St John the Baptist BNS Cashel Work package for Mr Coskeran’s (Room 9) and Ms Quinn’s (Room 8) Third Classes Week beginning Monday 27 April 2020

Hello everyone/Dia dhaoibh go léir! Another week has come around and we hope it finds you and your family keeping well. This week has been designated Active Home Week by the organisers of the Active School Flag initiative in Ireland and we are asking you to get involved by getting active! We have reduced some other areas of work just a little (anywhere you see the * symbol) to allow some more time to get out and about in the fresh air which we’re sure you are doing anyway. There’s still lots of non-active work to also get stuck into. More riddles, a story starter that requires you to save the world, a floating and sinking experiment and a card game. Please note below there is a change as to how we will be communicating with our teacher email being used as opposed to the Homework mail you were using to date. Finally, and we know all you boys will love this, we did make a mistake last week with the Maths Puzzle answer! The square was equal to two and not five as stated in the answer. Teachers, eh! Thank you to the eagle eyed LD who spotted this. He has assured us he will not bring it up when we get back to school! We’re sure the rest of you won’t either. 😀 Here’s your plan for the week ahead. Remember to continue to do your best and note that you can now communicate with us via our school email addresses either laurencecoskeran@cashelbns.ie or miriamquinn@cashelbns.ie . You can send us photos of your work, send photos of you completing some of the tasks that we’ve set or ask us a question or query about the assigned work package. If you don’t want any pictures uploaded to the website, then you can just state this in the email. But please, do get in touch with us. We would ask that your parents send us an email this week, regardless, so that we’ve got your families’ email address for correspondence. Our special education teachers have also been preparing work for boys receiving extra support at school. They can be contacted by email at: sharonsheahan@cashelbns.ie, aliprice@cashelbns.ie, lucyryan@cashelbns.ie We will talk to you all soon. Mr Coskeran and Ms Quinn   

CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK

Subject/Area Content - Offline Work Websites/other instructions

Numeracy Maths Extra At the bottom of the pack we have attached some Length measuring activities for any boy that would like an extra challenge.

*Master Your Maths - Week 29 - Monday to Thursday (No Fri Test) Pgs 62-63.See answers to Week 28 MYM on sheet attached below. *Tables ÷12 Write out in your copy three days this week. Tables Ultimate Challenger (Game) 1: Challenge a member of your family to the ultimate game of tables sharpness. Banned in 8 countries, it requires nerves of steel, super speed and laser accuracy! How to play Two people face off. Both countdown 3, 2, 1 and then say a number between 2 and 12. When both numbers are said the first person to react by multiplying the numbers and saying the answer wins. Play a tournament and crown the Tables Ultimate Challenger Champion in your house! Maths Puzzle - How many cookies?

Links/games for all subjects are dependent on access to IT. Please do not feel under pressure to complete. Specific days/times are guidelines and are, of course, flexible. Master Your Maths (Online Book) https://bit.ly/3dwXWKU Tables: Mon - Fri - 5 minutes Hit The Button https://bit.ly/2ycmBnV Times Table Rally https://bit.ly/3bl8mMi Tables Balloon Burst https://bit.ly/2xJQeNz Bonus Game Math Memory - Test your memory skills with a brand new memory game. https://bit.ly/2yJDdDu

Literacy

*Reading (3 texts instead of 5) Boys using Sounds In Focus 2 please log in to My Read at Home 2. Read pages 29-31 (3 texts for this week) and answer questions in your copy. Please ensure you include the title of the text and number your answers in your copy. (feel free to log in to Read at Home 3 if you prefer) Boys using Sounds In Focus 3 please log in to My Read at Home 3. Read pages 16-18 (3 texts for this week) and answer questions in your copy. Please ensure you include the title of the text and number your answers in your copy. If you cannot access My Read at Home continue reading whatever books/material you can get your hands on. Phonics/Spellings Complete Unit 30 in your Sounds In Focus workbook. (Any parts you cannot do, skip them) Find your spellings on a sheet at the end of this document, please note different lists for boys using SIF 2 and SIF 3. *No sentence required this week.

Reading My Read at Home https://bit.ly/2UlOGlm (Book 2) https://bit.ly/3anS0Si (Book 3) Sounds in Focus Online Sounds in Focus 2 https://bit.ly/2UnjnXb Student Access Code - five534 Sounds in Focus 3 https://bit.ly/2JrQLWl Student Access Code - keep396 Bonus Writing Pobble https://bit.ly/2UqpOce This link opens up to a new picture every day which includes a story starter. Children can continue the story. It could be used as writing exercise on one day to give a break from the diary! As with everything, it can be used as often or as little as your routine allows.

Story Starter

As they lowered me from the chopper I gazed out at the unfolding destruction. I had trained my whole life for this moment. The world was under attack and The President needed to be rescued. It was up to me to rescue him/her. Use the above image and information as inspiration and write a story detailing your mission to rescue The President. Please find a Story Starter Hints and Guide at the bottom of the package that might help you write your story. Oral Language Topic Challenge - Being Active How many items relating to being active can you name in 60 seconds? Riddle 1: I have 13 hearts but no other organs. What am I? 2: I shave everyday but my beard never gets any shorter. Why?

Short Story Generator - Cheat Mode Last week it was a fairytale, this week you can generate your own short story by following the link below and inputting information into the prompts. https://bit.ly/2yJP0BM Hint: A protagonist is the main character in your story. Bonus Oral Language - Explorify https://bit.ly/2Jmm1q4 I know what you’re thinking, not another website to sign up to! However, the lads do enjoy this. When you sign in, type ‘Zoom in Zoom out’ into the search bar. Here they have to identify what an item is from really close up, they can then ‘zoom out’ to make it easier.

Gaeilge

Mo Scéal

● This week is Mo Scéal week so we are going to make use of the actions we have learned to make it a little more Active!

● Each morning when you get up go through our Mo Scéal with all the actions included.

● Have your copy with you in case you get stuck. ● Each morning try to get further along without having to look at

your copy. ● How far can you get? The challenge is on!

Bonus Gaeilge Cartún - Cat a’ Hata https://bit.ly/353A11G

Music & Art

Music We use Dabbledoo Music for our music lessons in school. They have created a free parent subscription with some very cool musical content & weekly updates to your email. Art To tie in with Active Home Week for Art we are asking you to design and colour an Active Poster. Some ideas for your poster might be:

1. A large picture of you doing your favourite activity 2. Lots of small pictures of you being active. 3. A drawing of you being active with your family or pets. 4. A slogan for being active. 5. Buzz words that show the importance of being active

e.g.healthy, fitness, fun etc. 6. Your favourite healthy foods.

Dabbledoo Music https://bit.ly/2xnRZPM (Copy and paste this short link into your web browser address bar. Click on enrol & follow instructions)

PE and Wellbeing

Offline Activities This week is Active Home Week. Please see the Active Home Week Sheets attached at the bottom of the Work Package which include ideas and challenge template. We have given suggestions for two activities per day and you decide on the other two yourself. To the right are the associated links where you will find more information and ideas.

Online Activities Active Schools Website https://activeschoolflag.ie/ Active Home Week Challenge https://bit.ly/3cNFjRO Active Ideas https://bit.ly/3aBOjYH Active Twitter Account https://twitter.com/ActiveFlag PDST Primary PE (Videos) https://twitter.com/PDSTpe

Weekly SESE project (Science/History/ Geography)

Topic of the Week - Floating/Sinking When we think about what items float or sink, it can be confusing. Why does a marble sink in a glass of water but a large ship can float in the sea? What we must remember is that: Things that float weigh less than the water they replace. Things that sink weigh more than the water they replace. Why not do an investigation at home? ⟹⟹

Question: Will an orange or lemon float or sink in water? Will it float or sink if you remove the peel? If you can’t try this out at home, perhaps you can watch this video→ The peel or rind of an orange is full of tiny air pockets which help give it a lower density than water, making it float to the surface. Removing the rind (and all the air pockets) from the orange increases its density higher than that of water, making it sink.

Video What makes something float or sink - video https://bit.ly/2zsHbRr Investigation: Experiment with some items at home and don’t forget to make predictions first. You can draw out your own table similar to the one further on in this document. Choose some items from your home to test e.g. a pencil, an egg, an apple, a door key, a sponge or any suitable items (check with a parent first - it would not be a good idea to place a car key or mobile phone in water!!!)

● Fill a sink, a bucket or a bath with water.

● Leave around ¼ empty. ● Make/record your prediction ● Slowly lower one item into the water. ● Remove the item from the water and

test the next item. Orange sink or float https://bit.ly/353jWJs

OTHER SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK

ACTIVITY Content Websites/other instructions

1.

Roots of Empathy Baby Gabrielle is now 7 months old and his mammy Monika recorded a couple of videos for ye to watch and see how he has developed. He has reached a big milestone with the arrival of his first tooth and is getting so much stronger and able to sit up on his own. Check out the videos to see for yourself!

Monika tells us all about how Baby Gabrielle is getting on. Video 1 https://bit.ly/2xXxKco Video 2 https://bit.ly/2S7lnBp

2.

Card Game: 15

Place 16 cards face down in 4 rows of 4 Player 1 turns over as many cards as needed to total 15 If you go above 15 place cards face down again If you total 15 remove the cards and replace with cards from the deck and take another turn (There must be 16 cards on the table all the time) Next player 2 goes The winner is the player with the most bundles of 15. Joker =15 King =13 Queen =12 Jack =11 Number cards are worth their face value Ace= 1

Floating/Sinking SCIENCE EXPERIMENT (You could make your own copy of a table like this in your copy or sheet of paper)

OBJECT Do you think it will float or sink? (Why?)

Test

Did it float or sink?

Reason

Sounds In Focus 3 (Brown book) Unit 30 27/04/20 Write out and learn spellings as usual.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

zebra 

these 

those 

apologise 

advertise 

always 

busy 

easy 

exercise 

hazardous 

invisible 

who’s 

whose 

thousand 

memorise 

because 

lazy 

sizzle 

organise 

horizontal 

advertise ● To praise something on tv/a newspaper/magazine/online so that people will want it 

● To tell people when an event will take place 

(Lots of products are advertised on Youtube.) 

hazardous ● When something is dangerous or risky 

(Driving conditions were hazardous during Storm Ophelia.) 

memorise 

● To learn something and remember it exactly 

(It is important to memorise multiplication tables in 3rd class.) 

horizontal 

● Level or flat; going across from left to right 

(Draw a horizontal line across the top of the page.) 

Sounds In Focus 2 (Purple book) Unit 30 27/04/20 Write out and learn spellings as usual. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

always 

because 

buzz 

close 

dozen 

does 

busiest 

fizz 

goes 

puzzle 

maze 

pays 

sometimes 

these 

tease 

sneeze 

zebra 

zero 

zest 

zone 

dozen 

● a set of twelve. 

(We did so much baking yesterday, we used a dozen eggs!) 

puzzle 

● (noun) a tricky game/a difficult question/ a problem to be solved 

● (verb) to feel confused because you cannot understand something 

(Coronavirus has puzzled doctors and scientists all over the world.) 

tease 

● (verb) to make fun of or say things to annoy someone 

(He was teased at school because of his unusual haircut.) 

zone 

● A district or area set aside for a particular use 

(This is a no-parking zone.) 

 

Length

We measure length using centimetres and metres.

cm = centimetres m = metres There are 100cm in 1 metre. 100cm = 1m.

Rulers are used to measure small objects. Most rulers are 15cm or 30cm long.

Remember some rulers have an extra space at the beginning. Do not use this when measuring.

Always begin at the ‘0’ or the ‘cm’.

Find some objects in your home that can be measured in centimetres (cm).

First estimate the length then measure it. Write the difference between the two.

You could complete a table like this in your copy.  

We have suggested two activities per day, the other two are up to you!

Story Starter Hints and Guide - You don’t have to use all the hints, pick and choose ones you like. To create paragraphs consider skipping a line between the Beginning, Middle and End of your story.

Beginning ➢ As they lowered me from the chopper I gazed out at the unfolding destruction. I had trained my whole life for this moment. The world

was under attack and the President needed to be rescued. It was up to me to rescue him/her……

The reader's attention has been grabbed by starting in the middle of the ‘action point’ of the story. From here you might consider taking a step back and talking about some or all of the below.

● Telling the readers a little about yourself, name, where you’re from, family etc. ● Why you joined the special forces. ● Where you trained. ● The special skills you have. ● Your previous experience of dangerous situations.

Middle ➢ This is where the action happens. You're back to being lowered from the chopper. The ball is in, the game is on!

● As you're being lowered what can you smell, hear, see, touch. Describe your senses. ● Who is helping you? ● Where is the president being held or where is he/she hiding? ● Describe your journey to reach him/her. ● How do you and your team manage to rescue him/her?

Ending (Conclusion) ➢ The final part where you bring a conclusion to the story.

● Was your mission a success? ● What happened when you got home? ● Did the president organise for you to be rewarded? ● What did he/she say to you? ● A possible closing line where you hear about your next mission.

Master Your Maths Week 28 Answers

WARNING - TURN BACK! Below are the answers to this week’s maths puzzle and riddles written upside down. If you haven't tried them yet go back, have a go, and check back later to see if you were right!