In Maths we have been making pictograms about our favourite things; pets, fruits and colours. These pictures help us to understand the way that numbers work in everyday life!

We made animals with spotty patterns using paint and bubblewrap today! It was fun and we were able to pop the bubbles when we were finished.  We talked about the food pyramid and healthy eating this week and we learned a lot of new words about Bia (Food) as Gaeilge. We also learned a new poem about food called Ag Ithe agus ag Ól:

Ólaim bainne, ólaim tae,

ólaim cócó, i lár an lae!

Ithim prataí, ithim ubh,

Ithim arán, le him agus subh!

Monica.

Last week we made loads of lovely textures on little squares of paper. This week we cut them out to make a solar system. Some people added a few newly discovered planets! Each painting is completely original which makes our work even more interesting. Budding artists in third class for sure!

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Monica.

 The eruption lasted 19hours
 It was an ash eruption and very little actual lava came out
 Mt. Vesuvius has erupted another 50times since 79A.D.
 The ash from the volcano spread as far as the African coastline
 It is 1281m high
 Mt. Vesuvius is 17000 years old
 Hundreds of people died from asphyxiation when the ash got stuck in their lungs
 Many others died by being entirely covered in ash and other volcanic material
 When archaeologists went to excavate the site in one house they found a loaf of bread in an oven that had been perfectly preserved since 79 A.D. This demonstrates the speed at which the volcano struck the town of Pompeii
 Pompeii was found originally by a man digging in a garden
 The city was covered in ash and volcanic material that was almost 7meters deep
 One of the survivors ‘Pliny’ wrote many poems about the Pompeian disaster
 There were two prisoners who were chained to a wall during the eruption and their bodies (and many others) were perfectly preserved in a casing of ash.
 It is believed that the volcano will erupt again within the next 2000 years
 There were many signs before the eruption, but sadly these were all ignored.

The story of Pompeii is one of the greatest we have studied so far and we really enjoyed learning all about it. We hope these interesting facts have caught your eye and you will want to learn more about it too!

Below is the report that Niamh wrote:

Dog Sled

A dog sled is a sled that dogs get tied to and the dogs pull the musher.

The sled is made of wood and uses a small bit of metal. The parts of the sled are called the driving bar, top rail, brush bow, runner, bed slats, stanchions and the handlebar.

What happens is you attach, usually six dogs, to a sled. You use it in snow, so the musher puts little shoes on the dog’s feet so they don’t get sore. Assembling a sled dog team involves picking leader dogs, point dogs, swing dogs and wheel dogs. The leader dogs are crucial, so mushers take particular care of them. It is also important to have powerful wheel dogs to pull the sled out of the snow. In dog sledding, Siberian Huskies or Alaskan Malamutes are the main types of dogs used because of their willpower to work.

It is great fun and I would recommend it!

This week in Art we made puppets out of old socks. We used pieces of fabric and wool to make faces and clothes for our puppets. Here are the pictures of some of our finished puppets.