Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a great week last week. The bank holiday weekend was glorious! I hope you all got outside for fun and games. Josh and Róisín were in the paddling pool and Josh had a great weekend watching his Granda get his hay baled. It is June already…… your last month in 4th Class. We will all be looking forward to September when we can be together again with some form of normality. Try to keep going with your school work if you can at all. I know in June it can become harder to stay motivated but always prioritise your reading.

Stay safe,

Mrs. Hurson

Ps.The image at the top of last week’s work was Clogherhead in case any of you were still wondering or weren’t sure.

Comprehension Support and Vocabulary – ‘Jonathan Sexton’

Like Ms Donnelly used to do with you at school I am going to go through the tricky words in your comprehension reading that Mr Hynes has assigned for you this week. This week’s comprehension is a factual piece of writing about the Irish rugby player Jonathan (Johnny Sexton). There are lots of interesting facts about Johnny’s life and rugby career. Read the text slowly and enjoy it!

Read over this vocabulary before reading the comprehension. I have explained all the words that you might not be familiar with in the story.

fly- half This is an important rugby position that orchestrates the attack and defence of a team. The fly half can be a good kicker and generally directs the back line.

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place- kicker The place kick is used when teams have the opportunity to kick for points at goal. There are two scenarios when they can do this- for penalties (three points) and conversions (two points). A good place kicker can be the difference between winning and losing a match.

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rugby legend rugby hero

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impressive display wonderful show

establish begin; launch; startopportunity chanceclaimed got; tookrumours information or a story that is passed from one person to another but

has not been proven to be true and has no sourcesuburbs outskirtsintentions a decided course of action; planremain staydespite even thoughselected chosenimpressive exciting; striking; extraordinaryInternational debut first time playing for the countryannual yearly

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competing challengingcrucial importantdramatic striking; impressive; excitingclinch to make certain or final; secure; settledefeated beathistoric victory a win that will go down in historyfascinating display of rugby wonderful show of rugby skillsconsidered to think about carefully; reflect onarguably possibly; maybe

Kahoot! Quiz

When you feel confident you understand the meaning of the words above click on /copy the link below to test your comprehension. Good luck!

https://kahoot.it/challenge/04811612?challenge-id=901d50d8-ebe9-4a3a-9031-6101e49d5256_1590354720175

Game PIN: 04811612

SNIP Spelling Programme

Hope you are finding the SNIP exercises enjoyable and they’re helping you learn the spelling of the words. Continue onto Session 12. You could learn these words along with some of the class words that Mr Hynes has assigned for you this week. Why not have a Friday test on the spellings you have learned? Maybe a parent or sibling at home would make up one or two sentences for you to write that include some of your spelling words.

The word ‘because’ is on your spelling list for this week. Use the sentence below to help you learn the correct spelling of this word.

Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants

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The word below is frequently misspelt. Try your best to get it right!

Look at the poster to help you learn how to spell ‘could’. It will also help you with ‘would’ and ‘should’.

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4 th Class Friday Corrections 12 th June

Well done on all your efforts this week boys and girls!

You can correct your SNIP Session 12 work with the answers on the next three pages.

These words are great to know how to spell as you may use them a lot in your written work. Whatever words you misspelt in your ‘test of mastery’ / Friday Test rewrite them a few times until you feel you can confidently spell the word. It’s a good idea to keep all your spelling work together and next week to check over the words from this week and see can you spell them all.

Enjoy your weekend,

Mrs. Hurson

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