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Snow Day Activities
I hope everyone is enjoying the snow and staying warm and safe.
Here is a list of some activities which you might enjoy doing from home:
1. Revise long multiplication and long division.
(maths-aid.com has some great free worksheets)
2. Practise for your Maths Passport Activity. We have covered the 2,5,10,3,4,& 9times tables so far.
3. Write a story with paragraphs (beginning, middle and end) about a snow day adventure.
4. Sketch a magical snow scene.
5. Create your own paper snowflake with paper and scissors.
5. Research what the weather is like in other countries at the moment and investigate when we last had a big snow fall.
February Update
We are currently learning about the following topics in class:
English: Michael Morpurgo’s novel Kensuke’s Kingdom
Persuasive writing
Irish: Future Tense Verbs
Maths: Negative Numbers
Fractions
History: Daniel O’ Connell
Geography: People and other lands
Science: Electricity
P.E.: Water Safety
Art: Construction – holder made out of lollipop sticks
January Update
Happy New Year!
These are some of the topics we are currently learning about:
English – Traditional Chinese stories, report writing
Irish: Bia (Food) & Sa Bhaile (At Home)
Maths: Decimals, long multiplication, long division
History: 16th & 17th century Ireland
Geography & Science: Soils & Electricity
PE: Games – basketball skills
Art: Chinese New Year decorations
SPHE: Busy Body Programe
December Update
This month 5th class are learning about:
English: Connectives and commas in their writing.
Report writing
The Railway Children – novel
Gaeilge: An Aimsir (Weather)
An Nollaig (Christmas)
Maths: Properties of 2D Shapes
Number facts – multiples, factors, prime and composite numbers.
Geography & Science: Nutrition
The Immune system
Natural Environments – The Burren
History: The story of Granuaile
Ancient instruments
Traditional Irish music
P.E.: Morern Dance
Art: Christmas decorations (crafts)
Music: Christmas songs & recorder
SPHE: Keeping Safe
Weekly Update
This week we have been learning about:
English: Instructional writing
The Railway Children – novel
Irish: Caitheamh Aimsire (pastimes)
Braithra rialta aimsir fháistineach (future tense regular verbs)
Maths: decimal numbers
Geography / Science: Mountains in Ireland
History: Leonardo da Vinci
Art: winter wonderland scenes
PE: modern dance
Weekly Update
In the following subjects we are learning about:
English – Speech Punctuation
The Railway Children – Novel
Irish – Eadaí
Maths – Simple and Equivalent Fractions
Geography / Science – The parts of a plant
History – Leonardo da Vinci
P.E. – Dance
