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WORK FOR MONDAY 18th MAY TO FRIDAY 22nd MAY I hope you’re all safe and well and having a nice weekend. Work for Monday 18th to Friday 22nd May is listed below. Again if it’s taking too long for your child on any given day please cut out an activity or whatever you need to cut out. Thanks to all those who sent me on pictures of your work. I love seeing what you’re up to and hearing how you’re getting on.
If anyone wants to send me some work/ artwork/ some work you're proud of that you completed at home, here is my temporary email address: [email protected]
You can test your child on Spellbound Week 30 on Friday if you get a chance. 20 spellings.
Religion this week:
In your religion book, which I’m pretty sure you all have at home, can you please read pages 82, 83 and 84. These pages look at Theme 10: Reconciliation and this week I want you to focus on Lesson 1: God Forgives Us.
Activity: Please write out the ‘Prayer for Forgiveness’ on pg 107. Try write out the prayer nicely and you can decorate around it with your colours and give the prayer a colourful heading ‘Prayer for Forgiveness’.
If you go to www.growinlove.ie you can log in using these details:
Email: [email protected]
Password: growinlove
When in you can click on the 4th class book, then on Theme 10 and finally on Lesson 1- God Forgives Us. There are some songs and slideshows that the kids can look at. Also if your child didn’t bring home their Grow in Love book there’s an ebook available on the right hand side of the screen once you’ve entered the 4th class book.
Art this week:
Have a look at this week’s art under the heading ‘Friday 22nd May’. The kids can start to gather any items they might want to use in their creations.
I’d love to see some pictures of their art so email them on if you get a chance.
Monday 18th May:MATHS:
Do Mental Maths Week 34 Monday.
This week the children will be working on the topic of ‘Capacity’. It’s very important that the kids read the notes below and try their best to learn the points in the notes. There are examples and images in the book that the children should look at to give them a visual image to accompany the notes.
Notes on this week’s work:
The capacity of a container is the amount of liquid it can hold e.g. a carton of milk, a jug, a pot, a bottle etc.
Millilitres (ml) Fraction of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre- better answer because we drop the zero/ zeros at the end.
1000ml 1 whole unit 1.0 l 1 l500ml ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l250ml ¼ l 0.250 l 0.25 l750ml ¾ l 0.750l 0.75 l100ml 1/10 l 0.100 l 0.1 l200ml 2/10 l or 1/5l 0.200 l 0.2 l300ml 3/10 l 0.300 l 0.3 l400ml 4/10 l or 2/5 l 0.400 l 0.4 l500ml 5/10l or ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l600ml 6/10 l or 3/5 l 0.600 l 0.6 l700ml 7/10 l 0.700 l 0.7 l800ml 8/10 l or 4/5 l 0.800 l 0.8 l900ml 9/10 l 0.900 l 0.9 l
Mathemagic:
Pg 158 Q1 and Q2
Your heading is ‘Capacity pg 158’.
ENGLISH:
This week I want the children to focus on Narrative Writing.
In this kind of writing, we write:
Stories
Fairy tales
Legends
Fables
Plays
Narrative writing is found in:
Picture books
Storybooks
Novels
Poetry books
Comics
Film scripts
Today I want you to read the narrative text below called ‘Climbing Rosa’.
You can answer the following questions once you’ve read the text:
1. Write a sentence to say what the story is about.
2. Who is the main character?
3. Who are the four other characters in the story? (List 4 main characters).
4. Draw a small sketch of one of the main characters as you imagine him or her and write a sentence to describe him or her.
5. What problem does the king have and how does he decide to solve it?
6. Why is the competition a good opportunity for Rosa?
7. What problem does Rosa have to overcome in order to win?
8. Write three reasons why this folktale ends happily for most of the characters.
Grammar: Answer the following questions in your copybook.
1. Correct the spelling error (one of the words is spelt incorrecting) pehaps popular
2. Which letters are missing in each word? er/ur/ir
b___nt p___form th____sty
3. Identify the error (mistake) and write correctly: I interveiwed her myself.
4. Write the plural of match and finch.
5. Which word has more syllables? separate or sentence
6. An opposite of complete is? ended complicated unfinished
7. Add pre to historic.
8. Which word would come before century in alphabetical order? certain, centre or circle
9. Which of these is the meaning of the word possession? a line of people moving along or something belonging to a person.
10. Identify two nouns (a noun is a name, a place or a thing): We watched the parade from our window.
11. Circle three adjectives (an adjective is a word that describes a noun e.g. tasty cakes, steep cliff, disappointedgirl. They are describing words e.g. that looks amazing/ it was brilliant).
Happy, laughing people danced on colourful floats.
12. Write the adjective to describe each noun: __________ music __________ faces
smiling towering loud
13. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. For example: ‘Seán went into the shop’. ‘Seán’ and ‘shop’ are both nouns. I’m going to replace the nouns with pronouns: ‘He went in there’. ‘He’ and ‘there’ are pronouns because they took the place of the nouns ‘Seán’ and ‘shop’.
Identify two pronouns:
Can you see it now?
14. me or I? Give it to ___.
15. Add punctuation.
Why is it all so noisy.
Wow, look at that one.
Spellbound Week 30 pg 62.
Learn Block 105 and test yourself. (No exercises to be done on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. You can do all the exercises on Friday before you do your test.)
GAEILGE:
deich euro €10aon euro déag €11dhá euro déag €12trí euro déag €13ceithre euro déag €14cúig euro déag €15sé euro déag €16seacht euro déag €17ocht euro déag €18naoi euro déag €19fiche euro €20euro is fiche €21dhá euro is fiche €22trí euro is fiche €23ceithre euro is fiche €24cúig euro is fiche €25sé euro is fiche €26seacht euro is fiche €27ocht euro is fiche €28naoi euro is fiche €29tríocha euro €30aon euro is tríocha €31dhá euro is tríocha €32trí euro is tríocha €33ceithre euro is triocha €34cúig euro is tríocha €35
sé euro is tríocha €36seacht euro is tríocha €37ocht euro is tríocha €38naoi euro is tríocha €39daichead euro €40caoga euro €50seasca euro €60seachtó euro €70ochtó euro €80nócha euro €90céad euro €100
Use the above grid to help you complete today’s exercise.
Go to: www.edcolearning.ie
Click Login
Username: primaryedcobooks
Password: edco2020
Once in search ‘Bua na Cainte 4’.
Click into the book and scroll down and click on ‘Siopadóireacht’…. ‘Shopping’.
Go to page 177.
Read each box and answer the questions- ONLY DO THE BOXES FOR RUAIRÍ, ÓISÍN, CIARA, RÓISÍN AND SAMAR. Look at my example below- you only have to write the answers to the questions.
I’ll do the first one for you. The answers are in red.
Cheannaigh Liam feadóg agus leabhar. Liam bought a whistle and a book. (€7)
Thug sé fiche euro don siopadóir. He gave €20 to the shopkeeper.
Cé mhéad airgid a chaith sé? How much money did he spend?
Chaith sé seacht euro. He spent €7.
Cén briseadh a fuair sé? What change did he get?
Fuair sé trí euro déag. He got €13.
HISTORY:
This week for history we’ll be learning about ‘Caring for the Sick’ and studying some people from the past that helped to care for the sick. The brave frontline workers in Ireland are helping to care for those affected by the Covid 19 Coronavirus and one day they will appear in the history books of the future.
Today I just want you to go to page 88 of your Small World History Book and read pg 88. Study the timeline on the left side of the page and read about ‘Ancient Greece’ and ‘A Good Doctor’ (Hippocrates).
Tuesday 19th May:MATHS:
Do Mental Maths Week 34 Tuesday.
This week the children will be working on the topic of ‘Capacity’. It’s very important that the kids read the notes below and try their best to learn the points in the notes. There are examples and images in the book that the children should look at to give them a visual image to accompany the notes.
Notes on this week’s work:
The capacity of a container is the amount of liquid it can hold e.g. a carton of milk, a jug, a pot, a bottle etc.
Millilitres (ml) Fraction of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre- better answer because we drop the zero/ zeros at the end.
1000ml 1 whole unit 1.0 l 1 l500ml ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l250ml ¼ l 0.250 l 0.25 l750ml ¾ l 0.750l 0.75 l100ml 1/10 l 0.100 l 0.1 l200ml 2/10 l or 1/5l 0.200 l 0.2 l300ml 3/10 l 0.300 l 0.3 l400ml 4/10 l or 2/5 l 0.400 l 0.4 l500ml 5/10l or ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l600ml 6/10 l or 3/5 l 0.600 l 0.6 l700ml 7/10 l 0.700 l 0.7 l800ml 8/10 l or 4/5 l 0.800 l 0.8 l900ml 9/10 l 0.900 l 0.9 l
Mathemagic:
Pg 158 Q3, Q4 and Q5.
Your heading is ‘Capacity pg 158’.
Make sure you look at the examples in the yellow box in the middle of the page over Q3.
ENGLISH:
Use the sheet in the link below to plan your own narrative story. The instructions are on the top of the sheet. If you can print the sheet you can use that for your plan and if not you can just write out the plan in your copy.
www.powerstownns.com/userfiles/Narrative Writing- Story Plan.doc
Spellbound Week 30 pg 62.
Learn Block 106 and test yourself. (No exercises to be done on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. You can do all the exercises on Friday before you do your test.)
GAEILGE:
Today I want you to draw the following pictures in your copybook and then I want you to write the Irish and then the English under them. Try to learn these today. The phrases will appear in tomorrow’s story. They tell you how to say you are going downstairs, that you are downstairs and that you are going up the stairs. Once you know these in the future you’ll be able to replace the word stairs with ladder/ mountain/ elevator etc.
Tá Ruairí ag dul síos an staighre. Ruairí is going down the stairs.
Tá Róisín thíos ag bun an staighre. Róisín is down at the bottom of the stairs.
Tá Liam ag teacht aníos an staighre. Liam is coming up (from below) the stairs.
HISTORY:
Today I want you to read pg 89 of your Small World History book. You’ll be learning about Catherine McCauley, born in North Dublin in 1778. She helped greatly in caring for the poor and sick people of Dublin in the 1800’s and her legacy lives on. You’ll also learn about the disease cholera, which struck Dublin in 1832. Make sure you read the ‘Hot History’ which explains what the ‘tenements’ were.
Activity:
Answer the following question having learned about Catherine McAuley and the Mercy Sisters. You answer should be around 5 to 6 sentences long.
How did the Sisters of Mercy show their kindness and bravery?
Now answer this question, again 5-6 sentences long:
How are the frontline workers in Ireland showing their kindness and bravery during the Covid 19 Corona Virus Crisis?
Wednesday 20th May:
MATHS:
Do Mental Maths Week 34 Wednesday.
This week the children will be working on the topic of ‘Capacity’. It’s very important that the kids read the notes below and try their best to learn the points in the notes. There are examples and images in the book that the children should look at to give them a visual image to accompany the notes.
Notes on this week’s work:
The capacity of a container is the amount of liquid it can hold e.g. a carton of milk, a jug, a pot, a bottle etc.
Millilitres (ml) Fraction of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre- better answer because we drop the zero/ zeros at the end.
1000ml 1 whole unit 1.0 l 1 l500ml ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l250ml ¼ l 0.250 l 0.25 l750ml ¾ l 0.750l 0.75 l100ml 1/10 l 0.100 l 0.1 l200ml 2/10 l or 1/5l 0.200 l 0.2 l300ml 3/10 l 0.300 l 0.3 l400ml 4/10 l or 2/5 l 0.400 l 0.4 l500ml 5/10l or ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l600ml 6/10 l or 3/5 l 0.600 l 0.6 l700ml 7/10 l 0.700 l 0.7 l800ml 8/10 l or 4/5 l 0.800 l 0.8 l900ml 9/10 l 0.900 l 0.9 l
Mathemagic:
Pg 158 Q6
Pg 159 Q1 and Q2
Your heading is ‘Capacity pg 158’.
Make sure you look at the examples in your book.
ENGLISH:
Use your plan from yesterday to write your tale…. Remember it must begin with ‘Long ago in a far-off kingdom’.
You have TWO DAYS to write the story so take your time and pay attention to spelling and punctuation. Try be descriptive in your sentences. For example: The elegant princess walked gracefully down the aisle.
Try follow your plan!
If you have time you can draw a picture at the end of your story.
I’d love to see your story so if you have time get an adult to take a photo and email it on.
Spellbound Week 30 pg 62.
Learn Block 107 and test yourself. (No exercises to be done on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. You can do all the exercises on Friday before you do your test.)
GAEILGE:
Go to: www.edcolearning.ie
Click Login
Username: primaryedcobooks
Password: edco2020
Once in search ‘Bua na Cainte 4’.
Click into the book and scroll down and click on ‘Siopadóireacht’…. ‘Shopping’.
Go to page 178.
If you have downloaded the Bua na Cainte 4th class interactive programme you can go to ‘Siopadóireacht’ and click on Aonad 2 ‘Ceacht 1’. Then click on the speech bubble and select ‘Comhrá 1.1’. You can listen to the story ‘San Ollmhargadh’.
Translations:
Bhí an chlann san ionad siopadóireachta. The family were in the shopping centre.
Bhí an áit plódaithe le daoine. The place was crowded with people.
Bhí trálaí ag Mamaí. Mammy had a trolley.
Bhí siad ag dul isteach san ollmhargadh. They were going into the supermarket.
Chonaic Ciara staighre. Ciara saw a stairs.
Thosaigh Ciara ag pleidhcíocht. Ciara started messing.
Chuaigh sí síos an staighre. She went down the stairs.
Thosaigh Ciara ag gáire. Ciara started laughing.
“A Mhamaí, féach ar Chiara.” “Mammy, look at Ciara.”
“Tá sí thios ag bun an staighre.” “She is down at the bottom of the stairs.”
“Tar aníos,” arsa Mamaí. “Come up (from below),” said Mamaí.
“Ná bí ag pleidhcíocht,” “Don’t be messing,”
“Ceart go leor,” arsa Ciara. “Alright/ okay,” said Ciara.
Thosaigh Ciara ag teacht aníos an staighre. Ciara started coming up (from below) the stairs.
Bhí Mamaí sásta nuair a tháinig Ciara anios. Mammy was satisfied/ happy when Ciara came up (from below).
“Beir greim láimhe ar Chiara”, arsa Mamaí le Niamh. “Grab a hold of Ciara’s hand”, said Mammy to Niamh.
“Rachaimid ag siopadóireacht”. “We will go shopping”.
Answer questions 1-4:
1. Cá raibh an chlann? Where were the family?
2. Cé a chuaigh síos an staighre? Who went down the stairs?
3. An ndeachaigh Mamaí síos an staighre? Did Mammy go down the stairs?
Your answer should begin with Chuaigh Mamaí/ Ní dheachaigh Mamaí.
4. An ndeachaigh Óisín síos an staighre?
Your answer should begin with Chuaigh Mamaí/ Ní dheachaigh Mamaí.
HISTORY:
Today can you please read pg 90 of Small World History. Today you’ll be learning about a man called Alexander Fleming who discovered a medicine called penicillin that has saved the lives of millions of people worldwide by fighting bacterial infections.
Please write 5 VIPS (Very Important Points) about Alexander Fleming.
Thursday 21st May:MATHS:
Do Mental Maths Week 34 Thursday.
This week the children will be working on the topic of ‘Capacity’. It’s very important that the kids read the notes below and try their best to learn the points in the notes. There are examples and images in the book that the children should look at to give them a visual image to accompany the notes.
Notes on this week’s work:
The capacity of a container is the amount of liquid it can hold e.g. a carton of milk, a jug, a pot, a bottle etc.
Millilitres (ml) Fraction of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre (l) Decimal of a litre- better answer because we drop the zero/ zeros at the end.
1000ml 1 whole unit 1.0 l 1 l500ml ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l250ml ¼ l 0.250 l 0.25 l750ml ¾ l 0.750l 0.75 l100ml 1/10 l 0.100 l 0.1 l200ml 2/10 l or 1/5l 0.200 l 0.2 l300ml 3/10 l 0.300 l 0.3 l400ml 4/10 l or 2/5 l 0.400 l 0.4 l500ml 5/10l or ½ l 0.500 l 0.5 l600ml 6/10 l or 3/5 l 0.600 l 0.6 l700ml 7/10 l 0.700 l 0.7 l800ml 8/10 l or 4/5 l 0.800 l 0.8 l900ml 9/10 l 0.900 l 0.9 l
Mathemagic:
Pg 159 Q3 and Q4
Your heading is ‘Capacity pg 158’.
Activity: Find 5 containers in your house and write down the capacity of the five containers.
e.g:
Water bottle= 500ml
Bottle of Dettol spray= 450ml
ENGLISH:
Finish your narrative story, your tale, today.
Spellbound Week 30 pg 62.
Learn Block 108 and test yourself. (No exercises to be done on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. You can do all the exercises on Friday before you do your test.)
GAEILGE:
Re-read the story from yesterday and answer questions 5 to 8.
5. An raibh Ciara thíos ag bun an staighre? Was Ciara down at the bottom of the stairs?
Bhí/ Ní raibh
6. An raibh Niamh thíos ag bun an staighre? Was Niamh down at the bottom of the stairs?
Bhí/ Ni raibh
7. An raibh Mamaí thíos ag bun an staighre? Was Mammy down at bottom of the stair?
Bhí/ Ní raibh
8. Ar tháinig Ciara aníos an staighre? Did Ciara come up the stairs?
Tháinig/ Níor tháinig
HISTORY:
RESEARCH Today I want you to do some research for a one to two page project that I will be putting in Monday’s work next week.
When researching please write small notes/ print info and pictures if you have access to a printer. You can draw your pictures if you can’t print. Just gather as much info as you can today and keep it in a safe place for Monday.
I want you research a famous person in medicine that we have not already learned about.
Here are some names that you could use: Claudius Galen, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Elizabeth Blackwell, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Christian Barnard.
Or you can find your own famous person in medicine to research. It can be someone who is around now or someone from the past.
Friday 22nd May:Spellbound Week 30 Pages 62 and 63
Do all exercises on pages 62 and 63. (Exercises 1-6)
Do your Friday test. Make sure you have your heading ‘SB Week 30’ and the date.
Grammar:
1. Identify and rewrite the misspelt word. The strange experament worked.
2. Identify the word that is spelt correctly. neighbour naighbour neighber
3. Write the missing long o in each word. o/ oa/ oe/ ow
zer__ barr __ f__ thr__t
4. Write the correct plurals babys or babies flys or flies
5. run + ing =
6. Does bi in the word bicycle mean that it has one, two or three wheels?
7. Write the correct word. He rode/rowed the boat ashore.
8. a or an?
It is ___ interesting book.
9. Shorten we and had.
10. desert or dessert?
We crossed the __________ in three days.
11. The noun in this sentence is:
Breathing in that hot, dry air was painful.
12. Identify the three adjectives (describing words)
We found cool water near the large, shady trees.
13. Is water a noun or an adjective?
The thirsty camels were in a hurry to reach the water.
14. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. For example: ‘Seán went into the shop’. ‘Seán’ and ‘shop’ are both nouns. I’m going to replace the nouns with pronouns: ‘He went in there’. ‘He’ and ‘there’ are pronouns because they took the place of the nouns ‘Seán’ and ‘shop’.
Identify the two pronouns:
We saw a rabbit but it raced away.
15. Add speech marks (remember 66 and 99……”Hello everyone”, said Ms.Wall.
Can we stop here and rest before we continue on our journey? he begged.
MATHS:
Do Mental Maths Week 34 Friday.
ART:
This week I want the kids to create some nature art! I got this idea from an art teacher I follow online. The art is inspired by the work of a British artist Andy Goldsworthy.
Please have the kids watch the video below in the link if you can- it’s the art teacher explaining what to do and talking about Andy Goldsworthy. You don’t have to watch the video but it’s good for ideas.
Video clip link: m.youtube.com/watch
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