Hey everyone
Big Hi to Kate, Kayleigh, Leah, Maci, Carragh, Jade, Tatum, Sophie, Aoibheann, Leona, Darren, Harry, Adam, Ryan, Paudie, Conor, Tommy & Ben & Conn in ACB!!!
Big Happy Birthday to Adam on Monday June 8th. Hope you have a super day Adam full of surprises & fun. A big 7 years old!!
Welcome back to another week of home schooling!!!! Oh my goodness, where did the Summer sun go to this week!!! Let's hope it will come back all this week for our Virtual School Tour Week. Please remember to put on sunscreen every morning, top up during the day, wear a sunhat with a peak & drink plenty of cold fluids
This week we should have been going on our end of year school tour, heading off on the bus, yummy packed lunches, fabulous t-shirts, dripping with sun-scream & bursting with excitement!! Unfortunately Covid 19 has changed our plans!!! So Ms. Casey, Ms Keogh, Ms Hannigan & I had to put our thinking caps on & get creative. This week we have put together 2 virtual school tours for you to travel on.
All classes from Junior Infants - 2nd Class will be going on the same virtual tours. We have also put together a range of activities linking with the tours that will hopefully cater for all ages and abilities.
Áras an Uachtaráin Virtual Tour
Our first tour is based on our President's home - Áras an Uachtaráin in Co. Dublin, the capital of Ireland. On this tour, you get the opportunity to see inside this important building and there is also a choice board of activities you can do based on this tour. Some choices include; creating a menu for the President, building your own Áras an Uachtaráin from lego and hearing stories such as 'The President's Cat'.
Aquarium Virtual Tour
The next tour is set in an aquarium where you join Blippi as he gets up close and personal with penguins, sharks, sting rays and lots more. There is also a choice board of activities based on the aquarium which include; water based experiments,writing underwater poems and creating your own beach scene in a shoebox.
Disney World Virtual Tour
Just for fun we've included this virtual tour that brings you to Disney World. This link brings you to a PDF page but if you click on the pictures, they will allow you to view the parades / the rides / the fireworks. Enjoy!
As always, you can do as many or as few of the activities as you wish and please send on any pictures that you would like to appear on the Class Blog.
S.P.H.E
This week, the children are on Topic 3 'Touches', Lesson 2 'Never Keep a Touch a Secret' (p. 53).This is quite a sensitive lesson and a very important one to be done with your children. In the Teacher's Resources section, the following 3 activities are based on this lesson;
TR13 - Some parts of our bodies are private, TR14 - What if ....slides and TR15 - The Tickling Game.
We would kindly ask that you would continue to make S.P.H.E a priority each week until we complete the Stay Safe programme.
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Collection of Children's Belongings - Message from our Principal
School will open on Friday June 12th from 10am - 3pm for the following:
For parents to return any rental books to school such as Planet Maths, Read at Home, etc. - see list below this article!
For parents to return any readers (such as PM readers for the junior end) and any library books that your child is finished with. (We have no problem allowing parents to borrow school library books until the libraries in town re-open)
For parents to collect items such as dictionaries, calculators, tin whistles, pencil cases, art work etc. These will be left in family bundles in the GP Room.
School reports will be left on family bundles also.
5th class parents will collect an envelope with the name of their Junior Infant Buddy inside!
6th class parents will collect some information about their Graduation on Friday June 26th (or Monday June 29th at 7pm, if raining!)
Next year's Junior Infant parents can collect a Welcome Pack. Their new teacher Ms. Deirdre Franey will be there from 1 - 3pm to say hello and if you don't know the school you can take a quick peep around. Parents only please.
I will also be there to meet any parents who come in. Other members of staff may be present also.
Please follow all public health guidelines and we ask you to remember the following:
Parents to line up 2 metres apart at marked out areas.
Only one family (parents only) at a time will be allowed to access the building.
Parents will enter through main school entrance door and exit through GP room door.
We ask you all to make a huge effort to collect all items and return school rental books. We do need to do a big clean in our school and therefore ensure that all pupil equipment/materials are sent home.
We thank you for your co operation.
Thanking you. I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Stay safe,
Audrey
School Rental Books to be returned
Senior Infants; Each child has one P.M reader to return
2nd class; Read at Home – Second Class, Planet Maths Satellite Book – Second Class
3rd/ 4th class; Planet Maths, Treasury, Read at Home, Léigh sa Bhaile, School library book
4th /5th class; Planet Maths, Treasury
6th class ; Planet Maths, Read at Home, Treasury, EarthLink, Léigh sa Bhaile, Grow in Love
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Thank you to Tina Ralph for sending in her weekly yoga videos. New one will be up tomorrow.
Keep an eye on the app also for some new G.A.A skills videos from Lloyd!
Click here for the link to Senior Infant Class Blog
Please send me in any pictures of what you are getting up to at home &your t-shirt designs & I will add them in. Thank you
Always remember how proud I am of you all, no matter what you are doing at home. You are all surviving & living & learning every day.
For now Super Senior Infants, I wish you all a great week. Keep smiling!!!!laughing
Stay safe as always, keep washing those hands.
Chat next week,
Ms. Franey