Citywest & Saggart

Community National School

First Class Room 8: Our Constructions

Who knew how much fun building with cardboard and bottles would be! In Room 8, we created incredible constructions. We began the process of building by firstly, looking at some of the statues and sculptures in the Botanic Garden in Glasnevin. Ms Bates showed us pictures from the time she was there. They were so cool! Secondly, in pairs, we planned the constuctions which we wanted to create by drawing up blu-prints. One of us create the Golden Gate Bridge, others created Alien Spaceships. Two children even created a large scale house that we could play in! After spending the following week collecting our materials, we starting constructing. Some aspects were difficult but we got used to cutting, bending and sticking the different types of materials. We are very proud of our finished constructions. Take a look here to see us at...

First Class Room 8: WORLD BOOK DAY!

Today we celebrated World Book Day. We dressed up as our favourite characters from stories we have read. Some of us were princess, some of us were wizards and witches from Hogwarts and some of us were even superheroes! The day began with Jamal’s Daddy coming in to read us a story called ‘Whatever Next’ with us. It was reallyt fun to have a parent read to us in our classroom. After break, we were so excited because Ms Bates told us that a famous Author Gillian Perdue was visiting us! Gill read us her story called Conor’s Cowboy Suit! It was a very funny book and we even acted it out. After we acted out the story Gill took room 8 for some line dancing. We each were given cowboy hats and we acted out different cowboy scenes.. we even…. LINE DANCED, just like a real cowboy. When we were all worn out from pretending to be cowboys, we were given a colouring competition. We concentrated really hard.Fingers crossed somebody in Room 8 will win. We cannot wait to read more books by Author Gillian Perdue! Click here to see some photgraphs...

First Class Room 8: Laptops have arrived!

Wow! what an exciting week in Room 8. New laptops have arrived to the school and we each got to use them. We were shown how to go on to the internet and how to type in websites. We know to be safe while on the internet and to ask for help if something appears on our screen which we do not like. We read stories to our partner online and painted pretty pictures. It was a lot of fun to learn using technology. We love laptops. Please click here to see some...

First Class Room 8: Grandparents’ Day

We had a wonderful day today in Room 8. Our Grandparents’ came in to our classroom to spend some time with us. They read us stories, they showed us old artefacts from when they were growing up, and as Grandparents’ always do, they told us funny jokes. We performed a concert for our Grandparents. They particularly loved when we sang Yellow Submarine by the Beatles, they remembered it being played on the radio when they were growing up. HURRAY TO GRANDPARENTS! click here to view more...

First Class Room 8: Maths 4 Fun

What a fun day we had today! 5 Parents came in to our classroom and played some games with us. Some of the games included Telling the Time Bingo, Score a Goal, Snakes and Ladders, Close the Box and Pop to the Shops. In room 8 we cannot wait for our next Maths 4 Fun day on 3rd February. Thank you to all the Parents who took time out of their day to play with us today! Maths really is fun!! Take a look at our photographs...