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Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well and completed last week’s work. I hope you got a chance to give the quiz a go. Big news in my house this week……… Róisín is crawling!! Now she wanders off and nearly always ends up in the bathroom. Josh is, as usual, very busy outside playing with his tractors and diggers.

Like Mrs Ford said before, the work here is optional and is put here to support you if you are able to get some school work done. We appreciate this maybe a very testing and stressful time for some home situations and we do not want to cause any added stress. Therefore, please do not worry if you cannot do all or any of this work. However, if you have limited time and would like to do some work, I would prioritise your child’s reading. You can take part in shared reading together or listen to them read. Read whatever you enjoy and engage with the text as much as you can. Allow the focus to be on enjoying and understanding the story or text rather than focusing on being able to read every single word. This is an invaluable exercise. I hope you all have a good week. Missing you all and keep up the great efforts!

Stay safe,

Mrs. Hurson

Comprehension Support and Vocabulary – ‘Dinosaurs’

Like Ms Donnelly used to do with you at school I am going to go through the tricky words in your comprehension reading that Mr Hayden has assigned for you this week. This week’s comprehension is a factual piece of writing about dinosaurs. Read about tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus. Take your time and enjoy it.

Read over this vocabulary before reading the story in your book. I have explained all the words that are in red and some other words that you might not be familiar with in the story. Some of the words are already explained in brackets in the text.

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clumsy awkward in movement or in handling things

fossils animal or plant parts that are found in the rocks

animal or plant remains animal or plant parts leftover

scientist a person who studies science (natural things) and does scientific work

powerful strong

herds groups of animals (not all groups of animals are called herds eg. pride of lions not herd of lions; flock of sheep). Herd, flock, pride etc. are called collective nouns.

predators hunters

pterosaurs winged lizards

extinct died out

theories ideas

volcanic eruptions volcano blasts

deadly disease killer sickness

explain describe

Kahoot! Quiz

When you feel confident you understand the meaning of the words above click on /copy the link below to test your comprehension. Good luck!

https://kahoot.it/challenge/06867461?challenge-id=901d50d8-ebe9-4a3a-9031-6101e49d5256_1589490836808

Game PIN: 06867461

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SNIP Spelling Programme

Hope you are finding the SNIP exercises enjoyable and they’re helping you learn the spelling of the words. Continue onto Session 7.

One of your spellings this week is don’t.

NOTE: don’t = do not

When two words are pulled together to form one shortened version, it’s called a contraction.

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3 rd Class Friday Corrections 29 th May

Well done on all your efforts this week boys and girls!

You can correct your SNIP Session 7 work with the answers on the next three pages.

These words are great to know how to spell as you may use them a lot in your written work. Whatever words you misspelt in your ‘test of mastery’ / Friday Test rewrite them a few times until you feel you can confidently spell the word. It’s a good idea to keep all your spelling work together and next week to check over the words from this week and see can you spell them all.

Enjoy your weekend,

Mrs. Hurson

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