Hi emails to 4thclassteachers@virginians.ie

May 25th -29th

Rainbow MomentsPlease have some fun with your child creating a positive moment together. Asking your child 'why?' after some of their choices may add to the experience. We look forward to reading your choices!

Dear Children and Parents,

We hope you had a good week last week and that you are all enjoying the activities on our blog each week.Last week your parents had a chance to go to school and collect your belongings.We hope the textbooks will make life a lot easier for all of you and allow lots of independent work from you all. As always we will strongly reiterate that this is an outline of suggested work where you choose and adapt to your person home life situation.

It is really so important that you all make a special effort to keep in contact with your teachers every week .it is very important we hear from you. If you don't want to submit work for the blog that is ok but just send us a hi email .We miss hearing from you.Let's make a very special effort this week and get a hi email from every child in 4th class

We were delighted to receive your completed work again 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.

Remember you can contact us by email on 4thclassteachers@virginians.ie.

We would be delighted to hear from you.

Have a great week everyone and enjoy the extra long bank holiday weekend,

Mrs. Leddy ,Mrs.Sheridan and Mrs.Power.

P.S. When taking a break from the books these are great alternatives and you are still learning loads!!!!

Start the day at 9am with P.E with Joe on you tube
Cúla4 is on TG4 every day at 10am and is excellent.Make a special effort to tune in to keep up with the Gaeilge.
The RTE Home School Hub at 11 every morning on Rte2. 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:

Avicii has a part to play in our Irish for this week! Some of you would have started this song before the break for the rest of you Bain Taitneamh As (enjoy!)

We will be looking at Summer vocabulary and some exercises to practice. Try to bí ag caint as gaeilge gach lá even if it's just a few words or a few lines, ag cleacthadh ( practising) is the best form of learning.

Maths:

This week we are looking at the topic of how to use a calculator. You can follow the work in page 16 and 17 of your Mathemagic book. If you don't have a calculator at home use a parent's phone or app on your device to practice your calculator skills

Better Maths: Unit 30 - The answers to last week's Unit 30 are below. Congratulations ,well done we're finished Better Maths!!!

English:

This week we are covering the story ' ' The Lady of Stavoren' and accompanying exercises. There is also a lovely poem "Smiles" which hopefully brings a little smile to all your faces.

There is also a cloze procedure on The Sydney Harbour Bridge.

S.E.S.E:

This week in Science we are discovering all about Bridges and the wonderful structures that they are .

Art:

Recreate a famous Monet bridge painting

P.E:

This week we will be mixing up our exercises between cardiovascular and endurance! Have fun testing yourselves with the exercises below.

Mindfulness:

Our English story this week speaks of being grateful. This week we are going to look at how gratitude plays a big part in how we see ourselves and the world we live in.

Bígí ag canadh! Os ard :-)

cartai samhradh.pdf

samhr cross.pdf

samhradg.pdf

Scríobh deich abairtí faoin pictúir, bain úsaid as na fóclóir Samhradh san cartaí pictúirí.

(Write 10 sentences about the picture, use the summer picture cards to help you )

au-t2-e-3981-sydney-harbour-bridge-cloze-activity-sheet-english_ver_1.pdf

Test Yourself

Try this cloze test on a world famous bridge

punc.pdf

Three differentiated versions of the same Punctuation Revision exercise. Choose the one that appeals to you.

Create your own poem based on Smiles! Or create your own design for this poem.

Mathemagic pg 16 and 17

Activity-CalculatorChallengeCards.pdf

Let's get calculating!

roi2-m-79-money-calculator-game-whats-missing-activity-sheet_ver_2.pdf

Figure out what's missing

Final unit in Better Maths , Well Done

Types of Bridges

cfe-t-1000000034-types-of-bridges-information-powerpoint_ver_14

cfe2-d-152-cfe-types-of-bridges-fact-sheets-english_ver_4.pdf

We hope you enjoy this power point and fact card showing all the different types of bridges from around the world

au-t2-s-1545-building-bridges-stem-activity-and-prompt-card-pack-english-_ver_1.pdf

Let's get building

t2-t-369-brilliant-bridges-activity-sheet_ver_1.pdf

Discover Brilliant Bridges

grat bubble.pdf

Write something your grateful for in each bubble

Why not make it a family collage and get other people to add their gratitude s also.

Think of or write the answers it's up to you!

Get creative with a Grateful Collage.

Thinking of things we like instantly brings a feel good factor.

Quote of the week:

Stretching is very important before and after any exercise. Choose 5 and perform for 30 secs before moving on to the next one.

Cardiovascular is to do with our heart rate. Getting our heart rates up is very important for our health. Perform 5 of the above for 1 minute and repeat if you can.

Endurance is how long we can stay at an exercise. Choose 3 and perform for 30 secs. Each time you try them try to add 2 seconds to your endurance time.