May 2020 – 5th & 6th Classes

Monday 25th – Friday 29th of May:

Hello to you all.  I hope you had an enjoyable weekend.

It was lovely to see so many of you last week in our video calls.

There was lots of very impressive work completed last week so well done everyone for keeping motivated .

Keep up the good work again this week.

You can see some of the wonderful projects you did here.

Remember you can be in contact with me by emailing geashillns1@gmail.com.

Ms. Mc Grath’s pupils can contact her on trishmcgrath2016@gmail.com. I know she’d love to see some of your work.
Pupils of Mrs. Bell can get in touch on mrsdbell20@gmail.com. She’d also love to see some of your work.
Ms. Walsh’s pupils can get in contact on fwalshsen@hotmail.com. I know she would also love to see how you’ve been getting on.

Gallery of Friday’s Work:

Friday 29th of May:

Message for 6th Class:

Hopefully you have received your Education Passport by now.  If you have, please fill it in and return in the envelope provided either by post or by putting it through the school letterbox.  If you haven’t received it yet please let me know by emailing geashillns1@gmail.com.

Also, this weekend is the Feast of Pentecost, the event that the Sacrament of Confirmation is based on.  Because of this, Bishop Denis has recorded a message for all 6th Classes in the diocese. You can view it here.

Work for Friday 29th of May:

Religion:

  • Watch a video about Pentecost.
  • Write a few lines explaining what happened and draw a suitable picture.

Spellings:

  • Get someone to ask you the 16 words from this week.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 20 mins…or…
  • Bun go Barr lth 123 K – draw out and tic the box that is true for you.

Maths:

5th Class:

  • pg 93 Busy at Maths 5.

6th Class:

  • pg 91 Busy at Maths 6.

Both classes, try your best with these today.

Geography:

  • Map Skills Book pg 56, 57, 58 & 59.

PE:

Gallery of Thursday’s Work:

Work for Thursday 28th of May:

6th Class should have received the Education Passports for Secondary School by now.  Once you and your parents have them filled in please post them or drop them into the school letterbox.

Spellings:

  • Complete the activities in Unit 31

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 20 mins…or…
  • Bun go Barr lth 121 E & lth 122 G – for G just write out the three sentences and draw the pictures.

Maths:

  • Try these for today.

English:

  • If you didn’t get a chance to do the summer poem maybe you could give it a go today. The instructions are below.
  • Linking in with our summer photographs I would like you to write a poem based on your senses. So make sure to include things you see, hear, taste, smell and touch in the summer.
  • Be creative.
  • Plan before you write.
  • Make sure you have lots of describing words in your writing.
  • Looking forward to see what you come up with.
  • This poem on winter might give you an idea of what to do.

Winter looks like fairy cobwebs, whiter than white
Winter smells like ice cubes in an empty glass
Winter sounds like ear muffs and cotton wool
Winter tastes like snowflakes on my tongue
Winter feels like a shiver down my spine.

History:

  • Watch the RTE School Hub’s lesson on The Renaissance and try any of the suggested activities.
  • Take a look at this Horrible Histories Video on The Renaissance.

Art:

Remember to send in any more summer photos you take today.

Gallery of Wednesday’s Work:

Work for Wednesday 27th of May:

Spellings:

  • Do activities E & F on pg 65.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 20 minutes…or…
  • Bun go Barr lth 120 C & lth 121 D.
  • Lean siad orthu ag rith means they continued running.
  • RTE School Hub have an Irish lesson for 5th & 6th today.  Take a look and join in the activies.

Maths:

  • Give these a go today.

Geography:

  • Do some of these activities from yesterday’s RTE School Hub lesson on Climate Change.
  • Design an attractive poster promoting ways we can help stop climate change.  I’d really like to see what you create.

English:

  • Linking in with our summer photographs I would like you to write a poem based on your senses.  So make sure to include things you see, hear, taste, smell and touch in the summer.
  • Be creative.
  • Plan before you write.
  • Make sure you have lots of describing words in your writing.
  • You can take your time with this and do it today and tomorrow.
  • Looking forward to see what you come up with.

This poem on winter might give you an idea of what to do.

Winter looks like fairy cobwebs, whiter than white
Winter smells like ice cubes in an empty glass
Winter sounds like ear muffs and cotton wool
Winter tastes like snowflakes on my tongue
Winter feels like a shiver down my spine

If you haven’t sent in a summer photograph yet try to take some today and send in to me.

Gallery of Tuesday’s Work:

Work for Tuesday 26th of May:

Spellings:

  • Do activities C & D on pg 64.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with your Duolingo activities for 20 minutes…or…
  • Bun go Barr read lth 119 and answer questions B 7 to 10 on lth 120.

English:

  • Read Chapter 13 of The Guns of Easter.
  • Answer these questions based on this chapter.
  1. Why do you think it took Jimmy more than twice as long to go from Abbey Street to Beresford Place?
  2. What did Jimmy see when he looked down the Liffey?
  3. Why did he think that he wouldn’t be shot?
  4. What reason did Jimmy give the soldier for being out in the city?
  5. How did the sergeant describe the tenements where Jimmy lived?
  6. What building was being fired at?
  7. Why was Jimmy finding it difficult to view the soldiers as enemies?

Maths:

  • Give these a go.

Religion:

  • Watch this video on The Ascension.
  • Write a couple of sentences and draw a suitable picture.

PE:

Geography:

  • The RTE School Hub is looking at Climate Change for 5th & 6th today.
  • The lesson will focus on the issue of deforestation.
  • Take a look at this video which explains what deforestation is and how it relates to climate change.
  • Watch the lesson and take part in any suggested activities.

Nature Photographs:

Keep sending in some of your photographs showing signs of summer.  Take a look at what you sent me yesterday.

 

Here’s Mrs. Kearns’ advice on taking photographs.

 

Work for Monday 25th of May:

Spellings:

  • Unit 31 – find the meanings of any of the words you’re not sure of.
  • Do activities A & B on pg 64.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with your Duolingo activities for 20 mins… or …
  • Bun go Barr – read lth 118 and answer questions B 1 to 6.

English:

  • Just Grammar pg 40.  Some more work on synonyms and antonyms.
  • You can get help for these activities at this online thesauras.

Science:

  • Take a look at another video from Dr. Dan at Midland Science.  Today it’s about radio waves.

Maths:

Drama:

  • On the RTE School Hub today the 5th & 6th Drama lesson is on the importance of movement in storytelling.
  • Watch and take part in any suggested activities.

Nature Photography:

  • When you’re outside I’d love you to take some photographs of the signs of summer that are all around us.
  • Remember some of the advice Mrs. Kearns gave you earlier this year.
  • Send your best to me at geashillns1@gmail.com by the end of the week.

Monday 18th to Friday 22nd of May:

Hello everyone!

Well done again for another great week of work.  I have received so many wonderful projects from you that I almost decided to give you a week off work.

I said almost!!

Seriously, I have been so impressed with the variety of ways the projects were presented and the amount of interesting information you researched.  I’ll publish them here on the website but it will take me a while to do this as there’s so many of them!

I’m looking forward to seeing 5th Class in our video call at 10.30am on Monday.

I plan to meet up with 6th again later this week to talk about the Transition to Secondary School work you’ll be starting on Monday.

Remember you can be in contact with me by emailing geashillns1@gmail.com.

Ms. Mc Grath’s pupils can contact her on trishmcgrath2016@gmail.com. I know she’d love to see some of your work.
Pupils of Mrs. Bell can get in touch on mrsdbell20@gmail.com. She’d also love to see some of your work.
Ms. Walsh’s pupils can get in contact on fwalshsen@hotmail.com. I know she would also love to see how you’ve been getting on.

Monday 18th – 23rd of May:

6th Class:

I have some activities for you based on moving from Primary to Secondary School.  Take a look at them and try to get them done by Thursday. You won’t know all the answers yet so no worries about not filling everything in.  We’ll talk about how you got on with them on Thursday morning at our next video call.

 

 

Gallery of Friday’s Work:

Work for Friday 22nd of May:

Spellings:

  • Get someone to ask you your 16 spellings from this week.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 15 or 20 mins…or…
  • Bun go Barr lth 114 C – Try your best to put these verbs into sentences.

SPHE:

  • Watch the RTE School Hub’s lesson on Goal Setting.
  • Try to do any suggested activities.

Maths:

  • Give these a go.
  • Number 18 reads: A newsagent had 100 newspapers.  She sold 4/5 of them.  how many had she left?

Geography:

  • Map Skills Assessment Book pg 33.

Art:

  • I know that quite a lot of you enjoy playing Minecraft.
  • Take a look at these Art For Kids Hub videos showing how to draw various Minecraft characters.

Gallery of Thursday’s Work:

 

Work for Thursday 21st of May:

Spellings:

  • Complete the remaining activities on pg 63.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 15 to 20 mins…or..
  • Bun go Barr lth 116 H
  • Chuaigh Gordó suas means Gordó went up.
  • Bhí Gordó thuas means Gordó was up.
  • Tháinig Gordó anuas means Gordó came down.
  • Use those to help you answer H.

Art/Drama:

  • Take a look at these activities based on yesterday’s RTE School Hub.
  • If you have the materials and the time give some of them a try.

English:

  • Read Chapter 12 of The Guns of Easter.
  • Write a summary of the chapter.

Maths:

Some revision of multiplication today for both classes.

5th Class:

  • Busy at Maths pg 32 number 1 j, k, l and number 2 to 7.

6th Class:

  • Busy at Maths 6 pg 27 number 11 to 17.

PE:

  • The RTE School Hub’s lesson for 5th & 6th Classes is going to cover dance and athletics.
  • Give it a go!

 

Gallery of Wednesday’s Work:

Work for Wednesday 20th of May:

Spellings:

  • Do activities E & F pg 63.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 15 to 20 mins…or…
  • Bun go Barr lth 115 D & E.
  • Take a look at the activities based on yesterday’s lesson here.

English:

  • By the end of Chapter 11 Jimmy has made the hard decision to travel across the city to Ella’s house.
  • When he was making his mind up what to do he must have had lots of different thoughts going around in his head.
  • I want you to put yourself into his shoes and write the reasons why he should go across the city to Ella’s house and the reasons why he shouldn’t. (Both sides of the argument)
  • When you’re doing this, really try to think of his situation living in poverty in 1916, his father away fighting in the war, his role in the family, the violence in the city as well as all the other things he has already seen.  All of these should be influencing the way he was thinking about what to do.
  • When you’ve written  both sides of the argument decide what would you have done in his situation.

History:

  • We’ll go back and have a look at the life of Marie Curie.
  • Look through the last 4 pages of the chapter.
  • Make up some questions about her from the whole chapter that you could use to make a crossword.
  • Remember the crossword maker we used before.

RTE School Hub:

  • Tomorrow’s 5th & 6th lesson looks like an interesting one.  It’s a Film Studies lesson.
  • It’s based on German film director/animator, Lotte Reiniger.
  • Take a look at this short film about her.
  • She made an early shadow animation version of Puss in Boots.
  • Watch the lesson and do any suggested activities you can.

No Maths today!

6th Class News:

Try to get the Secondary School work done today.

I’ll send you an invite today for a meeting at 9.30am for one group and 10.15 for another.

I’ll also be showing you the Education Passport documents you and your parents will have to fill in for Secondary School.  I’ll explain what has to be done.

Hope you can all be there.

 

Gallery of Tuesday’s Work:

 

Work for Tuesday 19th of May:

It was lovely to meet up with 5th Class yesterday.  A reminder that I’m planning to meet with 6th on Thursday to go through the work on moving to Secondary School.  I might do it in 2 groups but I’ll let you know the details on Wednesday.

Spellings:

  • Do activities C & D on pg 62.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 15 to 20 mins…. or…
  • Bun go Barr read lth 113 and do your best to answer B 5-10 on lth 114.

English:

  • Just Grammar pg 39

Maths:

5th Class

  • Some place value, addition and subtraction revision.
  • Busy at Maths pg 14 G and H.  Remember the sum of means adding.

6th Class

  • Like 5th Class, it’s place value, addition and subtraction revision for today.
  • Busy at Maths 6 pg 14 F and G.

PE:

Geography:

  • Take a look at these activities based on yesterday’s lesson on the sun and how it can damage our skin.
  • You could design your own poster promoting the use of sunscreen.

RTE School Hub:

  • Today’s lesson for 5th & 6th Classes is an Irish one.  They will be looking at éadaí.
  • 3rd & 4th Classes will have a lesson on area and perimeter.  You could look at this if you have time.

Gallery of Monday’s Work:

Monday 18th of May:

Spellings:

  • Unit 30 – look up the meanings of any of the 16 words you’re not sure of.
  • Do A and B pg 62.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with your Duolingo activities for 15 to 20 mins….or…
  • Bun go Barr read lth 114.  Try your best to work out what’s going on in the story. The verbs help with this and we know our verbs very well.
  • Answer questions B 1-4.
  • If you like, take a look at the RTE School Hub activities based on Friday’s Irish lesson.

English:

  • Read Chapter 11 of The Guns of Easter and answer these questions.
  1. How did Jimmy sleep?
  2. Describe some of the things Jimmy saw when he went out early on Tuesday morning.
  3. Explain how Jimmy felt when he decided to take the picnic basket.
  4. How did Jimmy’s mother react when she saw the food Jimmy had brought home?
  5. Jimmy realised his family were going to be in the middle of a battlefield. He believed he had only two choices.  What were they?
  6. What did he decide to do?

Maths:

5th Class:

  • Revision of Place Value- pg 9 Busy at Maths 5

6th Class:

  • Revision of Place Value- pg 7 Busy at Maths 6

Geography:

  • The RTE School Hub is doing a lesson on the ultraviolet rays of the sun and how to protect our skin from them.
  • Take a look and try to do any activities that are suggested.

Monday 11th – Friday 15th May.

Well done for all the work again last week.

A message for 6th Class.  I hope to arrange a video call with you on Wednesday just to say hello and see how you’re all getting on.  I’ll send an invitation to your email address today or tomorrow.  Keep an eye out for it.

I have spoken to most of the 6th Class parents last week and I’ll try to speak to those I couldn’t contact today.  Once I’ve done that we’ll give the video call a go.

If things go well for 6th Class I’ll arrange something similar for 5th next week.

As for work this week, I’d love you to get your project finished.  If you need to spend more time doing it you can spend less time doing the other work.

My advice about the project from last week is here for you again.

Project Advice:

  • Thanks for sending back your project topics. Now a few pieces of advice.
  • Read and find out lots of information from more than one place.
  • Keep a record of all the places you find the information. It’s good to write this at the end of your project.
  • Try your best to understand what you have found out.
  • You can’t include every bit of information in your project so it’s important to decide on maybe 4 or 5 sections.
  • For example if I chose to do a project on Mayo Football I would break it up into the following sections: Why I Chose to do this Project, Men’s All Ireland Victories (1936, 1950 &1951), Women’s All Ireland Victories (1999,2000,2002 & 2003), My Favourite Mayo Players (Seán Flanagan, Willie Joe Padden, Cora Staunton and Lee Keegan), My Favourite Mayo Match (Dublin v Mayo 2006 All-Ireland Semi-Final) and Mayo’s Most Heartbreaking Loss (there’s been a lot! but I’d pick 2014 Semi-Final Replay loss to Kerry)
  • Then, and this is really important, try to write in your own words. Don’t just copy down word for word the information you have found.
  • Always include some illustrations, ones you have drawn yourselves or ones found online.
  • If you are presenting it in a Powerpoint of using Google Slides it is important not to have too much writing on each slide and to always include some image on every slide.
  • If you are making a booklet or presenting it on paper, breaking up the writing with suitable illustrations makes each page much more attractive.
    Get in touch if you have any questions.

Remember you can be in contact with me by emailing geashillns1@gmail.com.
Ms. Mc Grath’s pupils can contact her on trishmcgrath2016@gmail.com. I know she’d love to see some of your work.
Pupils of Mrs. Bell can get in touch on mrsdbell20@gmail.com. She’d also love to see some of your work.
Ms. Walsh’s pupils can get in contact on fwalshsen@hotmail.com. I know she would also love to see how you’ve been getting on.

Work for Friday 15th of May:

Spellings:

  • Get someone to ask you the 16 words for this week.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 15 to 20 mins… or…
  • Bun go Barr lth 111 J 1 – 5.

Maths:

  • Give these 2 D shapes a go.
  • If you have time draw the shapes as well.

Geography:

  • Map Skills Book pg 52,53 & 54.

Art:

  • Take a look at how to make a stamp for printing from yesterday’s RTE School Hub.  Give it a go if you wish.
  • If you prefer take a look at these and try to make your own version.

Projects:

Some more wonderful projects arrived today.  I will upload them in the next few days if my wifi allows!

Enjoy the lovely weather this weekend but remember to keep the rules of physical distancing and good hygiene.

Gallery of Thursday’s Work:

 

I really enjoyed our 6th Class meeting this morning.  It was almost like old times!

I’m going to do the same for 5th Class on Monday at 11am.  I’ll send an invitation to the email address you are using to return your work before Sunday.  I will be using Google Meet so hopefully most people will be able to access it.  I will send a text to your parents about it as well.

Work for Thursday 14th of May:

Spellings:

  • Activities G and H pg 61.

English:

  • Read Chapter 10 Guns of Easter.
  • Write a list of the terrible things Jimmy saw as he moved through the city.
  • Take a look at the activities on yesterday’s poem from RTE School Hub.
  • If you like you could use the idea of the comic strip to illustrate some of the images Jimmy witnessed that you have listed.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue spending 15 to 20 minutes working through the activities on Duolingo.
  • Bun go Barr lth 110 H 1-10.

Maths:

  • Do a selection of these angle questions.
  • Some hints: a to d are all straight line angles which are 180 degrees.  So if you know one angle is 50 degrees the other has to be 180 – 50 = 130 degrees.
  • e to h are all full turns or circles which always have a total of 360 degrees.  If you know one angle is 40 degrees the other will be 360 – 40 = 320 degrees.
  • i to l are triangles, see yesterday’s hint.  q and r are triangles as well.
  • Be careful with m and n.  They have four sides as do o, p, s and t. They are quadrilaterals so see yesterday’s hint also!
  • Do a selection of these.  You don’t have to do them all. Don’t spend any longer than 30mins at them.

Art:

  • The RTE School Hub has an Art lesson for 5th & 6th Classes today.  It’s going to be about creating your own stamps.
  • Take a look and I’d love to see some of your finished products!

PE:

Remember to spend some time on your project today if you can.

 

Gallery of Wednesday’s Work:

Work for Wednesday 13th of May:

Our meeting for 6th Class will be on today at 11am.  Hopefully you’ve all seen the invitation on the email I sent.  If you can’t find it check the spam folder.  Any problems send an email to geashillns1@gmail.com.

Spellings:

  • Do activities e & f on pg 61.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 15 to 20 mins.  You can do longer if you wish!
  • Bun go Barr lth 108 C 1-6

English:

  • Watch the RTE School Hub lesson on the poem, She Moved Through the Fair by Padraic Colum.
  • The lesson will look at the use of imagery in the poem.
  • Do any suggested activities.
  • This poem was made into a song also.  You can listen to it here.
  • Another version with the words shown is here.

Science:

  • Take a look at the activities based on the clinometer from yesterday’s RTE School Hub.
  • The instructions to make a clinometer and how to use it are there and in my opinion it’s easier to follow than on the tv yesterday.
  • I would love if some of you gave this a go.

Maths:

  • Take a look at numbers 1 and 2 above.
  • Remember that the 3 angles in a triangle always add up to 180 degrees.
  • I’m not going to tell you how to get the missing angles in number 2.  We did loads of these in school.  I think you should be able to work out how to do them.
  • You do not use a protractor to work these out.

  • In number 5 above these shapes are all 4 sided or quadrilaterals.
  • Remember the 4 angles in all quadrilaterals always add up to 360 degrees.
  • Knowing this information you should be able to work out the missing angle.
  • You do not use a protractor to work these out.

Projects:

I’ve been sent some wonderful projects already.  I won’t publish any of them until I get some more.  Well done for the great effort so far and I’m looking forward to seeing more in the days to come.

Remember to those still working on the project spend some time today doing some more.

 

Gallery of Tuesday’s Work:

 

Work for Tuesday 12th May:

Spellings:

  • Do activities C & D on pg 60.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue to spend 15 or 20 mins working on Duolingo …. or ….
  • Bun go Barr read lth 107 and answer questions B, 6 -10.

Maths:

  • Remember you can get the approximate area of a circle by finding the area of the square around it and then getting 3/4 of your answer.
  • So if the circle has a diameter of 5cm, the square drawn around the circle will be 5cm in length and width.
  • To find the area of the square you multiply 5cm by 5cm and get 25cm squared.
  • The approximate area of the circle will be 3/4 of 25.  So 25 divided by 4 is 6.25.  Then you have to multiply that by 3 to get 19.75cm squared which is the approximate area of the circle.
  • Try your best to use the same method to work out the approx areas of circles A and B.

English:

  • Just Grammar pg 38.

SPHE:

  • RTE School Hub  had a lesson on diabetes yesterday.  Do the activities based on the lesson. There’s a short quiz and a guessing game.

Science:

  • Today’s lesson on the RTE School Hub is supposed to be about clinometers.  These are instruments that are used to help measure angles and heights of larger buildings.
  • Take a look and see what activities are suggested.

PE:

  • Joe Wicks’ workout is a good way to be active.
  • Kidz Bop is fun too.
  • T.J. Reid’s workout is good too.
  • If you prefer just spend 60 mins being active outside today.

Remember to spend time on your project again today.

Gallery of Monday’s Work:

Work for Monday 11th May:

Spellings:

  • Unit 29. Find the meaning of any words you’re not sure of.
  • Do activities A & B on pg 60.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue spending 15 or 20 mins on Duolingo if you’re finding it enjoyable … or…
  • Bun go Barr: Read lth 106 and answer questions B 1-5 lth 108.  This is a new story and there might be some words/phrases that you don’t fully understand.  Just try your best.
  • If anyone wants to do both Duolingo and Bun go Barr you can!

English:

  • Read Guns of Easter Chapter 9.
  • Write a short summary telling the main events that occur in the chapter.
  • If you have time draw a suitable illustration .

Maths:

  • Try your best to do 1,2 & 3.
  • Remember the diameter is always double the radius.

Science:

  • It’s been a few weeks since we checked in with Dr. Dan Nickstrom.  In this video he explains how a microphone works.
  • Just watch and enjoy.  No written work needed.

RTE School Hub:

  • Today there’s due to be a lesson on diabetes.  We know quite a bit about this but you might find it interesting.

Remember to spend time on your project today.

 

Tuesday 5th – Friday 8th May.

Well done everyone for a fantastic week of work and activity.  A big thank you to Ms. Leonard for organising all the Active Home activities and videos.  Just because Active Home Week is over don’t stop doing lots of the activity that you did so brilliantly last week. Being active helps us all in so many ways and from what I saw in your photos and videos it certainly makes us all happier.

Project Advice:

Thanks for sending back your project topics.  Now a few pieces of advice.

  1. Read and find out lots of information from more than one place.
  2. Keep a record of all the places you find the information.  It’s good to write this at the end of your project.
  3. Try your best to understand what you have found out.
  4. You can’t include every bit of information in your project so it’s important to decide on maybe 4 or 5 sections.
  5. For example if I chose to do a project on Mayo Football I would break it up into the following sections: Why I Chose to do this Project, Men’s All Ireland Victories (1936, 1950 &1951),  Women’s All Ireland Victories (1999,2000,2002 & 2003), My Favourite Mayo Players (Seán Flanagan, Willie Joe Padden, Cora Staunton and Lee Keegan), My Favourite Mayo Match (Dublin v Mayo 2006 All-Ireland Semi-Final) and Mayo’s Most Heartbreaking Loss (there’s been a lot! but I’d pick 2014 Semi-Final Replay loss to Kerry)
  6. Then, and this is really important, try to write in your own words. Don’t just copy down word for word the information you have found.
  7. Always include some illustrations, ones you have drawn yourselves or ones found online.
  8. If you are presenting it in a Powerpoint of using Google Slides it is important not to have too much writing on each slide and to always include some image on every slide.
  9. If you are making a booklet or presenting it on paper, breaking up the writing with suitable illustrations makes each page much more attractive.
  10. Get in touch if you have any questions.

Try to get as much done as possible over the next 2 weeks.  No pressure if you don’t but it’s good sometimes to have a deadline.

Gallery of Friday’s Work:

Work for Friday 8th of May:

Spellings:

  • Do activity G pg 59.
  • Get someone to ask you this week’s 16 spelling words.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo again today. 15 mins would be good … or …
  • Bun go Barr lth 75 F & lth 76 H.

Maths:

  • Multiplication of fractions today.  Very simple rule.  Multiply the top by the top and the bottom by the bottom.  It would be great if you could simplify your answer.  For example if your answer is 5/10 you could simplify it to 1/2.
  • Also, 1/2 of 1/4 is the same as 1/2 x 1/4.

  • If you have time take a look at the Maths activities based on yesterday’s RTE School Hub on Time, Speed and Distance.

Art:

  • Take a look at this video and draw some cherry blossoms.
  • If you like, try to create a picture like one of these.

 

Remember to spend some time working on your project.

Gallery of Thursday’s Work:

 

Work for Thursday 7th of May:

Spellings:

  • Do activities E & F pg 59.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with your Duolingo activities … or….
  • Bun go Barr lth 74 C 1-6 & lth 75 E 1-6

English:

  • Just Grammar pg 37.
  • Remember nouns are persons, places or things; verbs are doing words; adjectives describe the nouns.
  • The hungry tiger hunted the wild boar in the rainforest.

Maths:

  • Give these fraction subtraction sums a go.
  • I have the first one done for you.

  • If you want to give the fractions a miss today you could do the work below instead.
  • The RTE School Hub has a lesson for 5th & 6th on Time and Speed.
  • We did some work on these topics earlier in the year.  Take a look at this RTE class and do any suggested activities.

History:

  • Do some of the activities based on yesterday’s RTE School Hub History lesson based on Myths.
  • There are questions to answer on the Labhraidh Loingseach, a True or False quiz and instructions on how to make a harp.

Religion:

  • You might like to make a May Altar for the month of May.

Remember to spend some time today working on your project.

 

Gallery of Wednesday’s Work:

Work for Wednesday 6th of May:

Spellings:

  • Do activities C & D on pg 58.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with your Duolingo activities ….or….
  • Bun go Barr lth 74 B 5-10.

Geography:

  • Have a look at this information about The Sun from RTE School Hub and present it as poster in a creative and attractive way. You can use a laptop/computer if you wish.
  • I saw a lovely sundial from one of you yesterday.  I’d love to see some more.  Instructions are on the same page as above.

Maths:

  • Using what you did yesterday try these adding of fractions sums.
  • Remember the denominator (the bottom number in the fraction) has to be the same in each fraction before you can add them.

  • See this video explaining how to add fractions with different denominators.
  • You’ve done these very well earlier in the year so best of luck!
  • You don’t have to do all 12.  Spend no longer than 30 mins.

PE

RTE School Hub:

History:

  • Today’s lesson on RTE School Hub is looking at Myths.  Take a look and carry out any suggested activities.
  • You can find a selection of Irish Myths here.

Don’t forget to spend some time on your project.  Any questions just get in touch.

 

Gallery of Tuesday’s Work:

 

 

 

Work for Tuesday 5th of May:

Spend some time on your project today.

Spellings:

  • Unit 28. Look up the meaning of any of the words you’re not sure of.
  • Do activities A & B pg 58.

 

Gaeilge:

  • Spend 15 mins continuing your activities on Duolingo….. or ……
  • Bun go Barr: Read lth 72 and answer questions lth 74 B 1,2,3 & 4.

 

English:

  • Read Chapter 8 of Guns of Easter.
  • Make up 6 good questions based on some of the main events of this chapter.  Answer them as well please.

 

Maths:

  • Work out these equivalent fraction questions.
  • Remember 2/5 = 4/10. In school we’d use the language whatever you multiply the bottom by you have to do the same to the top.
  • Also, 6/9 = 2/3. This time we have divided the top number and the bottom number in 6/9 by 3.

  • Work out 1 to 6 and 13 to 18.
  • Number 1: 7/4 = 1 3/4 because 1 full unit has 4 quarters plus the 3/4 left over = 7/4 altogether.
  • Number 13: 2 1/2 = to 5/2 because 2 full units will have 4 halves plus the half on its own make 5/2 altogether.

 

Geography:

  • Take a look at the RTE School Hub activities based on Friday’s work and do what you can.
  • Today’s class is based on The Sun.  Take a look and do whatever activities that are suggested.

Remember to spend some time working on your project today.

 

 

 

 

Monday 27th of April – Friday 1st of May.

Hello to you all.  Well done to everyone for all the great work from last week.

I hope you’re all ready for Active Home Week.  If we were in school we’d all be very active every day but unfortunately it’s not the case. However, Ms Leonard and the Active School Committee have been very busy organising things for you at home so I hope you all enjoy the week.

We need you to fill out this Active Challenge Chart every day and return it next Monday.  You can take a photo of it and send it back by email to geashillns1@gmail.com.  If you have any problems printing it out just make your own version instead, fill it up and send it back.  We have to get as many back as possible to retain our Active Flag.  If you return the form Ms. Leonard will put your name in a raffle for some prizes such as hats and hoodies.

All the activities will be on the Home Page of our website each morning.  Make sure to look at it as I know there will be lots of interesting activities and videos.  You might even see me in one of them!

Make sure to follow the rules about handwashing, physical distancing and staying within 2km of your home again this week.

Remember you can be in contact with me by emailing geashillns1@gmail.com. 

Ms. Mc Grath’s pupils can contact her on trishmcgrath2016@gmail.com.  I know she’d love to see some of your work.
Pupils of Mrs. Bell can get in touch on mrsdbell20@gmail.com. She’d also love to see some of your work.
Ms. Walsh’s pupils can get in contact on fwalshsen@hotmail.com. I know she would also love to see how you’ve been getting on.

Work for Friday 1st of May:

Well done everyone again for your work and activity yesterday.  Keep filling in your form over the weekend and return it to Ms Leonard by 6pm on Sunday.  Her email address is kategnsdeaf@gmail.com.  She will hold a raffle on Monday for all those who return the forms.  There will be 1 winner for this.  She’s also going to give a prize to the pupil from each room who has taken the most steps so send her photos of the steps you have taken this week.

A few of you have been asking about the projects.  Please don’t rush in to writing things.  All I want you to be doing at the moment is researching your topic. Read and find out as much as you can about it. I’ll give advice on the next steps next week.

Enjoy the weekend.  Back after the weekend on Tuesday 5th of May.

Spellings:

  • Get someone at home to ask you this week’s 16 spellings.

Gaeilge:

  • Continue with Duolingo for 15 mins.  The feedback I’ve received from some of you about this is positive so that might encourage more of you to give it a go.

Maths:

  • Give these a go.  Don’t worry if you forget some of the topics we’ve done earlier this year.  We’ll be revising a lot of these in the coming weeks.

Geography:

  • Map Skills Book pg 49 and 51.  Read pg 50 to help answer some of the questions on pg 51.
  • If you don’t have your atlas at home you can use this online map of Ireland to find out where the various places are located.

RTE School Hub:

  • Today’s lesson for 5th and 6th Classes is to be on Geography. It looks at the soil and how it helps various plants grow.

PE:

Art:

  • Take a look at this video and if you have time give this perspective picture a go.

Gallery of Thursday’s Work: