Dear Children and Parents,

We hope you had a lovely weekend and that everyone is continuing to stay at home and stay safe. We hope that you are all enjoying the activities on our blog each week and that you are using this suggested work as a guideline to help you do your work at home. Please only complete what you feel is manageable for you and your child.

We were delighted to receive your completed work this week. Check it out on our Pupil's Work page.You can access the Pupil's work page and all previous posts by using the menu tab in the top left hand corner.We would like to add some more on to next week's blog so please don't forget to add the parental permission to submitted work.

We also got some 'hi' emails. It was great to hear from you. If you didn't get a chance to send us an email please make every effort to contact us by email on 4thclassteachers@virginians.ie.

We would be delighted to hear from you.

Have a great week everyone,

Mrs.Power ,Mrs.Sheridan and Mrs. Leddy

P.S. Don't forget to tune in to the RTE Home School Hub at 11 every morning! If you have missed it you can catch up on www.rte.ie/learn.

Below is a suggested outline of home work and continuing class work for the coming week.

Gaeilge:

Caitheamh Aimsire is continuing this week. Below are some vocabulary flashcards along with some activities from Abair Liom which can be completed in copy books. Éist don scéal freisin...Cú Chulainn.

Maths:

Pattern is our new topic for this week. This week we have taken the pattern activities from your Mathemagic book and introduced a Tangram template for you to create your own patterns. All these Maths activities can be done in your copy, no need to print. You could copy the Tangram onto an old cardboard box

Better Maths: Unit 29

English:

This week we are covering the story "On Boaster's Hill" and accompanying exercises.

For our writing genre we are working with recount writing . There are plenty of options to choose from to get the memory banks working! Be sure to useful the Helpful Hints to remind us the best way to make our recounts interesting as well as informative.

S.E.S.E

This week in Geography we are going to Italy! We are going to have a look at the physical features of this 'bel paese'!

Enjoy learning about the landmarks, food and delights of Italy.

P.E:

Check out teacher's "dogs" giving Joe Wicks a run for his money :-) This week we will play a game called Retriever Race. We had lots of fun trying it out.

Mindfulness:

This week we will be using our 5 senses to create moments of calmness in our minds. When we have feelings of being overwhelmed this can be a great exercise to bring you back out of the storm.

Enjoy our poster and caption creation! I'm really looking forward to seeing your own quotes on this one.

Using your folensonline.ie account you can access this weeks pages on the ebook and also shown below pg.153,155 . The story is Scéal -18, Cú Chulainn.