Dear Parents/ Guardians,

I hope you are all keeping well throughout this time. Thank you so much for your cooperation and correspondence over the last week. Please find the suggested activities and work for this week, 4 th May – 8th May. I wish to stress, this document is only a guide and we do not want you to be under pressure. Complete whatever amount of work is feasible with your child.

I would be thrilled to receive samples of pupils work via email. Work undertaken in any subject is suitable to send. If possible throughout the week, or at the end of the week, if you could send me two samples of pupils work and one specific area of work they are very proud of, I would be delighted to send feedback and engage with pupils great efforts, you can send emails to nicholasm2008@gmail.com or mnicholas@ballinaprimaryschool.com

English

Theme for this week- Eating Out/ Food Around the World/ Restaurants (all themes are interlinked). Pupils may wish to set up their very own restaurant using toys from home or an outdoor restaurant/ picnic area.

Structured Writing Activity - focus on helping to make ‘a dinner dish of your choice’ at home. This week, we are looking at the theme of ‘food from around the world’, pupils may wish to help their parents make an Italian dish/ a Spanish dish/ a traditional Irish dish.Writing activity for this week will take the format of writing a simple menu. For example, a pupil chose ‘spaghetti’ as a main dinner dish. They may decide on a name for their Italian restaurant as their title e.g ‘Mario’s Meatball Magic House’. Pupils list two or three choices for the starter options e.g Bruschetta/ Garlic Bread/ Minestrone soup, two or three choices for the main course and two or three choices for dessert. This is a suggestion for pupils, two or three menu choices per course are sufficient. They may draw a picture and write their own independent sentence at the end.

Modified list of words to be read to pupils for this week, pupils should aim to read two or three new words independently every week.

Examples: birthday, food, restaurant, waitress, menus, pizza, waiter, orders, problem, mouth, cheeks, wide, open, water, pepperoni, chilli peppers, hot, glass

Oral Language and Reading linked to ‘Eating Out’- Please Engage with the story ‘Jack’s First Chilli Pepper’ on the Starlight Folens Website. https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/Starlight/SI/resources/activities/SL_SI_ACT_CH14_003/index.html

A reminder- this is the ‘big book’, based on our theme for this week. Parents may read this story to pupils and pupils may independently be able to read some words they pick out from the story, or simple sentence structures. As it can be difficult to read a book from a screen, we would encourage you to have a look for any stories linked to ‘food/ restaurants/ eating out/ food around the world’, you may have at home. Here are two suggestions or you might like to look at ‘YouTube clips’, ‘Caillou: At A Fancy Restaurant by Claire St-Onge’ or ‘I Have a Restaurant by Ryan Afromsky’.

Continue to include books in the previous blank reading diary when completed. Two new tricky words for this week- ‘or, want’. Please keep up revision of all previous ‘Tricky

words’. Phonics - Revision of both ‘oo’ sounds, short and long such as ‘pool’ and ‘hood’, along with all

diagraphs (two letters making one sound) to date. Please complete workbook pages 46 and

47. Aim to make a game and take turns with your child reading the words on page 46, winner for example gets to choose a board game or roll a dice and match a number to reading a corresponding word. Compose sentences with words and play more oral games such as ‘I spy’. Some students this week will be moving on to the ‘ch’ sound, as we have already covered the ‘sh’ sound in class. Examples of words include, ‘chips’, ‘chain’, ‘chair’, ‘child’, ‘cherry’. Please complete workbook pages 50 and 51. Focus on additional oral language word games, along with completing the small ‘Just Phonics Book’. Handwriting - Practice rewriting given sentences with capital letters where required.

Brainstorm sentences orally that link to places around Ireland e.g We live in Tipperary. Complete revision page of all capital letters to date. Corresponding ‘Ready Steady Write’ workbook pages 55 and 56.

Maths

Revision of the number 10. Please revise the story of 10, using concrete materials. Look over rhymes and songs included in the documents over the last two weeks.

This week pupils will partition sets into three groups, combining to make a total of 10. See table below for suggested language and concrete materials this week. Pupils will also focus on adding two numbers vertically to make 10. Please stress, this is the same as adding numbers going across, we will still count the total number of objects and put the answer in the final box at the bottom.

If you do have domino’s- draw pupil’s attention to the vertical structure of adding numbers together.

Pupils may also wish to make their own collage of number stories, e.g cut and paste various items such as- drawings of pencils, cut them out, stick them on a separate page and add them vertically.

Suggested practical activities linked to the number 10 this week. ‘Counting jar’, if you have an empty biscuit tin or a jar you are no longer using, drop in various items, one at a time, as pupils close their eyes and count for example how many marbles or items have been dropped in to the jar. A variation of this includes, pupils place three marbles into a jar and parents add more marbles as pupils count with eyes closed.

If you have a deck of playing cards, pupils may also use the cards to make a number story, such as 3 + 4 + 3= 10. It is important to stress; we will be adding 3 numbers together to make a total of 10 this time.

Brainstorm and draw pupil’s attention to as many things as possible that come in groups of 10, e.g 10 toes, 10 fingers, 10 years in a decade, 10 digits in a mobile number.

See separate link in email for helpful math’s interactive resources.

SESE - Linked to theme of ‘Food Around the World/ Eating Out’.

Science – Pupils engage in helping out with their choice of cooking/ baking. Linked to English (see above English Section) if pupils chose an Italian Menu for example they may wish to help Mammy or Daddy to bake a dessert linked to their menu. Examples may include ‘Rice crispy buns/ cupcakes/ Jelly and Ice-cream/ Fruit Bowl/ Banana Split (linked to the story of Pablo Banana- Geography)’. Please do not feel under pressure to link baking to the restaurant theme above. Pupils document this process on a page in their copy, e.g What we are going to do/ what we had to use/ procedure (two or three steps are sufficient) and the result of their baking.

History- If feasible pupils may ring their grandparents/ aunt or uncle, or ask their own parents about the food they ate when they were younger. They may ask if their grandparents grew their own vegetables/ how their diet may have been different. Pupils draw a picture of their favourite dinner dish on one half of the page and their grandparents favourite dinner dish on the other half of the page.

Geography- Listen to the story of ‘Pablo, the super banana’. This story looks at the story of bananas as they grow in Columbia. Pupils can explore the bananas growing in the sun, being looked after by the farmers, washed, bagged, transported on a ship and sold in shops. When pupils are finished listening to the story, they may play the game- sorting the pictures with parents. In their copies, pupils can draw four or five pictures linked to the story of bananas and write their own sentence. https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/resource/pablo-the-super-banana/

Art - Printing using fruit/ vegetables. If possible, take a piece of fruit or vegetable of choice, e.g a potato. Mammy or Daddy might cut the potato in half or in quarters, pupils press the potato down into some paint and print a food pattern. Other suggestions include using a lemon/ lime/ orange/ carrot/ mushroom. If print painting is not an option, you may use markers/ crayons to draw various foods.

PE -

Revise ‘Active Schools Home link’, http://www.ballinaprimaryschool.com/active-school-week-2019-2020 there are some great exercises pupils can do on a daily basis. Partake in the ‘teacher challenges’, ‘spell your name challenge’ or the ‘card deck workout’.

Joe Wicks, also has some excellent daily challenges https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

‘Happiful’ website also has excellent website links to daily active activities, including ‘Zumba/ Go Noodle/ Cosmic Kids Yoga/ iMoves’, https://happiful.com/10-virtual-pe-lessons-your-kids-will-love/

Gaeilge:

Topic for this week – Revision (Súil Siar) and food (bia). Revision words for this week include – an Fathach (giant), bó (cow), pónairí (beans),

fuinneog (window), an gairdín (the garden), caisleán (castle)- all words linked to revision of the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.

Please listen to clip that gives pupils instructions for joining the dots on page 86 of Abair Liom, pupils join the dots, revise the words and colour the pictures. https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/AbairLiom/SI/resources/Listening_activities/AL_SI_AUDIO_CH25_measunu4.mp3

For section ‘B’ on page 87, we would appreciate if pupils revise food items and draw and colour four more items of their choice in the boxes. Here is a clip of boys and girls discussing their favourite food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwaV10P_3oE.

This link also may help with various food items and pronunciation. https://www.ranganna.com/ceim.aspx?id=4500&lang=en.

For the last section on page 87, we would appreciate if pupils could colour the pictures and revise the colours (na dathanna) in Irish as they do so.

Religion:

Theme for this week ‘Stories- Jesus Heals the man who was blind’. Discuss with pupils their sense of sight, remind pupils of the important of our sense of

‘sight’, how lucky we all are to have our sight. Pupils focus on their favourite things to look at, on page 40. On page 41, read the story of ‘Jesus helping the man who was blind’. Discuss when you or your child helped someone and how it made them feel.

See ‘Grow in Love’ website for interactive links to this story, https://app.growinlove.ie/en/user/lesson-resources/24 , including the ‘miracle song’ linked to this story. Workbook pages linked include pages 40 and 41.

See below for suggested timetable of work to be completed this week. You will also find a separate document with links/ suggestions to aid learning in all of the above topics.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Maths- BAM pg 94. Eng- Just Phonics Workbook pg 46 or 50

Handwriting- ‘rewriting sentences with capital letters’ pg 55

Maths- BAM pg 96

Gaeilge- Abair Liom End of pg 87

Eng- Structured Writing Activity ‘Designing your own restaurant menu’

Religion -the story ‘Jesus Heals the man who was blind’ workbook page 40

Maths- BAM pg 95

English- Just Phonics Workbook pg 47 or 51

Handwriting pg 56. Revision of capital letters

Gaeilge- Revision Abair Liom pg 86

SESE Science – Baking activity see above link

Paint printing Art Activity- see art section above

Religion- Workbook pg 41

SESE Geography- ‘Pablo, The Super Banana’

Revise ‘two new tricky words’ and last week’s tricky words

PE- See above suggestions

Gaeilge- Abair Liom, First half of pg 87.

SESE History- See above suggestion

Reading- ‘Big Book’- Jack’s First Chilli Pepper

*BAM- Busy At Maths

*Suggested timetable for this week including all activities detailed in the above section.