Hi folks,

I hope you are smiling your way into the second week of Summer. We are so lucky to have such beautiful weather. I have had a “cracking” week. Let me introduce you to 2nd class’ new celebrity chicken!! Can you think of a good name for it?

It loves to chill on the hammock.

I saw some lovely daisy chains you made on Seesaw last week. It loves daisies too.

It knows how important it is to stay safe in the sun by wearing sunglasses.

It is the happiest little chicken ever. It never stops chirping. It loves food and attention so it is a lot like us all 😉

You have all been doing incredible work the past week. A lot of you are engaging so well with Seesaw. Those of you who are choosing not to do the activities that is ok but I would like for you to take a photograph of the work you are doing from the website or school work you are choosing to do yourselves at home and upload it onto Seesaw to show me. If you aren’t in a position to do this perhaps you could let our wonderful HSCL teacher Mr. Donnelly know. You can inform him that you will keep all work which you can show me when we return to school. Your learning is so important to me I want to support you in the best way I can and keep in touch by seeing the super work you are doing.

Here are a list of activities for the week ahead:

English:

Spellings/Sentences – Theme: Summer

List as many words as you can that are summer words. Then check did you think of any of the following ten summer words.

1. heat 2. swim 3. seaside 4. beach 5. sunshine 6. suitcase 7. bucket 8. spade 9. ice cream 10. pool – using these words try put each one into a silly sentence and create a squiggly word.

This week we will be uploading some specific reading on Seesaw so take a look for that. Mrs Condron, Ms Hanlon, Ms Dunne and I will be setting reading and reading based activities/tasks for you just like we do during Reading Hour in school.

In the mean time you can try this book scavenger hunt with a favourite book you have at home or an online book which you could download from Dublin City Libraries here

I would love you to read about The life cycle of a chicken and answer the 8 questions based on it. Remember to write a full sentence for your answer and some of the question is always re-written in your answer also. You can take a picture of the answers you have written and upload it onto Seesaw to show me.

If you enjoy learning about the life cycle of animals Ms Whyte uploaded a lovely video of tadpoles here

She also included a PowerPoint on The life cycle of a frog

You could read the PowerPoint and then create some questions for your mum/dad/brother/sister to answer after they have read it.

Maths:

Here are this weeks Maths word problems

I would love you to try some number puzzles.

There is an example at the top of the picture and remember always do the part inside the brackets first. You will be writing out two sums to get the answer. This may be a challenge but remember what we always say in 2nd class “be brave and give it a try”.

Gaeilge/Irish:

This week you can try make a shop at home and act as the shop keeper. The person buying something can ask the shop keeper “cé mhéad?” (pronounced kay vade) meaning how much? Using the picture below you can answer up to the value of 20cent. It is not an expensive shop!!

This can help you with how to pronounce numbers in Irish

Here you can listen and try count to 20 in Irish

You will notice that there are little differences between counting numbers in Irish and counting money in Irish. Can you spot the differences?

Scavenger hunts – SESE:

Awaken your senses and enjoy a sense scavenger hunt. As Spring has come to an end why not go on a scavenger hunt to see if mother nature has left any hints of Spring behind for us to enjoy a little bit longer. I would love if you could write up the things you found on your scavenger hunts or take photographs along the way and upload them onto Seesaw for me to take a look at.

Art:

Try make a hen hand print using the following steps.

1. Draw a hen 2. For its tail trace your hand prints lots of times. 3. Colour in your hand prints in all different patterns and colours making it a super funky hen.

P.E./Music:

To celebrate 2nd class’ newest celebrity chicken lets do the chicken dance

Ms Hyland posted a Throwback Thursday reminding us of the fun we had at our wonderful World Cup soccer competition. Maybe you would like to take a read and explain to your mum/dad/family members what it was all about. Congratulations to Poland again on winning and the 2nd class pupils who were key players on the team.

I hope you have a super week ahead. We are going to sign off and take a further look at the School website and 2nd Class’ fun activities.

Missing you all so much,

Le grá (with love)

Mrs. Walshe