20th April-24th April working from home.

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone is keeping well.
This is our work for this week.
We are beginning weight this week in Busy at maths.

Monday 21st April.

Mental maths:Wk: 30, Mon

English in Practice: Day: 125

Reading Zone: Read Unit 21: Parts A-C, questions and answers.

Gaeilge: Duolingo activities.

Next page in Am dom léamh.

SESE: Skellig Michael:

This topic incorporates Religion, history and Geography

Follow the link below to Twinkl to give you an idea of what it is and start to do some research, leading towards a report.

https://www.alarms.org/kidrex/results/?q=skellig+michael&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&safe=high&cx=004805094470466704532%3Ayjrgzqordo8&sa.x=102&sa.y=30


Tuesday 22nd April

Mental maths:Wk: 30, Tue

English in Practice: Day: 126

Reading Zone: Read Unit 21: Parts D-E, questions and answers.

Maths:

We are beginning a new topic this week.  It is weight on page 135 of our Busy at math.

Pg. 135 deals with estimation, read the information at the top and complete the table.

Pg. 136 deals with weight in fraction and decimal form.  We have a good understanding of this already so work your way through it steadily. 
 Remember to use topmarks for lots of fun maths games. 
Wednesday 23rd April 

Mental maths:Wk: 30, Wed

English in Practice: Day: 127

Gaeilge: let’s talk.! Practise your agallamh, which was sent home in your gaeile notes.

Creative writing:

Remember when we last spoke, we talked about creative writing based around the Celtic gods and goddesses?

use kidrex to research your favourite god/goddess and create a piece of creative writing.
Have fun!

Thursday 23rd April 

Mental maths:Wk: 30, Thurs

English in Practice: Day: 128

Art: Michelle Reader

http://www.michelle-reader.co.uk/

Science: Every April 22^nd is Earth Day.  Never heard of it? Follow the link below and do some research of your own using www.kidrex.org to find out more.

Friday 24th April

Mental maths: Fri Test, week 30

Maths: Weight will continue on next week as well.  If you want to work on, do so. It is pages 135-139

Poetry:  

RTE home hub covered ‘Haiku’ poetry on Tuesday

Watch the home hub and have a go, also below is the link to help explain it more;

https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/how-to-write-a-haiku/

Reading zone.

Hi guys,
I accidentally said unit 24 for reading zone, it’s actually unit 20.

But don’t worry if you did unit 24.  😀

Educational resources

Mary Immaculate College has gathered together some educational resources.
Access the link below and browse at your leisure.

https://www.mic.ul.ie/covid-19?index=4

RTÉ home school hub

Hi everyone,

Are you like me and watching the RTÉ home school hub each morning.
Did you notice electricity was one of the themes.  Remember we started electricity before we went off school and we made the circuit with the energy stick.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=electricity

Follow the link above, it has lots of interesting of interesting information and games to do with electricity.

Have fun.

Have a go, do what you can.

5^th class

Date: 30^th March-3^rd April.

Don’t be worrying, have fun, do what you can.

This is only a guide

Monday 30th March

Mental maths:Wk: 29, Mon

English in Practice: Day: 121

Reading Zone: Read Unit 24: Parts A-C, questions and answers.

Gaeilge Continue on with Duolingo, I'll reset it agin for the week. 

SESE: Volcanoes,

Research and write a short report.

Use https://www.alarms.org/kidrex/

Use www.dkfindout.com

Tuesday 31st 

Mental maths:Wk: 29, Tue

English in Practice: Day: 122

Reading Zone: Read Unit 24: Parts D-E, questions and answers.

Music:

Use the garage band app, have fun.

Wednesday 1st April 

Mental maths:Wk: 29, Wed

English in Practice: Day: 123

 SESE: Research information for your Genius Hour Project.

Thursday 2nd 

Mental maths:Wk: 29, Thurs

English in Practice: Day: 124

Art: https://www.stevenbrownart.co.uk/pages/mccoos

Use the twinkl link to see the resources for this

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?term=steven+brown+art

Religion: Read the first two mini stories. Retell it to a sibling or parent at home.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/easter/easterstory.aspx

Friday 3rd 

Mental maths: Fri Test

 SESE: Science

Use www.kidrex.org or www.dkfindout.com to look up ‘Sound’. Find a diagram of the ear and find out the functions of the different parts. Draw a diagram in your copy.

Relax over Easter! 

STEM CHALLENGE

twinkl

Hi Everyone,

www.twinkl.co.uk are allowing free access to all their resources for a month.
It is brilliant for all teaching resources, worksheets, powerpoints.

If you get stuck on anything, search for it on twinkl and it will help.

I will also be redirecting you to twinkl for SESE, ART, RE and so on.

Follow the link below;

www.twinkl.co.uk