Good morning to all of you! I hope that you took some time over the weekend to take a break from schoolwork. Please do send me an email: [email protected] if you have any work from my page completed, if you need help with your classwork (and you normally work with me) OR if you just want to say hello and tell me your news and how you are. I would love that! :-) I have three reading comprehensions attached below. They are level A, B and C. Level A is suitable for 3rd class literacy groups and level B and C are for 4th class and upwards. I also have some oral language activities attached. I am attaching a link to 'Spelling Bees' which is a game to help practice spelling. I am also attaching a link to 'Penguin Jump' which is a fun game to help with multiplication tables. Let me know what you think of them. If they are too tricky I can send some a little easier and if they are too easy I will find something that's more challenging. Also, if you haven't already, please look at the posts further below for the 'Weaving Wellbeing' booklet. It is really great and very helpful for reminding us all how important it is to look after our minds and our bodies. Wishing you all a super day to start the week ahead! Ms Heaslip https://www.mathplayground.com/learning_arcade_spelling_bees.html https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_PenguinJumpMultiplication.html
Here is something a little different for you girls. Can you learn to identify some of the birds that might visit your garden or area? This will keep you busy for a few weeks if you decide to try and see if you can find them all! You will have to take the time to be outdoors (safely) and put all your focus on just watching and noticing the birds and seeing if you can hear them too. The swallows have just arrived around my area and they are great fun to watch as they swoop and dive. I have managed to spot most of them the last few weeks but I haven't noticed a chiffchaff, greenfinch, dunnock, coal tit or sparrowhawk. I'm pretty sure I heard a sparrowhawk but I don't think that counts!
Good morning! I have attached a list of phrases that are helpful when you are practicing reading. This list is aimed at any girls who get a word bag with dolch words/tricky word lists from me. It is also useful for any girls who might be part of a literacy group with me too. Email me brendaheaslip @stphilomenasns.com and let me know how you are getting on with them. :-) Hope you have a great day, Ms Heaslip
Happy Earth Day! Today is a chance to reflect and think about the role we all play in looking after our planet and its resources. Think about all the hard work that our school has put in to the green flags and the work that the Green School Committee and Ms Higgins are continuing with. It's a good day to get the know the world we live in a little better too. Some of you in 5th and 6th class have already been working with me on Google Maps and studying how to find information in an atlas. 3rd and 4th girls can try this too with a little help. Why not explore Google Maps today on Earth Day? I have a task sheet attached below that might be useful. (Try a little bit of mindfulness today outdoors to take a break from the screen. Take two minutes just to listen to the world around you with your eyes closed. Bring your thoughts back to the sound you hear when your mind wanders...as it will!) Email me and let me know how you found it. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3834,-8.2177501,443018m/data=!3m1!1e3
Good morning everyone! I am attaching a task sheet that will help you with any of your oral language classwork. I know you are all learning about interviews. The following game should warm you up and help with your questioning skills.
Hi to everyone! I hope that you enjoyed the 'break' over Easter. It's always nice to get back to a little bit of a routine after being away from the computer and books. For anyone that is just getting around to looking at some of the work that I have been posting, please do go back over older blog posts and complete work from them too. As always, I am delighted to get emails, so please do email to say hi, ask a question, or submit work for feedback. Some girls are finding that they are busy with class work and that is fine. If you would like help with any class work, you can ask me too. Just do your best! :-) Below are some tasks related to spelling, dictionary work, grammar and in Maths, some word problems related to capacity. (4th class)
We have worked on verbs when looking at comprehensions and when working on nouns and adjectives. We are going to work on them more closely this week.
The capacity poster is just an example to get you started. Can you use google images/photos/clipart to create your own 'Capacity Poster'? Include a variety of containters that have the CAPACITY to hold a liquid of any sort. Extension: Estimate the capacity of each of the containters.
The word problems get a little more challenging as you move through them. Give them your best shot! :-) Hi girls! As we are coming to the end of Term 2, I just want to remind you of some of the ways you can enjoy the next two weeks: Try to do a variety of different activities each day (get fresh air, reading, drawing, listening to music, watching a movie or TV programme, a walk or bike ride (within limits and with permission), board games, puzzles and don't forget...helping with chores around the house.) Here are some English and Maths Easter activities for you and I will post again in two weeks. You are doing GREAT everyone, keep positive and stay safe ... :) Ms Heaslip
Weaving Well-Being is an Irish designed positive mental health programme which aims to enhance well-being in children aged from 8-12 years within the framework of the SPHE curriculum. One of the authors, Fiona Forman, has just released a FREE downloadable well-being journal for children. I think that a lot of students will enjoy it!
Here is the link: https://indd.adobe.com/view/5237deef-2311-469f-9e2d-b5ee89c2000f Hi Parents, This activity will benefit all children who find it difficult to memorise classwork or who may forget what they have learned after a period of time. (for example, spellings from a few weeks ago etc) You can use the attached file to continue helping memory skills to improve. This sheet can be used in many ways: - call them out and ask your child to repeat - call them out and ask your child to write them - allow them to be read and then recalled orally or through writing - ask your child to recall them 30mins later and again the following day Experiment with different methods of memorisation (we often make up a story using the object list and I would encourage the students to really visualise and picture the object) You can add lists together to make it more of a challenge.
Why not use the above photographs that I took this morning as inspiration for your writing. You can pause the slideshow if you want to have a closer look. Here are some nouns that are taken from the pictures:
horse, gate, field, tree, branch, bud, hawthorn, sheep, fence, primrose, daffodil, moss, ivy, cow, calves. Write some sentences about each photograph and add some adjectives to the nouns I have listed above. See if you can stretch those sentences even further. You will remember doing some of this with me in our groups if you are a 4th class student, but anyone can try it! EXAMPLE: horse white horse The white horse stood by the gate. The white horse stood tall by the rusty gate. |
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