Wishing Everyone a Safe and Happy Halloween

The children had a great day today before we broke up for Mid-Term. They made Ghost lollipops and did the Monster Freeze Dance in their classroom. Here are some pictures of all the fun!

Advice Note - 3rd Class

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Welcome!

I am looking forward to the start of the new year and meeting all the third class children on Friday 28^th August. However, the school will be operating very differently. I understand and realise that there may be anxiety about the return to school but staff and management have been working very hard to ensure safety and wellbeing is paramount in these challenging times. This document will help you with any questions that you might have before the children start.

All single pupil families will enter the school from 9.20am – 9.30am. All other children will enter the school from 9.30am-9.40am. 3^rd Class children will finish school at 3.05pm

3^rd Class children will enter the school through the nearest PE door - nearest the main reception door. All entry points will be clearly labelled. They will be met by a member of staff. Children are not permitted to congregate anywhere at the front of the school and must enter the school building as soon as they reach the school and go directly to their classroom. When the children finish at 3.05pm, they will exit through the same door as entry.  Gatherings of parents or children outside the school are strongly discouraged.

Break Times:   Third class will have their breaktimes at  11am -11.15am and 12.00pm -12.30pm. They will be sharing their yard breaks with Féileacháin Class, Junior Infants, 1st Class and 5th Class. Children will not be allowed to  leave their designated areas on yard and mix with the other classes.

Lunch boxes must be easy to open and food to be put on the lid of the box and not on the tables. Please ensure that your child has enough water for the school day to avoid refilling at the classroom taps.  Children need to bring their own stationery, there will be no sharing of equipment. Please ensure all items are clearly labelled. We would ask that you purchase a large plastic tub, approximately 55 litres.  An example is posted on the Website homepage.  This will faciliate all of the children's items including their bag, books, coat. 

Children are not required to bring hand santiser into class.  Parents are asked to contact the school if your child has an allergy/skin condition  and cannot use the school hand sanitiser

Communication/ School Email:  Parents may contact me through email if they have a query. Emails can be sent between 9.30am - 4.00pm. Teacher email addresses will be put up on the  school website at the start of the term. I will endeavour to answer your query the same day, or if received after 4.00pm, it will be the following day.

I realise that this is a lot of information to take in but I would ask you to go through it with your child before school starts. 

More importantly, enjoy the following days with your families and I am so looking forward to seeing the children again. It will take time to get used to the new procedures in our school but I know that with all of your support, we can get back to school, safely and easily. 

Kindest regards

Jennifer Treadwell

Work Schedule 15th June-19th June

Dear Parents and Students,

I hope everyone is keeping well and that you all enjoyed the weekend. Thanks again to everyone on all the work uploaded. As we get closer to the end of the school term we will begin to wind down and reduce the workload as we would do in a normal school year due to sports days, school tours etc. So, for the next week I will upload a list of fun activities to Seesaw each day for you to choose from. If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact with me via my email or on Seesaw.

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Le gach dea-ghuí,

Mr Conneely.

Work Schedule 8th June-12th June

Dear Parents and Students,

I hope everyone is keeping well and that you all enjoyed the weekend. Thanks again to everyone on all the work uploaded. On Thursday we are holding a whole school virtual sports/activities day. You will find a list of activities to choose from on the homepage of the school website. Please find attached the list of work for this coming week 8^th-12^th June. If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to get in contact with me via my email or on Seesaw.

Again, I would like to remind parents that it is important to go with your own child’s pace of learning. Do not feel under pressure to have all the work complete each week.

Also, a reminder of useful websites Folens, Twinkl and Grow in Love. Login and registration details here:

Folens: Prim20(roll number) www.folens.com

Twinkl: IRLTWINKLHELPS www.twinkl.com

Grow in Love: Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Password: growinlove

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Kind regards,

Mr Conneely.

Monday 8/6/20

Spelling: Spellbound: Revision Week 34 Ex 2 N-Z

Gaeilge: Abair Liom Lch 163 I+J Éist + léigh an dán (An Bronntanas is fearr) agus freagair ‘Cén Focail é?’ (Listen + read the poem and answer J)

English: Starlight: Read Pg 182 Ans A Pg 183

Maths: Planet Maths Pg 168 A

Religion: Grow in Love: Read Pg 79-81 oral Activity Pg 79

Tuesday 9/6/20

Spelling: Spellbound: Revision Week 35 Ex 1 A-H

Gaeilge: Abair Liom Lch 166 C Ceangail agus scríobh na habairtí. (Match and write the sentences)

English: Starlight: Read Pg 182 Ans B Pg 183

Maths: Planet Maths Pg 168 B

Art: Andy Warhol inspired Summer art

Wednesday 10/6/20

Spelling: Spellbound: Revision Week 35 Ex 1 I-Q

Gaeilge: Abair Liom Lch 166 D Críochnaigh na habairtí. (Finish the sentences)

English: Starlight: Ans C Pg 183

Maths: Planet Maths Pg 168 C

SESE: Science: Design a parachute challenge https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi2-s-30-design-a-parachute-challenge-activity-sheet

Thursday 11/6/20

Whole School Sports/Activities Day

You will find a list of activities to choose from on the homepage of the school website. Enjoy the day and please feel free to upload pictures of your sports/activity day to Seesaw.

Friday 12/6/20

Spelling: Spellbound: Revision Week 35 Ex 1 R-Y

Gaeilge: Abair Liom Lch 169 F Scríobh an comhrá (Write the conversation)

English: DEAR time: 30 minutes of reading a book of your choice

Maths: Planet Maths Pg 169 A

Quiz: Link to a Kahoot quiz will be posted to Seesaw.

PE

I would encourage students to keep exercising for at least 1 hour each day. Here are them useful links again.

The Body Coach will now be doing live workouts at 9am for children each morning on weekdays on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/featured

Just Dance is another YouTube channel which have great videos to help keep fit indoors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChIjW4BWKLqpojTrS_tX0mg

Go Noodle is similar to Just Dance and has great videos to keep fit and get moving on them rainy days: https://www.gonoodle.com/

English

Oral Language

Keep quizzing your children about their reading to reinforce their understanding and comprehension. This can be done as they read through a story or a book.

Oral Language and Spelling Games

These are a few games we use in class as warm up activities and because they are good fun.

·       Stop the Bus

·       Dictionary game: You read a definition from the dictionary and the other person must write down the word that matches the definition.

·       Name it game: Give your child a topic and have them name as many things associated with that topic in 1 minute. Give them another topic and try to beat your score.

Maths

Here is a link to the answer sheets for the Planet Maths textbook if students wish to correct their work.

https://preview.folensonline.ie/op/embed.aspx?wdStartOn=1&wdEmbedCode=0&wdPrint=0&src=https%3a%2f%2fcontent.folensonline.ie%2fprogrammes%2fPlanetMaths%2fPM3%2fresources%2fteachers%2f7947_PM2012TRB_3rd_Textbook_Answers.pdf%3Fx-userdata=InVzZXJJZDoyNzEwMDIiOyJ1c2VyQWdlbnQ6TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKFdpbmRvd3MgTlQgMTAuMDsgV2luNjQ7IHg2NCkgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbykgQ2hyb21lLzgxLjAuNDA0NC4xMTMgU2FmYXJpLzUzNy4zNiI7InVzZXJJUDo5My4xMDcuMTcwLjM5IjsicmVmZXJyZXI6aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9sZW5zb25saW5lLmllL2hvbWUvbGlicmFyeS9wcm9ncmFtbWVzL3BsYW5ldC1tYXRoczMvcmVzb3VyY2VzLyI=

Revision

As all the topics have been covered in the maths book, we will be focusing on revision, for the most part, for the remainder of the term. Some additional revision activities will be posted to seesaw.

Gaeilge

Folens have great resource to help consolidate and reinforce learning for topics covered in Abair Liom chapter this week which is ‘Ceiliúradh’. If you copy and paste the link below into the search bar when you are logged into Folens online, you should be able to access the poster and games to help with vocabulary and stories. https://www.folensonline.ie/home/library/programmes/abair-liom-3rd-class/resources/

Duolingo is also great for the revision of simple phrases as Gaeilge for students and the whole family. Encourage students to say the phrases out loud as they progress through the stages: https://www.duolingo.com/