22^nd February 2021

Dear Parents and Guardians, 

We hope that you and your families are well after the week’s break and managed to enjoy some fresh air in place of some lessons at home. It’s safe to say our eyes are glad of the break from screens. We are recharged and ready for what we hope will be just a short time of online activities with news of a possible return to school soon. 

We can certainly feel Spring in the air these days with longer days and some lovely sunshine. We look forward to observing signs of Spring with the children over the next few weeks. 

We hope that the girls will continue to engage with their lessons with the same enthusiasm as before the break. The most important thing for us all however, is that the girls stay happy and healthy in mind and body during this time. We look forward to returning to class soon to our smiling, content little ladies and everything else will follow on from there.  

Thank you for all your support and please let us know if we can be of any help to you. 

Take care, 

The First Class Team,  
Ms Catterson, Mrs Cunnane, Ms Doran, Mrs McCormack and Ms Travers 

https://padlet.com/1stclassatravers/6x2keqrgm6y8pmba

Some online resources to keep you busy! 
1^st Class Suggested Websites

English

Variety of Spelling, Reading and Grammar Activities
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html#word%20link

IXL Learning: Wide variety of 1^st Class English Topics & Activities
https://ie.ixl.com/ela/class-1

Grammar Games
https://www.arcademics.com/games/elephant-feed

Online Readers: Oxford Reading Tree
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/library-page

Starfall Interactive Readers
https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-classic/?mg=m

Reading Comprehensions Tasks
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/reading/index.htm

Spelling Bee
https://www.arcademics.com/games/spelling-bees

Turtle Dash Spelling Game
https://www.arcademics.com/games/turtle-dash

Jolly Grammar: Story Writing Sheets
https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/resource-bank/story-writing-sheets/

Jolly Grammar: Reading Comprehension
https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/resource-bank/reading-comprehension-sheet/

Gaeilge

Cula 4: Educational section of TG4 with cartoons, games and animations. 
https://www.tg4.ie/ga/player/catagoir/gasuir/https://www.tg4.ie/ga/player/catagoir/gasuir/

Maths

Maths: Numbertime
BBC Episodes with titles: Money, Shape, Addition and Subtraction, Time, Up to 100 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSq3AbMqEjVeJxR8dnfQ9f-R4fD_YLDeC

Maths: Wide variety of 1^st Class Maths Topics & Activities
https://ie.ixl.com/math/class-1

Number: Place Value Basketball
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Number: Ordering Number Coconuts
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering

Counting: 10 Frame
https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Ten-Frame/

Shapes
https://www.kidsolr.com/earlychildhood/basicskillsa.html

Counting Games
http://members.learningplanet.com/act/count/free.asp

Symmetry Sorting Shapes
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting

General

Wide variety of weblinks, games, videos for the Irish Curriculum (search 1^st & 2^nd Class Resources)
https://www.scoilnet.ie/

Wide variety of topics on all subjects for 1^st Class (Key Stage 1)
www.topmarks.co.uk
Very good resources for Geography/ Science as well as English and Maths.

Lego Activity Ideas: 30 Day Lego Challenge