23/10/2017 Homework

English Spellings - Plural (Y) 

1. berry /berries
2. jockey / jockeys 
3. trolley/trolleys 
4. monkey/monkeys 
5. candy / candies 
6. chimney/ chimneys 
7. holiday /holidays 
8. jelly/jellies 
9. enjoy/ enjoys
10. fry / fries 
11. toy / toys
12. pony / ponies 
13.  fly /flies 

Gaeilge Spellings - An litir O 

1. loch - lake 
2. cloch -stone
3. cnoc - hill 
4. solas - light 
5. sorcas - circus 
6. ocht - eight
7. bocht - poor 
8. ocras  - hunger 

Monday 

Léigh sa Bhaile Ich 29

Under the Hawthorn Tree pg 18-19

Maths Sheet Q1-2

English Verbs Q 1 

Novel Sheet Q1-2 

Spellings 

Tuesday 

Léigh sa Bhaile Ich 30

Under the Hawthorn Tree pg 20-21

Maths Sheet Q 4+5 

English Verbs Q 2

Novel Sheet Q3-4

Spellings - Sentences x3 Irish. One Spelling in each sentence. 

Wednesday 

Léigh sa Bhaile Ich 31

Under the Hawthorn Tree pg 22-23

Gaeilge - Worksheet Ceist A

Maths Sheet Q 6 

Novel Sheet Q5

Spellings - Sentences x 3 English.  One Spelling in each Sentence

Thursday 

Léigh sa Bhaile Ich 31

Gaeilge - Worksheet Ceist B 

Under the Hawthorn Tree pg 24-26

Maths Sheet Q 7

Novel Sheet Q6 

Spellings

Please continue to encourage the children to work on their mini scientist projects over mid term break. There is just over 3 weeks until the children are presenting their projects in school. Your support is greatly appreciated. 

18/9/2017 Homework

This week's homework is reduced as there was no school on Monday and Tuesday. There is no Spellings or Gaeilge homework. Please encourage children to continue to work on their science projects and finalise an idea - project title and description by Friday. If you are having any difficulty with this, please send me an email.

Wednesday: 
Maths: Sheet Q.1-4
Reading: Novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree p.9-12
English Writing :Q.1-4 Comprehension Sheet
Science Project - Title and Description

Thursday:
Maths: Sheet Q. 5-8
Reading: Novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree p.13-17
English Writing : Q. 5-7 Comprehension Sheet
Science Project - Title and Description

Mini Scientist

The mini scientist competition is upon us again. As most of you are aware, our school placed 2nd in Ireland in last years competition. All children participate in the science fair. The children work in groups up to 4 or can work independently if they so wish. The school science fair will take place on Thursday, November 16th. The school science fair will be judged by Intel staff. The children have started to come up with ideas this week that need to be finalised by next week. This will give them just over 4 weeks to work and develop their ideas, build models etc. Their idea's will be on display for the whole school, as every class has an opportunity to see their work.
Time will be allocated to project work in class, but children will have to further develop their ideas and projects at home. Adults can guide, monitor and support work where necessary. I appreciate your support and patience.

More Information and criteria can be found at:
 https://www.intel.ie/content/www/ie/en/education/mini-scientist-important-stuff.html

More helpful websites to help you brain storm are:

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments.html 

https://sciencebob.com/category/experiments/

http://www.kidspot.com.au/things-to-do/collection/science-experiments

​https://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys

​https://www.youtube.com/user/rhettandlink2

**Side note if any parents who work in science would like to come in during science week to give a talk or do some experiments with the class, please send me an email. You'd be very welcome!!

9/10/17

This week's homework: 

Worksheets: 
Maths - Data
English - Adjectives 
Gaeilge: Daoine

Spellings: Pattern 'mid' 

1. Midday
2. Midnight
3. Midsummer
4. midfield
5. midpoint
6. midterm
7. midweek
8. midyear
9. midlife
10. midway
11. middle
12. midbrain
13. midwinter 

Please write 3 super sentences using 2 spellings in each sentence. 
ie I had the misfortune to mislay my homework. 

Reader: Every child is working through their sails books, practicing their fluency and decoding skills.Please listen to your children reading 2-3 pages and ask them questions to help develop their comprehension. 

Gaeilge: Daoine
Please practice Irish Spellings nightly. 

1. Buachaill
2. cailín
3. fear
4. bean
5. garda
6. dochtúir
7. múinteoir 

Please put 3 Irish spellings into sentences. 
ie Is maith liom cáca milis. 

Leigh sa bhaile: Leigh lch 13-16
Can parents ask the children the questions that appear on the page and go through the tricky vocab in the corner. 

There is a parents resource page for this: http://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources. Use this website, by ticking Fouth class, Gaeilge, Léigh sa Bhaile D, then clicking view resources beside the page you are doing that night (lch9 - means page 9).

Duolingo
I have assigned the children an account on duolingo. They have a username and login under my classroom account. We will be using this for school work but it would also be helpful if they could login sometimes at home. Every few weeks I will assign tasks to complete in accordance with the topic being studied. ie Bia =Food. Could all children bring in a pair of earphones to use for this purpose next week. We have laptops on a Monday afternoon. 

New Info: Sutton Park Open Evening
Open Evening Thursday 12th October from 18.30-20.15 if any of you wish to attend. 

2/10/17

This week's homework: 

Worksheets: 
Maths - Revision work (Division)
English - Adjectives 
Gaeilge: An litir á 

This week is internet safety week. I have given an interview to each child to conduct on how technology has changed over time. Please sit with them while they complete the interview. 

Spellings: Pattern 'mis' 

1. mistake
2. misbehave
3. misuse
4. misplace
5. misled
6. misfire
7. misfit
8. mislay
9. misprint 
10. misfortune
11. mischief 
12. miserable
13. misconstruct 

Please write 3 super sentences using 2 spellings in each sentence. 
ie I had the misfortune to mislay my homework. 

Reader: Every child is working through their sails books, practicing their fluency and decoding skills.Please listen to your children reading 2-3 pages and ask them questions to help develop their comprehension. 

Gaeilge: pattern 'á' 
Please practice Irish Spellings nightly. 

1. cás
2. cáca
3. cárta
4. cupán
5. bláth
6. pláta
7. práta
8. urlár 

Please put 3 Irish spellings into sentences. 
ie Is maith liom cáca milis. 

Leigh sa bhaile: Leigh lch 9 agus 10. 
Can parents ask the children the questions that appear on the page and go through the tricky vocab in the corner. 

There is a parents resource page for this: http://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources. Use this website, by ticking Fouth class, Gaeilge, Léigh sa Bhaile D, then clicking view resources beside the page you are doing that night (lch9 - means page 9).

New Info: 
I have assigned the children an account on duolingo. They have a username and login under my classroom account. We will be using this for school work but it would also be helpful if they could login sometimes at home. Every few weeks I will assign tasks to complete in accordance with the topic being studied. ie Bia =Food. Could all children bring in a pair of earphones to use for this purpose next week. We have laptops on a Monday afternoon. 

25/09/2017

Just a reminder that parents night is tomorrow from 7.30 -8.30pm. Hope to see and meet some of you there. If you are unable to attend and would like the information given please send me an email. 


This week's homework: 

Maths - Worksheet Addition and Subtraction
Gaeilge - Worksheet An litir A
English - Worksheet Compound Words 

Please ensure children write their name on their worksheets. 

Spellings: Pattern 'ex' 

Export
Exit 
Excellent
Exclaim
Excavate
Explode
Excited
Exhale
Expand
Express
Exhausted
Explore
Expel 

Please write 5 sentences with 2 spellings in each sentence from our word list. 
This week may be challenging, you can be creative! 
ie Let's explore the Amazon, exclaimed Maria. 

Gaeilge: 
Spellings are differentiated into two groups. Your child will know which group of spellings to learn: 

Group 1: 
cailín
buachaill 
deirfúir
deartháir
tuismitheoirí 


Group 2: 
lampa
lacha
práta
cnag
capall
crann
fada
stad


Reading: 
Each child have been given a sails reader to practice their comprehension and reading fluency. If possible please read a page or two every evening. 


Leigh sa bhaile: 

Leigh lch 5-8. Please encourage children to do a small bit each night. 
Can parents ask the children the questions that appear on the page and go through the tricky vocab in the corner. 

There is a parents resource page for this: http://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources. 

Use this website, by ticking Fouth class, Gaeilge, Léigh sa Bhaile D, then clicking view resources beside the page you are doing that night (lch4 - means page 4)

View of September

Every month I'll endeavour to post a few classroom pics or videos of what we have been getting up to in 4th class. Hopefully this will give you a chance to see some of our creative projects as well as events and topics learned.


This year our classroom room has a Hogwarts feel, welcoming all our wizards and wizards back to school:

We got swept up in All Ireland hysteria. Here are some of our drama lessons:

In Art we are exploring mark making: