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Using the CjFallon online book resource - Click on: Primary: 6th class: Maths: Brainteasers Book 6

Pg: 17 -19 (Test 23 - 27)

Each test has 10 questions. We recommend that you do one test each day.

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Maths: Revision & The Circle (continuation from last week)

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Maths: Revision & The Circle (continuation from last week)

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Using the CjFallon online book resource - Click on: Primary: 6th class: Maths: Figure it out 6:

Pg: 37 - 40 (Test yourself: Revision)

Pg 69 - 70 (The Circle)

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Year Book Template: Thank you so much to those of you who have already sent on your yearbook profile. We are still waiting on a few more. (When sending in your attached photo - please refrain from sending one with snapchat filters)

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Year Book Template: Thank you so much to those of you who have already sent on your yearbook profile. We are still waiting on a few more. (When sending in your attached photo - please refrain from sending one with snapchat filters)

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Please fill in this template and attach a photo of yourself for inclusion in the 6th class year book. Please ensure that these are fill in and emailed back by parents to scarroll@glornamara.ie or cmccarthy@glornamara.ie by next Friday the 15th of May as they have to be printed. Every child will receive a copy therefore we want to ensure everyone takes part.

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Please remember to send in a picture of your yearbook covers! :)

Each year we have a competition to design the cover for the 6th class yearbook. The two winners will be placed on the front and back cover of the yearbook. The art should be completed on an A4 sheet and should include the school crest as well as the text class of 2019/2020. Please have parents email entries to teachers along with yearbook templates. Below are 3 examples of previous winning entries.

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From Monday 18th May, the Irish Government will begin to start lifting some restrictions that are in place. Below is a link to the 5 phases (stages) that the government have in planned.

Phase 1 are the bright yellow boxes.

For your writing task this week we would like you to choose ONE of the options below:

(A) Newspaper Article: Write an article based on some changes that will be taking place over the next couple of weeks. You could also include your own point of view on how your community have been working hard to keep everyone safe.

(B) Diary Entry: Keep a diary entry each day based on your thoughts and some of the small changes that you are starting to see/ hear about.

(C) Information for 2nd class:
Write a basic information sheet suitable for a 2nd class child, explaining the new phases that the Irish Government has planned.

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overview 5 phases of lifting restrictions

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Read this week's Irish news stories.  Try to make 5 questions based on the stories using the question words you know.

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Reading comprehension as gaeilge.
Leigh agus freagair na ceisteanna.

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Keep revising your verbs. Bun go Barr 6.
Lch 132-133

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Revise the parts of the body as gaeilge. Revise the correct spelling.

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Last week you were learning about the skeleton. This week you are going to be learning about the importance of exercise for your body, how muscles work and all about the heart. Read the information on the following link and watch the slides. Make your own notes based on what you are learning!

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The Heart - The Children's University of Manchester

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The heart is about the size of your fist, and you won't believe the things that this very important organ can do. Prepare to be amazed by these cool heart facts.

So, first let's take a look at how this little bit of dynamite that comes in a small package works.

The heart is like a big pump made of muscles, and it constantly pumps blood throughout our bodies every minute of every day. These movements are called 'involuntary' which means you don't actually have to think about making your heart beat; your brain does the work for you and passes on the message.

So everyone thinks that the heart is on the left side of your chest, well it's not. Whoever made that up has fooled people for years, maybe it was a trickster trying to trick us. It's actually right in the middle of your chest between your two lungs. It is protected by your ribs. At least we know it's in a safe spot!

The heart has four chambers, the left and right atrium and the left and right ventricles. Interestingly 'atrium' is the Latin word for entrance hall and 'ventricle' is the Latin word for little belly. So, there's a little belly inside our hearts...interesting.

There are also four valves in the heart, and these are there to make sure that the blood only goes one way, in or out. Imagine the chaos it would cause if the blood was going in and out all at the same time.

So how does the blood get around our bodies? Well when it leaves the heart it gets taken on a journey through arteries. Have you heard of the aorta and the pulmonary artery? Well these are super important for making sure our blood gets to the right place at the right time. It's like a well-timed train.

But what about when the blood needs to go back to the heart. Well here it is carried through veins. If you look at your wrists, you'll probably be able to see veins which look blue from the outside.

Then there's blood that comes from the lungs into the left atrium; this is transported along nicely through the pulmonary veins, while blood that comes from the body goes flowing in through the superior vena cava (this carries blood from your upper body) and inferior vena cava (this carries blood from your lower body).

You must have felt your own heart beating, well this actually works from electricity, yes really, electricity! Your heart contracts, or tightens up and this makes all the chambers smaller and pushes blood back into the blood vessels. So that's how it's done...interesting! When your heart relaxes again, the chambers get bigger and the blood comes back into your heart. Wow, sounds pretty complex.

Interesting and unusual facts about the heart

The heart weighs between 7 and 15 ounces (about 200 to 425 grams) which is about the same as a bottle of Heinz Ketchup! Pick up a bottle of ketchup and you'll be able to feel how much your heart actually weighs.

Now this is quite unbelievable. The average adult heart beats about 72 times a minute, 100,000 times a day and 3,600 times a year. During a person's life their heart could beat more than 3.5 billion, yes 3.5 billion, times.

This amazing bit of body machinery pumps about 100 gallons (380 liters) of blood through your body, every single hour, which is about 2,400 gallons (9000 liters) per day. Man it works hard. That's about the same as 1,600 glasses of water, per hour and 38,400 glasses of water per day. Wow. We certainly wouldn't be able to drink that much water. Now let's work that out over a lifetime...it pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime which would fill three super tankers. Getting the idea of how hard this little fellow works?

Let's look at it in another way. Turn on your kitchen faucet all the way for 45 years and that is the same amount of blood that is pumped through your heart in a lifetime. Okay, don't turn on the faucet; your parents won't be too pleased at all! What a waste of water too.

Want to know how fast the blood pumps through your aorta? It pumps at 1 mile (1.6km's) per hour. That is pretty fast.

You know when you hear the sound of your heartbeat; it's got a kind of 'lub dub' sound. Well that's from your four heart valves closing. What a cool thing to know.

Your heart does the most physical work out of any other muscle in the body. Hardly surprising when you see all the work it's got to do.

All of your blood vessels, which include arteries, veins and capillaries, are over 60,000 miles long (about 97,000km's). If we had to stretch them all out it would go round the world twice. No way. How they all fit in our body who knows.

This is interesting. During a heartbeat the heart creates pressure, okay cool. Now the amount of pressure it creates would be able to make your blood squirt a distance of about 30 feet (9 meters).

In 1967 Dr Christopher Barnard did the first ever successful heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. It was a wonder of medicine.

Can you believe there is actually a time and a day when most heart attacks occur? Well it's between 8 and 9am in the morning and Monday is the most popular day. Perhaps we aren't all that keen on Monday.

To keep your heart healthy you really need to get out there and get some exercise in...at least 30 minutes on most days of the week.

Why is the heart always associated with love? Well there are different theories, the Greeks believed the heart was the seat of the spirit, the Chinese associated it with the center for happiness and the Egyptians thought the emotions and intellect arose from the heart. Then Plato came along and believed that we reason through our brains but love came from our heart.

Early Egyptians believed that the heart, and other organs, moved around inside our bodies. Imagine that, we'd never be able to sit still.

Did you know that the heart can continue to beat outside of the body as long as it has got enough oxygen? Well this is because it has its very own electrical impulse. Freaky.

The heart pumps blood to almost all of the 75 trillion cells in our body. The only part of our body that doesn't get blood is the corneas in our eyes. 75 trillion cells, no way.

This is very interesting and very fast too. When your body is at rest it takes 6 seconds for the blood to go from your heart to your lungs and back again, 8 seconds for it to go to your brain and back and 16 seconds for it to go all the way down to your toes and back.

Imagine this. Your heart creates enough energy every single day to drive a truck for 20 miles (32km's). So if you're 10 you would have been able to drive a truck for 73,000 miles (about 118,000km's). Who knows where you'd be now, but you'd have been able to go to the moon and back.

If you own a cat, you're in luck. It can reduce your risk of having a heart attack by more than a third. Think you should ask your parents for a cat if you don't have one, you'll be super healthy.

Did you know that when you listen to music your heartbeat changes and it takes on the same beat as what you're listening to? So when you're listening to super-fast music your heart beats faster and slower when you're listening to calming music. Amazing huh.

This is grim! In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann examined the inside of his own heart. He threaded a catheter into his arm vein and pushed it 20 inches (50cm's) into his heart. But some good did come out of this as he actually invented something called 'cardiac catheterization' - which doctors now use all the time.

Men and women's hearts beat differently. A women's heartbeat is faster than a man's at 78 beats per minute and a man's at 70 beats per minute.

Do you know what an electrocardiograph is? Well it measures the electric current in the heart and helps doctors to know what's happening in this amazing organ. It was invented in 1903.

If you want to feel how fast your heart is beating put your finger on the side of your wrist or throat. This is your pulse. Get the stopwatch out and see how many times it beats in a minute. As a kid it should beat about 75 to 100 times per minute. Go on, check it out now.

When you're running around, or if you're excited, have you noticed that your heart beats faster? Well that's because your heart needs to work even harder than normal to get more blood to your muscles so they're in tip-top shape. Gosh as if it doesn't work hard enough already.

Now we know the heart works hard, but this might shock you. Even when you're resting your heart is still working at an unbelievable pace...twice as hard as the leg muscles of someone that is sprinting. Amazing.

The aorta is almost as thick as a garden hose. On the flip side, your capillaries are so small that it would take ten of them to be as thick as a piece of hair.

This fist-sized piece of our body is a truly amazing little bit of machinery. Oh the places we can go with it...even to the moon and back!

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The heart is about the size of your fist, and you won't believe the things that this very important organ can do. Prepare to be amazed by these cool heart facts. So, first let's take a look at how this little bit of dynamite that comes in a small package works.

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We would like you to take part in the Waterford Library reading challenge. More information can be found in the link below.

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Waterford Libraries Reading Challenge!
Well done to all our young readers who entered our 14 Day Reading Challenge in April/May! Reading is so important especially when school routines are missing, so a huge well done is due to all the parents and carers who are encouraging reading and stories at home.
The Reading Challenge has now ended, and the the winners of our random draw will receive some lovely Book Tokens in the post very soon!
You can use our 14 Day Library Reading Challenge as a guide to inspire and build diverse reading and learning approaches, and ensure reading is part of every day.
Click Here to view our 14 Day Library Reading Challenge!

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Reading Challenge - Waterford City & County Library Service

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Waterford Libraries Reading Challenge! Well done to all our young readers who entered our 14 Day Reading Challenge in April/May! Reading is so important especially when school routines are missing, so a huge well done is due to all the parents and carers who are encouraging reading and stories at home.

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Get to know the map of Europe with the names and locations of each country.

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Europe: Countries - Map Quiz Game - Seterra

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Do you have an upcoming geography quiz on Europe but can't tell Austria apart from Hungary on a map? This Europe map quiz game has got you covered. From Iceland to Greece and everything in between, this geography study aid will get you up to speed in no time, while also being fun.If you want to practice offline, download our printable maps of Europe in pdf format.

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Keep revising your tables. It's so important!

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A lot of excellent titles are available to listen to for free below on Audible

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Continue to look at the new words posted on this site each day. Try to learn one or two new words each day. Make sure you know and understand the meaning and how each word should be used. Talk to your parents about the words, practice putting them in sentences and look them up in a dictionary.

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The Word of the Day from Vocabulary Ninja is a fabulous foundation for any classroom and school to develop a clear system of consistency and progression, without the workload, to embed vocabulary in school.

Vocabulary Ninja's Word of the Day is an amazing, free resource which allows teachers and school to begin the process of embedding vocabulary into the classroom on a daily basis. Each daily resource contains a plethora of content which supports a range of National Curriculum objectives, whilst aiming to develop children's understanding of different types of vocabulary.

Each week, ten words in total are covered, two for each day in different domains of vocabulary. The words of the week can be found as part of the weekly pack and outline the words that will be covered during the week.

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE GUIDE!

Discover how to effectively begin to embed the 'Vocabulary Ninja Approach' to delivering vocabulary in your classroom. Vocabulary Ninja has a totally free, 30 page publication which outlines in detail your action plan for embedding vocabulary in your classroom and across your whole school! Just enter your e-mail address to download your exclusive, free guide.

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Word of the Day The Word of the Day from Vocabulary Ninja is a fabulous foundation for any classroom and school to develop a clear system of consistency and progression, without the workload, to embed vocabulary in school. Vocabulary Ninja's Word of the Day is an amazing, free resource whic ...

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English: Reading every day: Read At Home Book 6

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English: Reading every day: Read At Home Book 6

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It's important that you're continuing to read everyday. It's also important to keep up your comprehension skills. Below is a link to A Read At Home 6 book. This book has a page of reading that can be done each day. The piece of text is followed by 5 comprehension questions. We recommend that this week you chose at least 3 out of the following 5 pages to do.

Make sure your answers are:
- neatly written
- punctuated correctly
- full answers

Read At Home 6: pg 10 - 15

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Access to all of our digital titles are available for teacher and students during the time at home under the COVID-19 Government and Department of Education Directive

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I'm sure many of you have been getting creative at home - drawing, painting, baking, making things etc. Keep it up!

Below is a nice activity that only requires a black marker and two sheets of coloured paper. You could get the whole family involved and get the outline of everyone's hand and create a beautiful family collage.

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Handprint doodle art is a fun and relaxing art activity for all ages. If you have sharpie markers (or any kind of markers) and construction paper then that's pretty much all you need to get started.

I have always loved doodling and patterning for some reason. When I was studying art in high school I painted patterns in bright colours and fine details for my year 12 major artwork (my parents still have one of them hanging in their lounge room!). At the time I wouldn't have been able to tell you the reason I chose this form of creativity but in hindsight it was a good way to tune out and destress from the overload of exams and other life pressures. Patterning is very soothing and you don't need to think at all while you're drawing. By the way the artwork above is not my best work! It's just a quick rendition to show you a general idea that anybody can do.

If you want to create something with more detail you can use finer pens and take your time, and experiment with colour combinations (black and white would probably look great!).

Here is a video of handprint doodle art in action, or scroll down for a full materials list and step-by-step processes.

You will need:

* construction paper
* a sharpie marker or pen
* scissors
* glue stick

How to:

1. trace your hand shape onto construction paper

2. cut the shape out and glue onto a different coloured piece of paper

3. draw a rough grid of wavy lines across the page creating segments

4. trace around the edge of the hand so it has an outline

5. the black create the shapes to doodle inside, in each section draw a different pattern

See - too easy! Now off you go and experiment with some handprint doodle art of your own.

* Make some brightly-coloured mandala leaf print patterns
* Create texture stamps from craft foam and recycled cardboard
* Have you ever tried your hand at traditional mosaics?
* Try creating earth art outdoors
* Or make some garden art in your back yard

You can find tons more inspiration on our art ideas board on Pinterest

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This post may contain affiliate links. I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post at no cost to you. Handprint doodle art is a fun and relaxing art activity for all ages. If you have sharpie markers (or any kind of markers) and construction paper then that's pretty much all you need to get started.