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Hi Boys, You'll be glad to hear that your homework is a little different this week because it is Active Week. Normally around this time of year we would be doing extra PE and having sports days. Therefore, I'm swapping your written work that I had planned for this week to an Active-Home Challenge instead. The World Health Organisation states that adults and children alike need 60 minutes of exercise each day. So this week I want you each to try just that! I want you to motivate yourself to keep active at home by trying out NEW activities, taking on CHALLENGES and having FUN with family activities. You could learn a new skill, improve on a skill, take on a challenge, create a new game, participate in family fitness activities or do some online exercises. To complete this challenge you will have to find four different ways of being active every day, making sure that this adds up to 60 minutes, or more, of physical activity. All members of the family are encouraged, to take on this challenge. I have included some ideas to help you keep active this week under this post and attached an ideas file above too. You'll now be allowed to travel up to 20km from home so you have lots more places to exercise. Don't forget you still must keep 2 m distance from others and perhaps avoid crowded places. I have attached a challenge chart above for you to fill out each day. Please send these to me when fully completed on Friday 12th June at [email protected]. I would love to see what fun you will get up to and find out which activities and challenges you enjoyed the most. Have a lovely active filled week. Ms. Mullen. Some ideas for you to try: You can follow the link below to bring you to the Scoilnet Beyond the Classroom website. There are lots of videos here to help you practice and develop your throwing/catching/running/skipping/balancing/dodging and kicking skills. https://www.scoilnet.ie/pdst/physlit/beyond/ Mark McCabe - From Skip'nRope! The FAI Homeskills have uploaded lots of episodes to help you improve your football skills during this pandemic. Check out episode 1 below. Follow the link to check out more episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HALQzx6M12M Dear boys, At this time of year many of you will be outdoors enjoying the sunshine and perhaps enjoying our beautiful beach and waterways. This is a fantastic thing to do however there are many dangers in it. Already this summer we have heard of children loosing their lives in the water. Over the last ten years 30 children in Ireland have drowned in water. Imagine that's almost our entire class. PLEASE please be safe around water and follow the water safety rules. Take the time to read through the booklet below. It might save your life. It might save your friend's or a sibling's life. It'll only take 10 minutes, surely it's worth the effort. When you have read through it why not try some of the interactive games to check your knowledge. http://paws.edco.ie/fifth-and-sixth-classes/ Keep safe, Ms. Mullen Navan Education Centre are hosting a Special Webinar celebrating the progression to Post Primary School for present 6th class students and their parents on the 10th of June. This is a special time and a positive milestone. Unique opportunity for students and parents to listen to expert advice.Click here to enrol https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ywxa_efhRZujJWi9p7D9sQ
Hi lads, I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and all got to enjoy the good weather! I can't believe we're into our final month of school! I'm missing seeing you all in the class each day. I hope that you're all still keeping well. Keep in touch via email with any news you have! Ár ndíchell i gconaí Ms. Mullen
Tuesday 2nd June English: Reading Zone – Unit 29 – An Accident at the Power Station Read pg. 141-144 Complete Activity A Maths: Mental Maths Week 35- Monday Busy at Maths pg. 140 A + B Gaeilge Briathar Neamhrialta - Téigh - Please look at last week's gallery to help with this.
Wednesday 3rd June English: R.Zone pg.145. Complete Activities B&C (Answers only for B) Maths: Mental Maths Week 35 Tuesday Busy at Maths pg. 141 Q. 1 & Q 2 a, c, e, g, h, i - Please look at the tutorial below to help you with this. Gaeilge Briathar Neamhrialta - Revision - please see attached files. There are two options, pick the best one for you. The file that says shortened will be quicker and easier to do. The file that just has all will give you a more comprehensive opportunity to revise over all the verbs- test yourself and see how you get on! I'll put up the answers at 15:30. Can you work out your score and change it into a percentage? Thursday 4th June English: R.Zone pg. 145. Complete Activities D & E Maths: Mental Maths - Wednesay Busy at Maths pg. 142 Q. 1, 3, 5, 6 Gaeilge Complete Irish comprehension 'Tráthnona Inné' - please see Irish Comprehension attached file above Friday Maths Mental Maths week 35 Thursday & Friday Busy at Maths pg. 145 Q. 1, 3, 5 & 7 Irish Brís an Cód - please see file attached at the top of the post English: Plan & research your report on a nuclear disaster or a persuasive piece of writing about nuclear energy. Please see videos below on writing a report or writing in the persuasive style. They will help you with structuring your writing and give you tips. To make reports and persuasive writing pieces effective you have to know what you're writing about. We have added some videos with information on nuclear energy and Chernobyl to help you with this. Take a week to do this report and email it us by next Friday the 12th of June. [email protected] We would love to read them. Optional:
(Follow the link below if you would be interested in entering a creative arts competition). https://www.artmaterials.ie/art-competition/ Jk Rowling is looking for illustrators for her new children's book, and it could be you! Check out the link below to find out more.
https://www.theickabog.com/competition/ Don't forget to check out our weekly competition on the competitions page. It closes tomorrow at 2pm. You can enter by email or by leaving a comment! Dear boys, Please find below the work for the week. The maths this week gets more challenging so we have kept everything else quite basic so that you can focus your time on the maths. We've only a few weeks left boys so please keep trying to do a bit of work everyday. Everything you do now will help you next year, we're at the stage now where you're refining your work, improving the quality and bringing it to the next level. Ms. McBride and I plan to spend your last week of school 15th - 18th of June preparing you guys for secondary school. We plan to cover class timetables, organising your bag and locker, homework & study tips and also how to manage your well-being at that time. We know there is an online workshop designed for pupils of 6th class costing around €30 but we think we will cover much of that during your last week with us. If you do want the link to that workshop email us! Any issues or questions please contact us at [email protected]. Kind regards G. Mullen
Monday 25th May English: Reading Zone – Unit 27 - A Patchwork Hoax - Read pages 132-133 and then complete activities A & B (Answers only for B) Gaeilge Continue to learn the briathar neamhrialta. Revise over last week's verbs and today look at - 'Déan' and complete the activities. Use the gallery above to help you. Maths: Mental Maths week 34- Monday Busy at Maths pg. 132 We are looking at working out how much profit or loss people can make when they sell items. Important terms such as cost price and selling price are introduced. Please look at the two tutorials and then complete page 132. Once you understand the terms the maths is straightforward, only requiring you to minus or plus. You can use a calculator. Tuesday 26th May English: Reading Zone - Unit 27 – Re-read the piece on the platypus and complete Activities C, D & E – You only need to write the answers. Gaeilge Briathar Neamhrialta. Continue to revise all of the verbs and today look at - Faigh. Use the gallery above to help you. Maths: Mental Maths week 34- Tuesday Today you are working out the percentage profit and loss. You will need to work out the profit or loss first. Then make it a fraction of the cost price and turn it into a percentage. This is revising the work we did last week on turning fractions into percentages. Look at the two tutorials to help and then complete. You can use a calculator. Busy at Maths pg. 133 Q. 1 + Q. 2 a,c,e Wednesday 27th May English: Reasons to Write pg. 74 & 75 - If you do not have your Reasons to Write there is a pdf of all the pages at the top of the blog post. Alternatively you can do Unit 28 of your Reading Zone for the next three days. Gaeilge Briathar Neamhrialta - Revise all the verbs so far and today work on - Feic. Use the gallery above to help you. Maths: Mental Maths week 34- Wednesday Today you are building on the work of both last week and the last two days. You will be working out the cost price or selling price when given what the profit or loss was. Losses are marked in brackets. It is REALLY IMPORTANT with these sums that you figure out how much (what fraction) is the number you're working with. Usually we say the cost price is 100% and the selling price is 100% + %profit. Look at the tutorial for help and remember your RUDES strategy. You can use a calculator. Busy at Maths pg. 134 Q.1 + Q. 2 a,c,e Thursday 28th May English: Reasons to Write pg.82+83 - If you do not have your Reasons to Write there is a pdf of all the pages at the top of this blog post. Alternatively you can continue to do Unit 28 of your Reading Zone until Friday. Maths: Mental Maths week 34- Thursday Please look at Ms. McBride's tutorial directly below showing you examples using Q. 1 a&b and Q. 2 a&b. The next two pages are revising the work you have done on cost price, selling price and profit & loss over the last 3 days. Use your RUDES strategy to help or email us at [email protected] if you're stuck. Busy at Maths pg. 135 Q. 1 c, d, e, f & Q. 2 c, d, e, f Gaeilge Briathar Neamhrialta - Tabhair. Use the gallery above to help you. Friday 29th May English: Reasons to Write pg. 84 - Research all about how an aeroplane flies - keeping notes from your research in section A and write an explanation in Section B. Then try and use all that you know for this week's science / art activity. Maths: Mental Maths week 34- Friday review Another page of revision on this topic. Please look at the tutorial at the bottom of the blog post that I have created to help. You can use a calculator and email us if you are stuck. [email protected]. After watching the tutorial please do - Busy at Maths pg. 136 Q.1 c, d, e, f & Q. 2 c, d, e, f Gaeilge Briathar Neamhrialta - Tar Science & Art Construction Make a paper plane and see how far you can fly it. Maybe send us in a video of your successful paper aeroplane flight and a photo of your design. There might be a prize for the best one! So many of you showed real talent and skill with a needle and thread before Christmas. Well now might be the time to put those skills to use! The government are now recommending that people over the age of 13 wear a face covering if they need to go to a public place (in addition to washing their hands, coughing in their elbow and social distancing). Perhaps you could make a fabric face covering for your parents? A pillow case or a t-shirt that you don't mind cutting up would give you the perfect fabric. Watch the video below to see how to make it. It might take a few tries to get it right but practise makes perfect. Hey, maybe you could set up your own little business making them! Send me in pictures of your face coverings and there might even be a prize for the best one!
Hi lads, This week we're going to finish 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. We hope you've enjoyed the novel and we're asking you to watch the film (with parental permission) on Thursday and Friday. We're going to keep focusing on maths this week, once again we have included a number of video tutorials to try and explain it. If you're stuck with any of the questions, look at the video a few times and try again. You can email us if you're still facing difficulty. This week for Irish we've attached worksheets for the irregular Irish verbs. These verbs are very important. You will use them regularly in your Irish reading and writing so we would STRONGLY encourage you to learn them. It'll take just over 2 weeks to go through them all. Then we will give you a worksheet to test yourself on them. We're attaching a short tutorial explaining them and we've included a gallery showing you a list of phrases that will tell you what tense you must change the verb into. Don't forget to send in your photos of your first day in junior infants and your landscape video of you catching the ball by Wednesday to [email protected].
Monday: English- Read/ Listen to the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Chapter 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mFZ6lEUATo and answer the following questions. 1. What almost ruins their plan on Friday? 2. What does Bruno do with his clothes? 3. How do the boys feel when they’re finally on the same side of the fence? 4. How did Bruno imagine the camp? 5. What does Bruno see in the camp? 6. What two types of people are there in the camp? 7. What does Bruno tell Shmuel after they march? 8. What happens to the boys at the end of the chapter? Maths: Mental Maths Week 33 Monday +2 Problem Solving. Busy at Maths pg. 116 (Questions 1. a/b/c/d 2.a/e/h/i 3. a/e/h/i +Challenge Please look at the two tutorials below as an explanation. Gaeilge: Briathra Neamhrialtha Page 2. Complete the verb "Abair". Please find document attached above to help you complete this. Tuesday: English- Read/ Listen to the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Chapter 20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5giAi6ILxTU and choose one of the following activities, 1) News Report: Imagine you are a news reporter during World War 2. Write a newspaper article about events at Auschwitz. OR 2) Your opinion: If you could change this ending, what would you change about it? Explain your answer. Maths: Mental Maths Week 33 Tuesday +2 Problem Solving. Busy at Maths pg. 117 Qt 1 Qt 2 d/e/f Qt 3 d/e/f +Qt 4 . (Please watch tutorial to help you with this) Gaeilge: Briathra Neamhrialtha Page 3. Complete the verb "Beir". Please find document attached above to help you complete this. Wednesday: English- If you had to write another chapter for the novel "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", what would happen next? Maths: Mental Maths Week 33 Wednesday + 2 Problem Solving. Busy at Maths pg. 118 Qt 1/2/3+4 (Please watch Busy at Maths tutorial to help you with this) Gaeilge Briathra Neamhrialtha Page 4. Complete the verb "Ith". Please find document attached above to help you complete this. Thursday:
English- Film Studies: You need the permission of your parents to watch this movie. It is available on Netflix. Between today and tomorrow watch the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" and think about the following questions as you do. 1. Do you think the main actors are well chosen? Explain your answer. 2. Is the setting how you imagined? Explain your answer. 3. Do you think the use of music added to the film? Explain your answer. 4. What differences do you notice between the novel and the film? 5. What did you prefer about the novel? 6. What did you prefer about the film? 7. If you were the casting director, what actors would you choose for the main roles? Give reasons for your choices. 8. If you were the director, would you change anything about the film? Explain your answer. Maths: Mental Maths Week 33 + 2 problem solving. Busy at Maths pg. 118 Qt. 5/6+Challenge and Pg. 119 Qt 1/2 +3 Gaeilge: Briathra Neamhrialtha Page 5. Complete the verb "Clois". Please find document attached above to help you complete this. Friday: English- Please refer back to yesterday. Maths- Mental Maths Week 33 Friday Review. Busy at Maths- Finish Page 119. Gaeilge- Briathra Neamhrialtha Page 6. Complete the verb "Bí". Please find document attached above to help you complete this. |