. ENJOY 😄

LiTeracy support; stories by ms.callan and ms.fallon

Calendar

Dictation

Handwriting

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Dance Break

I don’t think you can beat a good High School Musical song, so sing along or even learn the dance. Just remember “We’re all in this together” 😄😄

George’s Marvellous Medicine

Maths

Introduction to maths lesson today, we will be starting with some counting:

counting forwards 4-18
counting forwards 7-7
counting backwards 14-2
counting backwards 20-4
skip counting in 2’s to 20 forward and backwards
skip counting in 10’s to 100 forward and backwards
moving past the decade video 21-30, 31-40

Ms. Gilchrist and Ms. Stanley have made some lovely videos for maths games to play at home, make sure you check them out as part of your maths lessons each day. 😄

Maths sUpport: games from ms. Gilchrist and ms. Stanley

Today’s math lesson is on oral maths activities, it is a Target Board, the children look at the picture of the target board and then parents ask the questions to go with the Target Board. We have a nice simple one to start with. Let me know how you get on.

Gaeilge

Today's Irish Lesson will be focused on one key question: Cad atá sa seomra suí?
To practice this question we have our vocabulary video, a new song, a demonstration video form Bua na Cainte and a video from me. Watch all the videos and join in. There is also an activity page for this from Bua na Cainte (feel free to do this or leave it if you cannot print at home).

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Monday 27th April

26/4/2020

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Happy Monday everybody and welcome to another week of school at home. You are all doing amazing things at home and I know it’s difficult and you probably miss seeing your friends faces everyday, so maybe you could write them a comment on the blogs and they can send you a message back too.

Dictation

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Maths

For maths today, we are going to revise our days of the week and months of the year. I would like you to practice your skip counting in 2’s to 20 and 10’s to 100. Then we are going to be doing some word problems. The trick with word problems is to either draw a picture to show what is being asked or use real life objects to help you.

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Let’s start with some nice yoga to get our bodies moving. Below I have picked a 15min video but on their YouTube Chanel there are loads to choose from so feel free to pick your own one.

Movement and dance break

Now time for some dancing!!!!

Now let’s get some workout exercising in!

To finish off our movement break a little Run Red Carpet!

Story Online

This is a story we have listened to in class a few times. This time we are going to do a little activity where we create our own monsters for under the bed and will think of all the adjectives (describing words) that go with them. Have a look at the pictures below for some ideas. All you need is a blank page and your imagination, don’t forget to give your monster a name.

English

Read the passage below and talk about the questions with your families. Then draw the pet you would like the most.

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Friday 24th April

24/4/2020

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Happy Friday everybody!!! Hope you got through the first week back ok. So my plan for future weeks is to upload the children’s work on Fridays this gives you the week to take photos of anything they have done and I will upload them into a Wow work blog post. Just in case you are waiting for photos to go up.😄☺️ I apologise I’ve been very bad at replying to emails I will get back to everybody today!! I read them all and love hearing how everybody is getting on!

🎶🎵let’s start the morning with a song 🎶🎵

Wow work from this week

I get sent so many fabulous pictures of all the amazing things you guys are doing At home. It is so lovely to see the class working so hard, it does not matter if it’s work from the website or different activities you have set them, everybody is doing fabulous work and I am so proud of each and every one of you! Well done Room 10 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

🌏🌎Geography; types of homes and mapping our own homes🌎🌍

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Today we are going to begin learning about all types of homes, there are lots of different types of houses, have a look at the pictures down below and discuss the differences between them all. Have a guess at where in the world you think theses houses might be found.

This is a story about a kid who dreams up the most amazing house. Get ready for a room to blast off!

After that story I think we should dream up some of our own ideas about amazing house and try drawing them. These ideas can be as imaginative as you like and definitely do not have to realistic. Below our just a few ideas to get you started. All you need is a blank page and your imagination. 💡

Now we are going to make a map of our own houses/homes, making a floor plan. A floor plan can be of any part of your house. Below I’ve made a video of how I drew my floor plan.

Story Time

Have a lovely weekend everybody. You did great work this week. See you all on Monday. 😃

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Thursday 23rd April

23/4/2020

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Hello everybody and good morning. I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday and enjoyed your dance break to one of my favourite songs at the moment. Today I wanted to share another reading resource for you to have. I will post the link and video below. It is for Oxford owls.

Oxford owls

Calendar

Dictation

Handwriting

Tricky Words

🎶🎵 Dance Break 🎶🎵

George’s Marvellous Medicine

Arts and Crafts

🎨🧑🏼‍🔬👨🏼‍🍳👨‍🎨After reading George’s marvellous medicine, I thought we could make our own versions. Watch the video below and join in with me. 🧑🏼‍🎨😊☺️😄✏️🖍🖌

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Maths

Let’s practice our counting to 30, doing forget to practise your skip counting in 2’s to 20 and 10’s to 100.

Below are some links to the Planet Maths online interactive games, relating to weight and capacity. These may or may not work as I had to log in but if they don’t work go to Folens online and sign in. Then search for Planet Maths and press resources instead of ebook. You will be able to find the activities then. I’ve used both the senior infants and the 1st class activities as they are well able for both games.

Planet maths Capacity

Planet maths capacity 2

Weighing scales

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Wednesday 22nd April

22/4/2020

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Happy Wednesday. I hope you are all enjoying the slightly different blog. We have been so lucky with the weather these past few weeks so I hope you are getting out to play and get some exercise in.

Calendar

Dictation

Tricky Words

I hope you are practising your Tricky words at home, I’ve made a new set with different colours so hope this hasn’t confused you. I’ll be posting these videos each day to remind us to practice them. Some days I’ll say the words with you and some days I won’t. 😃

🎵🎶Dance Break🎶🎵

Listen to the song below and have a dance break you deserve it!!!!! 🤣🎶🎵

Writing task choice board

Hello everybody, so this is a new activity and it is for our writing. As we are not in school we aren’t getting a chance to practise our free writing or our formal writing lessons because of this I have created a writing choice board. I am asking that on a Wednesday you pick one activity to do as part of your work for that day. You may want to spend longer on them and that’s ok too. I look forward to seeing what you create. ☺️ As always you can use the suggested templates or use blank plates or a copy book.😃

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George’s Marvellous Medicine

Apologies in advance this is a bit of a long one so press play and leave the children to it. It’s time to find out what George put into his marvellous medicine. I’ll give you a hint there is some rather funny ingredients. 😂🤣

Gaeilge

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Tuesday 21st April

20/4/2020

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Good morning everybody and happy Tuesday. I hope everyone is well and is coping ok at home. Please remember to email me if you are having any problems and I will do what I can to help. 😊
You should be able to see a new tab on the website and here you will find some maths activities to do at home with your child, I will link it below. Thank you Ms. Stanley.

Distance learning support; maths activities

Daily dictation

It’s time for dictation, like yesterday I have a video to help the children do this. It is up to you whether you want to use the template provided or use a blank sheet as well I have posted a picture of what using a blank page could be to help as well.

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Handwriting

Today’s letter is P. Find the video below. Please feel free to practise on a white board, blank page, chalk board, on the template or a copy whatever you have at home is perfect.

Maths

For today’s maths we are focusing on number. We will begin by practising out counting 1-20, then look at the next decade 21-30. Then we will be working on some simple word problems and sums for the children.

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🎵🎶Dance Break🎶🎵

Take a break and dance to the song below, you deserve it!!!!🎶🎵

Gaeilge

Today’s irish lesson, we will continue practising our numbers, colours and days of the week. See the videos below for each of these. We will also start learning some new vocabulary from our new topic An Teilifís. Also for today you may listen to the story of "An lacha gránna" again. Our Irish lesson today is all based on videos.

English

For today’s English lesson, I would like us to revise our Tricky Words, I have mixed them up for you, so give them ago!

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Monday 20th April

20/4/2020

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Hello everybody in Room 10 and welcome back to the third term of school. We are unfortunately still doing school from home but that’s ok. I hope you all had a nice break, got to relax a bit and enjoy the nice weather. You might notice a few changes to our daily blog but I will explain them as we go. I’m very happy to be back to work, while I had a lovely break doing very little 😄 I missed you all!😊

Daily Dictation

This is the first change, we are going back to our daily dictation. Here I will call out 5 words based on our phonic sounds and then 1 sentence using some key tricky words. Parents as you all know the children in Room 10 have been doing great work at dictation in class so they should be well able to do this. There are two ways you can do this, print out the page provided and this will have all the days on it or use a blank page and number it, you can then press play and I will call out the words (pause any time you need more time) or parents you can call out the words from the answer page I’ve provided.

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Parents, for the sentence writing there is some focused work on Tricky Words, below you will find a document containing flash cards of all the TW in case you have lost your set from the Homework Folders. You may place the focus TW on the table so the children can spell these and sound out the rest of the sentence. This gives them a chance to practise writing the TW a couple of times and help them spell it.

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Handwriting

The next new thing will be a daily handwriting letter, this is to finish off the Capital Letters we have been learning. I have made a booklet for the children based off the books we have in school, again though feel free to do this on a blank page if you do not have access to a printer. ☺️ Today’s letter is nice and easy, the letter O. Please see the video below on how to form the letter O.

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Readers

As we have not been in school the children have not been getting readers, so this release from Folens is brilliant. They have released ebooks and interactive books for all their big cat readers. How to sign in for these is in the picture below and you can pick the coloured level your child is able for.

Story Time

As I will explain in the video tomorrow story time has also had a bit of a change, we are now starting work on some novels by one of my favourite authors Roald Dahl. Now I know a lot of children may have already read them but that’s doesn’t matter (I’ve read them loads too😁). This means on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I will be reading chapters from our first novel George’s Marvellous Medicine. Then on Friday I will read a picture book like before. I hope you enjoy 😁

Maths

Today’s maths is pure revision to get us all back into the school routine. Try as many as you can or want to do below.

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Gaeilge

Today I would like you to just play the story for the children a few times and see can they from the pictures retell it in English. We will be looking at this story in detail on Tuesday so don’t worry about any words they do not know. 😄 the story is called "An Lacha Ghránna" which means The Ugly Duckling.

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Friday 3rd April

3/4/2020

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Wow Work

Storytime

Sese

I thought for today it might be nice to go out and get some fresh air on your one walk a day or in the garden. While you are out maybe you might spot some of these items. I have given you three samples of a nature walk/scavenger hunt, pick your favourite. 🦋🐝🌿🌳💐🌺🍄🌞🌻

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Easter Crafts

To keep with what we would be doing today in school, let’s do Easter Crafts! Below are some templates for eggs, baskets and a poster. Feel free to come up with your own ideas for Easter crafts too!🐇🐤🐣🐰

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English

Practise your reading and comprehension skills with your parents, read the passage below and see can you answer the questions.

Now time for some grammar, remember all the work we have done on Capital Letters in class, now it’s time to put that to practise. Read the sentence below and circle where the capital letters should go, then write the sentences correctly.

Maths

Aistear Junk Art

This might be a project you would like to do over Easter, it requires colours and recyclable materials like cereal boxes and toilet rolls. I saw a few ideas for these on Instagram and Pinterest. Feel free to incorporate your own ideas as well. I can’t wait to see the small world or mini villages you might make. 😊🏠🏥🏘🏦

Easter

As it is the Easter holidays and there will be no formal school, this might be a great time to practice some life skills. Teach your kids how to tie their laces, work on reading the clock, plant some seeds and do some gardening learn to knit, experiment with cooking or baking. Maybe they could practise writing letters to loved ones they cannot see like their grandparents or it might simply be rediscover the joys of reading. Set a reading challenge how many books can you read (this is one I for sure am going to do).
The most important thing to do is to enjoy your time together, without any stress of school. If you need anything from me at all just let me know.
Happy Easter everybody! 😄🐣💐

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