Apologies for having the wrong email address in the home learning post last week. The correct email address is msaryanschool@gmail.com I have extended the date for entries until next Friday to allow everyone to get their entry in. Here are some of the wonderful photographs we have been sent so far!
Ms Ryan
Family Project Ideas for Home Learning 25 May 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
The theme for this week is Summer.
School work for this week is based around learning in the home. Our teachers have put together many ideas that you can choose from.
We would recommend that you choose something from English, Gaeilge and Maths everyday and then one other topic that you would like to do. There are many ideas to choose from. A good idea might be to work with siblings or perhaps contact your friends or cousins on Zoom or Skype where possible and work together.
Please try your best to engage with your child’s class teacher by email. Email addresses were sent out by text a few weeks ago.
English
Write a poem about Summer. Choose a new topic for each line Eg:
The weather is very hot (weather)
I see a daisy and a forget me not (flowers)
We had a BBQ last night (food)
A bumble bee gave me a fright (insects)
Practice tongue twisters https://www.smart-words.org/tongue-twisters.html Can you make up your own tongue twister?
-World Turtle Day 23th May. Research and write a report on the different types of turtles. Include appearance, diet, habitat, and efforts for conservation. See https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sea-turtle for information on conservation efforts (integrated with SESE).
-Create a summer wordsearch for your family. Include words that remind you of summer (sun, weather, hot, icecream..) Don’t forget to list the words at the bottom so your family know what words to look for.
Gaeilge
-draw your home and label all the rooms. Vocabulary needed can be found here https://quizlet.com/139358636/rooms-in-the-house-irish-flash-cards/ and here https://polymath.org/irish_house.php /
Cad a fheiceann tú sa ghairdín samhraidh – Scríobh cúpla abairt faoi
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/28/09/roi-gl-53616-gairdn-samhraidh-bileog-scrbhneoireachta_ver_1.pdf?token=exp=1590062650~acl=%2Fresource%2F28%2F09%2Froi-gl-53616-gairdn-samhraidh-bileog-scrbhneoireachta_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=7b3ba9d28c427c6d314126377c44924732585c64ec14e958457128a40c067123
Cuir na focail seo faoin samhraidh in órd aibítre
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/38/00/roi-t-t-11612-foclaiacute-samhraidh-chun-cuir-in-ord-aibiacutetre-bileog-oibre-dhifreaacuteilte_ver_1.pdf?token=exp=1590063095~acl=%2Fresource%2F38%2F00%2Froi-t-t-11612-foclaiacute-samhraidh-chun-cuir-in-ord-aibiacutetre-bileog-oibre-dhifreaacuteilte_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=fc2921a4b7c5e1e247e85d3232aaca13d0032b3f0fe0196db566f1a040fa7bb1
Dúshlán Ghníomhaíochtaí samhraidh – cé mhéad acu ab fhéidir leat a dheanamh i rith an tsamhraidh.
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/6a/74/roi-t-t-252540a-dshln-gnomhaochta-samhraidh-bileog-oibre-super-eco-black-and-white_ver_2.PDF?token=exp=1590063256~acl=%2Fresource%2F6a%2F74%2Froi-t-t-252540a-dshln-gnomhaochta-samhraidh-bileog-oibre-super-eco-black-and-white_ver_2.PDF%2A~hmac=fac7da060c524e19b24593183b7a5212dfa082d0a3cb1d7e759dfc1f3ff11266
Lig ort go bhfuil tú ag an trá – chum comhrá idir tú féin agus do chara faoi eachtra a tharla nuair a bhí tú ann. Mar shampla: chuaigh tú ag snámh, chonaic tú portán sna carraigeacha, bhí an ghriain ag taithneamh ach go toban thosaigh sé ag cur baistí
Feicim le mo shúilín beag… An samhradh
https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/49/e8/roi-t-t-17070-bileog-shamhraidh-feicim-le-mo-shuacuteiliacuten-beag-activity-sheet.pdf?token=exp=1590063638~acl=%2Fresource%2F49%2Fe8%2Froi-t-t-17070-bileog-shamhraidh-feicim-le-mo-shuacuteiliacuten-beag-activity-sheet.pdf%2A~hmac=49aea05029881988872fa0f0a637581cb59c0ee2767ba95f67eaf9f64c1a30b4
• Cruthaigh cuardach focal le foclóir a bhaineann le Samhraidh
Maths:
Explore time through activities. Estimate before doing any challenge. Time yourself walking to the park and back home. Set a timer and see how many jumping jacks you can do in 1 minute. How many times can you write your name in 30 seconds? How many times can you take off and put on your shoes in 2 minutes? Make up your own challenges. Change the length of times involved. Can you make up and solve word problems based on this information?
• Look online for interesting facts, like the tallest and shortest people, biggest and smallest buildings, longest and shortest roads in the country etc
• Solve maths problems at home. For eg, how long will it take you to get to Granny’s house if you go to Tesco on the way etc
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• WEIGHT HOME HUNT:Find these items in your house and feel the weight of them. Estimate the weight. Then using a weighing scales, measure the item and record the actual weight.
(i) a) Frying pan b) Tin of food c) Book d) 5 potatoes e) apple
(ii) Find the difference in weight between the heaviest object and the lightest
Find objects in your kitchen that you think weigh between 1kg-2kg, 1kg, 500g and 200g.
Then with your scales, measure the item and record the actual weight.
If you don’t have a weighing scales, find items in your kitchen that weigh about 1kg, 2kg, 500g, 200g and 100g. Record all items and estimated weight.
Pick 10 items from your house that have weight written on them. Put them into pairs and find:
a. The combined weight of the first pair
b. The difference in weight between the second pair
c. Find the difference in weight between the third pair and multiply by 5
d. Add the fourth and the fifth pair and divide by 2
e. Find the weight of the 4 heaviest items
Other Maths Work;
• Length: height and width of gates, post-boxes, letter-boxes, length of driveways, perimeter of signs, envelopes, stamps • Area: how many stamps would cover an envelope? • Weight: weight of letters and parcels, weight of a postbag • Time: length of the postperson’s working day • Money: cost of sending letters to different places, parcel post costs, special delivery rates, overseas rates, costs of other facilities provided by An Post
Shape and space: shape of letters and stamps • symmetry in road signs and house numbers
Data: graphs of size, weight, cost of postage • graphs of letters or parcels delivered per day, per week
Parents/Guardians could work on this topic with children at an age appropriate level
-Shape hunt- indoor and outdoor.
Money – Estimate the cost of the weekly shopping with an adult at home. Compile the family shopping list (English) and guess the amount of money you will need. Compare the difference between your estimate and the actual cost of the shopping. Identify the cheapest and the dearest item on the receipt, find the difference between the two.
Problem Solving – Children make up their own problems everyday and ask a family member to solve it.
PE
• Create an obstacle course in the garden/park.
• Sports Day : Potato and Spoon race, sack race (hop if no sack), long throw, long kick.
• Family challenges. Who gets the most steps on the fitbit, who can do the most jumping jacks in a minute etc…
• Try a go noodle yoga or workout
• Create a scoop and catch game using a milk carton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IARChEvA5Y&feature=youtu.be
• Practise or learn a popular line dance Like the Cupid Shuffle for Example Or the Sid Shuffle from the movie Ice Age
• Create a dance with your siblings/ family to a popular song.
• It is important as the summer is upon us to go over our water safety rules. There is a great free programme for all primary school children here with lots of useful resourceshttps://watersafety.ie/primary-school/
• 10 second challenge – Game where you say the name of something e.g. house, tree and everyone has 10 seconds to move your body into that shape
• Create a dance routine to accompany your song about staying safe/ thanks to essential workers (See music activity above)
• Create a yoga routine to accompany telling a story (see Cosmic Kids yoga)
Practice GAA skills. Dublin GAA have put together a video of different skills and drills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kikFKeu7TwU
Music
Art
Photograpy Competition
Take a photo showing summer patterns in nature. Send your photograph to msaryanschool@gmail.com with your name and class. The top photographer will win a prize!
• Check out the bloom festival website and try to create a diorama of your favourite garden www.bordbiabloom.ie
• Recreate a famous painting using photography
• Example:
• Design an amusement park using recycled materials. Plan this out first. (Maths area,length and width).
• Summer theme art- Sunshades,flip flops, icecream.
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• Design a water safety poster.
• Summer flip flop art
• Tie dye some of clothing with different colours with adult supervision
Cardboard Wings!
Cardboard boxes provide so many opportunities for dressing up. Make yourself a set of wings out of whatever boxes you have depending on the size, you could be a butterfly, a dragonfly or a bee! Attach them using string, ribbon or elastic, and decorate them to make them shine!!!
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Do a nature walk around your home and collect flowers along the way. Observe the flowers when you get home and draw them onto a piece of paper. Decorate around them to create a pretty summer/flower scene.
Draw so cute art. Has summer themed art, for example Countryside Scenery.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3dEvA1is6-0_yuei9iCdEw
Design and paint rocks
Science
Design and make a paper aeroplane. Test your plane indoors and out. Try different ways of throwing it and use it in different weather conditions. What changes will you make the next time you do it? Research aeroplane design online. How have designs changed over time? Write a report on the earliest aeroplanes or pilots.
Use crayons and paper to make rubbings of different trees in your area
Draw and describe different flowers and birds you see
Test your pulse before and after exercise.
Senses Experiments- Blindfold taste test
Apple Experiment ‘ What keeps an apple from browning’ slice an apple into 5 separate dishes, soak the slice in the following: Nothing, Milk, Baking soda, Vinegar, Lemon Juice. Which is effective/ least effective etc.
SESE
-Nature walk in the sunshine. Taking note of the different flowers and trees you spot along the way.
Self- Assessment Ideas
All subjects
Family Project Ideas for Home Learning 18 May 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
School work for this week is based around learning in the home. Our teachers have put together many ideas that you can choose from.
We would recommend that you choose something from English, Gaeilge and Maths everyday and then one other topic that you would like to do. There are many ideas to choose from. A good idea might be to work with siblings or perhaps contact your friends or cousins on Zoom or Skype where possible and work together.
English
Gaeilge
-ag scríobh liosta siopadóireachta don ollmhargadh
-ag scríobh carta poist chuig do chara
Dán contaetha na hÉireann https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/e2/a4/roi-gge-118-counties-of-ireland-poem-gaeilge_ver_1.pdf?token=exp=1589465539~acl=%2Fresource%2Fe2%2Fa4%2Froi-gge-118-counties-of-ireland-poem-gaeilge_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=fd6331cb024371ba20236f1cb42ba803519c29ecfbdb6ada3bdf8a0bde8c23a8
ScrIobh litir chuig do chara, an aimsir, cluiche a imirt sa teachlach, ranga sa bhaile.
Writing: Children write their own stories. The framework includes: Title; Setting; Events including a problem, Resolution. A problem always arises in Narrative Writing which gets solved by the end of the story.
For writing stories as Gaeilge there are dictionaries available online.
Maths:
Ask your Postperson
PE
Religion
Research a Saint of your choice – mini project
Music
Art
Science
Object in the sky!
Research any of the following:
Sun, moon, stars, constellations, galaxies, Pluto, comets, meteors, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, black hole, nebula
Name your object
Describe your object using 3 adjectives
If we could see this object we might see:…….
Tell 2 interesting facts about your object
You could create a 3D model of your object and display it in your window!
SESE
Self- Assessment Ideas
Family Project Ideas for Home Learning 11 May 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
School work for this week is based around learning in the home. Our teachers have put together many ideas that you can choose from.
We would recommend that you choose something from English, Gaeilge and Maths everyday and then one other topic that you would like to do everyday. There are many ideas to choose from. A good idea might be to work with siblings or perhaps contact your friends or cousins on Zoom or Skype and work together.
English
Gaeilge
-Write a letter/postcard to a friend as Gaeilge
-Create a comic strip of your day, sentence(s) under each picture
Maths:
• Local maths trail
• Use the argos catalogue to redecorate a room in your house using a specific budget
• Create homemade playdough using specific measurements (google salt dough)
• Baking a recipe with your family, measuring out the required ingredients
• Collect data on the different colours of cars on your road and show this on a graph
• Write down the capacity(ml/l) of liquids you find around the home
• Talk about time. For eg, work out what time you need to leave the house to get to classes/training/school on time etc How long until your favourite tv programme? What time is the Late Late Show on Friday night? What time will it end? How long is the show on for? etc
PE
• Create an obstacle course in the garden/park.
• Sports Day : Potato and Spoon race, sack race (hop if no sack), long throw, long kick.
• Family challenges. Who gets the most steps on the fitbit, who can do the most jumping jacks in a minute etc…
Religion
May is the month of Mary.
• You could make a May altar. Add some flowers that are blooming at the moment. You could add a candle. You could add some rosary beads. Or colour/draw a picture of Mary
• You could say the “Hail Mary” this month and pray for all the frontline workers in our community and the people who are sick with the coronavirus.
• You could also try saying the prayer in Irish Sé do Bheatha a Mhuire | Archdiocese of Dubli
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Art
Science
8 May 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
As you have heard from the news, all schools will remain closed until the Autumn. We are very disappointed as a team with this news but we will continue to give support from home online to the school community until the end of term.
We are especially disappointed for our 6th Classes, but we are hopeful to gather together with the 6th Class children and their families when government approval of gatherings is permitted and when it is safe to do so.
We won’t be able to welcome our new 2nd Class children in person and give them a tour of the school before they begin the next school year but we will be in touch with all these parents about alternative plans for a welcome meeting.
It is also very disappointing that First Holy Communion and Confirmation ceremonies have been cancelled for the months of May and June. When the Archbishop and the parish are in a position to give an update about these ceremonies we will be in touch with all families involved.
A reminder again to try and engage with a little school work every day from the plans provided by each individual teacher. This will give some structure to the children’s day and will ensure they don’t forget things that they have learned.
We understand that some families are finding it much more challenging to engage with the school work consistently for various reasons. Every family situation is different and everyone is doing the best that they can for their children at present. We recommend emphasising lots of play, time outside in the fresh air, their physical and mental wellbeing – these are the priorities at present. After that, try to keep up reading – Gaeilge and English – and some Maths too to keep literacy and numeracy skills going and anything extra after this is a bonus.
Next week we will have a slightly different plan of work for each class. This will be uploaded on the school website and a link will be texted out to parents.
We never wish to put more stress or pressure on any family. Teachers are available to give support and guidance – contact them by email.
We have an important note about books. Some of the books that went home on 12 March were from the school’s book rental scheme. These books include Treasury, Am don Leamh, etc. Library books also went home. To keep the cost down for our book rental scheme we will need to arrange to get these books back before 30 June. We need to order books for the new school year but this won’t be possible without having all of our current books returned. Please ensure you are taking care of all school books and we will be in touch about a drop off day in June.
We will be in contact with you all on an ongoing basis with any updates once we receive them ourselves.
Many thanks as always for your continued support and cooperation.
Siobhán Loughman
With the news yesterday that schools will remain closed for next week we would like to send a few reminders:
It is great for the children to continue to learn and revise skills and information while the school is closed but the most important thing for everyone right now is to stay well physically and mentally.
This is an exceptional time and teachers understand that it is impossible to recreate at home what we do in a classroom full of children.
We are not expecting students to make huge progress during this time in terms of their academic learning – if they don’t slide backwards and still remember what they have covered already once they come back to school that would be great.
It is particularly challenging for children with special educational needs, learning or behavioral difficulties to learn at a time like this.
Children are worried and scared at the moment – like we are as adults – it is difficult to avoid this – the best thing we can do to support them right now is to make them feel loved and secure – they are more likely to remember how they felt at this time than what they learned.
At some point in the future this will be over, the school will re-open and we will begin to, slowly, put things back together somewhat like before, we need to be brave and help each other so that we have the capacity to put things back together when this time comes.
We understand that the tv and technology are sometimes necessary to keep the peace at home – but we would remind parents to be vigilant around monitoring use of social media particularly with older children at times like this (there is a lot of disturbing and inappropriate content online).
Try to do things with your children that normally none of us have time to do – take a day off school in your pyjamas if you all need it (your teacher won’t know!).
Keep a diary – this is a historic time and it’s also good handwriting practice – or try putting together your own family’s time capsule to report this historic time for your family (working as a historian).
Call your granny, grandad, auntie, uncle, cousin – or even better write them a letter.
Be kind and look after each otherKeep staying at home as much as possible and keep washing your hands.
The hse website is updated daily (and sometimes more frequently) – call your doctor if you are feeling unwell.
We understand that there is extra pressure at home when siblings and parents are competing over use of technology.
Keep up the physical activity and get out in the fresh air (at a safe distance from others).
Try baking (mathematical measurement skills) and gardening (science skills).
We will continue to try to support the learning at home and to provide resources and strategies we think may be helpful but we also understand that not everyone is in a position to do this – do as much as you can or what works for your family and circumstances.
We miss all the children and normal school life….but we will be together again.
Stay safe and healthy.
Siobhán Loughman
Suggestions for activities and educational websites you can use to support your child are on the previous post. Click on the next link at the bottom of this page.
Suggestions to help your children when learning from home:
From Monday the 30th of March RTE will be showing a classroom based program for 1st to 6th class students . It will air from 11-12 daily.
This is a list of websites and activities that may be useful when your child finishes work set by their class teacher. Some of the websites need you to register but they are all free. Under each web link or suggestion there is a short description.
Links to support children with special needs. OT, Speech and Language and academic support are all included.
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/
Over 100 mini ebooks for different ages.
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Phonics games for younger classes and pupils who need extra support.
A free 10 minute audio clip from his latest book per day.
https://readtheory.org/auth/login
A website with graded comprehensions. Anyone who attends Ms Ryan’s English groups is already set up and has a login name and password on the front of their copy. You do a 20 minute assessment and then the website gives you stories and questions at your own level. Great for independent work.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr
Typing practice through games.
Gaeilge:
https://www.cula4.com/ga/
YouTube: TG Lurgan
Videos, songs and games through Gaeilge.
Maths:
https://ie.ixl.com/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Maths activities organised by class level
YouTube: Laugh Along and Learn (times tables)
https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/simple-stem-activities-for-kids/
Problem solving maths and science activities.
PE/Art
https://youtu.be/tbCjkPlsaes
https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html
YouTube: Art with Cassie Stephens
Artforkidshub
Extras:
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com
A huge selection of videos and activities to cover Geography and Science. It would also be very useful for project work.
https://padlet.com/parteensolosinging/zfdq5n59llog
A wide selection of activities based on school subjects and organised by class level
We celebrated World Book Day in St. Brigids SGNS by decorating our classroom doors, dressing up as our favourite characters, buying new books from the book fair, listening to a storyteller and entertaining book report and cover competitions! Everyone had a great time!
We celebrated Engineers week with a design challenge. Bridges had to have a span of 30cm and hold a weight to 500g. These are some of the bridges that made the final of our competition. The standard was extremely high and all our students should be very proud of their work.
We celebrated La Fhéile Bríde with a prayer service, art competition and disco. The winners of our art competition can be seen on the notice board in our lobby.
Our school community is happy to invite you to learn a little more about our super school. Welcome to St. Brigid’s!
Our recently created crest and motto demonstrate our vision and aims, through words and images. Our goal is to ‘promote the full and harmonious development of all aspects of the person of the pupil: intellectual, physical, cultural, moral and spiritual, including a living relationship with God and with other people.’
We can only do this with the continued assistance and support of parents/guardians, families and friends of our pupils, along with the wider community.
We hope that our website will demonstrate a little of the exciting work and activities carried out in St. Brigid’s and will provide our visitors with some information about our super school community.
– Siobhán Loughman, Príomhoide (Principal Teacher)
Please note: copying of any images/postings on this website without written permission is expressly prohibited.
