Hi 6th Class,
I hope you are all keeping safe and well at home and keeping busy. Below is a plan of work for the next two weeks: 04.05.20 – 15.05.20. As always it is a list of what we would have been doing for the next fortnight if we were in school, but just do as much as you can, there is no pressure to complete it all.
Maths.
- Complete the next two weeks in Mental Maths.
- Continue to revise your tables. Ask someone at home to test you. See if you can answer all 12 tables in a certain time frame such as 30 seconds.
- Play Hesitation with someone at home.
- Mathemagic: Chapter 37, Pg: 155. This chapter is called Data. Data is a collection of information that can be analysed and patterns emerge. They can be represented by Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Pictograms and Tallies and by numbers. Work your way through the data chapter over the next two weeks. You will see that average comes up a good bit. Remember to find the average: Add up all the numbers and Divide by the amount of numbers.
- Create your own bar charts and line graphs etc with someone at home. See how many people prefer certain things like animals, colours, particular foods and represent that data in your copies.
English.
- SPWB: Complete each activity in Units 28 and 29. Put each of the words into sentences. Use a dictionary to look up the meaning of each word.
- Racing Ahead: Read the stories: The Maguires (pg: 218) and A Smile (pg: 229), and answer the activities that follow.
- Better English: Read the comprehensions in Unit 28 and answer the questions that follow.
- Handwriting Workbook: Continue on, do at least one page a day.
- Creative writing: Write a story where it’s the first day of school and your character find a note on their locker door with a surprising message. Write the text of a debate you would have: School should use iPads rather than books.
- Sentences: Put each of the verbs in the box below into a sentence. Use a dictionary to look up the word if you are not sure of its meaning.
Gaeilge.
- Read the story Cuairt an Uachtaráin on page: 124 and answer the questions and activities that follow.
- Verb: Fan (To Stay) – Fanaim, Fanann tú, sé, sí, Fanaimid, Fanann sibh, siad.
- Verb: Inis (To Tell) – Inisim, Iniseann tú, sé, sí, Inisimid, Iniseann sibh, siad.
Project Work
- Create and complete a project on Egypt. Include details on traditions, kings, beliefs, cultures and the pyramids. Remember to include facts in your own words – don’t just copy and paste from the internet.
History
- The Normans. Use this link to study the Normans: http://askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/looking-at-places/wicklow/wicklow-history/the-normans/index.xml
- Research the times of the Normans. Examine evidence that is available.
- Find the answers to these questions. It’s a True or False choice.
- 1) The Normans were descended from Vikings and were fierce warriors!
- 2) Their leader was a Frenchman named Norman and that's why they were called Normans.
- 3) In 1169, The Normans were invited to Ireland by the King of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada.
- 4) Richard De Clare’s nickname was 'Strongbow’.
- 5) Strongbow had a brother named ‘Weakarrow’.
- 6) The Normans introduced the English language to Ireland.
Norman Helmets
- Why not try to make a Norman helmet that they would have worn during battles? Below are the steps used to make one.
What you need:
- Piece of string, Balloon, Cereal box, Scissors, Sellotape, PVA Glue, Paintbrushes, Paint (whatever colour you want), Strips of old newspaper, Tinfoil, Stapler.
Step 1: Measure the width of your head using a piece of string, so you know what size the helmet needs to be.
Step 2: Blow up a balloon, with the string around it so you know when it's the right size and you should stop inflating it.
Step 3: Cut out the front or back of a cereal box.
Step 4: Stick a strip of tape along the long side of the cardboard.
Step 5: Gently attach the cardboard side with the tape, around the balloon. This forms the back part of the helmet.
Step 6: Cover the balloon with PVA glue.
Step 7: Stick strips of newspaper on to the balloon, using your glue paste. Cover the cardboard with glue as well.
Step 8: Cover the newspaper strips with paste once you've stuck them on.
Step 9: Wait for the paper mache to dry then paint over it and the cardboard, so you have a fully painted helmet. When all of that is dry, burst the balloon and remove it from the hardened paper mache.
Step 10: Place a thin strip of cardboard on some tinfoil and cut around it, leaving enough tinfoil to fully cover the strip.
Step 11: Staple the strip of tinfoil to the front of the hat in the middle.
Here is a link with images on how to make the helmets: https://static.rasset.ie/documents/learn/2020/04/en-worksheet-5-6-tues28-history.pdf
Geography
- Research Ireland and how it has changed. Look at the chapter in your History / Geography book for an idea on what Dublin looked like years ago.
- Project work: Create a small project on Ireland.
PE
Music
- Sebastian has kindly shared a link with us for you to follow. Everything he has done on the video can be done at home using easily-found items to make some music. Give it a go! https://youtu.be/tQ9bfUGssM4
Please remember to complete some piece of work each day. This encourages independent learning and it is a skill that you will use next year in secondary school. It is vital that you are all in some sort of routine in keeping up with your school work. Put in the work now and it will benefit you. Please stay at home and stay safe. Remember to send on some photos of the work you have completed to mr.connaire.qoa@gmail.com
Best wishes,
Mr. Connaire.