First Class reading groups worked together to write poems this week. We really enjoyed being poets and we loved coming up with rhymes. Here are our poems: Once upon a time I caught a little rhyme I set it free but it went for tea I … [Read more...]
Fabric from India
January 27, 2012 By
Third class had so much fun looking at the fabrics I brought back from India. I showed them the 5 metres of beautiful silk worn as a Sari by Indian women. The children made out a list of things they would like to research next week; Religions in … [Read more...]
Wind, rain….we can explain!
January 27, 2012 By
Senior Infants have used so many scientific skills this week! We knew all about wind direction from our work last week, so this week we used an instrument called an anemometer to measure the wind speed. We measured the wind speed on Wednesday and … [Read more...]
Play our weather quiz!
January 27, 2012 By
This week we finished our work looking at weather, we had lots of fun completing our weather forecasts. Some of us also used instruments to make our very own weather listening quizzes to test each other with! Can you tell what each of the different … [Read more...]
Reminder: Early finishes next week
January 27, 2012 By
School will finish at 1.55pm on Tuesday and Wednesday (31st January & 1st February) next week to facilitate some of the progress meetings which are taking place. Infant classes will finish at the normal time of 1.10pm. The After School … [Read more...]
Is Taephota Mise!
January 27, 2012 By
In Gaeilge this week we've been learning all about food! Some of the things we were looking at were arán, im, calóga, ubh, úll, banana, ispíní, cáis, sú oráiste, cáca, bainne agus iasc! We also learnt a song "Is Taephota Mise!". Here are … [Read more...]
Show me the money!
January 20, 2012 By
This week second class have been working extremely hard learning about money! We particularly loved the dice game! Here's how you can play it! You can have two or more players. What you need: some coins a dice The object of the game is … [Read more...]
Weather Forecasters
January 20, 2012 By
This week in my classroom children have been doing lots of exciting things to do with the weather. We continued to look at the different types of weather that we have here in Ireland, Asuha and Malak had great fun looking at all the different … [Read more...]
News from Junior Infants!!!
January 20, 2012 By
What an eventful week in Junior Infants! In Jolly Phonics we discovered the sounds "oa" and "ie". We are very good at spotting them in words now! Little Miss Muffet and Jack and Jill came to visit our classrooms this week! We had a great time … [Read more...]
Ag déanamh ceapairí in Karen’s class!
January 20, 2012 By
In Geography this week we have continued to learn about the wind. We made wind socks and went out to the yard with a compass to find which direction was North. Once we found North, we found South, East and West. It was a very windy day and when … [Read more...]
