Folens School At Home: 1st and 2nd Class Weekly Plan: Week 3

Introduction The purpose of Folens School at Home is to help parents support their child’s learning at home. Shortly after schools closed, we at Folens made all of our resources available for parents to use on FolensOnline. However, we understand that parents may not feel they have the time or expertise to pick and choose the most suitable activities for their child across multiple subjects. So, we turned to some experienced primary school teachers and asked them to put together a weekly plan for parents to use at home with their child. The purpose of the plan is to identify age-appropriate resources that can be used to help children learn and to provide some guidance to parents when using them. Each week, we will publish a new plan and accompanying digital resources for each of the three core subjects, English, Irish and Maths, as well SESE (History, Geography and Science). *We at Folens appreciate that these are challenging times for everyone and that many parents will have a limited amount of time to support their child’s learning. There is no pressure to complete every activity in the weekly plan – it can simply be used as a menu from which parents can pick and choose. Accessing the digital resources The digital resources can all be accessed from FolensOnline. For ease of use, we have included a link to each resource in the plan just below the thumbnail image of the resource. NB: In order to launch each resource, you will need to a) be logged into FolensOnline and b) copy and paste the link from the plan into your browser.

Registering with FolensOnline In order to login to FolensOnline you need to register. To do this:

1. Go to www.folensonline.ie and click ‘Register’ 2. Select ‘Teacher’

3. Fill in a username, email address and password

4. For ‘Roll Number’, use the code Prim20

5. Click ‘Register’. You will then be sent an email (check your 'Promotions' folder if using Gmail) to activate your account.

Thumbnail of image as it appears on FolensOnline

Link to Resource on FolensOnline. NB: You need to login to FolensOnline and then copy and paste the link into your browser

1st/2nd

English Reading: Recipe for a Smoothie Phonics: silent letter t

Gaeilge Ag péinteáil Scéal agus foclóir

Maths 100 Square Money

SESE History: How did the Narcissus get its name? Science: Caring for the environment: Trees

English Activity 1: Reading

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/Starlight/2nd_class/resources/activities/SL_02_ACT_CH14_012/index.html

Launch the resource Combined Reader – 6a Recipe for a Smoothie. Before reading: This is a procedural text. Watch the genre video to learn more about procedural texts. Ask your child to look out for and identify the features of procedural writing in the text as you read. Next, launch the flashcards. Read each flashcard with your child. Discuss the words. While reading: Encourage your child to read the text independently as much as possible. Click on each of the headphone icons to examine the text in further detail. After reading: Ask your child to recall the features of a procedural text. Next, launch the grammar activity. The focus is on the homophones there, their, or they’re and its or it’s. Ask your child to complete the grammar activity. Finally, print out the worksheet (English: Activity 1 (Recipe for a Smoothie)) included at the end of this document. Have your child complete the worksheet.

Activity 2: Silent letters: t

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/SoundsMakeWords/2nd_Class/resources/games/SMW_02_GAME_006/index.html

The objective of this lesson is for your child to recognise that some words contain a silent t that is not spoken. They should also begin to understand that some words are spelled differently from how they are pronounced. Print the worksheet (English: Activity 2 (Silent letters: t)) at the end of this document. Read the ‘silent t’ words with your child. Encourage your child to tick the correct word to match the pictures. Now launch the silent letters: word identification game on Folensonline. Play the game to practise the silent letter words with your child.

Gaeilge Activity 1: Póstaer

Launch the poster Ag Péinteáil (Painting) Click on the button called ‘Scéal’ (Story). Listen to the story with your child. The audio and translation are given below. Tá gach duine sa bhaile (Everyone is at home). Tá siad ag péinteáil (They are painting). Tá Mamaí agus Seán sa chistin (Mum and Seán are in the kitchen). Tá Daidí agus Síofra sa seomra suite. (Dad and Síofra are in the sitting room) Tá Mamó sa seomra folctha (Granny is in the bathroom) Tá Daideo agus Oisín san áiléar. (Dad and Oisín are in the attic) Play the story once a day so that your child becomes familiar with the language. Help them to understand the story. You can use the spotlight tool to explore the poster and highlight different items.

Activity 2: Foclóir game

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/AbairLiom/1st_class/resources/Poster/AL_1C_ACT_Postaer_L24_001/index.html

Launch the poster Ag Péinteáil (Painting). Open the foclóir activities. Encourage your child to listen and identify the correct pictures. The vocabulary you will need is provided below.

Fóclóir 1

thuas staighre (upstairs) síleáil (ceiling) an seomra suite (sitting room) thíos staighre (downstairs) an seomra codlata (bedroom) an halla (the hall) an seomra folctha (bathroom) balla (wall) an t-áiléar (attic) an chistin (the kitchen) Fóclóir 2

leaba (bed) tolg (couch) leithreas (toilet) teilifís (TV) cuisneoir (fridge) bosca (box)

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/AbairLiom/1st_class/resources/Poster/AL_1C_ACT_Postaer_L24_001/index.html

péint (paint) bord (table) dréimire (ladder) scuab (brush)

Maths Activity 1: Number, 100 Square

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM2/resources/activitya/pm_2c_017/index.html

Launch the activity Number Squares on Folensonline to warm up before this week’s maths lesson. Play the game with your child. Next, look at the 100 square (this is included in the worksheet at the end of this document). Ask your child questions about the hundred square, e.g: - Show me a number with 7 units - Show me a number with 3 tens - Show me an odd number higher than 50 - Show me an even number lower than 20 - What is 10 more than 59? - What is 20 less than 68? Choose a number. Write it down and hide it from your child. Have your child ask you yes or no questions to find out what number it is, e.g.

• Is it higher than 50?

• Is it odd or even?

• If I add 5, will I get 20? etc.

Activity 2: Money

https://content.folensonline.ie/pr

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The objective here is for your child to recognise, exchange and use coins up to the value of 50c (1st class) and €2 (2nd class). Gather a selection of coins. Ask your child to sort them in different ways (e.g. by colour, by size, by value). Ask your child to order the coins from the least value to the highest value. Now Launch and play the digital warm up activity for this lesson on Folensonline. Once your child is confident in recognising the coins, call out different amounts and ask them to place coins on the table to that value. Next, ask your child to close their eyes and place some coins on the table. Ask your child to open their eyes and count how much is there. Encourage them to start with the biggest coin first.

Finally, print out and ask your child to complete the money worksheet (Maths: Activity 2: Money) included at the end of this document.

SESE (Social, Economic, Scientific Education) Activity 1: How did the narcissus get its name?

History: How did the narcissus get its name?

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/Explorers/Explorers2C/resources/demonstrations/EX_02_DEMO_041/index.html

To begin, print out, read and discuss the story of Narcissus on the worksheet included at the end of this document (SESE: Activity 1A: How did the narcissus get its name?) You might find it helpful to watch this video on Youtube about Narcissus (Echo and Narcissus by Bedtime Stories Collection) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMjXb0Epam8. Now launch Unit 07. Plants – History: The Story of Narcissus. Help your child to fill in the blanks in the story. Ask your child to draw pictures to summarise the story in chronological order, and then to write sentences beneath each picture to retell the story. They can use the worksheet below for this (SESE: Activity 1B: Storyboard: How did the narcissus get its name?).

Activity 2: Caring for the environment

Geography: Caring for the Environment

https://content.folensonline.ie/pr

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Launch Unit 07. Plants: Geography - Caring for the Environment.

Read and discuss the tips and ideas on caring for our environment.

If possible, visit a tree in your locality with your child. Examine the features of the tree. Discuss its parts and the colour, shape and texture of the bark and leaves. Note minibeasts or animals living in or near it. Make leaf and bark rubbings. Take a photo of the tree.

Read about the silver birch tree on the worksheet below (SESE Activity 2: Caring for the Environment.) Have your child complete the fact file about the silver birch tree. Next, encourage your child to write a factfile about the tree you visited, or another type of tree of their choice.

You may want to watch a video about silver birch trees on Youtube (A Year in The Life of a Silver Birch by the Woodland Trust) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNRKyaBAok

Finally, you can learn more about trees here: www.dkfindout.com/uk/search/trees

Worksheets English: Activity 1 (Recipe for a Smoothie)

English: Activity 2 (Silent letters: t)

Maths: Activity 1 (100 Square)

Maths: Activity 2: Money

SESE: Activity 1A: How did the narcissus get its name?

SESE: Activity 1B: Storyboard: How did the narcissus get its name?

SESE Activity 2: Caring for the Environment