Hello again everyone!

I hope you are all keeping happy and well.

You all should be very proud of the fantastic work you are doing at home, whether it’s school work for your teachers or helping your family around the house, learning important life skills like baking and gardening or even how to use the washing machine and vaccuum cleaner!

As you may have already guessed, something that has been keeping me very happy over the past few weeks is walking with the dog and looking at all the beautiful nature around me! Below is a picture of a white bluebell which I was very surprised to find on one of my many walks with the dog. On another day in a different wood I was surprised again, this time by a red squirrel racing up a tree and then kindly stopping so I could take a photo! If you look closely enough at the second photo below hopefully you can see him or her! Click on both photos to enlarge.

Before we start on our school work let’s try some Sunshine Breaths. For these we have to imagine the warmth of the sun shining on us. We shouldn’t find it too hard to imagine this warmth with the lovely weather we have been having during the past few weeks, and hopefully more of it coming soon! Click on the image below to enlarge it.

Maths activities

If you need some ideas on counting or other maths activities have a look back at some of my previous posts, especially here and here.

Over the next few weeks we’ll have a go at rekenrek activities. Most of you are very familiar with using rekenreks in class. Below is a website where you can use one online. You can add rows to the rekenrerk so those of you in older classes can make a 10 row rekenrek. https://apps.mathlearningcenter.org/number-rack/

Below is an activity with a two row rekenrek. It is a PowerPoint file which should download to your device. Open and play the slideshow to do the activity.

Rekenrek activity – How many?

In previous posts we did some addition activities: Counting 2 sets, both screened and Addition Activities, e.g. 7 + ? = 10

Now try this subtraction activity: Subtraction activity, e.g. 9 – 4 = ?                                Again it is a PowerPoint file which should download to your device. Open and play the slideshow to do the activity.

Have a lovely week and stay happy and safe!

Ms. Whyte

Please note: For internet based activities please ensure your children are supervised while accessing the internet.

Hello everyone,

May 15th Ms Fitzpatrick

Going to the Supermarket

Hobbies Board Game

Dia Daoibh! Conas atá sibh go léir?

I am a super proud principal of my staff, students and families and the way that we are embracing our new school life!

I want to send out extra love and well wishes to our ‘ Incredible’ children from 2^nd class who were due to make their First Holy Communion this Saturday May 16^th. Both myself and Ms Walshe think you are being incredibly brave!!

I want to wish Will, Tadgh, Thaleia, Alexandru, Drex and Yasmin a very Happy Birthday!!

This week I used the SeeSaw app on my phone to take photos of work that Hollie did in a copy using some of the activities Ms Reynolds posted up here on the website. She also really enjoyed the tasks that were set on SeeSaw by the other teachers that work in Senior Infants! Remember if you are not uploading please keep all of your lovely work safe so that we can see it when we go back to school! My skipping is going ok, could be better! I see Ms O’Dowd took up my challenge! Remember you can do any work set by any teacher not just your own! The challenge this week is to find the 3 teachers who have photos of their own animals featured in their message to their class! Next thing they will be trying to enrol them in our school!!!

Last but not least have a look at the post about the Grangegorman ‘Make Place Make’ competition!

Keep up all the good work you are doing,

Suzanne Comerford .

Hello again everyone!

I hope you are all keeping safe and well. This week (like every other week!) I have been going on lots of walks with the dog. Last week with the extension from 2km to 5km we were able to go back to a wood where we love to walk.

Bluebells

This is one of our favourite walks because at this time of year there are are thousands of bluebells blooming in this wood.

Wild Garlic

Wild garlic is also flowering there at the moment so the smell there is amazing!

Over the past few weeks I have been keeping an eye out for butterflies. I have seen lots fluttering about from flower to flower but they are very difficult to get a picture of. They are very quick to fly away when someone (or a dog!) gets too close to them. I did manage to take photos of three different butterflies since the beginning of April and then I had to do some research to find out their names. I used the website http://www.irishbutterflies.com/ and I hope I got them right! Why don’t you check my research? Have a look at this PowerPoint I found on Twinkl to find out more about the Life Cycle of a Butterfly.

Orange Tip butterfly                              (this one is a male, a female has black patches on her wings)

Green-Veined White butterfly

Peacock butterfly

Tadpoles

And now a tadpole update!

They might have got a teeny tiny bit bigger since the last time I saw them. As you might have learned from the life cycle of the frog PowerPoint last week, it usually takes them 6-9 weeks to fully develop as a tadpole. I also don’t know when these tadpoles hatched from their eggs so I will have to be patient for a few more weeks!

Counting and maths activities

Please keep practising the counting activities, addtition activiites and maths games that are in my previous four posts!

Here are some maths games for you to play this week.

Number order 0-50: https://wordwall.net/play/1776/267/801

Number recognition; Count on, count back up to 20, 30 or 99: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off

Addition activitiy – missing number, e.g. 6 + ? = 9: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/handyCounters/index.html

10-frame activities – how many?, how many more to make 10?, addition to 10 and 20: https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Ten-Frame/

Number order, count in 1s 2s 3s 4s 5s 6s 7s 8s 9s 10s 11s 12s and 25; what’s missing?: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/saucerSorter/

Have a lovely week and stay happy and safe!

Ms. Whyte

Please note: For internet based activities please ensure your children are supervised while accessing the internet.

Grangegorman Development Agency have just launched the following competition – MAKE PLACE MAKE. They would love to see as many people and children as possible taking part. Pupils of all ages can enter.

Details here:

http://ggda.ie/make-place-make