Happy Easter from all at Christ the KingDear Parents,
The staff at Christ the King would like to thank everyone, parents and students alike, for all of their hard work over the last few weeks. During the Easter holidays, there will be no formal lessons or instructions provided on the class pages. We would encourage you to take this time to relax and recharge, while maintaining the necessary social distancing. We have included many helpful links on this homepage to help provide some guidance on activities during this break. Wishing you all a happy and healthy Easter holidays. Gentle reminder to send your email address to christthekingsenior@gmail.com to assist us in setting up the interactive learning platform, Seesaw. Thank you if you have done this already.Key tips to stop the spread of coronavirus... Click on this link to view a very informative clip prepared by the News 2 Day team to explain to children and young adults about the importance of Physical Distancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Gg6LsRVLQ Tá a lán rudaí áille le déanamh thíos anseo ar an bPadlet. Bain Triail Astu! Go raibh maith agat Ms. Kelly! |
Second Term at Christ the King
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RTÉ 'school on tv' launches Monday 30th!
RTÉ are providing a daily virtual classroom for all primary school children. Watch it weekdays on RTÉ2 from 11am, and anytime on the RTÉ player. Keep an eye on www.rte.ie/learn for supporting worksheets and other materials.
Useful links:
Over the Easter holidays you might like to try some new activities:
Password: growinlove
You can then click on your class level to find your class textbook in ebook form and online resources.
- We'd like to share a fantastic resource from our friends in Cloughfin National School in Co. Donegal. They have made Padlets for each of the year groups. A Padlet is an online noticeboard where links to relevant websites can be easily shared.
- 1st/2nd class padlet: https://padlet.com/ffarry1/firsec
- 3rd/4th class padlet: https://padlet.com/ffarry1/thifou
- 5th/6th class: padlet: https://padlet.com/ffarry1/fifthsixth
- Learn to type https://www.dancemattypingguide.com/
- Bake some treats www.londis.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Londis-Little-Baker-Book..pdf
- Practise being kind to yourself and to others https://indd.adobe.com/view/5237deef-2311-469f-9e2d-b5ee89c2000f?fbclid=IwAR0m8E9BshpKCgx8Fva0LHMELGBHuhzZl2zdsU290v6Dj9YAdm0F89qrjUU
- Christ the King Church have recently started a facebook page. Keep an eye on this for updates from our parish as well as colouring sheets and much more! https://www.facebook.com/The-Church-of-Christ-the-King-Cabra-111692867137633/
- Draw with Don! www.youtube.com/channel/UCo4dO9D4okn25M6mvfB02rQ Take a paper and pencil and draw along with Irish artist Don Conroy!
- Grow in Love is providing free access to its religion textbooks and online resources. Log in on the www.growinlove.ie website with the following details:
Password: growinlove
You can then click on your class level to find your class textbook in ebook form and online resources.
- https://www.mathsweek.ie/2019/maths-at-home/ use this link to take part in daily maths activities. Each day you will find a fun maths activity that you can do with everyday things that you might have at home, Target Boards, 24 and Simultaneous Equations. You might remember doing some of these activities during Maths Week.
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRwQrzogy-g - Here is a link to our daily loving kindness meditation we had been practicing in school. Keep up the good work and don't be afraid to get the whole family involved!
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ - This is a great website with lots of maths games. You can find 'hit the button' to practice your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tables and also 'The daily 10'. Why not try the daily 10 with your brothers, sisters, or even parents!
- https://www.twinkl.ie/ - This website is offering free membership for parents at the moment. You can sign up and find worksheets, powerpoint presentations and a lot more on a wide variety of topics.
- https://www.gonoodle.com/ - A fantastic resource to get some exercise- even if its raining! There is also lots of meditation and yoga available on this website.
- Listen to an audio book on https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
- https://www.storyberries.com/ This is a free online collection of easy-to-read and beautifully illustrated stories, comics and poems for children.
- www.storylineonline.net Listen to children's books being read by famous actors alongside creatively produced illustrations.
- https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 From Monday 23rd of March Joe Wicks will be doing a PE workout live every morning at 9:00. The videos will be saved there afterwards. He also has lots of fun Kids Workout videos!
