Tuesday 5th May – Friday 8th May
5th class work for next week, as always try your best with all work and don’t be afraid to contact me if you have any questions or want to show me any work.
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.
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 (use top right corner to jump to a selected page when book is open)
English:
**Up and Running – Read the story ‘Wilbur’s Boast’ pg.218
Questions C & D pg.230
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.
Spellings: Next 4 spellings and exercises in next unit of Spelling Workbook and activities in spelling workbook.
Gaeilge:
**Bun go Barr –
Read the story ‘Siulóid na sléibhte’ Lth 118
Ceisteanna B + C lth 120
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 28 Area pg.121
Remember to find the perimeter of a shape we add up all the sides.
To find the area of a shape we multiply the length by the width.
- 121 Qs. 4 1
- 122 Qs. 1 & 2 (read green box to help)
- 123 Qs. 1,2, & 5
- 124 Qs.1 & 2 ( Remember if it’s an irregular shape we need to break the shape up into 2 or 3 shapes and find area separately)
- 126 Qs 1-15, 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
History:
**Small World History – Read Unit 13 Land Ownership in the 16th and 17th centuries in Ireland Pg. 67
Geography:
**Small World Geography Read Unit 15 Weather, Climate and Atmosphere Pg.84
Attempt Investigations on pg.84 and 85 if possible.
I would love to see some pictures of your investigations.
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.