Congratulations to the boys and girls who were presented with their Seatbelt Sheriff certificates recently. They worked very hard to earn the certs, wearing their badges to remind family and friends how important it is to wear your seatbelt. Well done all! If you can’t see the video, please click here!
This week, Ms Kane has been visiting 5th class. The theme we’re following in 5th class in November is ‘South America’. Oisín interviewed the rest of the class about what they’ve learned so far this week. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119140161″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] We talked about the statues on Easter Island and watched this video about how the statues might have been moved on the island. We used what we know about forces to draw our own conclusions about the Easter Island statues. We...
2nd Class have been learning about maps, planet earth, the Arctic, Italy and Australia so far this year. We love exploring on the globe, on our computers, in our atlases and in our books. Today we loved back on all we know about Australia and Italy. Maybe you might learn something from us. Have a listen to see! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118664289″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118665173″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”...
Hello bloggers, we hope you are enjoying the blog. We are doing Science Projects at the moment, and so are Fifth and Sixth Class. For this, we got into groups of three and four. We were given time to decide both our groups and our projects. Mr. Foley was impressed how quickly and quietly we did this. We have five groups in the class. After we were in our groups we were discussing what sort of Science Project we should do. All of us have different kinds of projects. Each group agreed on what we are doing. We have five different experiments, including dinosaurs, spiders, space, birds and the ocean. Over...
We have been dancing for four weeks now. We do Irish dancing. It is great fun. Our dancing teacher is called Sue. She is a brilliant dancer and was in the All Ireland dancing competition last week. She came first in the first round. We now know the Walls of Limerick, the 3 hand reel and the easy reel. Check out our latest updated video! By – Caoilynn, Kayden, Dylan M and Kelsey If you can’t see the video then click here!
Last Thursday, as part of Maths Week, we took part in a Maths Table Quiz. Paddy and Mr Kinsella, after much deliberation, split 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes into mixed teams of 4 for the quiz in the library. The quiz was provided by Seomra Ranga, always a great source of resources for primary schools. You can check out Seomra Ranga here! Thanks to Ms Byrne, Ms Sugrue, Ms Kane and Mr Staunton for correcting the quiz papers and for keeping the scoreboard up to date. Ms Sexton read out the questions and the jokes. Thanks to Paddy for taking the photos! Well done to Team 14 who were the winners –...
Our very spooky Pumpkin jars! 2nd Class are just so excited for Halloween. We have learned songs, rhymes and poems in Irish and English and we made toffee apples and pumpkin jars. We even had some báirín breac to see who would get married first! Later in the week we will play Halloween games from long ago, bake Halloween topper cupcakes, carve pumpkins and make our trick or treat bags. We are using our English, Gaeilge, Art, Music and History lessons all about Halloween this week! The toffee chocolate apples we made, they were yumm Here are some of our rhymes and poems! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/116525798″...