1 st Class Work to be done at home until June 5 th You should be reading for at least 15 minutes every day. If you have no suitable books at home there are lots of free e-books at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page or at https://readon.myon.co.uk/.

Monday May 25th:1) Do you remember what narrative writing is? Our narrative story this week is called

“Our Summer Bucket List”. First discuss the new words (in bold) with an adult at the bottom of page 62 of your Starlight. Then read the text. What would be on your bucket list for the summer?

2) For tables practice this week I want you to try this website https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button or you can just Google ‘Hit the Button’ Select the green button ‘Number Bonds’ and then select ‘Addition within 20’. See how many you get correct in 1 minute.

3) Maths: Busy at Maths page 139. This is a ‘Pictogram’ of how many glasses of water fill various containers. You have to analyse the data and complete the questions. PS. You will need a 1 litre container for tomorrow if possible

4) Science: What season is it? What changes would you expect to see in Summer? Do you remember why we get the seasons? Have a look at this video if you don’t know and try the flashlight experiment - https://youtu.be/b25g4nZTHvM . Read and complete Small World p80.

5) Active Challenge: Can you spell your name by running the shape of the letters in your name? Spell your first name, rest for 15 seconds, spell your surname, rest for 15 seconds and finally spell all your name.

PS: You will need a squeezy bottle (ketchup, sauce) later in the week so hold on to any you finish in the kitchen during the week.

Tuesday May 26th:

1) Re-read the text “Our Summer Bucket List” Starlight p62 and then complete Activity A on page 63. Remember to write full sentences in your best writing. Use the words in the question to form your answer.

2) Hit the Button – Can you beat your record?3) Remember that capacity is how much a container will hold. Remember that the

standard unit for weight is the kilogramme. The standard unit for capacity is the litre. Milk usually comes in 1 litre or 2 litre containers. Have a look in your kitchen and see if you can find the capacity of various liquids written on the container. Complete page 140 of your Busy at Maths.

4) Active Challenge: Can you do these yoga poses? How long can you hold the position for? Maybe get an adult to do them with you.

Wednesday May 27th:1) Starlight p63 Activity B. 2) Hit the Button – Can you beat your record?3) Maths: Complete A Quick Look Back 8 on Busy at Maths p141. Do this on your own

without any help. Send it to me to correct or if someone at home corrects it go over the ones you get wrong (if any) and ensure you understand where you went wrong.

4) Science: There are lots of butterflies are around at the moment. Do you know where a butterfly comes from? Have a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1S8WzwLPlM about the life cycle of the butterfly. Watch this time-lapse (speeded up video) of the stage from caterpillar to butterfly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19gOG-qCCA Complete Small World p81.

5) Active Challenge: Throw a ball against the wall and catch it again, hop three times on one leg and then the other leg. Rest for 15 seconds and repeat three times.

Thursday May 28th:1) Starlight p64 Activity A – Joining words ‘but’ and ‘or’. 2) Hit the Button – Can you beat your record?3) Maths: Study the yellow box at the top of your Busy at Maths p142. They show an

‘addition’ house’ to help you add big numbers. You see the units house is in green and next door the tens house is in red. The main thing you are practicing today is to “Always add the units first and then the tens”.

4) Active Challenge: Can you do these yoga poses? How long can you hold the position for? Maybe get an adult to do them with you.

Friday May 29th:1) Starlight p64 Activities B (‘I’ or ‘me’) and Activity C (‘is’ or ‘are’). 2) Hit the Button – Can you beat your record?3) Busy at Maths Shadow Book p50.4) Art: You learnt about The Life Cycle of the Butterfly on Wednesday. A good way of

attracting butterflies into your garden is to have lots of flowers. Another way is to set up a Butterfly Feeder. All you need is an old squeezy bottle, cotton wool, sugar, rubber bands and paint/paper/real flowers. The procedure for making the feeder is below.

5) Can you make a small obstacle course at home and time yourself to see how long it takes? Try to involve hopping, jumping, and catching in your obstacle course. See if you can better your time over the weekend.

Monday June 1st:1) This week’s Starlight story is about the circus. Create a word map on the theme of

‘circus’. Write the word circus in the middle of a page and draw a ring around it. Write as many words as you can think of that relate to a circus. Some examples might be clown, ringmaster, circle…

2) This week you are going to practice your subtraction. Open Hit the Button on the internet like last week, but this time select ‘Number Bonds’ and ‘Subtraction within 20’.

3) Maths: We are moving onto ‘addition with regrouping’ now. Parents please do not use the term ‘carry on’ as you would have used when you were in school. Have a look at the yellow box at the top of Busy at Maths p143. You have 1 ten and 14 units. We can bunch 10 of the units together and ‘regroup’ them as 1 ten. We start with

1 ten and 14 units and we regroup to form 2 tens and 4 units. Play this video to help you further http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19619/activity-143/index.html. Say we had 1 ten and 27 units. We could ‘regroup’ 20 of the units into 2 tens so now we have 3 tens and 7 units.Complete p143.

4) Lie on your back and try to get up without using your hands. If you manage this, lie on your stomach and try to get up without using your hands.

5) Put a hurley or ball on the ground and hop over and back over the hurley or ball for 30 seconds. Rest for 15 seconds and repeat three times.

Tuesday June 2nd:1) English: This week our narrative story this week is called “The Circus Comes to Town”.

First discuss the new words (in bold) with an adult at the bottom of page 66 of your Starlight. Then read the text. Have you been to a circus? Maybe have a chat about it with an adult.

2) Hit the Button – Can you beat your record?3) Maths: Study the yellow box at the top of Busy at Maths p144. Read what the girl says

carefully. Look at this tutorial - http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19619/activity-144/index.html

Always add the units column first, regroup and then add the tens column. It is vital that you write the ‘little 1 with a ring around it’ in the tens column to show how many units you have regrouped. Complete page 144.

4) Science/History: Has the electricity ever gone out in your house? What did you miss about it? What did people do before electricity was invented? What would life have been like then? Write out a list of the items in your house that use electricity. Have a look at Small World p94. Colour the items that use electricity red and those that do not use electricity green – no need to write anything.

5) Active Challenge: Try the animal walks on the next page.

Wednesday June 3rd:1) Re-read the text “The Circus Comes to Town” Starlight p66 and then complete Activity

A on page 67. Remember to write full sentences in your best writing. Use the words in the question to form your answer.

2) Hit the Button – Can you beat your record?3) Maths: Study the yellow box at the top of Busy at Maths p145. Read carefully what the

girl says. Look at this tutorial - http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19619/activity-145/index.html. Complete p145. Don’t forget to write the little 1 with the ring around it in the tens column.

4) Active Challenge: Throw a ball (a tennis ball if you have one) against a wall and catch it. How many can you throw and catch in 30 seconds. Rest for 30 seconds and repeat. What was your best score?

Thursday June 4th:1) Starlight p67 Activity B – New vocabulary from the text.2) Hit the Button – Can you beat your record?3) Maths: Complete Busy at Maths p146 Parts 1,2,3 and 4.

When we add two numbers we sometimes have to ‘regroup’ and sometimes we don’t. If you add the units and there 9 or less you don’t have to ‘regroup’ as you don’t have enough units to make a ten, If you add the units and you have more than 9 you can make a ten and so you have to ‘regroup’. Try this activity http://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/19619/activity-146/index.html Complete p146 q5 – do you have to regroup or not?

4) Science: Electricity is a type of energy. You know that electricity comes from the socket in your wall but how is it made and how does it get to the socket? Have a look at this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf76pThNXZc. Read your Small World p95 and label the image at the bottom of the page.

5) Active Challenge: Jog the shape of a square, run the shape of a circle and hop the shape of a triangle. Rest for 15 seconds and try it again but this time switch the exercise and shapes.

Friday June 5th:1) Starlight p68 – revision of homophones, contractions and nouns/verbs. Do you

remember what each of these are? A noun is the name of a person, place or thing. A verb is an action word.

2) Busy at Maths Shadow Book p50 and p51.3) Active Challenge: Put a potato on a soup spoon. Try to run with it for 10 seconds, hop

for 10 seconds and run backwards for 10 seconds without letting the potato drop. Rest for 15 seconds and try it again.

4) Art: Nature is in its prime at the moment with lots of flowers and plants out. Using natural (not man-mad) materials from around your house create an artistic piece. Here are some ideas.