Dear Children and Parents,

We hope you had a lovely long weekend and that everyone is continuing to stay at home and stay safe.

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

Maths:

Area is our new topic for this week. We have provided information cards and power points along with worksheets and activities that can be printed off or completed in a copy.

Better Maths: None! Enjoy the short week! - The answers to Unit 28 will be given below.

Gaeilge:

We are introducing the theme of 'Caitheamh Aimsire' this week. Below are some vocabulary flashcards and an assortment of activities along with some activities from Abair Liom which can be completed in copy books. There is also a link to Abair Liom poster 17.

English:

Reading Zone - Unit 26 (See below)

There is also a set of posters on how to create a piece of recount writing and some topic ideas you might like to write about.

Music:

We have included a link with some more difficult tunes you might like to try on your tin whistle.

S.E.S.E

For this week we are working on History and the topic of Ancient Rome. We have included some power points on life as a Roman slave and also the story of how Rome was founded in Romulus and Remus. We hope you enjoy watching the you tube clips on Ancient Italy and the Colosseum

Creative Corner: A menu of activities for you to choose from!!!

You will find a series of links below to suggested creative activities.

Art :

• Paint your own Colosseum,Pantheon etc

• Design the Roman vase using the mosaic template below or even better make one of your own. Some pictures given for inspiration

• Watch and appreciate the inspirational talent of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. Paint your own ceiling painting!!!

Creative writing:

• You are a slave in Ancient Rome. Give a description of a day in your life on the diary entry page below.

• How about telling us something we didn't know about you

P.E

• Try adding watching PE with Joe into your daily routine. It's on YouTube every morning at 9.

• This week in PE we are going to have a fun activity incorporating our names! You can choose how much you want to test yourself by how many parts of your name you use. Enjoy! We are also going to test our running capabilities in a daily time trial test.

Project Work:

For this week's project why not pick a famous Ancient Roman landmark to research. Some suggestions for you to consider..

• The Coloseeum

• Roman Forum

• Pantheon

• Trevi Fountain

• The Vatican / Sistine Chapel

Mindfulness:

In these unfamiliar times Mindfulness is an important and powerful tool to help keep our minds active and healthy. This week we will be focusing on positive self-talk along with continuing our weekly mindful quotes. Keep passing compliments and sharing smiles, it only takes a second but the effects can last a lifetime.

Again we will mention that we are acutely aware of differing family situations from internet access ,printer,parents working from home etc so please only complete what you feel is manageable for you and your child. Please be under no pressure as every little helps. In order to ease any worries or concerns we are available to answer any questions or queries, review ,offer suggestions or give feedback on any completed work.

We were delighted to receive your completed work .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 received some fabulous work this week which we have published! 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. Well done everyone. Keep up the amazing work! We also got some 'hi' emails. It was great to hear from you and lovely to be able to reply. If you didn't get a chance to send us an email last week maybe you might find time this week? You could send some of your work along with it for publishing.

Please 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. Did you catch the lesson Múinteoir John did on Data this week. It was all about tallys and bar charts.

Here is the link for this weeks Irish interactive activities. If this link does not work you can find it on www.folensonline.ie. Some of you will have already set up an account but if you have not, the steps to do so are given at the end of last weeks post.

Answers to Unit 28 Better Maths:

Reading Zone:

Below are pictures of each page of this weeks Reading Zone story and related activities. Alternatively you can find the reading zone ebook at www.folensonline.ie where you can set up an account (you may have already done this). Just click register on the main page and you will be given a set of instructions on how to set up your account.

Tin Whistle Time

Try out some of these fun tunes on your Tin Whistle!!