Weekly Learning Guide

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Anne Marie’s Room: Children in 1st, 2nd and 4th Class

Dear Parents,

This is our Learning Guide for the week. Children may not get to do everything and that’s ok. When we’re in

school, we have scheduled time each day for Maths English and Irish and three other curriculum areas:

Arts (Visual Arts, Drama and Music), SESE (History, Geography and Science) and Wellbeing (PE, Social

Personal and Health Education and Goodness Me, Goodness You). While you’re at home, you might try some

activities in Maths, English and Irish each day and dip in to the other subjects as children wish.

On this sheet, the blue, underlined text is a hyperlink. It will take you to a web resource. Click it to go to

the resource. If you have a question or you’re a little confused or you wish to share your child’s work, send

me a message on the Class Dojo.

This week, I am adding a sample weekly schedule which might help structure the learning. All of the

activities are detailed in the Weekly Learning Guide. As discussed previously, this is a guide and it is up to

each family to decide how much content to cover over the course of the week. The structure of the

Weekly Learning Guide offers parents and children a choice board of activities. Choose the activities that

suit your child best and remember that it is not expected that everything is covered.

Happy learning!

Anne Marie

Sample Schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Maths

Daily 10 Maths

Challenge

Practical Activity 1

Maths

Hit the Button (5

mins)

Make a Shape

Activity

Maths

Play a game on

Topmarks (5 mins)

Tiles Activity

Paper Activity 1/

Shadow Book

Maths

Play a game on

Topmarks

Practical Activity 2

Maths

Make a Garden

Activity

Paper activity 2/

Shadow Book

English

Sounds in Focus:

ou/ow

Play a sight words

game online

English

Choose one activity

from Tic Tac Toe

Read a book from

the e-book library

English

Sounds in Focus:

ou/ow

Play a sight words

game online

English

Read the

comprehension and

answer the questions

orally/ in writing

English

Sounds in Focus:

ou/ow

Read a book from

the e-book library

Irish

Watch a cartoon on

TG4

Irish

Read the story “Is

Féidir Liom”

Irish

Try the numbers

spelling activity.

Irish

Read the story “Eoin

ar an Teilifís”

Irish

Read a story in your

Read at Home book

Other

Active Learning from

Padlet

Other

SESE: Life Cycle of

the Butterfly 1

Choose an activity

from the Wellbeing

section

Other

Creativity Challenge:

Choose one

Other

SESE: Life Cycle of

the Butterfly 2

Choose an activity

from the Wellbeing

section

Other

STEAM Challenge on

paper airplanes

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MATHS: Area

Children are learning about area this week. This is a practical topic and children should be able to complete

some work independently. I am adding two activities to support parents at home. These practical activities

are so beneficial and can be used to replace book work if you choose.

Practical Activity 1

Practical Activity 2

Online Activities

Make a Shape Activity

Tiles Activity

Make a Garden Activity

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Other activities linked to the online activities (two for 1st/2nd and two for 3rd/4th) are suggested at the

bottom of this grid and class levels are signposted.

Alternatively, Shadow Book pages can be completed (2nd Class: p 50/51)

Other Maths Games/ Challenges:

Topmarks Website; choose from a range of activities

Daily 10 Mental Maths Challenge is a familiar game for children. Content can be selected and

differentiated. Select the transition time. I would suggest 10 seconds to begin.

Hit the Button is a familiar game for fun addition and subtraction practice.

LANGUAGE: English

Choose from any of the activities below:

• Choose one of the writing ideas from the Writing Tic Tac Toe this week. Remember you can

repeat an activity if you really like it and change the topic. Start with a picture if you find it hard

to come up with ideas.

• Literacy Shed Link from Tic Tac Toe.

• Practise reading your sight words lists. This list of Dolch Words is useful to help you.

Games: Try this Sight Word Bingo game or this Sight Word Smash game.

• Work through Unit 31 in Sounds in Focus. The sound is “ow as in cow”. The chant is “Cloud like a

cow”. The action is to “Draw a cloud shape in the air with a finger”. The different graphemes are

ou, ow and hou (the letters on paper that represent the focus sound).

Here is the word list:

cow how now down town

our out house mouse about

round sound around ground count

hour loud mouth brown flower

• This e-book library has access to books for the children to read (from the Oxford series). The

questionnaire will help you to access books suitable for your child.

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• Take some time to read daily or listen to a story being read to you. Check the Audible link on Class

Dojo.

• Read the extract below from Read at Home and answer the questions orally.

Send work through on Class Dojo by photo if you would like to share with me and receive feedback.

LANGUAGE - Irish

Choose some of the following activities:

• Revise your numbers in Irish; this activity is from Bua na Cainte. Practise saying the numbers and

draw/ write the labels.

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• Read the story “Is Féidir Liom” here

• Read “Eoin ar an Teilifís” here

• Choose an extract to read in “Léigh sa Bhaile” and practise answering the questions orally. Audio clips

are also available online for this.

• Watch a cartoon in Irish on Cúla4. It has lots of familiar cartoons and games in Irish.

CREATIVITY

Visual Art:

Choose a creative activity from “Creativity at Home with the Glucksman”. I am including the activities

from last week again to give time to try one of them.

• Theme 1: Rainbow Inspired Colour Spinner

Tutorial

• Theme 2: Hero and Villain Masks

Tutorial

STEAM

Try this STEAM Challenge. The children had begun working through some STEAM Challenges and were

growing in familiarity with the STEAM investigation cycle. This simple challenge requires just paper and

might appeal to children due to its practical nature. This challenge incorporates Maths, Science,

Technology, Engineering and the Arts and children are asked to design and test paper planes.

SESE:

This week we are learning about the life cycle of the butterfly. Activities are divided into two sessions:

Session 1

Read the book: Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly here

Look at the picture of the monarch butterfly below.

Watch the video of the life cycle of the butterfly here

Draw a simple diagram of the life cycle.

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Session 2

Revise the life cycle.

Read through the extract from Small World below.

Write a sentence for each step of the life cycle using the pictures below as a stimulus or make a short

voice recording describing the steps of the cycle using your diagram to help.

Extra information:

Information from National Geographic

Butterflies of Ireland poster

WELLBEING:

Choose from any of the following activities:

• Go Noodle family access.

• Joe Wicks, The Body Coach videos on this You Tube channel.

• Choose some Active Homework Ideas

• 10@10

• RTÉ Homeschool Hub on RTÉ2 from 11am to 12 noon.

• Continue to explore activities from the Active Schools Padlet

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Maths Ideas

1st/2nd Class

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3rd/4th Class

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Butterflies

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