Positivity Poster

We’ve been so impressed with our pupils’ positivity and resilience during this challenging time. To celebrate this, we’re asking all our pupils to create a ‘Poster of Positivity’. As always, this is just a suggested activity but we’d love to get as many entries as possible as the final product would make a lovely end-of-year keepsake.

Your poster could contain a positive message, slogan or quote and a picture to go with it – something that makes you smile. It could contain drawings of things, activities or people that have brought you happiness during this time. We’ve included some sample slogans you could use below but feel free to make up your own of course! Be as creative as you’d like.

Please send us a photo or scan of the poster to 3rdclassteachers@virginians.ie by Friday 19^th June. Every class will be putting their posters together to make one big collage of positivity that truly represents how strong and adaptable our fantastic pupils are! We look forward to seeing your entries.

Sample slogans and quotes for your poster:

• Keep smiling!

• Keep calm and carry on.

• Difficult roads often lead to beautiful places.

• “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” – John Wooden

• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

• "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene

June 15th - 22nd

Wow! It's our last full week of school in 3rd class and our last full week of one of the strangest years we have had or, hopefully, ever will have in school ever!

We want to thank you all for all the amazing work you have been sending us. It's hard to keep working at home and to stay motivated, so well done! We can't wait to see you all in August/September again and see how much you've grown and changed! It will be nearly 6 MONTHS then since you were last in school. That's crazy!

Please try and complete the Positivity Poster mentioned above this week and send to us as soon as you are done. We've already received some amazing work. Again, remember to mention if we are allowed to show your poster on the website too.

We also wanted to say a huge thank you and well done to all the parents/guardians too. This has been the most testing time for so many people with so many circumstances individual to everyone. So fitting in home-schooling and working around constant childcare hasn't been easy. Thank you.

We have individual audio messages below from each of our third class teachers. Have a listen and enjoy.

As always, use the work below as a menu and do as much as you can.

Take care and stay safe,

Mr Lyons, Ms O'Reilly, Ms McLean and Ms Peyton

Maths

Mathemagic

This week we're going to ask you to try the final chapter in our Mathemagic Books (Chapter 36). This is a revision chapter of the whole year. Please have a look at and try some of the activities on pages 171-174 of your Mathemagic books. There are some questions we won't have covered in much detail due to the Covid-19 closures. Therefore, if unsure of anything skip it and let us know anything you found very difficult at 3rdclassteachers@virginians.ie

Answers to last week's 2D shape work can also be found below.

Summer Booklet

We have attached a summer booklet below with lots of maths activities related to Summer suitable for us. These are meant to be enjoyable so again if you are stuck on anything, let us know by email or skip them.

Mental Maths

Please also continue with your Mental Maths books with Week 36, pages 107 to 109 in actual book or pages 108-110 online.

A sample digital book can be found here when clicking 'Preview Book': https://www.prim-ed.ie/shop/new-wave-mental-maths-3rd-class/

Answers for Week 35 and other weeks can be found here

English

Writing

We have been blown away by writing in recent weeks. Keep sending in your writing to us at 3rdclassteachers@virginians.ie even if the writing is from a few weeks ago. We love reading your stories and seeing your wonderful imaginations take life in writing.

This week we have another image and story starter for you...

Use this image as stimulus for lots of description and begin your story with the line:

"I knew my only hope was to follow the long, ever-lasting path..."

Booklet

Similar to maths, we have a summer themed booklet with lots of fun activities to try out. Use it as a menu and continue in the weeks ahead.

PE

This is the last of the PE challenges with 2 more challenges in the slides below. We've had lots of pictures of children taking part and stories about their challenges. Remember if we receive pictures of all 6 challenges being completed we will send you a special completion certificate by email. You can even look back at previous weeks and do all 6 this week if you are a little behind. Try to send them to us by this Friday 19th June please.

Art

Positivity Poster

As mentioned above, please try and get your positivity posters to us before this Friday 19th June at 3rdclassteachers@virginians.ie

More information is available here or at the top of our blog page.

Summer Crafts

Below there are some nice summer themed craft activities you could try at home.

Mindfulness Colouring

After such a strange time, it's often nice on some of the wet days we might have this week to relax with some mindfulness colouring from the document below.

SPHE

Keep thinking about the Joyful June activities below.

Virtual School Tours

Finally, we wanted to share some amazing Google Tours with you similar to the Ancient Egypt one we did a couple of weeks ago.

Check out places like the Grand Canyon in the USA, Gombe National Park in Tanzania, Venice in Italy, the Taj Mahal in India and lots more by clicking on the link below. Enjoy!

https://www.google.ie/maps/about/treks/#/grid