{"id":8231,"date":"2020-04-20T10:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T10:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T10:58:35","slug":"welcome-back-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=8231","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big hello to all the lovely pupils of St. Gabriel&#8217;s NS!\u00a0 I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter break.\u00a0 I know most of you were out enjoying the lovely weather and I was lucky enough to see some pupils in the Phoenix Park getting some exercise with their parents and family.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rsaoracle.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-lazy-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"Cut the words out\u2026 | RSA Oracle\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">is a sentence known as a pangram.\u00a0 A pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet.\u00a0 Check it and see!\u00a0 There might be some letters that appear more than once, can you find out which ones?\u00a0 Which letter appears the most?\u00a0 Write out the sentence on your whiteboard or a piece of paper and cross out each letter as you go through the alphabet.\u00a0 Could you make up your own pangram?\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to have a go myself!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Click on the picture below to see the sentence made into a song.\u00a0 A word of warning however, this is a song that can get stuck in your head for weeks!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RwaZfAp-YTA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8235\" src=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image0-1-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image0-1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image0-1.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Try to keep up your reading.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great idea to read a book that you have read before and that you know well.\u00a0 When I was in school my favourite books to read again and again were\u00a0<em>The BFG\u00a0<\/em>by Roald Dahl and\u00a0<em>The Magic Faraway Tree<\/em> by Enid Blyton.\u00a0 For those of you who have PM readers at home, pick a book you already know and like and read it for someone.\u00a0 Pick a different one every day this week and then try a new book that you haven&#8217;t read before on Friday.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And finally try to keep practising your Bumblebee Breath and your yoga poses.\u00a0 The Cat is my absolute favourite at the moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big hello to all the lovely pupils of St. Gabriel&#8217;s NS!\u00a0 I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter break.\u00a0 I know most of you were out enjoying the lovely weather and I was lucky enough to see some pupils in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=8231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}