Welcome to First Class 2019/2020
Teacher: Ms. Mills
email: [email protected]
Weekly Plan For Monday 22nd June to Friday 26th June 2020.
Hi Girls,
Here we are at the last week of our school year. It certainly has been a year that none of us would ever have imagined or have experienced before. I have missed seeing all of you but it was lovely to see your messages and videos of work on Seesaw and on emails. Thank you all so, so much for all the hard work that you have put in since the 12th of March this year. Thank you also for sharing your ideas, adventures and kind ways with me since we met in September 2020. I hope that you and your families have a happy and a safe summer and let’s hope and pray that we will see each other in the autumn.
This week’s work is the themed learning only, Under The Sea. To access the work click here
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Weekly Plan For Monday 15th June to Friday 19th June 2020.
Hi Girls,
Thanks to you and your parents for sharing the wonderful work that you have done. I wish that I could buy some of those t-shirts in the shop, your designs were excellent. The acrostic poems were so creative! You have such wonderful ideas in your heads so keep reaching for those stars.
To access this weeks suggested plan of work click here
To access this weeks theme The Beach, click here.
************************************************************************Weekly Plan For Monday 08th June to Friday 12th June 2020
Hi Girls,
I hope that you had a lovely week. We were so lucky with the lovely sunny weather at the weekend. To keep that sunny feeling in our hearts the themed learning this week is The Beach! Thank you for sharing all your work, drawings, posters and video clips of your activities. Don’t forget to look at Avril’s great drama resources on the main school web page. I am looking forward to catching up with you all during the coming week.
To access this week’s suggested plan of work click here
To access this week’s themed learning The Beach Click here
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Weekly Plan For Monday 01st June to Friday 05th June 2020
Hi Girls,
Thank you for all the wonderful work that you are doing and sharing on Seesaw. Here we are at the June bank holiday weekend and this means no school work for you on Monday and Tuesday. I have included some fun activities in the suggested weekly plan, only if you would like to do them. Have a wonderful safe weekend and we will catch up on Wednesday.
To access this week’s plan of work click here
To access this week’s theme of Under The Sea click here
To access Guess The Staff Member click here
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Weekly Plan For Monday 25th May to Friday 29th May 2020
email: [email protected]
Hi Girls, here we are at Friday again! Thank you for the great work that you are doing at home and on Seesaw. It is really lovely to see your videos, photographs and to hear your recordings. Keep up the great work. Avril has added some drama activities which you can access in the green box on the right hand side of the main school website page under Drama With Avril. Avril has started a poetry competition and you can email your entry to Avril at [email protected]
To access the suggested class work click here
To access the themed learning click here
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Weekly Plan for Monday 18th to Friday 22nd May 2020
email: [email protected]
Hello again girls, the weeks are just flying by. I can’t believe that we are in the middle of May already. Well done for working on the lessons at home and for using Seesaw. I am seeing some wonderful stories, book reviews, maths, Gaeilge and art up there. Keep up the great work. Parents, thank you for your continued support, do what works for you. The activities are suggested and please don’t worry if you upload the activities later in the week, it is still lovely to see them and to see the videos of the girls. Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the wonderful sunshine.
To access the weekly First Class suggested plan of work click here
To access the weekly theme of week 2 of The Garden click here
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Weekly Plan For Monday 11 to Friday 15th May 2020
Hi Girls, I hope that you enjoyed this past week. Whilst we didn’t have great weather it was certainly good enough to get out in the fresh air for some exercise and play time. You did really well to add your work to Seesaw and to email me some of your work also. I heard great things about how good you are at helping out at home. Keep up all the great and kind things that you are doing and have lots of fun too.
To find this week’s plan of work click here
This week’s theme lessons are all about The Garden. To access the themed work The Garden suggested work (1)
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Weekly Plan For Monday 04 to Friday 08th May 2020
Hi Girls, I hope that you all had a good week. I really enjoy seeing all your messages and work on Seesaw, you are doing a great job, well done!! Keep up the great work, get some fresh air safely and have some fun. If you have any questions my email address is at the top of the table of work. To see the list of work click here
To view this week’s theme on ‘Dogs’ click here
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Weekly Plan for Monday 27th April to Friday 01st May 2020
Hi Girls, I hope you are all keeping well. It was lovely to talk with some of you last week and to hear all of your news. Keep up the great work! I will be posting some work for you on Seesaw as well as the list that you can access here. If you have any questions you can contact me on my email which is at the top of this weeks list of work. To see the list click here
To see this week’s theme on Ireland click here
Monday 20th to Friday 24th April 2020
Hi Girls,
I hope that you had a lovely Easter and enjoyed the lovely weather. I know that for some families, Ramadam is starting soon. While it is difficult not being able to meet friends, some family and community members, the time will come when we can all be close together again. So, keep that sunny thought in mind over the next few weeks.
Going forward from this week, can I ask you that you use just one copy for all of your homework please girls. Don’t worry what type of copy that it is, just as long as it is all recorded in one place. The work below is laid out for each day so don’t forget to write the date at the start of each day’s work, whether that is in your schoolbook or in your copy. You do not have to start a new page each day, just write the date before you start.
Girls please do not worry if you do not get through all of the work, or if it is tricky. Just like in school, try the bits that you can do. All the other bits will come to you later.
Have fun with the additional work theme which this week will be ‘Houses and Homes’.
Keep reading as many books as you can outside of what is listed below.
Parents, please do not feel under pressure to complete all of the activities. It is only a suggested scheme for the coming week.
Keep smiling and be kind and patient with one another. Help out at home as much as you can.
Best Wishes,
Ms. Mills.
Monday 20th April 2020: Maths: With a brother or sister or adult, count in tens up to 100 together. Now you say ten and the other person says the next number and so on. Add on your number line: 2 + 4 = □, 6 + 8 = □ and 3 + 7 + 9 =□. Remember only to count your jumps after you take the first jump! Now, let’s look back at the Weight exercises you did before Easter. Look over those exercises again please. Start working on Q1 p123. If you don’t have cubes, you can use clothes pegs, lego pieces or pasta pieces. You can use the ‘weighing scales’ that you made from a clothes hanger before Easter. English: Read the poem ‘Spring’ by Celia Thaxter on the bottom of this page. In your copy with the date, draw a picture of the images in your head. Try to learn verse 1. Spellings: This week you will learn the ‘ar’ sound just like a pirate! The spellings are Wk 28 p 9. Learn bar, car, far and jar. Put each word into a sentence – remember capital letters and full stops. Neat writing girls and start close to the margin. Reading: My Read At Home – next page and answer the questions. Write your weekend news – Who, What, Where, When, How and Why. Gaeilge: Draw 5 things that you can name in Gaeilge.
Tuesday 21thApril 2020: Maths: Today count in fives up to 100 together. Now you say five and the other person says ten and so on. Subtract on your number line: 4 – 2 = □, 16 – 8 = □ and 19-12 =□. Now, start working on Q2 p123. You can use the ‘weighing scales’ that you made from a clothes hanger before Easter. English: Try to learn verse 2 of the poem. Spellings card, hard, yard and garda. Put each word into a sentence. Reading: My Read At Home – next page and answer the questions (as always, moving on one page each day). Jolly Phonics: p 40. Today’s sound is ‘ea’ which makes the same sound as ‘ee’ as in ‘I see’. Write an ‘ea’ word in each teapot and draw a picture. If you can think of anymore, write them below. Gaeilge: Tell the weather in Gaeilge – use Bua na Cainte to help.
Wednesday 22nd April 2020 Maths: Today, count forward from 0 to 100 in ones together. You say 1 and the other person says 2 and so on. Jump forward on your number line in 2’s, 3’s and 4’s. Now, start working on Q 3 p 123. Try to find different objects at home that you could measure with Lego pieces or stones or socks!! English: Now try to say verses 1 & 2 out loud. Spellings: arm, farm, harm and alarm. Put each word into a sentence. Reading: My Read At Home and answer the questions. Free Writing: Write about anything that you would like – use your favourite story or film to give you some ideas. (Capital letters, full stops, start close to the margin!). Gaeilge: Draw a picture of your breakfast and use the words from Bua na Cainte p21 to label what you have drawn.
Thursday 23rd April 2020: Maths: Today, count back from 100 in tens together. You say 100 and the other person says 90 and so on. Use different ways of making the numbers 5, 10, 16. Go to higher numbers if you like! Now, start working on Q1 p124. Talk to an adult about this. What else can see at home that would weigh 1Kg but would look much bigger than 1Kg of sugar – why? Write them down in your copy with the date. English: Try to learn verse 3. Spelling: art, part, cart and chart. Put each word into a sentence. Reading: My Read At Home and answer the questions. Two Little Frogs: Read p 68 The Colours of the Rainbow. Try to put parts of the story in order and tell the story to someone at home. How do you think all the colours got on together the next day? Does the story remind you of anything that you have read or anything that happened to you? Gaeilge: Look back at p 23 Bua na Cainte. Draw your own clock with the time. Write the time in Gaeilge underneath.
Friday 24th April 2020: Maths: Today, count back from 100 in fives together. Now you say 100 and the other person says 95 and so on. In your copy (with the date!) draw a smiley snake. Let his head be 0 and his tail be 50. Fill in his spots counting in 5’s. Now, start working on Q2 & Q3 p124. Use something else besides maths books that you can find in the house, maybe cd’s or dvd’s. Remember to write the date next to the question in your book each time. English: Try to say all three verses for an audience! Spelling: Try to find the words in the jumbled letters at the bottom of page 9. Don’t give up!! Reading: My Read At Home and answer the questions. Two Little Frogs: Do activity A only on p 69. Gaeilge: Listen, look and say http://www.leighleat.com/shuigh.html
| Spring by Celia Thaxter | |
| The alder by the river Shakes out her powdery curls; The willow buds in silver For little boys and girls. The little birds fly over The green green grass comes creeping |
And buttercups are coming, And scarlet columbine, And in the sunny meadows The dandelions shine. And just as many daisies Here blows the warm red clover, |
https://glasheengirlsns.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Houses-and-Homes-Ideas-2.pdf
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Suggested schoolwork for week Mon 30th March to Friday 03rd April 2020.
Dear Parents, Guardians and Pupils,
I hope that you are keeping well. The days are getting brighter and hopefully warmer and there are lots of jobs to be done at home and in the garden. Girls, a great time to be helping!! Also, there is lots of new life to see outside.
Girls, you might like to set up a data table to record the things you see in the garden over the coming weeks as birds begin to gather for their nests, new plants begin to bud and grow and maybe some bees may appear. I saw a bumble bee a couple of days ago, possibly on a first outing in the sun. A table like the one below could be used to spot the changes over the next three weeks:
| Week Number: 1 Day: Date: | ||
| What I saw | How many I saw | What the weather was like |
Remember all those data questions that you can make up such as: How many birds did I see altogether? How many more birds than flowers? And so on.
Busy at Maths: CJ Fallon website has books available online. Practise adding two numbers up to 20 e.g. 5 + 9 = __ 9 + 11 = ____ Practise adding three numbers up to 20 e.g. 7 + 2 + 5 = ___ and so on. Practise subtracting numbers e.g. 9 – 5 = __ 18 – 7 = __ Make your own number line from 0 to 20. Don’t forget that we only start counting our jumps once we’ve actually made our first jumpJ Use dry pasta as counters to help work out the answers. Maths book work this week is to begin Weight pages 121 to 122. Just work on these couple of pages. If you have empty yoghurt cartons, ask an adult to help you put some string through them to make a handle and you now have a weighing bucket. Hang a clothes hanger on the washing line, tie a yoghurt carton at each end, low enough that you can reach and now investigate, estimate and predict which items are heavier or lighter, how many it will take to balance and so on.
English: Who can write a poem about spring or Easter? Think about words that RHYME – this means words endings that sound the same, for example, pound/round/sound or spring/ring/thing. Draw a lovely picture to show what your poem is about.
Free Writing: This is a lovely time to let your imagination dream up wonderful adventures – what about a story of a fairy princess or what came out of the Easter egg or even what it would be like to put on those magic wings and take flight by day or even in the star filled sky Y Two Little Frogs: Write a report on cats from what you learned last week in Unit 16 The Cat Family. Perhaps you can find out some more information on cats at https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/ In your report practise using the different words ‘there’ and ‘their’. Folens online resources are available at https://www.folensonline.ie/registration/?r=t Simply register as a teacher and use the special code below for Roll Number: For primary school resources: Prim20. Spellings: Week 27. My Read at Home – read one page a night Monday to Thursday and Jolly Phonics p39 Alphabetical order – lower-case means the small letter e.g capital ‘A’ and lower-case ‘a’. Alphabetical order just describes which letters come first in the alphabet like a, b, c and so on.
Gaeilge: Bua na Cainte p 93 Cásc Shona (Happy Easter) and continue with Sa Bhaile (At Home) (taught over 4 weeks). The Educational Company Edco have also made resources available to parents and pupils by logging on to Edco, choosing Level: Primary Username: primaryedcobooks and Password: edco2020
Science: As it is spring, and Easter is fast approaching let’s look at page 66 of Small World ‘Hatching From An Egg’. It tells us about all the different creatures that come out or hatch from an egg. You might like to do a project on eggs – there’s the egg experiment on https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/eggs-periments-balancing-egg/ but you must check with mum or dad first! Check out the great games on this website also. Some ‘egg’ facts: https://www.mileskelly.net/blogs/blog/114548611-5-cracking-egg-facts-for-kids?_pos=2&_sid=d1a4d3804&_ss=r
Some Easter/Spring art ideas: https://www.firstpalette.com/craft/papier-mache-easter-eggs.html
https://www.firstpalette.com/craft/paper-bunny-chain.html
Girls have fun with the lessons and be sure to help at home. Don’t forget those capital letters and full stops!! Keep smiling with our song from Alternative Routes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIuy1a9IdHk
Parents, some other resources that you may find helpful: Children’s Stories told in Irish – Roinnt scéalta i nGaeilge do phaistí atá ar fáil le éisteacht leo saor in aisce ar líne: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=walker+eireann
Twinkl have made resources free for one month. Use the code IRLTWINKLHELPS at www.twinkl.ie/offer.
Parents can use this to access high-quality materials from home.
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RTÉ and the Department of Education and Skills have announced that they will broadcast daily school to support families at home during this time. The content of the show will be suitable for pupils from 1st to 6th class. It will run from 11am to 12am, Monday to Friday, in RTÉ 2. It is scheduled to begin on the 30th March.
https://www.facebook.com/MareeNationalSchool/ Maree National School Facebook page have some excellent resources to help parents at this time from children’s activities to helpful advice for parents and tips for helping children with additional needs.
Wishing you all a very happy, safe and healthy Easter and spring.
Kind regards,
Ms. Mills First Class.
