27^th of April 2020.

Hi everyone,

We hope you are all keeping safe and well. Hopefully you got on well with the work we provided last week. We have outlined more work suggestions for the coming week and please remember that this work is a suggested guide and use it like a menu. Just complete what you can and try your best as every little helps. We recommend you complete at least one activity from each subject in the work suggestions category. We are also continuing to include the page of general advice, should you like to browse through this.

We hope that you are staying active, helping around the house, staying in contact with family and friends and taking advantage of the lovely weather that we are having.

Thank you for all your wonderful work. You are all doing great and we are really proud of your fantastic efforts and enthusiasm. We have posted some of your work on the class blog and hope to acknowledge everyone’s super efforts over the coming weeks. We would love to see more of your work. We are asking that each child make contact with your teacher over the next week. This can be by sending on a piece of work or by simply emailing to say “Hi”. We would really love to hear from you all. With parental permission we can post your work on the class blog. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at 2ndclassteachers@virginians.ie - Looking forward to seeing you all really soon.

Take care everyone,

Concepta O Reilly, Colette Boyle, Caoimhe Peyton.

Work Suggestions

27th of April - 1st of May

Oral Language activity:

What is the author’s name?

Retell the story in your own words.

If you were to choose, what title would you give the story?

Do you like the illustrations?

Did you like the story? Why?

What did little star promise her mum?

Did she keep her promise?

Was her mum cross when she found out little star broke her promise?

Writing activities:

Write a story titled A trip to space in your copy

Guidelines: Write about 10 sentences. Don’t forget about using capital letters, full stops and make your sentence interesting. You can use the Space Story Word Map to help.

Sentence dictation

Sentence dictation sheet provided below

ou reading mat read the ou words

ou words cut and paste activity

Grammar

Verb sheet provided below

Choose from the following activities:

Scéal, Luaschártaí, Pléasc an Balún and Worksheets provided.