12th March 2020
NB: All written work to be completed in the new copy that we have given the children to work in during the school closure.
Gaeilge: Mé Féin, Mo Chlann, Mo Scoil agus Caitheamh Aimsire. Please learn these sheets for your Irish Oral Exams after Easter break. These are oral language games and can be played with someone at home.
Léigh sa Bhaile: Read and complete the Questions page: 90, 91, 92 & 93.
English Oral Tests for those who do not study Irish. Topics of conversation will be more difficult than the Irish topics. The English orals will be more like interviews.
Reading: Please read for at least 30 mins per day. We are asking parents/guardians to sign and check reading folders at least 1-2 times per fortnight. Thank you for your cooperation. Reading Log check school resumes.
Master Your Maths: Finish off Week 23. Complete Weekly Test 22 and 23. Complete Monday - Thursday Sections of Weeks 24 and 25. After completing these weeks of work please complete the weekly tests - Week 24 and 25.
Spellings - Term 3 - weeks 1 and 2 - 'Environmental' and 'Commonly Misspelt' words. Put each spelling into a sentence to show you understand the meaning of the spelling. You may need to look up the dictionary definition of the spelling.
SESE Project: Choose any county of Ireland (Except Dublin) & complete a detailed research project on the county. Areas they will need to research:
Master Your Maths: Finish off Week 23. Complete Weekly Test 22 and 23. Complete Monday - Thursday Sections of Weeks 24 and 25. After completing these weeks of work please complete the weekly tests - Week 24 and 25.
Spellings - Term 3 - weeks 1 and 2 - 'Environmental' and 'Commonly Misspelt' words. Put each spelling into a sentence to show you understand the meaning of the spelling. You may need to look up the dictionary definition of the spelling.
SESE Project: Choose any county of Ireland (Except Dublin) & complete a detailed research project on the county. Areas they will need to research:
- Rivers, lakes, mountains, famous residents, county team, county crest, population, famous landmarks, tourism, history of the county, etc.
Literacy Work:
Literacy 6th Class
All classes have been studying the writing genre of Explanation since we returned to school after Winter holidays.
Here is a link for parents to get more information about the genre:
Explanation Writing Task: Over the course of the first week of closure, we would like the children to write an Explanation text about How Rockets Work.
Steps to follow to successfully complete this task:
1) Follow this link to a video explaining how rockets work and take notes, these notes will help you to plan and write your explanation text. Listen and watch the video about 3 times in order to record your notes.
2) Write up your Plan
On a new page of your copy create a Writing Plan to plan your explanation in your copy using the following sections
Title:
Definition: What is being explained in this text
Description – The description needs to be broken up into parts which explain the cause and effect of how rockets work.
Application – how does this information about rockets help us in our everyday lives? How can this knowledge be applied.
Evaluative Summary – is having a good understanding of how rockets work useful, any special features?
3) Using your plan begin to write our your first draft
4) Re- read your first draft and edit it to make it better- this means making corrections and edits on the page. Check your capital letters, spelling and punctuation. Can I expand on my language and vocabulary? Have I included cause and effect when explaining the parts? Have I used present tense verbs and connectives at the beginning of each paragraph? Would a diagram help to explain any aspect of this? Have I included technical language?
5) Write out your second draft and make sure you have included all of the corrections and improvements. Read it back to yourself, does it flow and make sense, read it to an audience can they understand what you are trying to explain? Listen to their feedback and edit it again to make it even better!
6) Publish! Your published piece needs to be written into your copy neatly and tidily. You are aiming for no mistakes in this final piece.
Here is a suggested time frame:
Monday : Note taking from video, using a dictionary to look up technical vocab that you don’t understand
Tuesday - look at the planning framework to help structure ideas and write your plan into your copy book, then begin your first draft.
Wednesday - Finish first draft in copies and re –read it , checking for spellings , punctuation , organisation and structure. Look at adding detail and maybe rephrasing parts to improve it, check from your note taking if there is anything else you can add to expand on the content.
Thursday - Write out their second draft into copies, read it to an audience, improve it!
Friday – Publish your final piece – you are aiming for no mistakes!
As the children are in 6th class we expect their presentation to be neat and tidy; margins and headings to be ruled in red pen and neat handwriting throughout. We want to see all the planning, drafts and redrafts , this can show us how the children have developed their writing over the course of a week.
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Learn Together Resources: Activites can be printed at home if they want to do the activity also. The PowerPoint contains the Easter Story and the resources are included. There is one story for JI -2nd and one for 3rd-6th.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/
No accounts need to be set up by parents, you can direct download.
Best Regards,
Karl & Karen
Links:
Léigh sa Bhaile: https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources
Email:
karl.lawless@belmayne-etns.ie
karen.boyle@belmayne-etns.ie
Links:
Léigh sa Bhaile: https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources
Email:
karl.lawless@belmayne-etns.ie
karen.boyle@belmayne-etns.ie
