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MENTAL MATHS

CHALLENGE

MENTAL MATHS

CHALLENGE

MENTAL MATHS

CHALLENGE

MENTAL MATHS

CHALLENGE

MENTAL MATHS

CHALLENGE

DAILY QUIZ DAILY QUIZ DAILY QUIZ DAILY QUIZ DAILY QUIZ

MAGIC SQUARE PUZZLE

MAGIC SQUARE PUZZLE

MAGIC SQUARE PUZZLE

MAGIC SQUARE PUZZLE

MAGIC SQUARE PUZZLE

UNJUMBLE THIS MESS

WRITER’S DENSTORY TIME

YOU HAVE GOT TO READ ...

ALPHABET ANIMALS

POETRY: FRIENDS

QUESTION TIME

SO MANY MISTAKES!

CLOZE TEST TIME

MATHS STORY WORD WORKOUT

1. DAILY 2-MINUTE QUIZ 2. DAILY MENTAL MATHS 3. DAILY MAGIC SQUARE

A 10-question general knowledge audio quiz posted online every day at 9:00 a.m. Children listen to an audio file, where we call out the questions. They can write down their answers and later type them in the comment box provided. Answers are given the following day. A fun warm-up activity.Children can answer online

A 10-question mental maths audio activity posted online every day at 9:00 a.m. Children listen to an audio file, where we call out the questions.They can write down their answers and later type them in the comment box provided.Answers are given the following day. A fun HIGHER ORDER maths activity. Children cananswer online

A daily Magic Square challenge to complete. In aMagic Square, every row,column and diagonal all addup to make the same total. Aworksheet is provided withtips on how to completemagic-square puzzles.

WRITING ACTIVITIESMONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

PROCEDURE WRITING

NARRATIVE WRITING

PERSUASIVE WRITING

REPORT WRITING

NARRATVE WRITING

UNJUMBLE THIS MESS

WRITER’SDEN

MYFAVOURITE BOOK EVER

ALPHABET ANIMALS

POETRY: FRIENDS

Monday’s Writing Activity is based on the Procedure Writing genre. Here, children are asked to unjumble (reorder/ sequence) a series of sentences. A worksheet is provided.Children can also submit online. We will post a selection of letters to the website the following day (for World Nurses Day)

Tuesday’s Writing Activity is based on the Narrative Writing genre. Here, children are asked to write a short story for theWriter’s Den in News Flash. A worksheet is provided.

Children can also answer online by typing into the comment box provided.

Wednesday’s Writing Activity is based on the Persuasive Writing genre.Here, children are asked to write about their favourite book.The aim is to convince/ persuade other readers to read it.

A worksheet is provided, with tips on Persuasive Writing.

Thursday’s Writing Activity is based on the Report Writing genre. Here, children are given a letter (this week’s letter is D) and they must write a short report (series of facts) on an animal beginning with this letter. A worksheetis provided, with tips on Report writing.A worksheet is provided, with tips on good report writing.

Children can also post their writing online

Friday’s Writing Activity is based on the Narrative Writing genre. Here, children are asked to write a poem all about their friends.

A worksheet is provided. We will post a selection of poems to the website that day.

LITERACY & NUMERACY ACTIVITIESMONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

QUESTION TIME EDIT THE EDITOR CLOZE TEST TIME

MATHS STORY TIME

WORD WORKOUT

Monday’s comprehension activity requires the children to skim and scan their online edition of News Flash for the answers to 10 questions provided.Children can type their answers in the comment box provided, or download and print the related worksheet.

Tuesday’s grammar activity requires the children to edit and correct a news article related to this month’s News Flash. The children are given a list of what they need to find. E.g. spelling mistakes, incorrect words, punctuation, etc. Children can type their answers in the comment box provided, or download and print the related worksheet.

Wednesday’s Cloze Test activity requires the children to fill in the blanks (8) in a news article related tothis month’s News Flash. Children can type their answers in the comment box provided, or download and print the related worksheet.

Thursday’s Maths activity is in the form of a news article. A worksheet is provided with tips on how to complete the problems.

Friday’s vocabulary enrichment activity challenges the children to find words throughout the magazine that match the definitions provided. The clues also provide differentiation (page numbers, starting letters etc.). Children can type their answers in the comment box provided, or download and print the related worksheet.

Answer Sheet for your daily

MENTAL MATHS10 mental maths questions read aloud. You write down the answers

as quickly (and correctly) as you can! If we are going too fast for you, just play it again, and again, until you get all completed. We'll

reveal the answers tomorrow, before we begin the next one.

NAME:

DATE:

SCORE:

Answer Sheet for your

DAILY QUIZRight, before anyone asks you to do anything, be ready to shout: IN FIVE

MINUTES!As that's how long it will take you to complete this, we're thinking.

OK, enough of the intro, we want answers ... NOW!

NAME:

DATE:

SCORE:

UNJUMBLE THIS MESS!This week's procedure writing activity needs you to sort out the mess below. Each sentence contains the correct words but we need you to put them in the correct order or sequence. Once you do, your sentences should then make perfect sense.

Procedure Writing Activity: Monday, May 25

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lawn. I hear can dad mowing my the

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Comprehension Activity: Monday, May 25

QUESTION TIMEHow well have you read this month's sports section? Here, in Question Time, as well as testing your memory and retention skills, we also test your imagination and creative skills. Head to pages 27-30 to find your answers.

1. Who is the chairman of World Rugby?

2. Sam Bennett is famous for which sport?

3. Which team won the Champions League last year?

4. Who were the first team to win three All-Ireland Club titles in a row?

5. Augusta National Golf Club is in which US state?

6. Who are the Rugby World Cup champions?

7. In Italian soccer, what is the top league division called?

8. What country does Heung-Min Son play for?

9. What job does Galway footballer Nicola Ward work at?

10. In what year was the first German soccer championship played?

Daily Maths Activity -- Monday, May 25

MAGICSQUARESWhat is a Magic Square?

In a Magic Square, every row, column and diagonal all add up to make the same total.

In both of these magic squares, the sum is 12. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 12.

Narrative Writing Activity: Tuesday, May 26

WRITER'SDENTuesday’s Writing Activity invites you to write a short story on the cartoon below:

Grammar Activity: Tuesday, May 26

SO MANYMISTAKES!

This week’s grammar activity is based on the famous scientist Stephen Hawking.

Read through the article and see if you can spot the 10 spelling mistakes. do, in your best handwriting, fill in the

two grids below.

STEPHEN HAWKING10 SPELLING MISTAKES

Stephen Hawking, one of the best-known scientists in the woreld passed away on March 13, 2018. He died at his home in Cambridge, England.

Hawking was born in Oxford, England in 1942.

He was extremely intellegint although he didn’t do well in primery school.

However, he liked to find out how things worked and injoyed maths and science.

Stephen studied physics and chemistry at Oxford University. One of his teechers there described him as an extrawrdinary student.

He only used a few books and made no notes, but he could work out diffacult problems in a way no other student could.

When he was in his early twentys, Hawking was struck by a serious disease.

As his healt became worse, he had to use a wheelchair and a specail speech computer.

Hawking continued his scientific work and used his brilliant mind to write a best- selling book about science called A Brief History in Time.

A movie about his life called The Theory of Everything was released in December 2014.

Daily Maths Activity -- Tuesday, May 26

MAGIC SQUARESWhat is a Magic Square?

In a Magic Square, every row, column and diagonal all add up to make the same total.

In this magic square, the sum is 15. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 15.

In this magic square, the sum is 30. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 30.

Persuasive Writing Activity: Wednesday, May 27

YOU HAVE GOT TO READ ...

This week's writing activity needs you to convince the reader to either borrow or buy your favourite book. The whole point of this exercise is to persuade others to want to read it, so make sure you do your best book review ... ever! And don't give any spoilers!

My Book Cover Design

Cloze Test Activity: Wednesday, May 27

FILL IN THEBLANKS

This week’s cloze test is all about a Chinese space station that crashed in space! We’ve made it a bit trickier by taking out 8 words. This is called a cloze test. Read through the words first and make sure you understand them. Then, read through the article. Make sure you think about the best place to put a word, not the first place. Careful as you go, as some words may fit in a few places, while other words will only suit one place.

SPACE STATION CRASH!

It was all over in a (1).

The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 fell from space and entered Earth’s atmosphere onApril 1, 2018.

The (2) Tiangong means Heavenly Palace, but the space station is no more.

The satellite was launched in 2011 but China lost contact with it in 2016.

It has been out of (3) and hurtling towards Earth since then. Many people feared that the station, travelling at a speed of 27,000km/h, would cause serious (4) when it crashed to Earth.

However, experts told us that this was unlikely to happen.

Once it reached around 70km above the Earth it (5) down. The intense heat of re- entry melted the craft and it began to (6) apart. Only about one quarter of the doomed station actually fell to Earth.

Tiangong-1 was about 12m long and weighed around 9 tonnes – roughly the (7) of a

bus. The remains of the space station ended up in the South Pacific (8) in an area known as the spacecraft cemetery, so called because it’s where space agencies usually aim to land spacecraft which re-enter our atmosphere.

Daily Maths Activity -- Wednesday, May 27

MAGIC SQUARESWhat is a Magic Square?

In a Magic Square, every row, column and diagonal all add up to make the same total.

In both these magic squares, the sum is 15. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 15.

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2.

3.

4.

5.

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Report Writing Activity: Thursday, May 28

ALPHABET ANIMALSFor this week's Report Writing activity, we give you a letter

and you must write a short report (or a series of facts) on an animal beginning with it.

This week's letter is ...

Maths Activity: Thursday, May 28

MATHS STORYRead this week's Maths Story and see if you can solve the problems below. This is not a quick-fire maths activity, so take your time, have a working-out sheet beside you and adopt the RUDES approach:

1. READ carefully2. UNDERLINE (key words)3. DRAW a diagram if you need to. This often helps.4. ESTIMATE your answer5. SOLVE the problem.

eCall for Irish VehiclesSince April 1, 2018, all new cars and vans on Irish roads must be fitted with the eCall safety device. This also happened in all countries across the European Union (EU).

The eCall device, a small button fitted in the car or van, will contact Ireland’s emergency call answering service (ECAS) the moment the vehicle is involved in a serious crash. It will send details of the exact place where the accident took place. This should mean that ambulances and police will get to the scene of accidents more quickly and lives could possibly be saved.

Over 25,000 people lost their lives and 135,000 were seriously injured on EU roads in 2016. While this was slightly down on the 2015 figure, it is still way too high. Officials are hoping that eCall will help to greatly reduce the number of roads deaths within the EU in the next few years.

QUESTIONS1. If April 1 is a Wednesday, what day of the week will April 24 be?2. A garage charges €45 an hour for repairing a car. How much change will I have out

of €200if it takes 4 hours to fix my car?3. Diesel costs €1.20 a litre. How much will 50 litres of diesel cost?4. Jacqui paid €175 road tax and €465 motor insurance last year. How much did she pay in total?5. An ambulance crew left a hospital at 2.38 p.m. and arrived at the scene of an accident at exactly 3.00 p.m. How long did their journey take?6. Sarah can change a wheel on a car in 7 minutes. How many wheels could she change in one hour?7. A car weighs 982kg when empty and 1071kg when the driver is in it. What weight is the driver?8. A garage sold 8 Ford cars, 5 Skoda cars, 2 Renault cars, 10Toyota cars, and 3

Mazda cars one month. Show this information on a graph.

Daily Maths Activity -- Thursday, May 28

MAGIC SQUARESIn a Magic Square, every row, column and diagonal all add up to make the

same total.

In this magic square, the sum is 34. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 34.

In this magic square, the sum is 68. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 68.

Narrative Writing Activity: Friday, May 29

FRIENDSToday's theme: All about friendship

We want your poems -- long, short, exciting, sad, fun, scary, unbelievable, thrilling ... so we can share them with all our TPP readers. This week's challenge is to compose (write)

a poem (any type) about your family. You have acrostic, alphabet, haiku, limerick, sonnet, cinquain or free verse to choose from.

Sometimes, creating rhyming pairs related to the topic can help. Here are some that may help.

MIS

S

KIS

S

PLA

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DAY

BES

T

RES

T

LAUG

H

DAFT

FRIEN

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DEPEN

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Vocabulary Activity: Friday, May 29

WORD WORKOUTThis activity challenges you to find words throughout the magazine that match the definitions provided. The clues give you the page number, a description of the word , the first letter and the number of letters in the word. Sure, we nearly have it done for you! :)

LOCATION, Article/Paragraph CLUE (number of letters, first letter)

1. P30 Fitzgerald … Following one another, in a row (10,s)

2. P30 Fitzgerald … Superstar, famous person, celebrity. (6,l)

3. P26 My Babies Shown, displayed, exposed to view. (8,r)

4. P18 … Legacy A small booklet or leaflet. (8,p)

5. P13 History Country, sovereign state. (6,n)

6. P10 Tulip People from the Netherlands. (5,D)

7. P8 World War I Going to, heading towards. (5,3,b,f)

8. P7 Spot Síle A country in Central Asia. (12, T)

ANSWERS

Daily Maths Activity -- Friday, May 29

MAGIC SQUARES

In a Magic Square, every row, column and diagonal all add up to make the same total.

In this magic square, the sum is 42. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 42.

In this magic square, the sum is 50. That means each row, column and diagonal all add up to make 50.

ANSWERS

COMPREHENSION1. Bill

Beaumont2. Cycling3. Liverpool4. Corofin5. Georgia6. South Africa7. Serie A8. South Korea9. She is a

nurse10. 1903

SO MANY MISTAKES (GRAMMAR)

1. woreld/world2. intellegent/intelligent3. primery/primary4. injoyed/enjoyed5. teechers/teachers6. extrawrdinary/extraordinary7. diffacult/difficult8. twentys/twenties9. healt/health10. specail/special

CLOZE TEST

1. flash2. name3. control4. damage5. slowed6. break7. size8. Ocean

MATHS STORY

1. 6.5kg2. €43.753. 1 hour 35 minutes 4. €82.255. 3374

WORD WORKOUT

1. successive2. legend3. revealed4. pamphlet5. nation6. Dutch7. bound for8. Turkmenistan

UNJUMBLE THIS MESS!

1. I love to bake with my mammy.

2. I can hear my dad mowing the lawn.

3.A very loud cuckoo lives near my house.

4. I got a puncture on my bike last week.

5.Sunny days are great for playing outside.

6. I cannot wait to see my friends again.