Welcome back to school!

 We are so happy to be back at school. Here are some photos of first class during play time.

Have some fun with Sound

Thank you to Miss Wynne in 4th class for creating this fun activity. Some of you might find it interesting.

Sound

Foley artists are the people who make sound effects for films, cartoons etc. Their job is to create sound to match the scene; watch this video to see how it’s done.

Task 1: Read the classic children’s story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

https://en.calameo.com/read/003334310f5a757af882d   (this is the book online)

Notice where there are opportunities to add sound effects.

Think about the sound and experiment with making the sound.

Try reading the story in a storytelling way (i.e add lots of intonation and interest to your voice)

Add the sounds.

Can you make a recording? 

Take some pictures of what you used for sound.

 

Task 2

Find materials to make the following sounds:

The idea is that you do not go and record the actual sound e.g of wind or fire or a horse, but you use different things to make the sound as realistically as possible

Ø  A horse trotting

Ø  Wind rustling through trees

Ø  A train

Ø  Tiptoeing along a wooden floor

Ø  Birds flapping wings

Ø  An arrow being shot from a bow

Ø  Walking up creaking stairs

Ø  A crackling bonfire

Ø  Can you add to the list?

Sports day fun

Great fun for Sports Day in the Caffrey house!

Willow did a bicycle obstacle course!

The Wanns were all-go!

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Gonzo Youth Theatre Time Capsule videos

Archie in our class has been taking part in the Gonzo Youth Theatre Time Capsule project. The members made a series of videos capturing their lives during the lockdown. Here they are:

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Photos from pupils Monday

Justas saw this bird. It might be a Bullfinch

Goodbye from our lovely friend

Gabriela made this beautiful artwork of the class

Tuesday 16th June SPORTS DAY!

Today is Sports Day!  You can do your own activities or you can use these ideas. Whatever you like, just be active outside today! If today does not suit your family, do it whatever day you like. But please send me some photos!

1. Do a ten minute run around your garden.

2. Five Senses Scavenger Hunt (see below)

3.Obstacle course. Find whatever you can- boxes, chairs, cones, hula-hoops etc to make an obstacle course. Then have fun. You can race each other or get someone to time you. (See below)

4. Do these Simple PE Activities. You can make them a competition, or just challenge yourself to find your personal best.(See below)

5. Sports Day Races and Competitions. Set up some of the traditional sports day competitions at home, such as Egg and Spoon Race, Sack Race, Welly Throw. Get the whole family involved! (See below)

OBSTACLE  COURSE

SIMPLE PE ACTIVITIES

SPORTS DAY RACES AND COMPETITIONS:

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Work for the week 15th-19th June

We have reached the last week of school! Well done to each and every one of you and your wonderful parents for engaging so well during the lockdown and for working so hard. I think you have done very well. 
This week I'll be giving just a little work every day and a few fun activities as well. Please send me lots of pictures so that we can all see each other in our final week before the holidays. 

First Class Work for week 15^th-19^th June 2020

Monday	Busy at Maths p164
Tuesday	Sports day see blog
Wednesday	Maths: Easter Assessment test in booklet
Thursday	Maths: Summer assessment test in booklet
Friday	Water safety course see blog

Please let your child do the maths completely alone this week. DO NOT help them or give them any hints! I would like to see how much they know by themselves. Please send me a photo of the tests via Seesaw, email or Whatsapp before they are corrected by you. 

Keep these assessment booklets and give them to Ms Keogh (your child's second class teacher) when you go back to school in September.

Gabriela made some lovely art work for the class.

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Tuesday 9th June

Birthday boy

Tuesday

Spellings: revision. See blog

Tables: revise all

Reading: 10 mins

Mental Maths: Tues p72

Busy at Maths p152 Money

Two Little Frogs p86+87 Do by yourself

Irish: folensonline.ie  “my favourites”

Optional work is highlighted in pink.

Spellings: house, who, news, does, have
We will have our final spelling test on Friday.

Tables: Practice random addition and subtraction tables every day this week. On Friday we will have a general test. I will ask 10 addition and 10 subtraction tables.


Here's a fun racing addition game:
https://www.multiplication.com/games/play/road-rally-multi-player-addition

And here's the same game with subtraction:
https://www.multiplication.com/games/play/road-rally-multi-player-subtraction

Reading: I will be collecting your yellow reading records on Friday. If you can, fill in the names of the books you have read since school finished. Just try your best to remember!
Could you please upload a video (onto Seesaw, WhatsApp or email) of you reading one page of your book. Pick a page you have not already practiced and put the camera onto the page (not your face) so that I can see the words you are reading. Thank you. (This recording is just for me to hear your reading. I will not be putting them up on the blog).

Maths: Busy at Maths p152. I think you can do this page without a video. Remember when you are counting money, alway start with the highest value coin and work your way down to the lowest value coin, adding each one as you go along.....eg 50c+20c=70c+10c=60c+2c=62c+2c=64c

English: Two Little Frogs p86+87. You should be able to do these two pages by yourself. P86 is about the Magic E and p87 is about compound words.

Work for the week 8th-12th June 2020

First Class Work for week 8^th-12^th June 2020

Optional work highlighted in pink

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Spellings: revision. See blog	Spellings: revision. See blog	Spellings: revision. See blog	Spellings: revision. See blog	Book return day
Tables: revise all	Tables: revise all	Tables: revise all	Tables: revise all	Spellings and tables test
Reading: 10 mins	Reading: 10 mins	Reading: 10 mins	Reading: 10 mins	Reading: 10 mins
Mental Maths: Tues p72	Mental Maths: Tues p72	Mental Maths: Wed p72	Mental Maths: Thurs p73	Mental Maths: Friday p73
Busy at Maths p151 Money	Busy at Maths p152 Money	Busy at Maths p153 Money	Busy at Maths: p154 Money	Busy at Maths p158+159 Time
Two Little Frogs p84-85 Do by yourself	Two Little Frogs p86+87 Do by yourself	Do the next page of All Write Now	Two Little Frogs p88+89 Do by yourself	Two Little Frogs p91 Do by yourself
Irish: folensonline.ie  “my favourites”	Irish: folensonline.ie  “my favourites”	Irish: oral Irish lesson on the blog today	Irish: folensonline.ie  “my favourites”	Irish: folensonline.ie  “my favourites”

Spellings: This week we are doing our last test. Please look over the following 20 words for the test on Friday:

Monday:  good, there, year, first, girl
Tuesday:  house, who, news, does, have
Wednesday:  give, before, time, here, gone
Thursday:  school, are, our, said, name


Tables: Practice random addition and subtraction tables every day this week. We will have a general test on Friday. I will ask 10 addition and 10 subtraction tables.

Reading: I will be collecting your yellow reading records on Friday. If you can, fill in the names of the books you have read since school closed. Just try your best to remember!

One day this week, could you please upload a video (onto Seesaw, WhatsApp or email) of you reading one page of your book. Pick a page you have not already practised and put the camera onto the page (not your face) so that I can see the words you are reading. This recording is only for me to see how you are getting on with your reading. I will not be putting it up on the blog. 

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