Monday 20^th April – Friday 1^st May

5^th class work for next two weeks, try your best with all work and don’t be stressed if having any issues, we will catch up on anything that needs addressing when it is safe to do so. There is no pressure to get all work completed just keep yourselves and your minds active as much as possible, make sure to keep on top of reading, spellings, tables and mental maths. Do your best and have fun. Take this time to learn new skills at home like helping around the house or in the garden, see how many books you can get read, how many interesting facts you can learn about various topics, improve your fitness but most importantly above all else stay safe and enjoy some quality time with your family.

If any parents have any questions you can contact me on mrkav20@gmail.com

All written work can be done in your copy or on sheets that you may have at home. Remember to have margin, heading and date. If you don’t have the right copy for a subject you can use any copy you have.

Remember to spread work out over the two weeks.

The books that are marked with ** can be accessed on the CJ Fallon web page. Visit http://my.cjfallon.ie and click ‘Student Resources’, then filter to the title of the book you require, making sure ‘Online Books’ is selected in the ‘Resources’ section. Only takes a minute and very easy to work J (use top right corner to jump to a selected page when book is open)

English:

**Up and Running – Read the story ‘His First Flight’ pg.204

Questions C & D pg. 210

Read the story ‘Strange Flying Machines’ pg. 212

Questions B & C pg.216

Reading – 20 minutes reading each day of a book of your choice from home. If you haven’t a library book or your own book to read at home you can find some great books to read on the app ‘BorrowBox Library’.

Ms Cleary’s reading group continue to record daily reading.

Writing:

Up and Running:

Pg. 211 H Flights of Fancy-1 copy page at most.

Pg. 217 G Complete the story- 2 copy pages at most.

Spellings: Next 4 spellings and exercises in next unit of Spelling Workbook and activities in spelling workbook.

Gaeilge:

**Bun go Barr –

Read the story ‘Seachtain na Leabhar’ Lth 106-107

Ceisteanna B + C lth 108

G, H + I   Lth 110/111

Read the story ‘Diolachan Cacai’ Lth 112-113

Ceisteanna B + C lth 114

H + I   Lth 116

Abairtí – Write 3 interesting sentences each day Aimsir Chaite/Aimsir Fhaistineach briathra. Use back of Bun go Barr or Gramadach copy to help. Keep learning our verbs!!

Maths:

Mental Maths – Continue with the next week of Mental Maths including Problem Solving and Friday Review.

Tables – Practise your ‘mixed tables’ for 5 minutes each day on https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button (Hit the Button) and try beat your score. Record your highest score for when we are back to see who the champion is!

**Mathemagic –

Unit 34 Weight pg.145 (Remember 1kg=1000g)

• 145 Qs. 4 & 5
• 146 Qs. 4,6, & 8
• 147 Qs. 1,2,3 & 5 (Remember when adding if ml goes above 1000 we add 1 to kg)
• 148 Qs 1-20, set 20 minute timer and see how many you can get done in that time. Remember with our problems read the question properly to yourself and see what  the question is really looking for, be patient J

Unit 38 Capacity pg.161 (Remember 1l=1000ml)

• 161 Qs. 2-9
• 162 Qs, 1 & 2
• 163 Qs. 1 & 2(if possible) use jugs/containers from home and have fun whilde experimenting.
• 164 Qs. 1-4

History:

**Small World History – Read Unit 12 Feasts and Festivals in Ireland

Geography:

**Small World Geography Read Unit 14 ‘Sound’ page 79

Attempt Investigations on pg.79, 81,82 and 83. Try your best and have fun with the investigations.

I would love to see some pictures of your France projects 🙂

Art and Projects

Try some of these

-Design a soccer gaa or camogie jersey or a t-shirt for you favourite tv show or video game.

-You can also do projects on topics of your choice. ( people places hobbies art  etc) I would love to see any projects you do. Pictures can be sent to me on my school email provided.

-This is a link to The Great Isolation Activity Book. They’re are some nice activities to do with your family of siblings. You may be able to print it or just use ideas from the booklet too and put your own stamp on it. Enjoy !!!!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gasHX74OYHHH4hrrP5Y823FarA_TgnuI/view

P.E.:

Remember to try keep as active as possible and have fun.

Races – shuttle runs- time yourself

-Obstacle course -create your own in your garden

• challenge yourself
• hurling/ football / soccer skills ( how many roll lifts in 30 secs / how many keepy uppys can you do in 30 secs etc (Check out Hurling 365/Peile 4 all online for weekly challenges)
• How many basketball dribbles in 30 secs
• Jog on the spot 30secs next day 60 secs Etc

Every Tuesday and Thursday at 12pm Kilkenny hurler TJ Reid does a brilliant online PE class live on his TJ Reid Health and Fitness Facebook page.