Mr O’Leary’s Remote Learning Timetable : Week 3 Jan 25th- 29th 2021

Monday 25th

Tuesday 26th

Wednesday 27th

Thursday 28th

Friday 29nd

Morning activities/Home School Hub

Morning activities/Home School Hub

Morning activities/Home School Hub

Morning activities/Home School Hub

Morning activities/Home School Hub

English

English

English

English

English

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

Maths

Maths

Maths

Maths

Maths

Gaeilge

Gaeilge

Gaeilge

Gaeilge

Gaeilge

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

SESE: Geography

Quiz time

SESE:

History

Religion

SESE:

Science

Typing

Music

SPHE

Art

PE

Morning Activities:

Spellbound week 18 &

Mental Maths week 17

Ceartlitriú Ch.7

Morning Activities:

Spellbound week 18 &

Mental Maths week 17

Ceartlitriú Ch.7

Morning Activities:

Spellbound week 18 &

Mental Maths week 17

Ceartlitriú Ch.7

Morning Activities:

Spellbound week 18 &

Mental Maths week 17

Ceartlitriú Ch.7

Morning Activities:

Spellbound week 18 &

Mental Maths week 17

Ceartlitriú Ch.7

*Remember. All members of the senior room must log onto your SeeSaw account using your Google account and details. It’s really easy and you have practiced it before. If you have any problems, email me at brian@bruskeyns.com.*

The RTE Home School Hub is on RTE2 every week day for 2 hours during the closure. There are some excellent lessons on it and I have provided a menu for the lessons this week. You can pick the ones you would like to watch and I have provided the blue links for you to click on and there you’ll find loads of fun activities to do based on each lesson. This is a really great resource. Enjoy! Don’t forget to send in some snaps of your activities on SeeSaw.

Monday 25/01

NEW Home School Hub 10amWe've some brand new lessons for you today on Home School Hub.

In Múinteoir Ray's music class, we are learning all about blues music and we’ll be writing our own lockdown blues song and singing along!Music - The blues

Múinteoir John is teaching us how to use the apostrophe in todays English class. (Can you spot the error?!)English

And we are learning about St Brigid and how to make a "Brídeog" in Múinteoir Clíona’s art class. St Brigid

Phil of Science is here experimenting with a paper boat in today’s Hub Lab and we’ll be getting our hearts pumping in PE class with Múinteoir Emer

Home School Hub 11amToday we are learning all about the Children of Lir and how to distinguish between fictional accounts in stories, myths and legends and events in the past with Múinteoir Ray. History - Children of Lir

In today's Gaeilge class with Múinteoir John we are learning about the clothes we wear on special occasions.Gaeilge

And Múinteoir Clíona teaches us how to make our own lava lamp as we explore some of the effects light, air and water have on various materials.Make your own lava lamp!

Tuesday 26/01

NEW Home School Hub 10amMúinteoir Ray is teaching us how to create a fact file and we'll be learning all about the life and work of the Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford in today's SPHE class. Marcus Rashford

We’ll be learning all about area in Múinteoir John’s maths class.Maths - Area

And we’ll be mixing history, art agus Gaeilge together today with Múinteoir Clíona as we learn all about the Famine Ships.History - Famine ships

Múinteoir Emer will be giving us some key hydration tips in today’s 'Exercise with Emer' and we are making rockets in the lab with Phil of Science.

Home School Hub 11amMúinteoir Ray is talking to us about Robby the Robin and the natural environment that surrounds us. There's so much wildlife within our 5km limit!

In Múinteoir John's maths class we will learn how data is gathered and different ways to display and understand data.Maths - Data

And with Múinteoir Clíona we are travelling back in time and learning all about the Normans!History - The Normans

Wednesday 27/01

NEW Home School Hub 10amWe go back in time to Ancient Greece this morning with Múinteoir Ray as we learn all about the Olympic Games in today's history class. 

Múinteoir John goes back to the 90’s as we make some retro art in a really cool class. 

Agus beidh Múinteoir Clíona ag caint faoin aimsir i rang Gaeilge an lae inniú.

It’s all about a Balanced Diet as we get moving in today’s Exercise with Emer and we are back in the Hub Lab experimenting with ice with Phil of Science! 

Home School Hub 11amWe get up moving, twisting and dancing with Múinteoir Ray first thing this morning in his PE class.PE with Ray

In today's English class with Múinteoir John we will learn about different types of poems and write our very own Limericks.English poetry

It's time for music with Múinteoir Clíona and she will be teaching you a song in French! We’re going to learn the different parts of the body in French and the sing about them using a famous song.Music - Alouette

Thursday 28/01

NEW Home School Hub 10amIn today's art class, Múinteoir Ray will be teaching us all about the influential American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Múinteoir John will be showing us all around the house in today’s Gaeilge class.

Plus we will be using our hand to relax and practice gratitude in today’s SPHE class with Múinteoir Clíona.

Múinteoir Emer tells us how important it is to get as much physical activity in each day as we get moving in today’s Exercise with Emer. Plus, there's another Hub Lab with Phil about submarines! 

Home School Hub 11amToday we will learn about how we can use imagination and different patterns in maths with Múinteoir Ray.Maths

Our special guest Laura O'Grady will teach us Irish Sign Language (ISL) and how to spell our own name using ISL.Learn more about ISL here

And in today’s art class with Múinteoir Clíona we learn how to draw and paint a picture using a viewfinder.Art - How to make a viewfinder

Friday 29/01

NEW Home School Hub 10amMúinteoir Ray will be teaching us one of the more fun areas of maths. We're talking shapes! 

Múinteoir John will be introducing us to Jamaica and the work of Bob Marley in this music class. There will be singing too!

And Múinteoir Clíona will be showing us some creative ways to use language with art.

Emer is back for our final workout of the week and Phil of Science has another experiment up his sleeve in the Hub Lab!

Home School Hub 11amToday we are all going to be sentence detectives and discover different types of sentences and how we can use them in Múinteoir Ray's English class.English

In today’s maths class we learn about angles and degrees and where we can both see them in everyday objects with Múinteoir John.Maths - Angles

To finish the week Múinteoir Clíona is looking at what is in our soil and what plants it supports. It's a really important part of nature we don't really see!Geography - The soil

Fun morning activity work for Mr O’Leary’s room.

I’ve devised a really, really, really big list of fun morning activities for you to choose from. Do at least one or two each day and if you can, send me on a picture of the results on SeeSaw or upload it to google classroom where I will post an assignment called ‘Morning Activities’. Enjoy!

1. Invent a cartoon character. What does it look like? What does it do? Create a comic strip story. ·

2. Make a playlist. Pick your top 5 favourite tunes. ·

3. Make up a gym routine with five different exercises. Repeat it twice. Do it another day. ·

4. Ring an older person you know and have a chat. ·

5. Make up and play Kim’s game. How many items can you remember? Can you remember them in an hour? ·

6. Find and draw repeated patterns in your house and/or garden (Tiles, furniture etc) ·

7. Write a poem or short story with a title of your choice ·

8. TREASURE Can you find objects around the house beginning with the letters in this word? Bruskey.

9. Make a list of 10 food items and their weights. Start with the lightest. What is their total weight? ·

10. Make a puppet out of an old sock ·

11. Old magazines or newspapers? Cut out letters to make a message and stick on a page. ·

12. Pi Skyline. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. 3.141592653. Draw a graph to show this number BUT turn each bar into a skyscraper! ·

13. Expand an image. Get a picture or an old photo. Stick it on a blank page and create a new picture. Use your imagination – space, monsters, jungle you decide. ·

14. Raining? Put a plastic tub or box in the middle of the garden and use a ruler to measure the rainfall. Don’t forget to record the results (date, time period, amount in millimetres). ·

15. Make a bookmark for yourself or someone else. ·

16. Imagine you are the President. Now imagine he is writing a letter to you. What would he write to you? ·

17. Sing a song in private. Get the words online. ·

18. Make a card for someone who needs cheering up. Write a good comment inside. ·

19. Sock basketball. Put a basket on one side of the room and sit against the opposite wall (go closer if you have to) Throw balled up socks into the basket. How many in a row can you score? ·

20. Clean under your bed! ·

21. Core exercises. Can you hold a plank pose, or a crab or a boat pose? ·

22. Favourite children’s book. Draw a favourite scene. ·

23. Play a game with a brother or sister. ·

24. Write a poem or a paragraph about either ‘My Favourite Sport’ or ‘Music’. ·

25. Write a mini-saga (50 words) ·

26. Go into your garden and do one of these tasks outside. ·

27. Write a paragraph to a parent with the most over the top persuasive phrases you can think of. ·

28. Make a poster with some favourite song lyrics. Decorate it. ·

29. Read a story for your younger brother or sister. ·

30. Keep a diary. Each day record a mixture of information about outside your home and inside your head. ·

31. Estimate & measure the area & perimeter of a room/rooms of your choice ·

32. Find the sum & product of the 4th & 5th prime numbers ·

33. List the prime numbers from 0-100 ··

34. Draw & cut out a selection of 2D Shapes & use them to make a picture ·

35. Design your own board game including a set of rules!! ·

36. You are stranded on a desert island! What 5 items would you take with you & why? ·

37. List 10 items you would find in a wizard’s pocket ·

38. Write down recipe for your favourite snack ·

39. Draw a map of a treasure Island- Include features, etc ·

40. Pick five countries from around the world- draw their flags- population- capital city- language, landmarks/features! ·

41. Read a book & draw an image based on it! ·

42. Design a book cover ·

43. Write a film review of your favourite film ·

44. Do Free Writing! ·

45. Make a collage. ·

46. Leonardo da Vinci used to do mirror writing. Try it out!

English:

Monday

Creative writing. Write a story about what you would do if you became a millionaire when you won the National Lottery. Type it out and upload it to Google Classroom. I have created an assignment called ‘Lottery’ and that is where you can upload it to.

Tuesday

Reading: Lift Off/Above the Clouds/Flying High.

Read next story.

Read the story and answer the questions in part A.

Don’t forget to write full sentences, to use capital letters in the correct places and to end your sentence with a full stop.

Wednesday

Comprehension: Do exercise C. vocabulary work.

Thursday

Grammar: Do exercise E.

Friday

Enjoy reading some articles form the latest issue of ‘The Primary Planet’ magazine. Here.

https://7a630787.flowpaper.com/TPPISSUE98/#page=1

It’s really important that you read every day- a book, magazine, newspaper- whatever you like!

Maths :

Our topic again week is money. We will also be working on our tables. Practice saying them aloud every day. You can write them out too.

*I have assigned a maths activity on SeeSaw for you to do. Try it out but maybe use some Irish supermarket websites.

4th Class watch this tutorial.

https://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/20691/BAM4_Tutorial_001/lessons/BAM4_Tutorial_001/index.html

5th: https://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/20707/BAM5_Tutorial_014/lessons/BAM5_Tutorial_014/index.html

6th: https://data.cjfallon.ie/resources/20714/BAM6_Tutorial_004/lessons/BAM6_Tutorial_004/index.html

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Tables practice

Planet Maths Money

Continue

Planet Maths Money

Next Ex.

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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Revise your x2 x4 and x8 tables

Try x3

· Practice your tables on: Click the blue link.

Multiplication Tables with times tables games

https://www.timestables.com

Space trader | Students | MoneySense (mymoneysense.com)

Click on the blue link above and play the value game.

If you won 500,000 euro on the lotto. What would be the best house you could buy in Ireland. Look at

https://www.daft.ie/property-for-sale/dublin

Why not use real coins to help you if you have some!

See what you could buy for your kitchen for 100 euro from the Ikea website.

Irish/Gaeilge

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

An Nuacht

Seo Leat

Seo Leat

An Nuacht

Seo Leat

Use the template to scríobh an nuacht

(in your copy)

Read story below, ‘Lá Baiste’ and do questions.

Read first page of next story from Seo Leat and write out 10 words or phrases you have translated into your copy.

Read next page of story from Seo Leat and write out 10 words or phrases you have translated into your copy.

Use the template to scríobh an nuacht

Answer the questions from exercise A in Seo Leat into your copy.

Quiz Time

1. Can you name these famous people

1. Can you name these chocolate bars

1. Can you name these cartoon characters

1. Can you identify these logos

1. What animal gives its name to a pedestrian crossing?

1. In what book would you find the character Mowgli?

1. How many Dalmatians in the Disney film?

1. What colour is scarlet?

1. Which famous artist cut off his own ear?

10 According to the Irish legend, who burned his finger on the Salmon of Knowledge?

SESE: Geography.

Research and type out 10 facts about the USA (highest mountain, largest lake etc.). Upload them into the relevant folder on Google Classroom.

There are some excellent Kahoots on the USA. Play some.

Typing: Get to work on your typing skills on Dance Mat Typing. It’s great!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

Music: Dabbledoo

https://dabbledoomusic.com/p/parents-subscription-full-access/?product_id=1122889&coupon_code=18126V 

Parents can click on this link to enrol on Dabbledoo for free. You have access to lots of fun and entertaining music lessons.

SPHE: SPHE Older people have been advised to stay at home. Make a list of ten of your favourite things (colour, song, film, sporting occasion etc) and then interview an older neighbour or relative over the phone to compare. Record their answers. Ask them to explain and enjoy the chat!

Art: Ealaín

We’d like to create a rang 4, 5, 6 art

exhibition on Seesaw next week.

This week look at any drawings or

artwork you have done since you have

been at home. Send us a photo on

Seesaw and we will include it in the

exhibition. You can submit more than

one piece.

PE: Do this again and let me know on SeeSaw how you got on. 5KM Challenge Your task is to run/walk/cycle/scoot 5km in one go. This is a great activity to get parents/family members to join in with. Remember to be safe while doing so (social distancing!)

Science Experiment.

Build a boat that actually floats. Use whatever materials you think will work best. Make sure to post a picture of the result to SeeSaw.

Watch this video first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQuW8G2QV_Q

S.E.S.E (History)

Watch this video about the 1916 Easter rising. It’s done in stop motion animation and is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfDNSXtPD8

Religion

Catholic Schools Week

Follow the link below for some nice activities to do during the week.

https://www.catholicschools.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CSW2021-Primary-Fifth-and-Sixth-Class.pdf