Junior Infants Room 1: Science Week
This week we participated in science week. We learned the names of some native Irish birds, we examined and drew pictures of the foods they eat and we painted some parrot pictures in art. We also enjoyed carrying out some experiments with the scientist who visited our...Junior Infants Room 2: Scientist Visit
This week, the children in room 2 were so lucky to have a visit from a scientist, David, to celebrate science week. They got the chance to put on lab coats, see lots of different bones from all sorts of animals, carry out some experiments, and even ask David some questions about his job. We had great fun learning about bacteria and sugar too. Thanks,...First Class Room 7: Sink or Float?
As part of Science Week, First Class have been working scientifically to see if items will sink or float. We have been using the following scientific skills: questioning observing predicting investigating and experimenting recording and communicating classifying Some items we investigated to see if they could sink or float included: paper clips, conkers, pencils, pens, white tack, cubes, avatars, leaves. To visit the gallery to see some photos please click...Senior Infants Room 5: Science Experiment
As part of Science Week Room 5 conducted an experiment outside. Ms Harney had a bottle of Coke and a packet of Menthos sweets. We predicted what would happen when she let the Menthos sweets fall into the bottle of Coke. Please click here to see what...Senior Infants Room 4: Building Bridges
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...Notice Board
