Hello boys and girls.

Welcome back!
We hope you had a lovely Easter and that ye are enjoying all the lovely sunny weather we have been having!

Here are a few suggested activities for you to try over the next week.
You do not need to do all of them, just pick a couple to try out each day.

If you do try out any of the activities we would love you to show us your work. Send a photo/video with teachers name in the subject box to kids@stphilipsjns.ie. We can't wait to see what you have been up to!

English:

Reading:

It is so important to keep up a little bit of reading each day.  
Read with your parent, an older brother/sister or on your own.

• Reader: Read a few pages of your reader/any other book each day.
  Chat to your Mam/Dad about the story. Mam & Dad can ask you questions, or you can try asking Mam & Dad questions about the story too!
• If you are finished your assigned reader for home, go to https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/. Parents can set up an account and then you can browse ebooks for your age and complete activities.

• Two little frogs Workbook:
  Continue with the next unit from your book this week.

• Sounds Scavenger hunt:

Find something in your house that

• begins with ‘b’
• begins with ‘sh’
• ends with ‘k’
• ends with ‘l’
• has ‘a’ in the middle, eg. pan
• has ‘o’ in the middle
  
  
• Tricky words

These are the words that we have covered so far this year.

Games to help practice tricky words:

• Tricky Word Bingo
  Draw out a 3x3 grid and pick out 9 words to write in the spaces.

Call out a selection of words from the box and the child crosses out the word once they hear their word called.

• Tricky Word Hunt– pick a tricky word and see where you can find it e.g. in books, newspapers, etc.
• Practice Spelling the words, using the following method:
  Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check

Pick a tricky word

Look at and say the word

Cover the tricky word and have a go writing it again

Check to see if it’s right or wrong.

Writing:

• Diary: Continue to write a Diary of what you are doing during these weeks. Just write a few sentences about what you are doing each day. It will be very interesting to read it someday!
  
  
• Write about a picture: Find a picture that you would like to write about. It could be a picture from your book, a picture from a magazine. Write a few sentences about the picture.
  
  
• Procedure writing: Help Mam/Dad to make some jelly/toast. Now write about what ingredients and utensils you needed and what steps you carried out.

• Free writing – Write about something you would like to write.
  Remember some of the ideas that we tried out in school

-label a picture
-write a postcard
-a note/message for Mam/Dad
-words from your favourite story/song
-make a list
-a story

Maths:

**Check out the new videos uploaded by Ms. Williams for 1^st Class maths ideas and activities**

Counting:

• Counting forwards in 1’s up too 100.
  Consider starting at different numbers.
  Start at 26 and count forward to 35.
  Start at 77 and count to 83.

• Counting backwards in 1’s from 100.
  Again start at different numbers,
  Start at 24 and count backwards to 17.
  Start at 52 and count backwards to 45.

• Counting in 10’s up to 100.
  Start with different numbers,~
  Start at 7, ….. 7, 17, 27, 37,
  Start at 12,……… 12, 22, 32, 42, 52

Counting Games:

• Buzz off, Sit down!
  Your child might have played this in school with their class and could play it with an adult or an older sibling or even in a group.

Pick a target number to count to.

Now pick another number to start counting from and take turns counting until you reach the chosen number. When you reach the target number, the person who has said that number, gets to turn to the next person and say “Buzz off sit down!” and they’re out of the game.  
Eg. The target number is 43. Everyone in the game/circle takes a turn saying a number until you get to 43.

• Bingo
  
  
• Snakes and ladders
  
  

Addition:

• Practice your doubles eg. 4 + 4 = 8, 6 + 6 = 12.
  
  
• Practice your Numbers in Love (numbers facts that make 10)
  3 + 7 = 10. 9 + 1 = 10.
  
  
• Addition with pack of cards

-Add 2 or 3 cards together and write a sum.

-Go fish (to make 10)

Subtraction :

• Practice subtraction sums within 20.
  Remember - Keep the big number in your head, count backwards and use your fingers to help keep track of the number you are taking away.
  
  19 – 3 =
  14 – 7 =
  12 – 4 =

Word problems

• Jack had 6 dinosaurs and he was given 5 more. How many does he have altogether?
• My brother scored 8 goals. I scored the same amount. How many goals did we score altogether?
• Mary has 2 dolls, Jill has 5 dolls and Beth has 4 dolls. How many dolls do the girls have altogether?
  
  
• Granny gave Tom 20 cent but on his way home he lost 10 cent. How much does he have now?
• Mam has 12 roses growing in her garden. Granny has 3 less than that. How many roses has granny in her garden?
  
  
• Erin has 7 red apples and 3 green apples. How many more red apples has she than green?
• There are 10 football cards in a set. I have 5 cards. How many more do I need to have a full set?

Other Maths Activities:

• Practice Telling the time – Can you remember how to tell if it is ‘o’ clock’, or ‘half past’?
• Money:
  Set up a shop at home, using some coins up to 20c.
  -Work out how much it costs to buy what you would like.
  -What coins would you use to make up that amount?
  -Have you enough to buy 2 of the oranges/apples etc?
  -What change will you get?
  
  

ICT games Website:

• Save the whale https://www.ictgames.com/saveTheWhale/index.html
• Whack a mole https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/whackAMole/index.html
• Shark Numbers ( up to 99) https://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html
  
  

Twinkl Website Worksheet suggestions:

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-1346-tens-and-units-worksheet

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2544731-counting-in-tens-activity-sheets

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-1347-place-value-tens-and-units-cut-and-stick-worksheet

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-n-092-patchwork-elephant-addition-to-20-colour-by-number

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-n-5550-missing-number-addition-within-20-activity-sheet

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-or-131-jakes-first-day-subtraction-to-20-colour-by-number

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/t-n-2544952-oclock-and-half-past-activity-sheets#tabbed_content

https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-n-5276-up-up-and-away-money-addition-problems-activity-sheet

Irish:

***See News page for details of Bua na Cainte lessons***

• Continue to practice songs/poems learnt in school
• Dialogue ‘Cad is ainm duit?’ ‘Cén aois thú?’ ‘Conas atá tú?’ ‘An maith leat úll?’ etc.
• Look at programmes on TG4 and in particular, Cúla 4 online
• Stories on Seidean Si https://www.seideansi.ie/

SESE:

Recycling:

• Help Mam & Dad to sort things that can or can’t be recycled.
• What types of materials can be recycled and what can’t be.
• Discuss the reasons for recycling.
• Draw things that can be and can’t be recycled.
• https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/d9/b1/us-a-207-recycling-sort-activity-sheet_ver_1.pdf?__token__=exp=1587323901~acl=%2Fresource%2Fd9%2Fb1%2Fus-a-207-recycling-sort-activity-sheet_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=fb53694ce62187be769e7dd2ce4a2837d6ba0af96d69a8e643e0e371990e9f06
• https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/tg-ga-59-twinkl-green-week-junk-jumble-recycling-game
• Art challenge: Make something out of recyclable materials
  (There are some ideas below in the Art Section)

• Read the story of ‘How Setanta became CúChulainn, from the Twinkl website.
  https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/ni2-e-1-how-setanta-became-cuchulainn-irish-myths-and-legends-powerpoint

Art:

• Shadow tracing:

With all the lovely sunny weather we have been having recently, has anyone noticed their shadow?
Why not try to trace the shadow of your favourite toy?

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/441352832229055052/

• Construction – Toilet paper pencil holder

Here are some ideas to help design your pencil holder.
You can use markers, stickers, old wrapping paper, pictures from magazines - whatever you like! 

 https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/56787645285898545/

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/791437334504512623/

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/92464598569700316/

Music:

Have you a favourite song?
Here are a couple of Disney favourites you might like to sing along to!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ivNpDnvEvA#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUX97-5DFdI

PE:

• ‘PE with Joe’ streamed live each morning at 9am on 'The Body Coach TV' Youtube channel.
  And every Friday is ‘Fancy Dress Friday’ so you can dress up in your costume while exercising!
• 'Go Noodle' online channel for guided dancing
• 'Cosmic Kids Yoga' online channel
• 10@10 on Rte player, 10 minutes of guided exercise
• Walk, jog, run, cycle around your local area.
• Practice your football/basketball skills in your garden.