Today is the start of a new month and one that comes with a warning! Don’t be caught out! For fun, our activities and links today tie in with April Fool’s Day.

Junior Activity –

It’s a maths one – Junior and Senior infants may need Mam and Dad to help

Tricked out Maths- April Fools Day

Senior Activity – creative writing

Senior activity – get some inspiration from these April Fool’s Day poem’s https://www.poetry4kids.com/poems/april-fools-day/

Then, write your own Aprils fool’s day poem – rhyming, acrostic, shape poem their choice – don’t forget to send it on to principal@piercestownns.com and we can share the creativity and laughter!

Our Junior link is very light hearted for the day that’s in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1LdvpglsE

Click into this short video just for fun to listen to some jokes. Now try and tell a joke to someone in your house who hasn’t watched this video clip with you!

Senior Link – a light hearted bit of history

Research the origin of April Fool’s Day by watching this video

Tell someone or write a summary of how April Fool’s Day came about.Write a prank or two you have carried out or happened to you on April Fool’s Day.

Have fun everyone!

Well done to Francis for his brilliant ‘Purple Day handprints’ and fingerprinted ‘bunch of grapes’. A brilliant way to mark World Epilepsy Day 2020!

If you didnt get to tune into the RTE Classroom Hub yesterday, it is well worth a watch. Yesterday, involved map work for the younger children, 2-D, 3 -D shapes and symmetry for the middle end of the school and beautifully spoken Gaeilge for the senior end, all topped off with a bit of Science!

If you missed yesterday why not log into the RTE player to catch up and to access some of the materials or upload some work click into this link: https://www.rte.ie/learn/

Other celebrities are offering free ‘learning’ during these unprecedented times and some of these may be of interest to members of your family over the coming weeks:

Our activity for today, takes inspiration from the Maths class on RTE yesterday.

Junior Activity

Maths all around me at home . Find some 3D shapes in your home.

Senior Activity – we stick with the topic of Maths and this time send the senior end of the school on a ‘Scavenger Weight Hunt’

This works like so:

Maths Games- Weight

In your kitchen, look for as many ingredients that you can find that have grams (g) or kilograms (kg) and take them out of the press- (take a picture with yourself and the ingredients as proofJ)

1. Order them from lightest to heaviest
2. On the worksheet provided rename 5-6 items, for example if a bag of flour is 2kg you will rename it to 2000g or if something is 250g you will rename it to 0.250kg
3. Add up all your items what is the total weight?
4. What is the average weight of the ingredients you found in the kitchen?
5. Multiply the heaviest item by the lightest item.
6. Divide the lightest item into the heaviest item

Our links for today are light hearted and get us moving

Junior Link

Coco the Butterfly Cosmic Yoga

https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/

Senior Link – get your dance on again! Raining Tacos!

and do some more dance moves

https://safeyoutube.net/w/Sul2

Have a good day and see you tomorrow as we move into a new month!

Well done to this Lego fanatic on brightening up our day!

Calling all 1st – 6th class children who watch TV?!!!!

Today, RTE are beginning their ‘classroom teaching’ for the first day. This is aimed at children from 1st to 6th class. Why not try this out today. Us teachers are dying to see it in action too!

The Department of Education are supporting the new initiative along with RTÉ in order to help primary school children continue their learning from home during the COVID-19 crisis.

Start date: The one hour programmes will start from Monday the 30th of March 2020 and they’ll run for 1 hour between 11am – 12pm, Monday to Friday. If you miss it, it can be accessed at anytime on the RTE player.

In addition to the pogramme, there will be a shorter catch up programme that will air in the afternoon time at 4.15pm. RTE Home School Extra is an opportunity

Teachers will be presenting each lesson from a school classroom.

The new programme will be made available on the RTÉ Player. On RTE.ie/learn you will be able to access supporting worksheets and other learning material.

Junior Activity – Shadow drawing

Hopefully the sun will shine today, why not take some of your toys outside and give some shadow drawing a go…..just like this

Senior Activity – choose on activty from the grid to complete

Senior Link – Bí ag caint as gaeilge – Is fearr Gaeilge briste na Béarla Cliste – (Broken Irish is better than clever English!)

Why not revise some Gaeilge today using https://www.duolingo.com/course/ga/en/Learn-Irish

Junior Link

Read along or listen to the story ‘The Whale that ate Everything!

Have a lovely day everyone and as always, if you want to share send something on to principal@piercestownns.com

Check out some of the fantastic work completed by boys and girls this week in Pierestown N.S.

We have a brilliant purple day collection, with an amazing acrostic poem on Epilepsy in the background below:

We have some avid lego makers, attempting to complete the 30 day challenge – check out Seán’s ‘Wild Owl’ below

And finally, fun Friday brought us to the ‘Zoo’ from the safety or our houses!

Check our Emily and Chloe’s illustrations of their favourite animals! Well done girls!

What brilliant work! Remember, if you want to come together by staying apart, send us in some of your photos on principal@piercestownns.com

I will keep uploading them as they land!

Have a lovely weekend,

Be kind and be safe,

Ms. Walsh

Today’s activity is a fun one, aimed for all class levels.

Junior /Senior

Get creative! Make 3D model of your favourite zoo animal – you could use lego, plasticene, cardboard or whatever else you can find!   

Our link for today is also aimed at both levels but with a different activity following it for the Junior end of the school and the Senior end.

Junior/Senior Link Dublin Zoo Webcams

https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/animal-webcams/

Tune in live to the African Savanna to see ostrich, giraffes, rhinos and zebras.  Elephants can usually be seen around 10:30am and 12:30 pm. Watch penguins eat their lunch at 2:30pm daily.

Junior activity

Draw a picture of your favourite zoo animal and dictate a sentence/write a short sentence about it

Senior activity

Research and create a factfile on your favourite zoo animal

Have a lovely weekend boys and girls, and take a well earned rest! Remember ‘Be safe and be kind!’

Kind regards, Ms. Walsh

Check out Mrs. Caldicott’s handiwork today to celebrate both World Down Syndrome Day (March 21st) and Purple Day (March 26th) with her beautiful crochet.

She has aptly named it ‘Together but Apart’ which is very appropriate to our current situation! Note her purple sewing bag to tie in brilliantly with Purple Day!

The odd number of circles represents the extra chromosone for World Down Syndrome Day and the Purple represents Purple day today.

What a piece of art! Such talent. Thanks to Mrs. Caldicott for this lovely creation!

Don’t forget if you wish to have a piece of work displayed on the blog send it to principal@piercestownns.com

Look at what Ms. Walsh’s girls got up to today for purple day.

Well done girls!!

Don’t forget, if you want to share any of your purple day activities get your parents to email them to principal@piercestownns.com.

Piercestown National School have got involved in ‘Purple Day 2020’ in a slightly different way this year. From the comfort and safety of our homes to yours, we are increasing awareness about epilepsy. Today, we mark ‘Purple Day’ by turning our website purple to increase awareness.

Why not get involved at home, you too can increase awareness about epilepsy. Check out this morning’s blog of activities that you can do from the comfort of your own home, all the while continuing to raise awareness for epilepsy.

Let’s try making this the biggest and best purple day yet!!