Third Class

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Please find some activities below that can be completed by the boys while the school is closed. You can choose a few activities each day.  

Kind Regards,

Mrs.O’Dwyer, Ms.Blount, Ms. Kelly

Maths

• Play ‘Table Champ’ at home
• Revision of the following tables:         Multiplication:

×2, ×3, ×4, ×5, ×6, ×7, ×8, ×9, ×10, ×11, ×12

Division:

÷2, ÷3, ÷4, ÷5, ÷6, ÷8, ÷10

Time:

 

• Practice telling the time in five -minute intervals on the digital and analogue clock
• Create a time- table of your day using the digital clock
• Calculate the number of minutes you spend watching your favourite T.V programme
• Write the following times in digital form:

  three o’clock, half past four, quarter past twelve, quarter to five, twenty past six, ten past seven, twenty-five to nine, ten to eight

 

Data:

 

• Using your ‘Maths Eyes’, create a bar chart (numbers on the vertical line, shape names on the horizontal line) showing the number of 3D shapes in the room you are in:  

   

  Sphere, cylinder, cuboid, cube, cone

   

• Create a bar chart using a topic of your choice eg: shoe colours

 

‘Maths Eyes’

• Make a list of the 2D shapes you can see in the garden (triangles, squares, rectangles, circles…)

Measures

 

• Can you find anything in the fridge/press that weighs more than or less than 1kg (1,000g)
• Can you find anything in the fridge that is more than or less than one litre (1,000ml)

   

• Remember:
  
  1kg    =       1000g                   1litre =       1000ml

  ½ kg  =       500g                     ½ litre =      500ml

  ¼ kg  =       250g                     ¼ litre =      250ml
  
  ¾ kg  =       750g                     ¾ litre =      750ml

Literacy

• Write a book review based on your favourite book

 

Some ideas to help you plan your review:

 

• Title of the book
• Author’s name, illustrator’s name
• I chose this book because…
• This book is about- think about the setting, events, problem…
• Characters in the story
• Would you recommend this book?

   

• Design a new front cover for your favourite book

   

• ‘Drop everything and read’–
• Watch out for some WOW words as you read

• Become a ‘word collector’-make a list of the WOW words you have read
   

   

• Synonyms-Match the word with a similar meaning:

  
  big                                                                    scared

  shout                                                               large

  afraid                                                              yell

  nice                                                                 stunning

• Antonyms-Think of a word that means the opposite:
  
  soft

  easy

  fast

  end

  small

SESE

• Daily weather diary:

 

• Using pictures and words, describe the weather each day from Monday to Friday
   

• Project Work: Find out some facts about- Egypt
   

• Location (What continent is it on? Neighbouring countries)
• Climate (What is the weather like?)
• Food
• Famous buildings or landmarks
• Longest river
• Highest mountain
• Currency
• One more interesting fact

 

Websites that may be useful:

www.scoilnet.ie

www.twinkl.ie

www.oxfordowl.co.uk

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games

 

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