Obair do Rang a Trí & a Ceathair

Tuesday 5th- Friday 8th of May 2020

Maths:

 Mental Maths: Week 32. (The answers for Mental Maths week 31 are on our school website
so you can self-correct. Click on the ‘Home Learning’ page).
 3rd Mathemagic: Chapter 24 “Estimation” P.113 and P.114 and Shadow Book Estimation
P.45
 4th Shadow Book (Place Value) P. 49 and P. 50.
 Tables: x8. Ask your parents to give you a tables test.
 Additional activities: Continue with Manga High

English:

 Reading: Blue Skies- Poetry section p.195 onwards. Read a poem of your choice everyday
Tuesday-Friday. Write a poem or two this week. (Try to use different styles/formations e.g.
acrostic poem, rhyming poem, non-rhyming poem, shape poem) Write a poem about Covid-
19 and send it to me. Also read a book for pleasure every day!
 Spelling: Complete ‘Spell Well’ week 30. Ask someone at home to give you a spell check on
Thursday or Friday.
 Writing: Grammar Pack: “Prefix It” P.33 (A prefix usually has 2 or 3 letters and you add it to
the start of a word to form the opposite meaning e.g. happy + un = unhappy
Phonics Pack: Move on to “Bicycle Tour of the City” (c as in city is your phonic)
 My Word a Day: Week 27. Look words up in your dictionary and write down the meaning,
then put them into a sentence to show understanding.
 Handwriting: Complete 1 page from your handwriting book.
 Additional activity: Free writing

Gaeilge:

 Abair Liom: ‘An Aimsir’ P.131-133. Log on to folensonline and listen to the comhrá E p.133.
Read the comhrá yourself. Do the online interactive activities (like we would normally do on
the interactive whiteboard)
Have a go at the written tasks C and D P.132
 Fuaimeanna agus Focail: Aonad 22, P.67 ‘eo’. Ask someone at home to test you on your
spellings on Friday.
 Watch a Cúla4/TG4 cartoon/programme/the weather each day.
 Bí ag caint Gaeilge ar feadh 5 noiméad gach lá (Talk Irish for 5 minutes every day)
 Additional Activity: Play ‘Ainmnigh 5’ Name 5. Go into each room in your house and name 5
items you see. Extra challenge- Ainmnigh 10!

S.E.S.E:

 Science: Strand “Living things”. 6th class are learning all about spiders this week. I would like
you guys to try one of the following:
 -Go on a mini-beast hunt. See how many mini-beasts you can find, name and classify into
groups.
-Design and create a trap for collecting mini-beasts.
-Do a mini project/fact file on a mini-beast of your choice.
-Create a food web/food chain involving mini-beasts.
-Get creative and do some mini-beast art.
Click here for some more ideas https://bbsrc.ukri.org/engagement/schools/keystage1-
2/minibeast/

P.E.: Get Active everyday! Make the most of the sunshine and get outside!

How is your Isolation Activity Pack coming along? There are some nice
activities in this; complete it at your own pace.