Dear Parents/ Guardians and Children,
I hope you are all keeping well, safe, healthy and happy! As school is now closed for January, we will be taking part in a distance learning programme for 4th Class. This will be given in fortnightly blocks of work, as set out below. Please try your best and complete as much as you can. As always, if you wish to contact me with any questions, my email address is anna@radharcnamaramervue.ie.
Warm regards,
Ms. Killilea
English
Spelling: Jolly Phonics List Words from weeks 16 and 17. Please learn these spellings off by heart. Ask a parent or older sibling to test your knowledge! Create your own written sentences using the list words, as we have practiced many times in class.
Week 16: aphid, rough, hyphen, phrase, graphic, laugh, toughest, decipher, enough, phantom, autograph, apostrophe, triumph, amphibian, laughter, coughing, pharmacy, phenomenon.
Week 17: fair, mare, spare, fairy, bare, there, airless, dairy, flare, repair, airport, compare, fanfare, somewhere, wherewithal, prepare, bearable.
Reading: Reading Zone Units 16 and 17. Read both units and complete all activities at the end of each unit. Write the answers into your ‘homeschool’ copies.
Writing: Write a poem about a mythical creature (Unit 16). This can be a creature from the unit or an imagined creature.
Oral language: Story title Mythical Creatures (Unit16) -Can you think of any mythical creatures? Talk about what you know about these creatures. Can we know if mythical creatures really exist? Also, look at the illustration from p. 69 (Unit 17) of the story. This is a picture of a Native American goddess. She is in charge of one of the seasons. Describe what the goddess looks like. What is she wearing? What season do you think she is in charge of? Explain your answer.
Poetry: Revise ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ by W.B Yeats.
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B Yeats
Novel: The Sheep Pig by Dick King Smith (Read 4 chapters per week)
Irish:
Bua na Cainte 4: Leabhar Litrithe- Freagair na Ceisteanna.
Ceacht 1: Mé Féin ( 1-6)
Ceacht 2 : An Fómhar (7,8)
Scríobh síos an nuacht.
Maths
Planet Maths: Topics 15 and 16. Pages 90- 100. Fractions 2 (90-95) Chance (95-100 ) Write answers into Maths ‘homeschool’ copy.
Times Tables: Learn ‘divide by 6’ and revise ‘multiply by 6’. Complete 2 pages per day from your ‘Tables Revision’ book.
SESE:
History Quest: Unit 8: 1950’s Ireland. Complete all activities from this unit. Extra work: Imagine you are a child living in the 1950's. Write your diary entry. Write a telegram to your friends inviting them to your birthday party. Remember to use as few words as possible.
Geography Quest: Unit 9: Dublin. Complete all activities from this unit.
PE:
Try to keep fit by enjoying indoor and outdoor activities. Just remember to stay close to home and wrap up warm during these cold winter days!
Art:
Design your own stamp that might have been used in the 1950's. Sketch mythical creatures- Loch Ness Monster/ Big Foot.
Religion: Friends in Faith -3rd to 5th Class- Theme 4: ‘We Wait and Prepare’. (From www.cjfallon.ie)
I hope you are all keeping well, safe, healthy and happy! As school is now closed for January, we will be taking part in a distance learning programme for 4th Class. This will be given in fortnightly blocks of work, as set out below. Please try your best and complete as much as you can. As always, if you wish to contact me with any questions, my email address is anna@radharcnamaramervue.ie.
Warm regards,
Ms. Killilea
English
Spelling: Jolly Phonics List Words from weeks 16 and 17. Please learn these spellings off by heart. Ask a parent or older sibling to test your knowledge! Create your own written sentences using the list words, as we have practiced many times in class.
Week 16: aphid, rough, hyphen, phrase, graphic, laugh, toughest, decipher, enough, phantom, autograph, apostrophe, triumph, amphibian, laughter, coughing, pharmacy, phenomenon.
Week 17: fair, mare, spare, fairy, bare, there, airless, dairy, flare, repair, airport, compare, fanfare, somewhere, wherewithal, prepare, bearable.
Reading: Reading Zone Units 16 and 17. Read both units and complete all activities at the end of each unit. Write the answers into your ‘homeschool’ copies.
Writing: Write a poem about a mythical creature (Unit 16). This can be a creature from the unit or an imagined creature.
Oral language: Story title Mythical Creatures (Unit16) -Can you think of any mythical creatures? Talk about what you know about these creatures. Can we know if mythical creatures really exist? Also, look at the illustration from p. 69 (Unit 17) of the story. This is a picture of a Native American goddess. She is in charge of one of the seasons. Describe what the goddess looks like. What is she wearing? What season do you think she is in charge of? Explain your answer.
Poetry: Revise ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ by W.B Yeats.
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B Yeats
Novel: The Sheep Pig by Dick King Smith (Read 4 chapters per week)
Irish:
Bua na Cainte 4: Leabhar Litrithe- Freagair na Ceisteanna.
Ceacht 1: Mé Féin ( 1-6)
Ceacht 2 : An Fómhar (7,8)
Scríobh síos an nuacht.
Maths
Planet Maths: Topics 15 and 16. Pages 90- 100. Fractions 2 (90-95) Chance (95-100 ) Write answers into Maths ‘homeschool’ copy.
Times Tables: Learn ‘divide by 6’ and revise ‘multiply by 6’. Complete 2 pages per day from your ‘Tables Revision’ book.
SESE:
History Quest: Unit 8: 1950’s Ireland. Complete all activities from this unit. Extra work: Imagine you are a child living in the 1950's. Write your diary entry. Write a telegram to your friends inviting them to your birthday party. Remember to use as few words as possible.
Geography Quest: Unit 9: Dublin. Complete all activities from this unit.
PE:
Try to keep fit by enjoying indoor and outdoor activities. Just remember to stay close to home and wrap up warm during these cold winter days!
Art:
Design your own stamp that might have been used in the 1950's. Sketch mythical creatures- Loch Ness Monster/ Big Foot.
Religion: Friends in Faith -3rd to 5th Class- Theme 4: ‘We Wait and Prepare’. (From www.cjfallon.ie)
