Hello everyone,
I hope that you are all keeping well and have had a lovely week. Unfortunately the weather in Cork hasn’t been as nice as the weather in Dublin so I have been indoors much more that usual. I’ve enjoyed reading, playing boardgames and baking this week.
I have posted some activities for this week that I hope you might like to try!
Take care and be safe,
Ms. Dunne
Can you believe it that 10 weeks ago today we were all in Aughrim Street Sports Centre for the finals of our wonderful World Cup soccer competition? 12 teams took part initially in the group stages. Each team’s name represented pupils’ and their families’ multicultural background which we celebrate annually with our One World Week activities. Continue reading
Hello again everyone!
I hope you and your families are all well. I have been in the countryside since school closed and have been going on lovely walks every day with the dog. One of the most exciting things that I have found on these walks are tadpoles! I took a short video of them which you can see here. Some are swimming about and some are asleep. Have a look at this PowerPoint I found on Twinkl to find out more about the Life Cycle of a Frog.
The birds are singing all day too and sound so happy. Listen to them here in my back garden last week. I think you might be able to hear a bee buzzing there too! What sounds of nature can you hear when you go out into your garden or to the park?
It is so nice to see all kinds of wild flowers growing everywhere. I have taken some photos to show you. You can click on each one below to see the larger image. I also took a photo of a bee on a dandelion after I read Ms O’Dowd’s post last week!
Next time you go out for a walk have a look out for flowers, especially wild flowers. If you don’t know the names of them, take a photo and use these websites to research them.
I have also heard the cuckoo every day this week. I recorded his cuckoo song in a wood near my house – listen here to hear it! I also discovered that one of the wild flowers I have seen is called a cuckoo flower! It was given this name because it usually flowers around the same time the cuckoo begins to sing.
Counting
I say this every week – it is very important to keep practising your Counting!
This week please keep practising the counting activities, addtition activiites and maths games that were in my other posts here and here and here.
– Count both forwards and backwards. This might be between 0 and 20, between 0 and 50 or between 0 and 100.
– Say the next number before and after, e.g. What number comes before 19? After 26?
– Count forwards and backwards across the decades, e.g. forwards 28, 29, 30, 31, 32; backwards 42, 41, 40, 39, 38.
Those of you in the Senior classes could:
– Count forwards and backwards over 100, between 0 and 1000, over 1000, etc.
– Say the next number before and after, e.g. What number comes before 500? After 345?
– Practise counting forwards and backwards in 2s 3s 4s 5s 6s 7s 8s 9s and 10s.
– Count in 10s off the decade, e.g. count in 10s beginning at 4, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, etc. Don’t forget backwards too! 104, 94, 84, 74, etc.
Science
Did any of you get a chance to make a tornado in a bottle?! If you did, or you are still planning to try it, you could take a video of it and upload it to Seesaw.
Here’s another experiment – can you make an egg float in water? https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/floatingeggs.html
After doing this experiment you can read here about the Dead Sea which is a very salty lake in the Middle East. It’s so salty that people can float in the water without any effort – just like the eggs in our experiment!
Please note: For internet based activities please ensure your children are supervised while accessing the internet.
Hello everyone!
I hope you had a lovely week and enjoyed some of the sunshine.
It’s hard to believe we have completed another week and it is already May!
I hope all of you are keeping safe and doing well during these times.
I have attached some activities for the week if you would like to try them.
I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has shared and posted on Seesaw and I have enjoyed looking at some of your work.
I hope you are all doing ok and I miss the boys and girls so much. I am thinking of you all.
Take care and be safe,
Ms. Dunne
Hello again to all the clever pupils of St. Gabriel’s N.S. I hope you are all staying happy and healthy and being kind to everyone around you. I know that the class teachers have really enjoyed seeing your work and hearing from some of you this week. Remember that the activities we put on the website are optional – you won’t get in trouble with your teacher for not doing everything – and if you are busy with other activities such as playing, baking, drawing, building etc, then that’s a good thing as well!
https://padlet.com/faheymairead/5srjmewuml22
May Day The first of May is called May Day. It has long been celebrated in Ireland as the start of Summer. In ancient times people would light fires at sunset on the 30th of April to celebrate the coming season. Another tradition is for children to pick May flowers (usually primroses and gorse) and some people leave them on the door step of their house. Today we might do this because it has become a tradition and it looks pretty but in olden times people believed that it would keep away ‘evil spirits’. Some people go outside on the 1st of May and wash their face in the morning dew (the liquid on the grass early in the morning). The tradition goes that the dew on the first of May has magical properties and will give good health (and skin!) to the person who washes their face in it. I had never heard of this tradition until a teacher in the school told me that she does it! And yes, she does have very good skin and is always in good health so maybe it works. If someone in your family comes from a different part of the world, ask them if their country has any traditions for the first of May.
Using your imagination, answer the question and tell us How did this banana grow so huge? If you are in Junior or Senior Infants you can just talk about how it grew to someone in your family. If you are in an older class then write a few lines to tell us what you think!
Reading I hope you have been trying to get some reading done every day. It is very difficult at the moment when all the libraries are closed but there are words all around us and sometimes we are reading without even realising it! From the writing on packets of food, to the work your teachers are giving you, reading recipes and even reading your own free writing, there are lots of opportunities to read. I know that some children from our school have been downloading books online from Dublin City Libraries https://www.librariesireland.ie/elibrary. If you are reading a new PM book from school (or any book!) remember to: – look at the book cover and title first. What might this book be about? Make some predictions even at this stage. – next look through the pictures in the book to get an idea about what the story might be about. Remember the pictures are all clues to help you. You might want to change your predictions now! – now go back to the start and try reading the words. The pictures and words work as clues together. – try and use your lovely reading voice!
Poetry This year the last day of April is Poetry Day Ireland 2020. Here is a poem about May for you to enjoy. Could you write your own poem about May or Summer?