Homework for this Week

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Public Speaking

These are the topics for the Public Speaking competition. This week you will need to choose one, compile a list of arguments for or against the title and then to put together a speech for it.

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  • Children should be paid for attending school.
  • Space exploration is a waste of money.
  • Television is better than books
  • Beauty is only skin deep.
  • School should be two hours longer.
  • The Olympics are a waste of money.
  • Animals should have more rights.
  • Everyone should have an electric car.
  • Animals should not be killed for meat.
  • All health care in Ireland should be free.
  • Everyone should be accepted into any country.
  • Irish should not be a compulsory subject in school.
  • Phones should be banned for those under 14 years of age.
  • Climate change has no impact on Ireland.
  • Clothes/toys have no gender.
  • If you are homeless it is your own fault.
  • All students should get breaks from the classroom.
  • Nowadays people work too hard.
  • We should use ipads instead of books in school.
  • All children should have a television in their room.
The link to the Internet survey is available at the following address.
​https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9G7DK2K

Spellings

Spelling Lists are available at the following link;
Spelling City

Tables

Each week the children will be asked to revise some of their Tables. Please ensure that they do practice these each night. Confidence in tables can be a great help in maths allowing the children to spend more time on more difficult parts of a question and spending less time on quick calculations.

Talking Tuesday

Tuesday is Talking Tuesday. Every Tuesday night the children will have a little reading but will also have an assignment where they will talk to their parents about a topic we have been talking about in class.

Word Problem Wednesday

On Wednesday the children's maths work will be based on a word problem rather than their Mental Maths.

Khan Academy

I introduced the kids to this website today. This is a wonderful website. There are lots of tutorial videos like the ones I will be creating in Maths but will have more than I could ever create (as well as giving the children a break from hearing my voice constantly). :) 5th Grade is the closest to 4th Class level but please feel free to have a look at some of the lower grades if the kids need to look back on things they may not have fully grasped first time around.
Khan Academy