Nov 11, 2014 | Senior Infants – Mr Kilkenny
This week is National Science Week and so the children in Room 4 are learning lots about science this week. One activity the children are really enjoying is the construction of bridges using junk art materials. The children were given the task of designing and making a bridge. They looked at pictures of bridges to give them ideas, then designed and constructed their own bridge. The picture below shows the children hard at...
Nov 11, 2014 | Junior Infants – Ms Whyte
This week is science week. In room two, we are using our problem solving and spatial awareness skills to build bridges using jaggo blocks and junk art materials. Have a look at this post and in the gallery to see some of our...
Nov 11, 2014 | Junior Infants – Ms Looney
It’s Science Week this week and we are all celebrating in Citywest & Saggart CNS by taking part in lots of science related activities. Today in Room 3 we completed The Balloon Rocket Experiment. The boys and girls had lots of fun predicting what would happen when the air was left out of the balloon. They counted down from 5 and we left our balloon rocket blast-off! BUT the rocket didn’t reach the end of the track! We had lots of discussion and varied the experiment in lots of different ways to try and make our rocket go even further. In the end, the boys and girls came to the conclusion that the more air that was in the balloon, the further the rocket reached. This was because the air was pushing the rocket forward when it was escaping from the balloon. https://cscns.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/My-Movie.mp4 If you would like to carry out this simple experiment at home, the instructions are...
Nov 10, 2014 | Junior Infants – Mr Twomey
We are learning to write the letter c. We started with some large and small channeling and now we are able to write the letter on our...
Nov 10, 2014 | Senior Infants – Ms Harney
Monday mornings mean P.E – a great start to the week! We are learning about different types of jumps – we can jump in five different ways. We are racing in teams. It is very important to be in the starting position and ready to run before Ms Harney says ‘On your marks, get set, GO’. Please click here to see some more...
Nov 9, 2014 | Senior Infants – Ms O’Sullivan
This week we were learning all about Our Five Senses. Room 6 really enjoyed all the activities especially exploring their sense...
