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Folens School at Home: 5th & 6th 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 down, 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, Gaeilge 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 be logged in to FolensOnline.

Registering with FolensOnline In order to login in 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 will need to be logged in to FolensOnline to launch each resource.

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Folens School at Home: 5th & 6th Class 2 11 May–15 May

Week 3 Overview English Poetry: ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright

Oral Language: Famous Artists Gaeilge Scéal: Tír na nÓg (Story: Land of the Young)

Gramadach: Briathra neamhrialta – ‘Téigh’ (Grammar: Irregular verbs – ‘to go’)

Maths Shape and Space – Lines and Angles Number Theory – Factors

SESE Geography: Brazil – From Amazon to Carnival History: Irish Literature: The Golden Age

English Activity 1: Poetry

Starlight 6th Class: Poster – 10. Famous Artists

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/Starlight/6th_class/resources/activities/SL_06_ACT_CH10_001/index.html

Launch the interactive poster: Poster 10 – Famous Artists. Select the Poem mode. Listen to the poem, ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. Then encourage your child to practise reading the poem with appropriate intonation and pacing, paying particularly close attention to the punctuation.

Discuss the following questions: • What kind of pictures do you have in your mind as you read this

poem? How do these pictures make you feel? • What do you think the magic box might be? Is it a real box, or does

it represent something else? • How does the poet’s choice of colour words affect the poem? • How many of the things listed in the poem are

tangible/concrete/physical items? How many are abstract/concepts/ideas?

• What do you think the message of this poem is?

Ask your child to consider what their magic box would be made of? Why did they choose these materials? Writing Activity: Encourage your child to write a poem using the richest descriptions possible and include as many carefully chosen adjectives and adverbs as they can.






Activity 2: Oral Language

Starlight 6th Class: Poster – 10. Painting: Famous Artists


Launch the interactive poster: Poster 10 – Famous Artists.

Before Listening: Select the Explore mode and ask your child the following questions:

• What is art? • What is contemporary art?

Play the video in the link below to watch children attempt to answer the questions ‘What is contemporary art?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UMzvkeuMlA

During Listening: Listen to either the Starters (simpler) or Flyers (more challenging) mode. Pause as necessary to check that your child understands.

After Listening: Select the Question mode of the poster. Play each question and discuss the answers with your child.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UMzvkeuMlA


Gaeilge Activity 1: Scéal (Story)

Abair Liom H – 6th Class: Scéal – 18. Tír na nÓg

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/AbairLiom/6th_class/resources/passage/AL_6C_ACT_CH18_003/index.html

Launch the story: Scéal – 18. Tír na nÓg

Before Reading: Open the Foclóir (Vocabulary) mode. Read through the foclóir and nathanna (phrases) with your child. Check that they understand and know how to read each word. Keep note of these words to identify when listening to the scéal.

Foclóir (Vocabulary) Nathanna (Phrases) • laoch (hero) • is dathúla (the most

handsome) • cuireadh (invite) • rogha (choice) • tinneas (sick/pain) • bás (death) • uaigneach (loneliness) • cuairt (visit) • croíbhríste (heartbroken) • marbh (dead) • a ndícheall (their best)

• ar feadh tamaill (for a while) • beagáinín (in a little bit) • ar aghaidh le ___ (continued

on) • ní raibh tásc ná tuairisc

ar ___ (there was no sign of him)

• i bpreabadh na súl (in the blink of an eye)

During Reading: Open the Scéal (Story) mode. Play the story for your child. Pause regularly to discuss what has happened and to check their understanding of the story. Use a dictionary to look up any words they do not understand. If you do not have a dictionary at home, try: https://www.teanglann.ie/en Play the story again and ask your child to read along. Then ask them to read the story independently if they can. After Reading: Ask your child to draw a comic strip to retell the story of Tír na nÓg. Encourage them to add speech bubbles and captions in Irish.






Activity 2: Gramadach (Grammar)

Abair Liom: An réimneoir

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/AbairLiom/6th_class/resources/conjugator/AL_6C_ACT_CH01_007/V/index.html

Abair Liom H – 6th Class: p. 152

Launch the verb conjugator: An réimneoir.

Select the Neamhrialta (irregular) tab and the verb Téigh (to go). Then select ‘Aimsir Chaite’ (Past Tense), ‘Aimsir Láithreach’ (Present Tense) and Aimsir Fháistineach (Future Tense). Then press the ‘Ar aghaidh’ button to proceed.

Practise each form of the verb with your child. Begin with the mé (me), tú (you), sé (he), sí (she) forms. Then the plural forms sinn (we), sibh (you plural), siad (they). And finally, the question and negative forms.

Complete the grammar exercises on p. 152 of Abair Liom H – 6th Class. A printable copy of the page is included at the end of this document






Maths Activity 1: Shape and Space: Lines and Angles

Planet Maths 6th Class: Lines and Angles

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM6/resources/activitya/pm_6c_035/index.html Planet Maths: 6th Class Estimating Angles

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM6/resources/activities/pm_6c_036b/index.html

Launch the activity: Lines and Angles Use the activity to revise different types of angles: obtuse, straight, right, acute. Make a table similar to the one below:

Obtuse

Straight

Right

Acute

Identify angles that you can find in your home and record them in the table. Launch the activity: Estimating Angles Use the activity to practise estimating the size of an angle. Remind your child that an angle is measured in degrees.

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM6/resources/activitya/pm_6c_035/index.html









Activity 2: Number: Number Theory – Factors

Planet Maths 5th Class: Factor Planets

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM5/resources/activities/pm_5c_081/number.html Planet Maths 5th Class: Finding Factors

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM5/resources/activities/pm_5c_081a/number.html

Ask your child to count forwards and backwards in 3’s, 4’s, etc. Launch the activity: Factor Planets Use the activity to practise identifying factors.

Launch the activity: Finding Factors Use this activity to practise finding the factors of a number.

https://content.folensonline.ie/programmes/PlanetMaths/PM5/resources/activities/pm_5c_081/number.html









SESE (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) Activity 1: Geography

Explorers Geography 5th Class: 12. Brazil – From Amazon to Carnival, pp. 68–73

The relevant pages are included at the end of this document. Read the introduction and keywords on p. 68 together. Ask your child if they understand the keywords and have they come across any of the words before? What do they already know about Brazil? Read the chapter together. Stop to discuss the ‘Map It’ activity on p. 71 and search for Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília. Ask your child to answer the ‘Fact Finding’ questions on p. 73 orally. For a further challenge, have your child answer the ‘Explore More’ questions that follow. Have your child complete the ‘Working as a Geographer: Using Pictures, Maps and Models’ activity on p. 73.

Activity 2: History

Explorers History 5th Class: 12. Irish Literature: The Golden Age, pp. 64–67

The relevant pages are included at the end of this document.

Read the introduction and keywords on p. 64 together. Ask your child if they understand the keywords, and have they come across any of the words before? What does your child already know about Irish Literature?

Read the chapter together. Stop to discuss the ‘History Hunt’ on p. 66. Information about Oscar Wilde can be viewed on this site https://www.tcd.ie/OWC/history/oscar.php Ask your child to answer the ‘Fact Finding’ questions on p. 76 orally. For a further challenge, have your child answer the ‘Explore More’ questions that follow. Have your child complete the ‘Working as a Historian: Synthesis and Communication’ activity on p. 67

https://www.tcd.ie/OWC/history/oscar.php


Printables Gaeilge – Activity 2: Gramadach (Grammar)

Abair Liom H – 6th Class: p. 152


SESE (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) – Activity 1: Geography Explorers Geography & Science 5th Class: 12. Brazil – From Amazon to Carnival, pp. 68–73


SESE (Social, Environmental and Scientific Education) – Activity 2: History Explorers History 5th Class: 12. Brazil – From Amazon to Carnival, pp. 64–67

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