Hi girls, I hope you’re all keeping well as we enter a new week and a new month. A very big Happy Birthday to all the May babies I hope you have a great day.
A few quick things to fill you in on for this week:
- I hope you all had a really fun Active home week and took part in some of the fun activities on the website. Ms Kennedy kindly put together a video showing you what us teachers got up to during active home week and how we kept active. Here's a link to the video, hope you enjoy it! This week you can stay active and challenge yourself to any of the dances, routines etc you see in the video.
- On Sunday 3rd of May, at 6.30pm RTÉ will be showing a programme called ‘Creative Kids’. Some students from Warrenmount will feature so make sure to watch to see some familiar faces.
- Also there is a new mobile number for the school if anyone wishes to contact the Principal. You will find the new number on the website page. You can also contact me by email at ciara.carty@warrenmountprimary.com
Well done on completing your work last week. Thank you also to those who got in contact with me and sent me on pictures of their cool projects, it was lovely to hear from you. If anyone else wants to send on any stories, pictures you drew, projects or to say hello you can email me.
Again like last week, here is your maths work for this week:
And your English work for this week.
Mr Cullen's guided reading group: http://www.warrenmountprimary.com/Fourth-Class-Ms-Carty/Mr-Cullens-Reading-Group/55847/Index.html
Mr Bonner's guided reading group: http://www.warrenmountprimary.com/Fourth-Class-Ms-Carty/Mr-Bonners-Reading-group/56284/Index.html
Ms Staunton's guided reading group: http://www.warrenmountprimary.com/Fourth-Class-Ms-Carty/Ms-Stauntons-reading-group/56721/Index.html
Ms Carty's guided reading group: http://www.warrenmountprimary.com/Fourth-Class-Ms-Carty/Ms-Cartys-reading-group/57158/Index.html
Everything else you will find below.
Stay safe and I miss you all,
Ms Carty.
This weeks poem of the week is another Roald Dahl one called 'The Ant Eater'
Read the poem first and then read it aloud with the youtube clip. You can even say it for your family.
Activities:
- Pick your favourite verse and illustrate it (draw a picture).
- Make connections to the poem
- With someone else in your house or on your own choose a character and play the poem on youtube and act it out. (drama) You can email me whatever creative twist you do on the poem.
The Ant-Eater
by Roald Dahl
Some wealthy folks from U.S.A.,
Who lived near San Francisco Bay,
Possessed an only child called Roy,
A plump and unattractive boy –
Half-baked, half-witted and half-boiled,
But worst of all, most dreadfully spoiled.
Whatever Roy desired each day,
His father bought him right away –
Toy motorcars, electric trains,
The latest model aeroplanes,
A colour television-set,
A saxophone, a clarinet,
Expensive teddy-bears that talked,
And animals that walked and squawked.
That house contained sufficient toys
To thrill a half a million boys.
(As well as this, young Roy would choose,
Two pairs a week of brand-new shoes.)
And now he stood there shouting, “What
“On earth is there I haven’t got?
“How hard to think of something new!
“The choices are extremely few!”
Then added, as he scratched his ear,
“Hold it! I’ve got a good idea!
“I think the next thing I must get
“Should be a most peculiar pet –
“The kind that no one else has got –
“A giant ANT-EATER! Why not?”
As soon as father heard the news,
He quickly wrote to all the zoos.
“Dear Sirs,” he said, “My dear keepers,
“Do any of you have ant-eaters?”
They answered by return of mail.
“Our ant-eaters are not for sale.”
Undaunted, Roy’s fond parent hurled
More messages across the world.
He said, “I’ll pay you through the nose
“If you can get me one of those.”
At last he found an Indian gent
(He lived near Delhi, in a tent),
Who said that he would sacrifice
His pet for an enormous price
(The price demanded, if you please,
Was fifty thousand gold rupees).
The ant-eater arrived half-dead.
It looked at Roy and softly said,
“I’m famished. Do you think you could
“Please give me just a little food?
“A crust of bread, a bit of meat?
“I haven’t had anything to eat
“In all the time I was at sea,
“For nobody looked after me,”
Roy shouted, “No! No bread or meat!
“Go find some ants! They’re what you eat!”
The starving creature crawled away.
It searched the garden night and day,
It hunted every inch of ground,
But not one single ant it found,
“Please give me food!” the creature cried.
“Go find an ant!” the boy replied.
By chance, upon that very day,
Roy’s father’s sister came to stay –
A foul old hag of eighty-three
Whose name, it seems, was Dorothy.
She said to Roy, “Come let us sit
“Out in the sun and talk a bit,”
Roy said, “I don’t believe you’ve met
“My new and most unusual pet?”
He pointed down among the stones
Where something lay, all skin and bones.
“Ant-eater!” He yelled. “Don’t lie there yawning!
“This is my ant! Come say good-morning!”
(Some people in the U.S.A.
Have trouble with the words they say.
However hard they try, they can’t
Pronounce simple words like AUNT.
Instead of AUNT, they call it ANT,
Instead of CAN’T, they call it KANT.)
Roy yelled, “Come here, you so and so!
“My ant would like to say hello!”
Slowly, the creature raised its head.
“D’you mean that that’s an ant?” it said.
“Of course!” cried Roy. “Ant Dorothy!
“This ant is over eighty-three.”
The creature smiled. Its tummy rumbled.
It licked its starving lips and mumbled,
“A giant ant! By gosh, a winner!
“At last I’ll get a decent dinner!
“No matter if it’s eighty-three.
“If that’s an ant, then it’s for me!”
Then, taking very careful aim,
It pounced upon the startled dame.
It grabbed her firmly by the hair
And ate her up right then and there,
Murmuring as it chewed the feet,
“The largest ant I’ll ever eat.”
Meanwhile, our hero Roy had sped
In terror to the potting-shed.
And tried to make himself obscure
Behind a pile of horse-manure.
But ant-eater came sneaking in
(Already it was much less thin)
And said to Roy, “You little squirt,
“I think I’ll have you for dessert.”
Gaeilge
We are going to stick with Caitheamh Aimsire this week. Continue to practice your sayings and learning the spellings to the words below.
- Here is another link to help you with your every day Iirsh. https://www.cula4.com/ga/
- Here's a powerpoint that will help you this week learn all about your Caitheamh Aimsire (Hobbies) . It is on twinkl so you will need to have an account - if you still havnt joined up look back to my first post on the website here or on the sheets I gave you before we finished up
- https://www.twinkl.ie/resource/roi-gl-264-caitheamh-aimsire-powerpoint
- Below is a picture of Caitheamh Aimsire - Learn off the spellings and put them into sentences over the week with the powerpoint to help.
- Here are a few games: Cluiche (When you click into the games you might see a menu, choose "An Mhumhain" and click "roghnaigh". This chooses the type of Irish (or dialect) that the children will hear
PE
I hope you all had a super fun Active home week. If you havn't already seen the activities we put up on the website you can check them here for this week http://www.warrenmountprimary.com/News/Active-Home-Week-2020/72016/Index.html . There's lots of fun activities to choose form like Zumba, yoga and many more.
Cosmic Kids Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Joe Wicks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBvQafyve889qVcPxYEjdSTl
Go Noodle:www.gonoodle.com ( You can choose any exercise you like).
Ten at ten: https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/ (RTE Junior have a number of videos with exercises that you can follow).
Beyond the classroom: https://www.scoilnet.ie/pdst/physlit/beyond/ This will help children with their fundamental movements.
If you can go outside then go for a walk, run, scoot or play with a ball (don’t forget social distancing and only exercising/playing with people that you live with).
SESE
Geography
- Well done on completing the Counties of Ireland quiz last week. If any of you missed it here's the link again:https://www.rte.ie/learn/2020/0420/1132600-3rd-and-4th-class-geography-leinster/
- This week we are going to concentrate on Nature and getting outside (within the 2km for a nature walk) I would like you to collect as many materials as possible from the outside and make a picture. It could be a person, an animal, a building anything you want but only using nature. Here is an example of work:
Science
- This week we are going to look back at Solar System. Here's a fun song for you to learn.
- Here are the Lyrics:
"We are the planets"
We are the planets of the solar system
Different sizes for everyone
We are such good friends
The music never ends
And we all orbit the sun
Here comes the sun rapping first on this track from the beginning
I'm the center of the solar system
Planets be spinning around me
So hot
Im roasting you see
Now I pass the mic
To planet closest to me
Mercury the smallest planet
Small as earth's moon (yo!)
I get super hot and cold and I spin very slow
I'm Venus
I got mountains and volcanoes that spray
I'm the same size as Earth but spin the opposite way
I'm Earth
I'm the home to every boy an girl
Such beautiful, beautiful world
I'm Mars
The red planet I got deserts and ice
I got two moons
That's like one moon twice
I'm Jupiter
The biggest planet
I'm humongous, gargantuan
I spin the fastest
Rap the fastest
Plus I'm handsome
Blam, son!
Oh please
I'm Saturn
Check out my beautiful rings
Made out of billions of rocks, dust and other things
I'm Uranus
I say that with pride
Okay, I lied
I'm embarrassed because I'm the only planet lying on it's side
I'm Neptune
I'm cold, dark, windy and mysterious
I'm very stormy, so bring an umbrella
I'm serious!
We are the planets of the solar system
Different sizes for everyone
The music never ends
We are such good friends
And we all orbit the sun
Activities:
- Make a solar system display and email it to me. Include key facts and features (such as its size, distance from the sun, moons etc). You can make it with any material like papier-mâché or any other materials around your house.
- https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html This is a really cool site on NASA to help you learn more facts about the Solar System.
Art
- You can look back at last weeks art lesson if you want to do more fun creative images.
You can also do some more guided drawing lesson on youtube.
Or try make one of these people using some paper. You could use plain paper and design the dress.
Music
Meditation
- www.otb.ie/This is the link for weaving wellbeing and go to Mindfulness Meditations. You could get your family to join in with you.