Hi Class,
I hope you are all keeping well and staying safe.I hope you are taking care of your Watercress and Pea plants too! Below is a set of activities for the next 2 weeks.
Your child will just need a copybook and a pencil and rubber/eraser for these activities.
Your Homework Bingo sheet (see below- can be downloaded as a pdf) has 25 different activities. You can pick a couple of different activities each day and see if you can get all 25 completed in the next two weeks. The activities are designed to be completed without having to print off worksheets- just using your pencil, colours and copybook or by watching videos/ listening to stories online.
Activities for children from my class who go to Ms Condron/ Ms Hanlon are available here
Please note: As always, for internet based activities please ensure your children are supervised while accessing the internet.
Thanks and take care,
Mr Smyth
Notes to accompany activities:
Activity 1: SESE: Geography:
Read the worksheet on Plants Special Powers– Design your own Fairy Tree Sign
Activity 2: Maths- Doubles Rhyme
We were looking at doubles in Maths before school closed.
Check out this Doubles Rhyme and try and learn it by watching the video each day and singing along:
Activity 3: English
Look up your Word of the Day for today. Since we were learning about planting and growing with Watercress and Peas, before our school shut, our Word of the day theme for the next few weeks will be all about the “Farm”
Check out the word list for your word each day and try the following activities with each new word you are learning.
- If you don’t understand the word or phrase, look up the meaning of the word in the dictionary: https://kids.britannica.com/kids/browse/dictionary
- Try putting the word/phrase into a sentence
- Write the word into your copy and draw a picture to go with it.
Activity 4: English:
Write Narrative story about an adventure you’ve had.
Narrative Structure: Setting/ Characters/ Problem/ Solution. Use your narrative writing prompt sheet.
Activity 5: English:
Listen to the story “Even Stevens-Football’s a cruel game” by Michael Rosen.
Listen to one chapter only each day.
Chapter 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8iPNrqWmwU
Chapter 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg1L-aXMvyc
Chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a0Q0qRgLk8
Chapter 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va298eTbymg
Chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHMdiPYVSk0
Chapter 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCHcVhbGDds
Chapter 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yyvN_5wk80
Chapter 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMMDNC7ECr0
Chapter 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUMd5FF9-sM
Chapter 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp0N6kvMimk
Activity 6: Physical Education/ Movement:
Go to GoNoodle on Youtube and try out Zumba Dance Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHo9QaJ1DyI
Activity 7: English:
Choose your favourite animal, research them on the internet & create a factsheet– printing this one or writing into your copybook. Next week or so we will use our factsheet to write a Report on your chosen animal.
Activity 8: English:
D.E.A.R. Time. (Drop everything and Read Time) Chose a book you like- either sit and read yourself if you can or sit with an adult at home and read together.
Activity 9: Cross Curricular:
Starting on Monday 30th March, watch RTE Home School Programme at 11 O’Clock on RTE 2. If you miss the show on TV you will be able to find it on the RTE Player
Activity 10: English:
Each day practice his week’s Tongue Twister
- Week 1 Tongue Twister: “Black Bug’s Blood”
- Week 2 Tongue Twister: “Crisp crusts crackle and crunch”
Practice saying it and see how many times you can repeat it in 30 seconds- get someone to time you! Try beat your record from the previous day.
Activity 11: Maths:
Practice your Skip Counting in 2’s song by listening to the video and singing along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwydguSKOU
Activity 12: Irish:
Watch episode 1 and 2 of Tir na nOg on RTE Player.
Available here: https://www.rte.ie/player/series/tir-na-nog/SI0000006552?epguid=IP000064973
Listen out for familiar language we have learned so far this year. For example:bosca bruscar, cos, broga, leine, cearc, lacha, glas, dearg, etc.
Activity 13: SESE
Science: Water everyday your plants and measure the Watercress and Pea plants with a ruler your parents and record size on worksheet that I sent home with you when school closed.
Activity 14: SESE
Science: Read the Science worksheet “Do Plants grow in straight lines?” and set up your science experiment
Activity 15: English:
Write a Diary entry once this week in your copy. Use Recount Writing prompt sheet as a guide to writing a recount diary entry.
Activity 16: English:
Describe Today’s weather in your copy and draw a picture with it
Activity 17: Maths
Check out the Splat Hundred Square on the school website and make patterns skip counting in 2’s and 4’s.
https://stgabrielsns.ie/?p=7139
Activity 18: Music/ Art
Listen to the piece The Nutcracker Suite and let your imagination go wild- draw a picture of what you imagine when you hear the piece of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73XNa2ZM7M
Activity 19: English
Practicing your reading strategy of Prediction- From listening to chapter 1 of “Even Stevens” by Michael Rosen write or draw in your copy what you think will happen in this story.
Activity 20: Irish/ Art
Draw and colour a picture of yourself in your copy and label your “Eadai” using the prompt sheet “Eadai”
Activity 21: English
After listening to each chapter of “Even Stevens” by Michael Rosen, grab your copy and write or draw what happened in the chapter you just listened to.
Activity 22: Art
Go to I Am Artist website and watch the first video on Fabric and Fibre which is all about weaving http://www.iamanartist.ie/fabric-fibre/.
We will try some weaving activities in the coming weeks.
Activity 23: Art
Grab some lego or blocks at home and build something from the 30 day challenge sheet attached.
Activity 24: Mindfulness
The Force is with you Try some Star Wars yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQssjvf4N9s
Activity 25: Maths
Pick any number between 1-30. Write the number in the middle of your page
Around it write all the different ways you make this number by adding or subtracting two numbers.