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The Primary Planet Teachers’ Resource Pack

May Issue 62, 2017

Subject: English Strand: Writing Strand Units: Creating and fostering the impulse to write Developing competence, Confidence and the ability to write independently Developing Emotional and Imaginative Life through Writing

1. On what date is Europe Day? ________________

2. On what date is International Museum Day? ________________

3. Which company makes the Eiffel Tower 3D Puzzle? ________________

4. How many eggs did the wagtail lay in Joe O’Neill’s tractor? ________________

5. Which city will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest? ________________

6. Which island produces most of Japan’s potatoes? ________________

7. UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, is the leader of which political party? ________________

8. Where was Michael Collins killed? ________________

9. Cad is brí le S.M.I.R.K.? ________________

10. In which city is Banks O’Dee FC? ________________

11. Which Belfast hotel advised patrons against dancing in its lifts? ________________

12. In what year was the film The Curse of the Black Pearl released? ________________

13. When will Salazar’s Revenge be in cinemas? ________________

14. Who wrote the song ‘Cannonball’? ________________

15. Which American movie star wants his children to go to the Gaeltacht? ________________

16. Ireland’s favourite school photographer for over 40 years? ________________

17. In which county is Kilglas Lake? ________________

18. In what year did Volvo begin fitting their cars with two-point safety belts? ________________

19. Who is President of the European Commission? ________________

20. Which ocean is to the north of Europe? ________________

21. Is Iceland a member of the EU? ________________

22. What is the capital of Slovakia? ________________

23. What does Shane call his three hens? ________________

24. How long did the journey home from the concert take? ________________

25. Planet Sudoku: in the top right square, which digit goes before 6? ________________

26. Which scientist led the team which discovered QSCR? ________________

27. Which supermarket chain intend powering their trucks with waste food? ________________

28. Who founded the monastery at Clonard in the 6th century? ________________

29. Which vitamin do we get from the sun? ________________

30. Describe Grandad’s socks? ________________

31. In which county is Brittas Bay? ________________

32. Parvana is the main character in which novel? ________________

33. How much does it cost to subscribe to the Beano for 50 weeks? ________________

34. How many stars are on the EU flag? ________________

35. Who is the manager of the Armagh football team? ________________

36. DeKalb High School is in which US state? ________________

37. Who holds the record for the fastest century in Cricket World Cup history? ________________

38. David Moyes is the manager of which soccer team? ________________

39. Sean O’Brien comes from which county? ________________

40. When does The Primary Planet special offer end? ________________

What prize does the winner of the Short Story Competition receive? ________________

1. Which nomadic tribe are known as the ‘People of the Veil’? ________________

2. In which book may you read about the history of the golden snitch? ________________

The Primary Planet May Quiz

40 Questions based on the 40 pages in this month’s paper - 1 Question per page

Subject: Gaeilge Strand: Leitheoireacht

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Sampla- Lch 5: Rugadh Brian Friel sa bhliain seo. 1929

FICHE CEIST

Bealtaine 2017

1. (Lch. 2) Beidh Lá Idirnáisiúnta na Músaem ar an lá seo. _______________

2. (Lch. 5) Cé mhéad uair a bhuaigh Éire an Eurovision? _______________

3. (Lch. 6) Cén stáit ina bhfuil Pairc Dúlra Okeefenokee. _______________

4. (Lch. 7) Beidh olltoghacháin sa Ríocht Aontaithe (UK) ar an lá seo. _______________

5. (Lch. 8) Rugadh Michael Collins sa bhliain seo. _______________

6. (Lch. 9) Cén dath a bhí ar an mála leis an gaireas frithchrioscaíola air? _______________

7. (Lch. 10). Nuair a fuair Emma Morano bás, cén aois a bhí aici? _______________

8. (Lch. 15) Cá raibh bainis Rory McIlroy? _______________

9. (Lch. 18) Cén tír as a thagann Volvo? _______________

10. (Lch. 19) Cá bhfuil ceannáras (HQ) Comhairle na hEorpa? _______________

11. (Lch. 20) Cé acu is mó, an Bheilg (Belgium) nó an Albáin (Albania). _______________

12. (Lch. 21) Cad é príomhchathair na Laitvia? _______________

13. (Lch. 22) Tá Cív (Kiev) sa tír seo. _______________

14. (Lch. 28) Bíonn rásaiocht chapall ar an trá anseo? _______________

15. (Lch. 32) Cá bhfuil cónaí ar Pierrot sa leabhar a scríobh John Boyne? _______________

16. (Lch. 35) Imríonn Denise Gaule camógaíocht leis an bhfoireann seo. _______________

17. (Lch. 36) Imríonn Sam agus Chloe Magee an sport seo? _______________

18. (Lch. 37) Curadh snúcair an domhain faoi láthair. _______________

19. (Lch. 38) Bainisteoir Chelsea FC. _______________

20. (Lch. 8 ) Cén aois é Tadhg Furlong? _______________

Tá siad simplí agus tá fiche freagra le fáil. Féach tríd an nuachtán!

Subject: English Strand: Strand: Competence and confidence in using language Strand Units: Reading: developing interests, attitudes, information retrieval skills and the ability to think

Are you a good detective? The Vocabulary Constabulary needs your help. This is all you have to do. You can often detect the meaning of a word by reading it in context, that is, by reading the other words around it in a piece of text. Find the page and the article in TPP and then detect the word that solves the clue to its meaning. The number of letters and the starting letter of the solution are in brackets after each clue.

Vocabulary Constabulary May 2017

LOCATION, Article Title CLUE (number of letters, first letter) SOLUTION

1. P1, All EU Need to Know any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (9) __________________

2. P8, Michael Collins agreement, truce, settlement, pact (6,t) __________________

3. P 10, Long Ball a long story of heroic achievement (4,s) __________________

4. P10, Holy Cow strange, curious, inexplicable, weird (7,b) __________________

5. P11, RuBIG Cube huge, massive, immense, enormous (8,c) __________________

6. P11, Easter Egg Expiry take away, seize, sequester, impound (10,c) __________________

7. P12, Captain Underpants bright idea, inspiration, clever notion (7,b) __________________

8. P16, International Day variety, assortment, mixture, range (9,d) __________________

9. P17, Our Ski Day run-down, derelict, ramshackle, decrepit (11,d) __________________

10. P18, VW is Buzz-ing cool, hip, trendy, groovy (f,5) __________________

11. P19, European Union a system of money in general use in a particular country (8,c) __________________

12. P22, Did you know? completely surrounded by land, non-coastal (10,l) __________________

13. P24, GR8 Concert a bargain, a surprisingly cheap item (1, & 4,s)) __________________

14. P26, Charging Rooms nearness, closeness, in the vicinity of (9,p) __________________

15. P27, Prynt Photos from … souvenirs, reminders, keepsakes, (8,m) __________________

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Dolphins

Fill in the blanks with words from the word bank. REMEMBER – each sentence should make sense!

(This is an excerpt from an article which first appeared in the April, 2014, edition of The Primary Planet)

Dolphins are very charismatic, intelligent, and playful creatures. They inhabit most of the

____________ (1) in the world, and travel around in large groups of about 500, called pods.

They are part of the cetacean family that ____________ (2) toothed whales and orcas. They are

generally grey in colour, with their backs darker than the rest of their body. They are

____________ (3) and consume a diet of fish, squid, and crustaceans, which are in plentiful

supply in the shallow ____________ (4) of the continental shelf.

Dolphins are well known for their ____________ (5) behaviour and are popular in theme parks,

and with whale watchers. Many species ____________ (6) vertically out of the water and some

follow ____________, (7) often synchronizing their movements with one another. They also

conserve ____________ (8) by riding alongside the bow waves of ships.

Dolphins use ____________ (9) to find their prey, and work together to ____________ (10)

schools of fish. They ____________ (11) the fish until they form a tight ball. They then take

turns swimming through the centre of the school to eat the fish.

There is a great range and variety of dolphins. The common ____________ (12) dolphin is about

2.5m long and weighs about 270kg. Maui’s dolphin is the rarest and smallest of all dolphins. It is

only found off the west ____________ (13) of New Zealand’s North Island, is just over a metre

long, and only weighs about 20kg. Compare this to the largest dolphin, the orca or killer whale,

who can reach almost 8m in ____________ (14) and weighs in at 860kg. Dolphins also live long

lives, with the bottle nose dolphin averaging 40 years, while the orca can live to the ripe old

____________ (15) of 70.

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Word Bank

carnivores coast playful echolocation length

ships age circle oceans leap

trap energy waters bottlenose includes

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Find and record interesting facts that you read in this month’s paper, in your own words. Illustrate each fact or import a suitable image. The first one is done for you!

Did you know about Europe?

Europe Day is celebrated on May 9, each year. There are 51 countries

in Europe and 28 of them make up the European Union (EU). The EU

was founded in 1958 and was called the European Economic

Community (EEC) at that time. The EU members allow people from

other member states to live in their countries. They also trade freely

with other EU members. Nineteen of the EU countries, including

Ireland, use the Euro as their currency. In the next few years the UK

will become the first member to leave the EU since it was founded.

(You can find out more about Justin Timberlake on page 14 of the February 2017 edition of The Primary Planet)

Did you know…?

Did you know…?

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Subject: SPHE Strand: Strand: Myself and Others Strand Units: My Friends and Other People

Editing- a vital skil!

Can you find the errors in the story below? There are ten spelling mistakes, five capital letters

have been omitted and five full stops have also been left out.

Aviation Takes Off (This is an extract from an article first published in the May 2014 edition of TPP.)

Air travel as we know it has come a long way since the first successfull aeroplane was invented and flown by

the Wright brothers of Ohio in 1903. Orville and Wilbur Wright credited their interest in aviation to a toy

helicoptor given to them by their father when they were children The two boys played with the toy until it

broke and then made one of their own.

Inspired by Otto Lilienthal, (known as the Glider King of germany), the brothers initially worked on glider

desings, before turning their efforts to powered aircraft. not satisfied with the results they acheived with

gliders, the brothers constructed their own wind tunnel and did hundreds of experiments to measure the

forces of drag and lift While other aviators of the time didn’t seem to worry about safety and control, these

were the Wright brothers’ main concerns, and were a big influence on their designs.

The Wrights made the first powred, controlled, heavier than air, manned flight on December 17, 1903 at Kill

Devil Hills, near Kittyhawk, in North Carolina. The first flight was made by orville and he flew a distence of 36

metres in 12 seconds Later on the same day, Wilbur Wright flew 260 metres in 59 seconds. After hundreds of

years of trying, man had, at last, learnt to fly, and the advances that followed over the next few years were all

based on these first flights by the Wright brothers.

Aeroplanes were quickly adopted by the militery for use in combat, and played a major role in both World

Wars Better design and technological advances soon led to sleeker, faster planes and before long, pilots were

competeing with one another for cash prizes which were given for distance and speed records.

The first non-stop transatlantic aeroplain flight, from Newfoundland to clifden in County Galway on 14th June

1919, won its pilots, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur brown, a prize of $65,000 There are two

monumints in County Galway near the site where the Vickers Vimy bomber plane landed after less than

fifteen hours of flying and the pilots gave their first interview to the Connacht Tribune newspaper.

Subject: English Strand: Strand: Competence and confidence in using language Strand Units: Reading: developing interests, attitudes, information retrieval skills and the ability to think

Fun Puzzles

1. Doublets

Doublets are word puzzles invented by Lewis Carroll. Transform one word into another by changing a single letter in each step, so that each link in the chain is a valid word. For example, to change MORE into LESS with 3 links: MORE, lore, lose, loss, LESS (There will often be several ways to solve the doublet but remember, each link must be a valid word!)

Now try these Change CLAM into SHIP with 3 links Change POND into BARN with 3 links Change CLIP into SHOT with 3 links

2. General Knowledge Quiz

Solve the general knowledge quiz and the first letters of the answers will reveal an Irish poet killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele on July 31, 1917. Use your research skills to help you find the answers and one of his poems which begins with the lines

She leans across an orchard gate somewhere, Bending from out the shadows to the light,

1. Which material is made from fibres of the flax plant? ___________________ (5) 2. Which birthstone is associated with the month of May? ___________________ (7) 3. To which country do the Faroe Islands belong? ___________________ (7) 4. In which Abbey is Isaac Newton buried? ___________________ (11) 5. Boise is the capital of which US state? ___________________ (5) 6. Vampire created by Bram Stoker – Count _________. ___________________ (7) 7. Aegean Airlines is the biggest airline of which country? ___________________ (6) 8. How many players are there on an American Football team? ___________________ (6)

3. Timothy Tourist

Timothy Tourist intends to see ten places or things associated with Cavan. Unscramble the letters so Timothy can begin his travels. Use your research skills to help you find the answers on page 28 of the April 2017 edition of The Primary Planet.

1 ROBNESUHA

2 YOBEN

3 RAAT

4 ORTHATA

5 KERBCAWALT

6 GENWARENG 7 SLELK

8 NODCARL 9 TOYLAWN

10 CANNYVOCAL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele

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Michael CollinsDead Famous Series – Part 9

Write full sentences for your answers. Read the key words in the questions so that you can give key words in your answers.

1. When and where was Michael Collins born?2. Why did he go to London in 1906?3. Where was Collins during the Easter Rising in 1916?4. Write two things that happened to Collins between 1916 and 1918.5. Use your research skills to find out what guerrilla warfare is.6. In your opinion what was terrible about the civil war in Ireland?7. Was Michael Collins popular in Ireland? Give reasons for your answer.8. Write out five questions you would ask Michael Collins, if you were a TV reporter

interviewing him during his lifetime.9. Think up a name for your own newspaper and design the front page headline

announcing the death of Michael Collins.10. Use your research skills to find out five further facts about Michael Collins.

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WORDSEARCH- Europe Day Special

See if you can find all 28 member states of the European Union. And when your finished, why not make a list of their capitals!

Answers May #63

Planet Crossword:

It’s Mental:

1. How many quarters in 12 whole units? 48

2. How many obtuse angles in a square? Zero

3. Add half of fifty to half of one hundred. 75

4. Write 26 minutes to 9 in digital. 8.34

5. What are the chances of rolling a 2 on a die? 1 in 6

6. Write the numeral – one hundred thousand and twenty 100,020

7. Complete this sequence: 3, 6, 10, 15, ____ 21

8. Subtract 19 from 51. 32

9. Which is longer: 123,000m or 1.24Km 123,000m

10. Multiply 3 x 4 x 5 60

Countdown:

6 x 50 = 300 x 2 = 600 – (10 / (8/4)) = 595

Planet Sudoku:

Maths Questions Page 24

1. Friday May 26

2. €1,400,000

3. €52,500

4. 4.41 p.m. or 16:41

5. €32

6. 8.35 p.m. or 20:35

7. Burger €5.20 and chips €1.30

8. 2 hrs 16 mins

9. 1.14 a.m. or 01:14

10. €39.68

Fun Puzzles

Doublets:

CLAM, CLAP, CLIP, CHIP, SHIP

POND, BOND, BAND, BARD, BARN

CLIP, SLIP, SLIT, SLOT, SHOT

General Knowledge Quiz

1. Linen

2. Emerald

3. Denmark

4. Westminster

5. Idaho

6. Dracula

7. Greece

8. Eleven

Poet – Francis LEDWIDGE

Timothy Tourist

1. Ashbourne

2. Boyne

3. Tara

4. Ratoath

5. Blackwater

6. Newgrange

7. Kells

8. Clonard

9. Laytown

10. Clonycavan

Editing – A Vital Skil

Air travel as we know it has come a long way since the first successfull

aeroplane was invented and flown by the Wright brothers of Ohio in 1903.

Orville and Wilbur Wright credited their interest in aviation to a toy helicoptor

given to them by their father when they were children. The two boys played

with the toy until it broke and then made one of their own.

Inspired by Otto Lilienthal, (known as the Glider King of germany), the brothers

initially worked on glider desings, before turning their efforts to powered

aircraft. not satisfied with the results they acheived with gliders, the brothers

constructed their own wind tunnel and did hundreds of experiments to

measure the forces of drag and lift. While other aviators of the time didn’t

seem to worry about safety and control, these were the Wright brothers’ main

concerns, and were a big influence on their designs.

The Wrights made the first powred, controlled, heavier than air, manned flight

on December 17, 1903 at Kill Devil Hills, near Kittyhawk, in North Carolina. The

first flight was made by orville and he flew a distence of 36 metres in 12

seconds. Later on the same day, Wilbur Wright flew 260 metres in 59

seconds. After hundreds of years of trying, man had, at last, learnt to fly, and

the advances that followed over the next few years were all based on these

first flights by the Wright brothers.

Aeroplanes were quickly adopted by the militery for use in combat, and played

a major role in both World Wars. Better design and technological advances

soon led to sleeker, faster planes and before long, pilots were competeing with

one another for cash prizes which were given for distance and speed records.

The first non-stop transatlantic aeroplain flight, from Newfoundland to clifden

in County Galway on 14th June 1919, won its pilots, Captain John Alcock and

Lieutenant Arthur brown, a prize of $65,000. There are two monumints in

County Galway near the site where the Vickers Vimy bomber plane landed

after less than fifteen hours of flying and the pilots gave their first interview to

the Connacht Tribune newspaper.

Spelling mistakes are highlighted in yellow, omitted capital letters are

highlighted in green and omitted full stops are red and underlined.

Cloze

1. oceans

2. includes

3. carnivores

4. waters

5. playful

6. leap

7. ships

8. energy

9. echolocation

10. trap

11. Circle

12. Bottlenose

13. Coast

14. Length

15. Age

Vocabulary Constabulary

1. continent

2. treaty

3. saga

4. bizarre

5. colossal

6. confiscate

7. brainwave

8. diversity

9. dilapidated

10. funky

11. Currency

12. landlocked

13. a snip

14. Proximity

15. Mementos

40-Quiz

1. May 9

2. May 18

3. Ravensburger

4. 4

5. Kiev

6. Hokkaido

7. Conservative party

8. Béal na Bláth

9. Special Ministry of Intelligent Rotters Kommittee

10. Aberdeen

11. Premier Inn

12. 2003

13. May 25

14. Damien Rice

15. Matthew McConaughey

16. Countyphotos

17. Roscommon

18. 1957

19. Jean-Claude Juncker

20. Arctic Ocean

21. No

22. Bratislava

23. The Three Musketeers

24. 38 minutes

25. 2

26. Adamson Sample

27. Waitrose

28. St Finian

29. Vitamin D

30. White with red lines at the top

31. Wicklow

32. The Breadwinner

33. €127

34. 12

35. Kieran McGeeney

36. Illinois

37. Kevin O’Brien

38. Sunderland

39. Carlow

40. May 31

Fiche Ceist

1. 18 Bealtaine

2. 7

3. Georgia

4. 8 Meitheamh

5. 1890

6. Dearg

7. 117

8. Ashford Castle

9. an tSualainn – Sweden

10. Strasbourg

11. an Bheilg – Belgium

12. Riga

13. an Úcráin – Ukraine

14. Laytown

15. Paris

16. Cill Chainnigh

17. Badmantan

18. Mark Selby

19. Antonio Conte

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