Welcome to 6th Class 

We are 20 hardworking and enthusiastic girls in 6th Class. Our teacher is Cathy Keogh and our SNA is Tanya Ralph. We are looking forward to working together and having a great year! 
 Maidin mhaith!
After finishing your school work today you will be on your Easter holidays.  I hope you enjoy a lovely fortnight with your families.  Well done for doing your best with your school work and a big thanks to your parents for providing lots of support while you manage this new way of school.  I am really looking forward to seeing your 'At Home' copies,  eventually! They will be a wonderful reflection of all your hard work and creativity. 
There are lots of new links on the HOME page that will help you occupy your time over the Easter holidays.
Keep safe, listen to audio books, draw, write stories and rest!
See you all soon,
Ms. Keogh
 
Friday 3rd April 
  • Start your morning with PE with Joe Wicks at 9am.  (Link on Home page) 
  • Watch Home School Hub on RTÉ 2 at 11am.  Use the activity sheets on https://www.rte.ie/learn/ to make the most of your 'school on tv' time.
Spelling workbook Unit 13 Ask a family member to test your spellings.  Self-correct and record your score.  
Mental Maths Week 26 Friday review.  Scroll down for answers, but only after you've finished all the questions! Mark your score in your book.
Reading https://www.skillsworkshop.org/sites/skillsworkshop.org/files/resources/factsheet-easterbrands.pdf
​Read through the Cadbury's Easter Egg fact sheet.  Write 10 questions based on the information you read.  Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Poetry Write an Easter or Spring themed acrostic poem.  First brainstorm words you associate with Easter or Spring.  Turn each word into a descriptive sentence.  See if you can arrange some of the sentences so that the first letter (or one letter) of each line spells out the word Easter or Spring. Decorate with lots of Easter/Spring themed images.
Gaeilge/Art 'Beannachtaí na Cásca ort'  Make a poster displaying this Easter greeting for your window.  Or, draw and colour a flag or bunting of the Dublin colours https://www.dublingaa.ie/history/history-of-crest Display them in your window in support of our healthcare workers.
Religion In preparation for Holy Week read through your Grow in Love textbook available on www.growinlove.ie Log in using the email: trial@growinlove.ie and the password: growinlove  Click on the 6th class text book, then find Theme 7: Holy Week and Easter. Next, click on Lesson 1 We Remember the Passion and Death of Jesus.  Read through pages 74 - 77 of your class textbook and complete the online activities.​

Occupy your mind!
Thursday 2nd April​
Spelling workbook Unit 13 Revise the full spelling list ready for a spelling test tomorrow.  Make sure you are confident about your 'starred' words from last Monday's pretest.  Choose five words from the Revision Words list for word building eg. variety - varieties, various, variously
Mental Maths Week 26 Thursday+Problem.  Hints Q6 Round first, 50 x 40 = 2000. What answer is closest to 2000? 1813 and 1816.  So if the sum is 49 x 37 what will be in the unit place in your answer...9 x 7 = 63    Answer is 1813
Q10 450 degrees is one full circle (360 degrees) plus an extra 90 degrees
Reading Read a story on www.storyberries.com , listen to a reading of a story on www.storylineonline.net
 or listen to an audio book on https://stories.audible.com/start-listen  
Creative writing Continue this opening with a poem, story or any type of writing you like.  'The egg began to crack but something strange was hatching...'

*Music Plan some playlists based on your favourite songs.  Give your playlists titles (eg. Family Dance Party, Songs to Make You Happy) Include at least 5 songs in each playlist.

Wednesday 1st April OMG! Look, a spider! 😮 April Fool's!!🤦‍♀️😂  ​
Spelling workbook Unit 13 Learn agriculture and ecosystem.  Go over your 'starred words'.  Choose 10 words from your spelling list for word building eg. nursery -  nurseries, nurse, nurses, nursing, nursed
Mental Maths Week 26 Wednesday+Problem.  Hints Q3 4 x 4 x 4 =    Q12 How many marshmallows altogether? How many are yellow? Q13     12/20 is the same as ?/10, then write the number of tenths as a decimal  Q16 2a is 2 x a 
Read at Home p. 87 Read and answer questions.  Write an email to Dublin Zoo applying for a summer job there.  Use the information in the application form  to help you.  Consider the layout of your email - Dear -----  Opening paragraph  - introduce yourself and explain why you would like the job. Paragraph 2 - describe your experience working with animals.  Paragraph 3 - describe why you think you would be suited to caring for animals.   Closing sentence and sign your name.

*Science
Log on to https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/   Click on 'webcams' to view the elephants, penguins and the African savannas. The elephants usually appear around 10.30am and 12.30pm.  The penguins are fed at 2.30pm.
Click on 'Animal Encyclopedia' to learn lots of information about the animals at Dublin Zoo.  
Design animal fact sheets based on your favourite animals. 
Test your knowledge of the animals using the activity workbooks https://www.dublinzoo.ie/news/dublinzoofun/ 

Tuesday 31st March​
Spelling Workbook Unit 13 Learn sunshine to bountiful.  Go over your 'starred words'.  Write the spelling list in alphabetical order.  
Mental Maths Week 26 Tuesday+Problem.  Hints Q12 2a means 2 multiplied by a, so.... 32 = 2 x ?  Q15 is the same.  4y means 4 multiplied by y, so....(4 x ?) - 10 = 10.  Q16 for coordinates read across the horizontal line first, then the vertical line.  Q17 area is length x width, divide the big irregular shape into two regular shapes and then find the area of each.  Q19  - 20 ten thousands is 10,000 x 20,     20 hundreds is 100 x 20.  Put your two answers together. (Scroll down for yesterday's answers.)
Read at Home p. 86 Read and answer questions.  Make as many words as you can from EXPLORATION and MICROSCOPIC.

*History/Geography/Art
Find an image of the Irish flag, draw and describe it.  
Locate and read Article 7 of the Irish Constitution.  
Read information about the Irish flag on this website  https://www.scoilnet.ie/irishflag/   Use the website to find answers to the following questions:
Who designed the flag?  When was the flag created?  What  do the colours on the flag mean?  Why was the flag chosen to be this country's flag?  Where was the flag first flown?  Who can fly the flag?  
Put together a presentation on the Irish flag.  Include the answers to the questions/pictures/other relevant information.  Present your work in your copy, on a poster or as a Powerpoint presentation.
Play a Flags of Europe game here https://www.toporopa.eu/en/flags_europe/index.html

​Monday 30th March
​ Continue using your new vocabulary - BOUQUET - a collection of flowers, FLOURISH - to grow well, FOLIAGE - leaves, LUXURIOUS - extremely comfortable/elegant/expensive, BOUNTIFUL - large in quantity/abundant.  
Spelling Workbook Unit 13 Test your 'starred' words again.  Are there ones you really need to focus on for this week? Learn germinate - foliage.  Do Q8+10
Mental Maths Week 26 Monday+Problem Solving.  Hints Q1 convert all to eighths. Q3 area is LxW. Q16 How many 60p are there in £30? Q17 For coordinates, read along the horizontal line first, then read along the vertical line.  So the coordinate at C is (5, 0). Q20 3a means 3 multiplied by a, and so (3 x ? )+10=19         Scroll down to find answers to last week.
Read at Home p. 85 Read and answer questions.  Write a report based on the animal.  Follow this structure: Paragraph 1-Classification - what is the duck-billed platypus? Paragraph 2 - description of the animal.  Paragraph 3 - habitat (where it lives). Paragraph 4 - adaptions to a water based life. Paragraph 5 - how it hunts. Paragraph 6 - what is unusual about the platypus as a mammal? Paragraph 7 - closing summary.  Remember a report contains only factual information.

*Project/Creative work from Week 1 and Week 2
Read a story on www.storyberries.com or listen to a reading of a story on www.storylineonline.net
*Art - design and make a 'Thinking of You' card for a grandparent or other relative.
*Science - build a paper airplane that will fly the furthest.  Start with a simple design and build up to something more adventurous.  https://www.foldnfly.com/index.html#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2
​*Music Make a list of every sound you can hear.  Can you write them out in order, from the loudest sound to the quietest sound?  Be creative! For example....I hear the sound of a giant's footstep bounding up the stairs. 
*History  - Find out what you can about Florence Nightengale - a woman who did great work to create hospitals that were clean and free from germs.  Who was she? What did she do? Find out about her work during the Crimean war.  Why was she called 'the lady with the lamp'?  Present your information  - copy/poster/booklet/PowerPoint. 
Use these websites to help you.    
https://www.natgeokids.com/ie/discover/history/general-history/florence-nightingale/
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/florence/
​https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/florence-nightingale
​*Creative writing - Continue this opening with a poem, story or any type of writing you like.  They say there's a witch high up on that hill.  She's been there for years...
*Art - Spring flowers.  There are lots of daffodils, tulips, bluebells, snowdrops and crocus flowers in bloom.  Maybe some in your garden or in the park.  Bring your copy outside and sketch some of these flowers in bloom.  https://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Flower
*Drama - Rewrite 'The Fugitive' as a drama script.  Consider lines for a narrator, the young child, the fugitive, soldiers, the father and mother.  Pass the script out to your family members and put on a show!
​*Complete a piece of writing based on our very unusual experience of St. Patrick's Day 2020 (poem/narrative/recount/report).  Illustrate/design page as suited to your chosen type of text eg. drawings/diagrams/newspaper layout.

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We researched the origins of our name.  









As part of our preparations for Confirmation we also discovered the life story of the saint or holy person whose name we have chosen.

We are looking forward to receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation this year. 

We celebrated World Book Day on March 5th.  We enjoyed buddy reading with 2nd class, dressing up as our favourite book characters, creating 'Guess the Character' art for the school corridor and dressing a potato as a book character.
We have finished our entries for the Write a Book project.  Our class chose to write poems, narratives, reports and procedures.  We enjoyed the process of drafting, editing and illustrating our own books. 
St. Brigid's crosses
for the feast of St. Brigid
​1st February
Quavers to Quadratics in the National Concert Hall
On Friday 17th January Ms. Lynch’s recorder group, from 4th to 6th classes, attended the National Concert Hall where college students showed us the similarities between science and music.  We participated in four workshops.
The first workshop was seeing sound waves on an oscilloscope and on a long piece of string.  We also used slinkys.  We saw vibrations and tried to understand the frequencies to see if they were made from low pitched or high pitched sounds.
The second workshop was the difference between noise and music .  We sung a song called the Fruit Salad song. We tried to sing two songs at the same time but they didn’t sound very nice so we found out that there has to be a rhythm or a pattern to make it sound nice.
The third workshop investigated loud and soft sounds. They can also be called piano/soft  or forte/loud. We banged tuning forks off different objects and to hear the pitch.
In the fourth workshop we made our own instruments based on a storm.   I made rain noises and put pasta in a balloon to recreate this sound.
At the end we all came together with our homemade musical instruments.  We performed The Galaxy Song with the musicians from the National Concert Hall and our own choir and recorder group.
It was a very enjoyable day.
M.

Carol Singing in the Day Centre

On Wednesday 4th of December 5th and 6th class sang Christmas carols for the lovely ladies and gentlemen at Christ the King Day Centre. "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....."

Intel Mini Scientist

On Tuesday 26th of November we held our science project exhibition for the Intel Mini Scientist Competition. Intel Judges Mike and Dave reviewed all the projects and gave very positive feedback to us. 6th class projects included Wiggly Worms, Sleep Detectives, Clear as Crystals, Lava Ladies and Rainbows and Shadows. We were delighted to have our parents visit our exhibition in the afternoon to see our hard work. We are very proud of our projects and our presentations. Well done to the Sleep Detectives who were chosen as the class winners.

Winter Trees

We painted using a blending technique and created a winter tree stencil to create these pieces.

GAA

We recently enjoyed some Gaelic Football training with Johnny from Naomh Fionnbarra. We focused on hand passes, soloing and bouncing as well as some point and goal scoring. We look forward to more training in the new year.

A visit from Sam Maguire

We got to celebrate Dublin's 5 in a row win when the Sam Maguire Cup was brought to our school by players. Up the Dubs!

Robotics

We were very lucky to work with a team of experts in robotics from DCU. We had a series of workshops in which we learned how to use coding to move robots. It was excellent and we learned a lot!

Crazy  Hat Walk

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We took part in our annual Crazy Hat Walk where we donned our millinery masterpieces for all to see. Thank you to all who supported this fun fundraiser 

Wonder - Our Precepts - Art 

Check out our individual art pieces based on Mr. Browne's precepts in our class novel Wonder.

Self Portraits

As part of our Walk Tall Programme, we focused on Self Identity in September. We enjoyed learning about each other and reflecting on our lives. We painted self portraits in art 

Wonder - Our Precepts

We are reading the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Auggie's English teacher Mr Browne gives monthly precepts or advice to his students.
We decided to record our own precepts or advice which think will help us in the coming school year. 
This was a really lovely positive activity!

 Become familiar with the wonderful world of hogwaRts!  
https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/harry-potter-at-home

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