Newbridge Educate Together National School
This week we've been looking at where we live and where our families are from. We had great fun finding out where Ireland is using our map of the world. We then talked about where we were born and where our families were from and where they live. You can look at some of our work below … [Read more...]
Samantha, Malak and Ethan with their comics based on the story 'Hatch, Egg, Hatch' that they finished this week: They look super, well done guys … [Read more...]
Look at the wonderful comic that Marc, Mia and Orla created James from Senior Infants has also been busy this week. Check out the short story he made about a fish called Ray and a friendly shark called Casha: … [Read more...]
Well done to boys and girls form 2nd and 3rd class who have been working very hard this week making their own comic. Ethan, Samantha and Malak from 3rd class read the story ‘Hatch Egg Hatch’ and decided to make their own comic strip based on the story. First we divided the story into six parts. Each part would be a scene in the comic. Next the children decided how they would tell their story. They could choose to add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and narrator boxes to help tell the … [Read more...]
Seán and Daniel from Sixth Class have undertaken a project for our school garden. They will be working on sanding, varnishing and reassembling an old bird table that we received. We will keep you updated on how our restoration work progresses and will post some before and after photos of our bird table in the coming weeks! Have a lovely weekend, Hilda … [Read more...]
This week in my room we've been looking at days of the week and months of the year. We had some great fun putting the days in order and talking about all of the different activities we do on different days. We learned the name of the days we spend in school and the days of the weekend. We talked about today, tomorrow and yesterday and some of us learnt about the past, present and future. We sorted sentences into different group depending on what tense they were. We learned about the … [Read more...]
We’ve been very busy in Siobhán’s room this week. Some boys and girls from Junior infants have been showing me what super writing they can do. We revised the formation of some tricky letters like ‘g’ and ‘q’ and then we wrote words that contain these tricky letters. Once we remembered that to form these letters we start with a ‘curling c’, they were easy to write. Other students from Junior Infants have been learning about rhyming sounds and rhyming words. At first we made … [Read more...]
The Fifth and Sixth class project groups have begun working on projects based on “Endangered Species” today. Many species throughout the world are decreasing in population and are threatened with extinction. Though numerous environmental groups around the world fight for their survival, ongoing changes in the environment of these animals makes the job of protecting many species a difficult one. We are looking forward to researching and presenting our projects in the coming weeks. … [Read more...]
Before the holidays some of the children who come to my room worked together to make a video all about their local area. Everyone worked hard to write their own scripts before recording the video on computer. We hope you enjoy it! http://vimeo.com/40401870 … [Read more...]
