Dates Maths ActivitiesSee notes below

Tables Champion

GaeilgeSee notes below

Jolly GrammarSee notes

below

Handwriting English Reading Activities

Other subjects to fit into your timetable during the

weekMon 04/05/20

Bank holiday Monday means no school work.

Tues05/05/20

MyM Wk. 28-Mon Busy @ maths

p148 below IXL.com Activities

– T.3 & H.3

TC WK 27 – Mon

Xtramath practice

F&F pg. 58 Activity A & B

LsB – Page 37 An Phictiúrlann

JG pg. 58 – The <ti> spelling of the /sh/ sound

Page 54 – Riddles today

Word Wizard – Unit 6Reading pg.32Questions pg. 33 – Answer the even numbers of A in your copybook and do C and D in your book.

PEContinue with the Active Home Week chart.Remember to try a variety of different activities.

Wed06/05/20

MyM Wk. 28 – Tues

Busy @ maths p149 and PCM 91 below

IXL.com Activities – T.4 & H.4

TC WK 27 – Tues

Xtramath practice

F&F pg. 58 Activity C & D

LsB – Page 38 Bronntanas Lá Breithe

JG pg. 55 – Prefixes

Page 55Don’t forget to fill in the assessment at the bottom

Word Wizard – Unit 6Reading pg. 32 – read over the story again.Questions pg. 73 – B. Answer the odd numbers of B in your copybook

MusicI will forward the link to this week’s Music Generation videos when we receive them.

Thurs07/05/20

MyM Wk. 28 – Wed

Busy @ maths p150 below

IXL.com Activities – T.5 & H.5.

TC WK 27 – Wed

Xtramath practice

F&F pg. 59 Activity E&F

LsB – Page 40 Rang a dó

JG pg. 65 – Verbs

Page 56Don’t forget your capital letters

Word Wizard – Unit 6Game pg. 31Phonics pg. 34 Read the instructions for each part carefully.

ReligionTheme: ‘I am with you always’ Lesson: ‘I will send a helper’Workbook pages 46 & 47. The story is online and login and details are below.

Fri08/05/20

MyM Wk. 28 – Thurs

Busy @ maths p151 below

IXL.com Activities – U.1

TC WK 27 – Thurs

Xtramath practice

F&F pg. 59 Activity G

LsB – Page 41 Kate

JG pg. 67 – Comparatives and Superlatives

Page 57Don’t forget to fill in the assessment at the bottom

Please load your best handwriting page on Seesaw

Word Wizard – Unit 6Grammar pg. 35The best way to do these is to read the sentence aloud and see which one sounds right.

SESE Rose Kennedy BridgeTime to get researching and building. See notes below.

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Maths Busy @ maths

Tuesday p148. We have had some questions on area in MyM last week. Area is the total size of a flat surface.

Here is a YouTube video to explain how estimate area -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmvwAUGxbkM

Question 1 (a): What two items do you see? Which of these two items has

the greater/larger surface area?

Question 2:To answer question 2, you will need to physically carry out the experiment. If you don’t have a pack of playing cards what else could you use? The items would all have to be the same size? And

flat. Maybe ?

Before you measure, you need to estimate first!

Question 3:Is similar to question 2 above.

Challenge:What other flat surface in your house can you measure the area of using playing cards, copy books or LEGO blocks. Send me some pictures of you experimenting with this challenge.

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Wednesday p149Area – When we are measuring area for this chapter we will use ‘small squares’ as our measurement tool.

At the beginning of this video the lady explains how to measure square and rectangles using small squares which will help you with your maths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckJgt4mro2c

If we were to make a shape that covers an area of 18 squares how might you do it?

Maybe like this?

Page 149 Question 1:The coloured shape is made up of six individual shapes. We want to find out how many small squares are in each of the six shapes.

What 2-D shape do you see in the green colour? ____________

How many small squares cover this area? ___ What 2-D shape do you see in the blue

colour? _________ How many small squares cover this area?

Wednesday PCM 91

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On this page can you finish drawing the capital letters E, H, L, T, J and N.

When completing J and N you will have to use parts of squares.

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Thursday p150

This page focuses on what information is missing.For example:

9 is correct.

Question 1: How many rows are there? _________ How many columns are there? _______ How many stamps are there is the first row?

_______ How many stamps are there is the first

column? _____ How many stamps can you see in the grid?

_____ How many stamps are missing from the

grid?

Do the same for question 2 & 3.Hint: use your ruler to draw in the missing squares.

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Friday p151

On page 151 you have a plan/map of a garden. It shows you the area of each part of the garden.

How many small squares are covered by:The fish pond? ______The vegetable patch? ______

Which part of the garden takes up the same amount of space or has the same surface area as the herb patch? _______________

Which part of the garden takes up the same amount of space or has the same surface area as the vegetable patch? ____________

Challenge: What part of the garden has half as many

squares as the shed? ______________

Challenge 2:Use the tiles to make a garden. Follow the instructions.

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IXL The activities this week focus on area to practice the skills learnt above and revision of subtraction. 10 minutes a day. 5 minutes for each skill.Each day the activities beginning with T are the area skills and the activities beginning with H are the subtraction skills. And on Friday you have a challenge

Tables Keep up the great work on Xtramath. I was delighted to upload one certificate of achievement already!This is the link to the balloon game we play on the white board in school - https://www.theschoolhub.ie/sample.php . It does need adobe flash player to work. Also get someone at home to test your +7, -7 tables.

Gaeilge Meanings for your Fuaimeanna agus Focail words. You don’t need to write a sentence in your copy this week for any of the words but I am loving hearing some of you making up Irish sentences using these words on Seesaw.

Aonad 28Mo bhó – my cow Mo bhéal – my mouth Mo bhróga – my shoes Bhris sí – she broke Mo bhád – my boat Mo bholg – my belly Mo bhríste – my trousers Bhuail sé – He hit

Leigh sa Bhaile (LsB)Read aloud the stories below and answer the questions in your copy. Try your very best. Don’t forget to put the title at the top of your page. Things to remember from when we did these in class:

Check the English meanings that it gives you at the bottom of the page before you read the story. When you are answering the questions: Find the verb in the question first and usually the answer will start with this. Take care: If the question is An raibh? Then the answer will be Bhí or Ní raibh ×. Take care: If the question is An bhfuil? Then the answer will be Tá or Níl ×. And you have a new question this week. An ndeachaigh siad? Did they go. Chuaigh said They went. Ní dheachaigh said × They did not go.

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English – Jolly Grammar

This week we are not going to focus just on the spellings in JG.

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Tuesday JG pg. 58 – The <ti> spelling of the /sh/ soundPlease do all of the activities on page 58 using the <ti> spelling of the air sound. For the last activity you might need to take a look back at page 57 all about ‘sPlease choose 4 words from the list and write a sentence using each one in your copybook.

Wednesday JG pg. 55 PrefixesA prefix is one or more syllables added at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

For example: What does happy mean? Then if we put the syllable un before the word, we have unhappy. What does this mean? The opposite!Using the dictionary online https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/ Happy – feeling joy or pleasure, being glad or contentUnhappy – not glad or cheerful; sad; full of gloom

What about possible? Then if we put the syllable im before the word, we have impossible. The opposite meaning to possible.

On page 55 you are going to use 4 prefixes un, dis, mis, im. Some of the words you will know straight away because you know it sounds right. But try all four prefixes with each word to see which is most suitable because some of the words take more that one of the prefixes! For example: The word unlike means ‘not similar to’The word dislike means ‘not to enjoy’

Activities on page 55 – Take care to read carefully what you are required to do.

If you are not sure about a word and what prefix should go with it, use the search tool on the website https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/ . If I put the word imdress into the search box it says ‘did you mean this word?’ Which is a nice way of saying that’s not a real word, try again! Then if I put undress it gives me a meaning, which means it’s a real word.

Thursday JG pg. 65 – Verbs – Read through all the notes on this page before you start into the activity please. Verbs are action words – to jump, to hide, to get.On page 65 you will be adding ing to the end of the verb.

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There are 3 main rules when we add ing. The examples will help you. Rule Verb Verb + ing

If the verb ends with a consonant (i.e. all letters other than a vowel A E I O U) and there IS NOT a short vowel just before it.

Just add <ing> JumpKnockwish

JumpingKnockingWishing

If the verb ends with the letter <e> Remove the <e> before adding <ing>

HideSmileJoke

HidingSmilingJoking

If the verb ends with a consonant (i.e. all letters other than a vowel A E I O U) and there IS a short vowel just before it.

You must double the final consonant before adding <ing>

GetSpinHug(see how there is a vowel just before the final consonant highlighted in red)

GettingSpinningHugging(you have to put two tt’s, two nn’s and two gg’s

For page 55, ask yourself: First, what rule should I follow? Second, does that look right. When I am reading my book, or a piece of text what have you seen? Third, if you are still not sure then try putting your new verb into https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/ . Make sure to go to the verb part.

For example:

And there is ‘boiling’. Take your time with this page. There is not a lot of writing on it, but you need to work through the 3 questions for each verb.

Friday JG pg. 67 – Comparatives and Superlatives Read through all the notes on this page before you start into the activity please. On page 65 you added <ing> to the end of verbs.On this page you will add <er> and <est> to adjectives (describing words). Comparatives and Superlatives are special sorts of adjectives. They describe a noun (a person, place or thing) by comparing it to other items. For example: oldTom is old.Tom is older than Jane. We are describing Tom by comparing him to Jane.Tom is the oldest of all the brothers and sisters. We are describing Tom and comparing him to more than one thing i.e. all the brothers and sisters.

Practice here first:1. Mary is _____________ than Kate. (a) tall (b) taller (c) tallest

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2. Nick is _________ than Mike (a) fast (b) faster (c) fastest3. July is the _______ (hot) month of the year.4. Mona is the _________ (smart) student in our class.

The rules are very like the adding <ing> on page 65.

Rule Adjective Adjective + <er> =<est>If the word ends with a consonant (i.e. all letters other than a vowel A E I O U) and there IS NOT a short vowel just before it.

Just add <er> or <est> ShortTalldark

Shorter, shortestTaller, tallestDarker, darkest

If the word ends with the letter <e> Remove the <e> before adding <er> or <est>

safebluenice

Safer, safestBluer, bluestNicer, nicest

If the verb ends with a consonant (i.e. all letters other than a vowel A E I O U) and there IS a short vowel just before it.

You must double the final consonant before adding <er> or <est>

BigHotflat(see how there is a vowel just before the final consonant highlighted in red)

Bigger, biggestHotter, hottestFlatter, flattest(you have to put two tt’s and two gg’s

If the adjective ends in a y Change the <y> to an <i> and then add <er> or <est>

Happyheavy

Happier, happiestHeavier, heaviest

PE You are in charge of covering the PE curriculum in your house now. These are the strands that we would cover in school – games, athletics, dance, gymnastics and outdoor and adventure. Don’t forget to record your activities on the Active Home Week charts and send them on. Try the ‘spell your name’ activity as a movement break. Who in your house has the greatest number of activities to do?

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Religion Parent notes:The theme for religion is ‘I am with you always’.

Parents can access the ‘Grow in Love’ resources which include the story and echo pantomime here:Email: trial@growinlove.ie

Password: growinloveClick: Second Class/Theme 8: We can live as Jesus asked/Lesson 2 ‘ I will send a helper’Suggested plan:Discussion: How people can speak different languages, how you might know what people mean if you didn’t speak the languages (actions, tone, pointing etc.), how babies and toddlers seem to talk their own language ‘gibberish’. Using gibberish, they could act out: order dinner in a restaurant; tell your brother to behave, ask someone to help you find the local post office.Slideshow: Pentecost: Setting the scene. See notes below. The Our Father is in Aramaic in the online tool.

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Video clip: Pentecost the bible story (Image showing the tongues of fire over the heads)Video clip: Pentecost Workbook activities page 46 & 47

SESE SESE Project.- Read about the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge on https://visitnewross.ie/community/22523/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-ross-

bypass-bridge/ - write down 10 interesting facts about our new local bridge in your copy or on the template on Seesaw- draw a sketch of the bridge at the bottom of your page. Include the supports, the piers, arches. This will give you an idea of the materials you will

need to look for when building the replica bridge. - Using recycled material and material from nature, build a replica bridge outside.- Take a picture of your bridge and post it onto Seesaw or e-mail it to horeswood2ndclass@gmail.com . Include details of what materials you used.

What was the most challenging part of the build?

Online Learning App

Thank you very much for logging into Seesaw and giving it a go. I love being able to see and hear your work. I will let you know what work to upload this week on the sheet above and send a reminder on Seesaw also.

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– SeesawTo anyone who hasn’t logged in yet: To access the online app each child will have a unique password. I will e-mail you this code and instructions on how to get into the system. It is very easy and simple for the children to use. Please send me an e-mail to horeswood2ndclass@gmail.com and I can arrange this.

I load the answers to the MyM, TC, JG and other bits onto Seesaw. For anyone who hasn’t logged in yet, if you would like me to e-mail the answers please let me know. Many thanks.

If you have any questions or queries regarding the assigned school work I will be online Monday to Friday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00p.m. at this address also.

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