Category: Classroom News
Ms. Glavin’s Class
In Geography we learned about Mexico: learning a dance and a song and we also made Mexican maracas!
In Science we made wag-the-dog levers and investigated simple machines that use levers, gears, screws, wedges, inclining planes and wheels and axles.
We also leaned about The Beatles and can all sing the song Help! now.
Farm Fun
Miss Kelly’s Class enjoyed a visit from Dad and Farmer, Aidan O Driscoll on 26th of September.
Aidan told us about the different types of farming. He showed us pictures of things you would find if you visited the O’ Driscoll Farm. He described some of the work done on the farm every day and he taught us about all the delicious foods made from mik.
We really enjoyed Aidan’s lesson, we send him a big thanks for taking the time to visit us.
Here are some of the pictures he showed us:
Welcome back to all the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class.
It’s great to be back! I’m really enjoying teaching 1st, 2nd and 3rd this year! They are a great bunch!!
We are taking part in the Discover Primary Science award this year, so we will have our white coats on and be busy with lots of experiments! Hopefully not blowing up anything!!
Please God we will have a funfilled and safe year!!
Wecome New Junior Infants
Welcome back everyone and a big welcome to our new class of Junior Infants and our two new children in Senior Infants!
Our calender has now been updated until Christmas, keep an eye out for upcoming holidays.
PE day is Friday for now, Tin Whistle is on Tuesday mornings and milk will start on the week of the 17th of September.
Farmyard Mural
2nd and 3rd created a farmyard themed mural on the wall behind the school. We all had great fun doing this!!
Joey’s trip to Ireland!
Caitlin received a letter from her friend Luisa in Australia. Luisas school are sending ‘Joey’ to different parts of the world and tracing the journey. ‘Joey’ arrived in our school in May and we decided to give him a tour of our locality. We also made a scrap book to send to Luisas school showing them all the wonderful things we do here! We hope they enjoy it!
Investigating Slopes
We did a lot of talking about slopes. When we thought about slopes we thought about the following words: steep, mountain, stairs, ‘slanty’, up and down.
We thought slopes were useful for wheelchair ramps, slides, skiing and rolling down!
We thought they could be dangerous if you go down them too quickly or if they were slippy.
We made our own slopes using empty kitchen rolls cut in half, blocks and blutack. We rolled marbles down them. We changed the height of the slope and the surface the marble rolled on to.
We discovered that the higher the slope the further the marble went BUT if we made the slope too high the marble just crashed!
We also discovered that the marble travelled faster and further on smooth surfaces and bumpy surfaces only slowed them down or stopped them.
Easter Art
Before the Easter Holidays we enjoyed having Mr. Aherne teaching us. He helped Jennifer and us to make these lovely Easter bonnets!
Science Presentation
School Science presentation March 2012
Le Crunch PhotoByte Competition
2nd and 3rd Class had great fun taking part in the Le Crunch PhotoByte Competition. They had to make their apple as creative and crazy as possible!!!
Spring
Spring is here! (With a while now I know!)
Miss Kelly’s class went on a spring hunt in February.
We found lots of signs that spring had arrived.
One sign of spring that we could not find near school was baby animals. Lucky for us, one of the Junior Infants had a bright idea.
Thanks Patrick!
Engineering Week February 27th – March 4th
The children took part in Engineering Week 2012. This proved to be a very interesting and educational experience. The children completed the following:
String Telephone
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Blasting Balloons
Hovercraft
Apple Mummy
Mentos and Diet Coke
Potato Arch
Detecting Air Pollution
Peel a raw egg
Gaeilge
Rang a dó ag rá an dán ‘An Taisc’
Mo Thaisc
Recount Writing
Time to get reading the wonderful work of 2nd and 3rd class 🙂
Twomeys Got Robbed by Aífe O’Neill
Twomeys Burgled by Caitlin Holland
The Robbery at the Sweet Shop by Eimear O’Brien
The Mysterious Robbery by Katie
The Mysterious Jewellery Thief By Holly Ann Duggan
A Burglary in Town by Daire O’Brien
A Burglary by Eoghan O’Sullivan
2nd and 3rd ‘Go Wild’
2nd and 3rd class performed a dance to the Lion King ‘I just can’t wait to be King’. Here are some photo’s of all the animals involved 🙂
Move over Vincent Van Gogh!
3rd class each completed a section of Vincent Van Goghs well known painting ‘The Sower’. The individual parts were then compiled to create their own version of the painting.
