Jan 12, 2017 | First Class – Ms Bates
We has such a fun day doing 3D Shape Orienteering in Room 8! We have been learning about 3D shapes all week, and so, we were given this exciting challenge to see just how much we have learned. As it turns out, we know quite a lot! We now know that: 1. a face is the flat surface of a shape. 2. an edge is the line where two faces meet 3. a vertices is when three or more faces meet, quite like a corner. In groups of three we set off around the class looking for coloured cones. Under each cone was a 3D shape riddle which we had to solve before the time ran out. Why don’t you have try at one of our riddles? I have 6 faces, four of them are rectangular, two of them are square. What shape am I? The answer is….. CUBOID! Congratulations to Ava, Evan and Arshmann who won. They had all of the correct answers in the fastest time. Click here to view some...
Jan 12, 2017 | First Class – Mr Kinsella
Today Room 9 learned how to write capital B. We already knew how to write small b. Capital letters are used at the start of every sentence and for every boy, girl, mammy and daddy, aunt and uncle! To learn capital B we first used sand trays. The feeling of the sand running between our fingers is such fun! After plenty of practice using the sand trays we tried writing a few sentences beginning with capital B in our writing copies! We did fantastic work as you will see from the pictures below! For more photos please see...
Dec 21, 2016 | Junior Infants – Ms Mahon
We hope everyone enjoyed our Winter Concert today! Looking at all of the pictures from throughout the year was lots of fun and reminded us of all of the brilliant learning we have done this term. Before we finish the term we wanted to share our visit from the firemen with you all. The two firemen came in to our school after a long nightshift – thank you very much! We learned lots of facts about fire safety, including what to do if there is a fire in our house. We all brought home our fire safety packs and planned an escape route in our houses with our families. This is very important because lots of fires happen in the night time when it is dark. Then, the firemen let us try on their band new gear – this protects them when they are fighting fires! To check out our pictures of the firemen’s visit click here. We hope you have a lovely holiday and to our families celebrating Christmas – Happy Christmas from Room...
Dec 2, 2016 | Junior Infants – Ms Mahon
Room 5 has been exploring the theme of our senses. We discussed our 5 senses and then had a lesson on each sense, becoming guide dogs during PE and even creating the different noises heard in the city and the countryside. This week we explored our sense of taste by doing a tasting session as a class. We tasted the four main tastes – bitter (natural yoghurt), sour (lemon), sweet (chocolate) and salty (salted rice cakes). Can you guess which one was our favourite? We use our senses to explore the world around us. Learning about our senses allows us to appreciate our them as gifts and to come to an understanding about disability. Doing the blind walk and the taste test allowed to take part in in trust building activities. We really enjoyed learning about our senses. To check out more pictures of our taste test click...
Dec 1, 2016 | Senior Infants – Ms McMackin
We had a lot of fun this week learning all about bia (food) as part of our Irish lessons. We learnt a song called ‘Tá Teidí ag ithe’ (teddy is eating) and decided to make a room 3 version of it! Bain sult as an amhrán!...
Nov 30, 2016 | Junior Infants – Ms Larkin
Room 2 have been doing fantastic learning over the last few weeks! They became scientists and carried out lots of tests on different foods during Science week. They have also been learning all about their five senses and had a taste test in their class this week with different foods that were sweet, salty, bitter and sour. Which do you thing they liked best? The children in Room 2 LOVE animals- especially their pet fish Sophie and Loveheart, whom they are taking great care of! They set up their own Pet Shop in their class, and have been acting as shopkeeper and customers over the last month, buying and selling lots of different animals, using money. They have also been learning about different types of animals and their homes, and have been building Old MacDonald’s farm animals new homes using their construction blocks during play time. Room 2 have also been learning about how different animals care for their young, and how some of them hibernate in Winter. They loved playing the different animal characters in ‘The Gruffalo’ story, and had so much fun reading the story in class, on their Story Wall, and using their story wheels. Room 2 have also been singing their ‘Gruffalo song‘ in Music, and became music conductors, directing each other to use high, middle, and low pitch voices. They have been acting out the story with masks too, and made their own fantastic Gruffalo puppets in art using lots of different fabric and fibre materials. Check out some of their photos here 🙂...
