Hi everyone,

I hope that you are all well and are managing to access your tasks okay.

Mrs McHugh and I really loved looking at all of your colourful butterflies that you sent us on Teams yesterday.

Keep up the excellent work ! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Here are the tasks for today, Mrs Curran x💗

Literacy 

Today we are going to revise how to arrange words into the correct alphabetical order as we were working on this skill before we began our home learning.

Butterflies, here are  your alphabetical order tasks:

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Alphabetical order game

Beetles and Ladybirds, here are your alphabetical order tasks:

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Fruit Alphabetical Ordering Activity Sheet

Alphabetical order letter challenge

Numeracy 

Today we are all  going to apply our mathematical skills to some fun games! I hope that you enjoy them and tell me which game gets a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and why ! 😁

Checkers

Higher or Lower card game

Maths Goalie

Snowboard Slalom

😎Remember to log onto Sumdog every day to take part in the challenges and tasks .😎

Health and Well Being 

It is  Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 and  mental health is something that is really important, especially at the moment.

Can you take in the 7 day kindness challenge? You can ask an adult to help you with some of the tasks if  it involves preparing food or hot drinks etc.

Remember to complete this task if you haven’t already and post your pictures to @StJosephsPrima2 on Twitter! Happy painting! 🎨😁

Good morning girls and boys, I hope that you are all well and had a good weekend.

Thanks again to all of the children who managed to log on and take part in our Teams meeting on Friday with myself and Mrs McHugh, it was lovely speaking to you all. 👩👱‍♀️😊💗

We are looking forward to our next chat in a few weeks and maybe a little quiz? You can let us know if that’s something that you would like to do.😁💻

Have a good Monday! Mrs Curran x

Here are the tasks for today:

Literacy 

• From our reading books last week, I’ve created some jumbled sentences for each group to write in the correct order.

• Can you write a book review for your book so that other readers can decide to give your book a try ? I’ve added two  book review templates below for you to use or you can create your own at home.

Book-Review-Worksheet 1

Book-Review-Worksheet 2

Butterflies 🦋: Blackbirds

1. bill  has  bright and a black yellow  legs  feet.  and  He

2.   is he water. thirsty When he  drinks

3. sits  She them  hatch.  until they on

Beetles🕷: A place in Space: the Moon

1.  makes It tides in Earth’s seas. the   (Page 10)

2.  from  moon The  384, 400 about Earth. kilometres is   (Page 13)

3. astronauts Brave  the have to made Moon times. visits six   (Page 14)

4.   the of last The landing was  December  date  1972. Moon    (Page 15) 

Ladybirds 🐞: Tom Thumb and the Football Team – (Read chapters 3-7 please)

1. Tom It  right  down stomach.  its dark into swallowed  smelly  (Page 29)

2.   Arthur  teeny -tiny King saw  his When on the he to laugh.  table, Tom began (Page 33)

3. that “Flick  finger,   your with “said Tom.  you past if  can it  me. ”  get  “See   (Page 36)

4. opened she When  she door, Tom’s  laughed  cottage the and  cried. mother   (Page 38)

5. round and glistening the pitch But table, pearl. was big a was ball a the (Page 44)

Numeracy 

We are going to continue with the measuring work that Mrs McHugh began last week and use materials around our homes to measure different objects.

Cubes, Lego, spoons, pencils etc to measure the following objects and send me your results and what you used to measure them. Have fun!

1. An ipad, laptop or tablet :
2. A shoe:
3. Your school bag:
4. A book:
5. A pencil case:
6. A chair:
7. A television:
8. A toothbrush:

⭐Remember to Log on to Sumdog and complete the new competition for this week – Good luck! ⭐

Art  and Design 🎨🖼🖌

As it is still  the season of spring and some of you have been hatching your own butterflies at home, I thought that it would be nice to create our own butterfly pictures. Have a look at the video below and try to draw your own butterfly designs 🦋

Good morning boys and girls,

Happy Friday! I hope you have all had a great week. Remember today we have our class meet at 12 noon on teams. Just log on and join the call and hopefully we will be able to hear from you all. You will be able to see Mrs Curran and I but we won’t be able to see you but we will be able to see your name and hear you when you speak. Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Just a few tasks for today since we have our ‘chat’ today too.

Literacy 

Read – Read a book of your choice from home or from the oxford reading website if you don’t have anything to use from home. Read it aloud to someone at home and ask them to read a couple of pages for you too. Just like our Friday partner reading in class.

Dictation

Ask someone to dictate the sentence to you and you write it down without looking at it. You can have a read and practise looking at the sentence before trying to write it if you need to.

Primary 1

Watch this video about verbs before you complete the activity.https://youtu.be/4c6FyuetSVo

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Primary 1 complete activity 1 and check answers using the answer page with the help of someone at home.

Primary 2 complete activity 2 or 3 and check answers using the answer page with the help of someone at home.

Good morning boys and girls,

It’s Thursday again, the weeks are going by very fast and I hope you are all staying safe and enjoying being at home with your families. I was in the hub on Friday with some of our boys and girls, it was lovely to see them and made me miss you all even more. I can not wait for us all to be back together again. Mrs Curran and I thought it would be lovely to catch up with you all tomorrow on a teams meeting at 12pm if any of you are free to come on and say hi. It will just be an informal chat to find out how you all are. I hope to hear from some of you tomorrow. I think you just go on to teams at 12pm and click on the link and it connects us all, hopefully as you all know me and computers are not the best of friends are we?haha.

Todays tasks:

Grammar – Verbs

A verb is doing word. Watch the video below and complete the activity below. I will attach the link for the activity and video separate for some reason the actual video clips will not upload today.

Maths

Measure

If we were in school we would be learning about measure this month. I would like you to have a wee go at measuring some items at home. First of all we would use non-standard units of measure that is things that are not the same size so our hands, feet, arms, cubes, strides etc. I would like you to try to measure the length of some items at home using non-standard units of measure. You can do this outside and make it fun. Do it with someone else and see if you get the same amount? Why do you think you might not? If you and me measured the length of the garden using our feet, would we get the same amount of feet?

Sumdog

Log into sumdog and complete some of the challenges we have set you.

Art and Design

Make a thank you card for someone at home who has helped you with something recently maybe for you mum or dad or brother or sister who has helped you with something during this time.

Have a lovely day boys and girls. Thank you for all your hard work. Mrs Curran and I are delighted with how well you are all working at home.

Mrs McHugh x

Good morning girls and boys,

We hope that you are doing well and staying safe at home.

Here are your tasks for today.

Love Mrs Curran and Mrs McHugh xx👩👱‍♀️💗

Literacy

Today I would like everyone to read the poem below about the bug and then write your own poem about any animal you like.

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Remember not all poems have to rhyme but sometimes it’s easier to include some rhyming words to help you  get started !

Here’s a link to the BBC Bitesize page to give you some help to write your poem.            BBC Bitesize Poetry

Send  your poems to  Mrs McHugh and I to read either to the comments box or to our Teams page.

Have fun and we’re  sure that there are a lot of budding poets in our class! 📝😀

Numeracy 

All groups:

• Log onto Sumdog and complete the new Maths Assessments that I’ve set for you to revise all our number work so far this term.

• Challenge : Here’s are a  few little brain teasers  for you to keep you thinking!!! Can you work out the answers with some help?

Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?

A man was walking in the rain in the middle of nowhere without a coat or an umbrella. He got soaked, but not a single hair on his head was wet. How can this be?

It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it?

General Knowledge Quiz 2

It’s general knowledge time again!!🤔😎😁📝

Ask an adult to help you find out the answers to these general knowledge questions, but you will  know some of the answers without any help I’m sure!! .

I will post the answers here later on today! Good luck! 👍😁

1. What is the name given to an animal that only eats plants?

2. What is a mammal?

3. What is Dr Who’s time machine called?

4. What is the name of the organ that pumps blood around the body?

5. What two colours make up the flag of Spain?

6. How many hours are there in one day?

7. In “The Jungle Book”, what kind of animal is Baloo?

8. What is a Venus flytrap?

9. What is the currency  in Turkey ?

10. What is a baby goat called?

Update – Here are the answers to the brain teasers and the general knowledge quiz: 

Brain Teasers –

Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks? They weigh the same because they are both a pound!

A man was walking in the rain in the middle of nowhere without a coat or an umbrella. He got soaked, but not a single hair on his head was wet. How can this be? The man was bald! 

It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it? It is your breath. 

General Knowledge Quiz Answers:

1. A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants.

2. A mammal is an animal with a backbone,  breathes air and grows hair. Humans are mammals too .

3. Dr Who’s time machine is called a tardis.

4. The heart is the organ that pumps blood around the whole body.

5. Red and yellow are the two colours make up the flag of Spain.

6. There are 24 hours in one day.

7. Baloo from the Jungle Book is a bear.

8. The currency that is used in Turkey is the Turkish Lima

9. A Venus fly trap is a meat eating plant.

10. A baby goat is called kid.

Why don’t you give this a try and make someone smile! 😊😀