Dear Boys and Girls,

We hope you enjoyed the Bank Holiday and that you have been getting outside for

some exercise at this time home from school. Remember, it is important to keep

washing your hands properly, to cough and sneeze into a tissue or your elbow, to

stay 2 metres away from others when you are outside and not to play with

children other than those living in your house. This will help to keep us all safe

and well.

We have assigned the work below for you to do during the week 6– 8 May. As this

is only a three-day school week there is less work for you to do. We would love

you to do as much of the work as you can but we know and understand that this is

not always possible. Please do not worry about completing all of the work. Some

of you might like to participate in an art competition (details attached), drawing

or painting a picture showing how you are keeping in touch with some older people

in your life. An adult should send a photo of your entry to the address given if

you wish to have a try at winning a voucher for €50. Good luck to all who enter!

We have uploaded the answers to last week’s Mental Maths and Operation Maths

pages on this website page. You can use these to correct your maths work if you

need them. We have received many lovely emails from your parents forwarding

your work and it is great to hear about all the wonderful things you are

experiencing during this time. If you would like to receive feedback on any of the

written work you have done, perhaps an adult could take a clear photo of your

work (one page per photo) and then email it to your teacher. Please do not put

your parents under pressure to do this as they may not be in a position to do so.

Your parents have received emails from your teachers so they have your teacher’s

email address.

Please continue to be kind and helpful at home.

Take care and keep safe,

Ms Bolton, Ms Connolly and Ms Ryan

Dear Parents,

We are five weeks into doing school work at home now and we are aware that

there have been many ups and downs along the way. We too are learning. We have

received lots of feedback, thank you. Below are a few points that we hope will

address some of the concerns raised:

We will now upload the schoolwork for the week on the School’s website

on Sunday evenings

Many parents have asked how much work they need to send each week.

Firstly, you are under no obligation to send work through. We encourage

it if you can to keep children motivated and connected. To make this

clearer, moving forward, we will indicate on each week's set work, the

piece(s) we would like you to send to us if possible. There is no need to

forward Mental Maths, tables tests or spelling tests pages. We will

upload the corrections for the maths each week for you and your child to

access. However, if there is a particular maths problem that your child

needs help with, absolutely contact us and we will go through it with them

as best we can.

You do not have to scan everything that you want to send through to us -

if that is convenient for you, great. If not, we are happy to receive

photos, just please make sure that there is one piece of work per photo

and that the photo is clear.

‘Bua Na Cainte’ is not an essential download. It is a large file. However,

there are nice songs, poems and videos attached to the resource which

some children really enjoy. We will include work from ‘Bua na Cainte’ as

optional.

Keep the photos of drawings, sunflowers, baking, fun in the sun, story

writing, fort building etc. coming!

We hope that these changes will make life easier for you. As always, if you have

any concerns, please contact us.

Take care,

Ms Connolly, Ms Bolton, Ms Ryan

First Class Work

Week 6

Maths Mental Maths Pages 58 + 59

Operation Maths Page 58 (Counting) + page 60 (Place Value)

English Jolly Grammar 1 Grammar – Verbs, page 53

*see information note attached

Writing

Listen and respond to the story ‘Back to Earth with a Bump’

which can be found on the First Class page of the School’s

website.

Reading Read a book from home or on-line

Gaeilge Nuacht (news)

Bua na Cainte

(Optional work)

Children use the template below to write their nuacht in their

yellow copies (or any copy).

In school one of the resources we use is ‘Bua na Cainte’. EdCo

is currently allowing parents free access to ‘Bua na Cainte’

while schools are closed. It is a large file but can be found at

the website: edco.ie/bua . This will bring you to a dropbox

account where you can select First Class.

Login: trial, Password: trial

Please click on the section ‘Siopadóireacht’ (Shopping) and

then on ‘Ceacht 3’. The speech bubble teaches the children

new vocabulary. The games console lets them use their new

vocabulary to play games and the children can listen to a poem

by clicking on the music note.

Work highlighted to be emailed to teacher if feasible.

Jolly Grammar Information Note

Writing Activity

Children, please go to the power point on our class page called ‘Back to Earth with

a Bump’. You can listen to and re-read this story which is read by Ms Connolly in

the power point. Please complete the activities set out on the last slide of the

power point – Write three sentences to describe the character of Hal, draw a

picture of your favourite part of the story and write one sentence to say why this

is your favourite part of the story, as well as finding at least three verbs

contained in the story.

We would love to see photos of this school work.

An Nuacht (News)

The children can write and fill in the blanks in their yellow homework copy (or any

copy). There is no need to print this template off.

We would love to see photos of this school work.

Laethanta na Seachtaine – Days of the week.

An Luan Monday

An Mháirt Tuesday

An Chéadaoin Wednesday

An Déardaoin Thursday

An Aoine Friday

An Satharn Saturday

An Domhnach Sunday

An Aimsir - The weather

cold warm wet dry windy cloudy

Éadaí – Clothes

cóta bríste gearr t-léine hata gréine spéaclaí gréine geansaí gúna bríste coat shorts t-shirt sun hat sun glasses jumper dress trousers

Bia- Food

Orange Orange juice sandwich water egg apple banana milk

Nuacht

Children can write this. Translation that is not written

Inniu an _________.

Inné an _____________.

Amárach an __________.

Tá an lá ___________.

Tá _ , _ agus _ orm inniu.

Chuaigh mé go dtí an siopa agus

cheannaigh mé _______, ________

agus ______.

Today is _____________.

Yesterday was _________.

Tomorrow will be ________.

The day is __________.

I am wearing _____, _____ and

_____ today.

I went to the shop and I bought

____, ______ and ______.