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Here we are, second last week of school! I know it’s been a tough few months girls but you should be so proud of yourselves! The activities for these next two weeks are short and shouldn’t take too long but please do your best to try them out. We may be in and out of the school helping Ms Greene so we may not see your comments on the blog posts as soon as you post them but we’ll do our best to reply when we can 👍🏻 Have a lovely week girls ☺️

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Help us for for next year by writing a little note to our new classes. You girls know us best! There are 4 different options of letters for you to write. You could email them to us to share next year with our new classes

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This is a big point in your life so it's important to take a moment and think about what kind of person you'd like to be in 10 years' time. Keep it somewhere safe and it will be lovely to look over it in the future and see you if achieved you goals!

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Today's task is all about your memories. It's a mix of writing and drawing so enjoy!

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Think of 10 dreams you'd like to achieve in the future, they can be small or large goals. Keep this list in your diary, your drawer or on your wall and tick them off when you achieve them!

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These are the answers for Thursday & Friday as the maths trail answers will be different for every person

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Good morning ladies!
Toady is the start of a brand new week so let's give it your best! I know the motivation to do schoolwork is at a low at the moment but if you get the little bit of work we have planned for each day you can be very proud of yourselves and feel a sense of accomplishment! Do your best to start your week off on the right foot ☺️

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Good morning girls!
One more month of school left! Let's give nothing but our best for the next few weeks! We got this!!
Have a lovely week,
Ms. Cassidy and Ms. Farrell

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Copy and sketch out pictures of some of the most influential Irish Women in sport. Don't forget to read their profiles for some extra motivation to get outside and active.

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Good Morning Ladies,👋
We hope you had a lovely weekend. Please note work for Week 6 has been updated. Any questions or queries please email us or leave us a comment on our class blog.
Remember everyday to:
1)Read our class bog
2)Sign in (during school hours only) 3) Read Ms. Green's blog
4) Complete the daily Wellbeing challenge.
5) Remind your parent(s) to check their email for Zoom update(s)
Have a lovely day.
Ms. Cassidy and Ms. Farrell 💛

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Good morning girls, the sun is shining bright so what better day than today to do a maths trail! Please complete this over the next two days. Have fun!

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Good morning Ladies,
This week the topic in maths is Weight. Today your work is based on practical weight activities. For your first activity, please pick six different items from around the house and complete the work sheet below. You will need a RWC from your maths copy to complete the last question.

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Using the same six items from Part 1 please answer the following questions below. (If you wish, you can swap the six items for six new ones)

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Remember there are
1000g in 1 Kilogramme
so
1kg=1000g

Please double check all of your answers

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Now we are going to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing kilogrammes and grammes.
Please do the following sums:
For questions 1-8
(a) (c) (e)

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Remember to check that you have taken down the sums correctly and
be sure to double check your answers.

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Can you solve the 'Old Recipe Riddle'?

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Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns

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Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns

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Fictional Narrative Writing

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Oral Language

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Review

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Homophones

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Procedural Writing

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Oral Language

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This is the powerpoint continued 👍 sorry we had to split it in half because it wouldn't upload as one. Technical difficulties 🤣

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Good morning ladies! For the first part of you work today it's just a little bit of revision and to remind us of the measurements we use when weighing objects and what instruments we use to weigh objects. Remember that estimates are important and help us in our everyday lives too!

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Now for a bit of research! First you must estimate (guess) what the weight of each of these objects are. Then you need to google what the weight of these objects are. The Guinness World Record Book site may help you out on this one!! :)

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So today it's time for you girls to get measuring. Make sure to ask your parents permission before you go taking the weighing scales. Remember to always estimate (guess) first! If you don't have one of the objects you can always weigh something else instead :)

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For the second part of your work today you need to convert (change) each to weight to kgs, this means we need to have a decimal point in our answer. Remember there are 1000g in 1kg :)

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This is another piece of real life maths! Often when we are working with recipes and weighing scales they may use different units of measurement so we need to be familiar with both. Remember there are 1000g in 1kg. Think carefully about your decimal points :)

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For today what you ladies must do is use your knowledge of weight and multiplication and put them together. Remember if there is one digit after the decimal place in your question it should be the same in your answer. Do out your sums and make sure you check the weight of each (yellow box at top of page) coin before you start your sum workings :)

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Today we are looking at some real life maths! Nobody likes being given a lot of small coins so first for Q3: you must create the target amount of money using the fewest (smallest number) of coins and then calculate the weight and remember these measurements from yesterday...
€2 = 8.5g    €1 = 7.5g   50c = 7.8g
20c = 5.7g     10c = 4.1g
For Q4: read question carefully, take the total spent from €20 to calculate the change and then calculate the weight of the change using the measurements from above :)

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Learn how to paint a unicorn. Are you ready to channel your inner Lisa Frank with this Rainbow Haired Unicorn!?

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw and paint a unicorn head with acrylic paints on canvas! This was done on an 11″ x 14″ canvas. You can do this on any size canvas, canvas paper, water color paper, etc.

I decided to bring out my craft paints for this! I wanted to use all the colors in the rainbow and didn't feel like mixing all my colors.

UPDATE: I recently redid this painting with the Liquitex BASICS acrylic paints and it turned out very similar, if not more vibrant than the Apple Barrel! So, yes you can use Liquitex on this painting and achieve similar color results!

This painting would make an excellent DIY unicorn paint party activity!

I've had many users tell me they had birthday parties and various other co-worker team building events using this painting.

I f you are doing it with a group, I recommend transferring the unicorn to all the canvases before the event to make things easier.

As always, don't forget to share your painting on Pinterst or Facebook! I love to hear about your fun parties.

Enjoy and happy painting artists!

T ips if you're doing this his with kids:

Wouldn't this be a darling birthday party activity!?

Kids LOVE unicorns! You can try to have your child draw the unicorn using the step by step drawing directions below. Or you can transfer the unicorn onto the canvas using graphite transfer paper and the printable.

Transferring the unicorn onto the canvas is recommended if you are doing this as a birthday party activity because all they'll have to do is paint it in.

Click here to go to my PDF library or here to learn how to enlarge the traceable.

1-2 Hours, Level Easy
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon.com.
Template:

Directions: print this on standard computer paper. It will be able to fit an 8 x 10 canvas. If you want to do this on an 11 x 14 canvas (or larger) you may to enlarge the printable. Go to PDF Library for Download.

Need to enlarge the template?

If you are doing this on a larger than 8 x 10 canvas, you will need to enlarge the unicorn by a certain percentage in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download). Click the link below to find out how to do this:

You can see an updated post specifically about how to draw a unicorn.

How To Paint A Unicorn Directions At A Glance:

How To Paint A Unicorn Video:

1. Draw Or Transfer Your Unicorn Head

Draw/ sketch out the unicorn lightly with pencil (see steps above).
It is only optional to outline it with sharpie. I did it for demo purposes only.
Also, you might want to practice drawing on a separate sheet of paper if you're struggling with the drawing.

If you're transferring, just print out the unicorn PDF and use graphite paper!

(note: graphite paper gets placed between the print out and the canvas then you trace on top. It will transfer to the canvas)
Note: I ended up changing the design of the snout at the end of the process pictures. The drawing looks slightly different in the following pictures but the instructions are exactly the same.
2. Paint The Background

Paint the background with a small flat brush.

I used bimini blue (bright aqua green) and white. I dipped my brush in both colors to get an inconsistent color.

Paint spirals in the background with a small round brush and parrot blue (light blue permanent).

3. Paint The Unicorn's Head White with some blue shading

Paint the unicorn white. I used a 3/4″ flat for this as well as the blue shading.

When you shade with the blue, blend it in with the white by applying both white and blue to the canvas.

Add some shadow areas with white mixed with parrot blue (light blue permanent). Blend it in white the white.

Be careful not to add too much blue, just a little!

Paint the eye and nostril black with a small round brush.

4. Paint The Hair One Color Strand At A Time

With a small round brush, paint each stroke of hair separately, following the lines of the curves you drew.
I went in this order: fuchsia, orange, yellow, green, bimini blue, purple iris.
Slightly overlap colors to allow them to blend together. You can go back and blend the colors some more by using a smaller round brush and really blend the colors to get a rainbow ombre effect in the hair!

5. Outline Some Areas With Black

Use a small round brush and black to outline some areas of the unicorn to make them stand out.

Don't outline everything, just a little here and there.

6. Paint The Horn

Paint the horn gold or use a gold sharpie to color it in. If you want to get extra crafty here, add some gold glitter!

Outline ovals on the horn black (optional).

Add some white splatter paint over areas of the hair and horn with a toothbrush. This actually makes it looks like glitter but it's paint!

Also notice that I added more hair! Just over lap some of the strands to achieve this effect. Use a small round brush to get into really find details with the hair!

7. Some Final Touches

As you can see, I fixed the unicorn's snout by painting over some blue in that area!

I mentioned earlier that I changed the design of the head in the end and this is where the change took place! If you are using my traceable, then you don't have to worry about this step.
I hope you enjoyed this unicorn tutorial! If you love unicorns and want to see another one of my designs, see also "Bella The Unicorn":
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Learn how to paint a unicorn. Are you ready to channel your inner Lisa Frank with this Rainbow Haired Unicorn!? In this tutorial you will learn how to draw and paint a unicorn head with acrylic paints on canvas! This was done on an 11″ x 14″ canvas.

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How To Draw & Paint Unicorn Head For Beginners & Kids

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How to make Tissue Paper Roses - Very Easy DIY

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A wellbeing task will be uploaded everyday on the wellbeing section of the school website. Every class grouping will be set the same activity set by a different teacher each day. If you have sisters you could do the activity together.

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Our Lady of Victories Girls' National School, Ballymun Road, Dublin 9

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For today's I'm simply going to ask you the following question:

During the Covid-19 lockdown, we're all feeling less secure and missing our usual routines. Now, more than ever, it's important to tune into the ways our brain and bodies are feeling. But just as doing exercise improves your physical health, you can do activities to boost your mental health too! Below is a template of a daily reflection exercise that I would like for you all to draw out into your copy and to complete today.
I am most thankful for: My family, friends and my students in Room 1 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 🕮🎓
Team(s) I miss watching play : Mayo and Our Lady of Victories Girls' Junior& Senior football teams🙌🏐
The friend I miss the most: My mum ​👩🏻​❤️​👩🏻​
The things I'm excited to do when this is over: Take a trip down home to see my family & catch up with all my friends over a lovely coffee 💬☕
Words to describe how I feel: Sometimes I feel lonely, sad & anxious 😔😥 But most of the time, I feel grateful, thankful, happy and safe🙏😊
What I learnt from this experience: You never know what's around the corner so it's best to just focus on today.
What I will do differently in the future : Take more time to appreciate the smaller things in life and spend more time with the people I love.🌊🌈🌞👨‍👨‍👧‍👦
How my face looks: 😃 (Happy)
Who I will hug: My mum and Dad, my siblings, my niece and nephews and all my friends!👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 👶🤗

Good morning girls!
Happy Monday! I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Little did we know when we started our ' Weaving Well-Being programme' in Term 1, how much we would need to use these new skills during an unforeseen lockdown! Now more than ever, we need to mind our well-being.

It is not easy these days to feel or be happy all the time. But did you know there are lots of ways to increase your happiness, especially when you're feeling the opposite! Imagine - you can actually create your own happiness! So, I am setting you a task today that I hope will put a big smile on your face and make you feel happy! That's how I felt when I did this task at the weekend.

Your task is to create 'My happy wall'!

Now, before you rush out to get a shovel and some bricks, read on! You will create a collage and everything you need to do so is at home already!

1. Take a piece of paper. You can use your school copy if you don't have paper.

2. Write and decorate your name in the middle of the page.

3. Now, draw / write / glue / stick on pictures of all the things that make you happy!

Look at my example in the picture. I drew and coloured and stuck on pieces and even found a photograph. You don't have to stick anything on, you could just draw pictures. I realised I didn't even have enough space on my page! I thought of an extra idea this morning and I'm going to stick it onto the edge of my happy wall after this.

See, this wall might be something you keep adding to, or you might take something off it and put something else up instead.

You can stick it up on your fridge or on your bedroom wall, with permission of course!
Last night I was feeling a bit worried and my husband said to me that there was no point worrying as I couldn't do anything about the worry and I decided to distract myself instead and do something from my happiness wall. So, I made a cup of tea, painted my nails and read my book. And do you know what, I felt much happier and more relaxed afterwards! The worry was still there but it didn't bother me so much!
Try it and see how you feel! I love looking up at my happy wall now and reminding myself that during lockdown especially, 'everyday may not be good, but there is something good in every day'.

So have fun and please post up your 'happy walls' as we can't wait to see them!
Mind yourselves and I can't wait to see you all!
Ms. Callinan.

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For today's I'm simply going to ask you the following question: During the Covid-19 lockdown, we're all feeling less secure and missing our usual routines. Now, more than ever, it's important to tune into the ways our brain and bodies are feeling.

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Before you begin your assignments copy this KWL chart into your copy book. You should frequently return to it to guide you through this unit of work.
When finished, please email a photo of your completed 'American Revolution KWL Chart' to your teacher at:
mscassidyolvgns@gmail.com
msfarrellolvgns@gmail.com

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Use the information in this powerpoint (it is continued below) to fill in the worksheet below (Events in the American Revolution)

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Please write all your work into your copy. As an extra task, you may like to draw a picture of each event beside your work.

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Key Figures of the American Revolution Powerpoint

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Key Figures of the American Revolution Powerpoint

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Use the information in the Powerpoint below to fill in the worksheet 'Key Figures of the American Revolution'

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Please write all your work in your copy. If you wish, you can also draw the portrait of each key figure.

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A more detailed account of the 'Declaration of Independence' for you to read. Please answer the questions in your copy.

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Please watch the video below before completing the comprehension worksheet.

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The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree

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Please answer the questions in your copy.

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Ever year, Ms. Cassidy's mother Ann creates her very own 'May Alter' in her kitchen in Kilmovee, county Mayo. She puts out a candle and fresh flowers.  Every evening for the month of May, she lights the candle and says a prayer to Our Lady, Mary.

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The Solo Challenge:

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The Solo Run Challenge:

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Paul Mannion - Solo Run - Swipe TV & GAA Go Games Skill Challenges 2016

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Fist Pass Challenge:

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Sinead Finnegan - Fist Pass - Swipe TV & GAA Go Games Skill Challenges 2016

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Punt Kick Pass Challenge:

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Kevin Feeley - Punt Kick Pass - GAA Go Games Skill Challenges / #GAAPrimary Challenges

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The Crossbar Challenge:

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The Mayo GAA Crossbar Challenge with Elverys Intersport

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Wall Hand Pass Challenge:

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Mattie Donnelly – Wall Hand Pass – GAA Go Games Skill Challenges / #GAAPrimary Challenges

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We are continuing on with the theme of 'Irish music'. Click on the link below to find out more about the history of Irish instruments and musicians.

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There are a small number of instruments in traditional Irish music. Some of them have a very long history in Ireland, such as the harp. During the 18th and 19th centuries, pipes and the fiddle became popular instruments. It is from these instruments that most of the Irish dance music was created.

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Press play below to find out!

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Classroom Concert 1 - Joe McKenna - Reels

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Watch the video of Joe McKenna below to find out!

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Classroom Concert 1 - Joe McKenna - Polkas

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Can you spot the difference between a gig, reel and a march?

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Can you spot the difference between a gig, reel and a march?

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Jigs, Reels and Marches - Spot the Difference

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Watch the video below of a mixture of musicians playing a mix of gigs and reels:

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Please correct your work from last week before proceeding to this weeks work.