Sunday, 27 October 2013

Happy Halloween

On Friday we finished off our first term in school with a Halloween treat. We watched a DVD and thanks to Anna and Mya there was a Halloween biscuit for everyone. 





Bird Talk

After completing our Birds of Ireland project we were lucky that Jez who is a bird watcher was able to come in and talk to us. He gave us tips on the equipment needed to be a birdwatcher. He also taught us how to identify 10 birds that can be found around Ireland. We even got an opportunity to do some bird spotting in the school yard with his telescope. It was a very enjoyable afternoon. 
Listening intently to Jez
We worked with our partner on a quiz to identify the birds.
First Class joined us and had a go at the quiz as well.

We went outside Bird Spotting. 

We had to be quick as the birds didn't sit still for very long. 

Our Birds of Ireland projects

Jez judged our projects. He was very impressed with all of them. Well Done to the three winners.



Credit Union art pictures

The title of this year's Credit Union art competition was My Hero is...
These are some of our entries.






Receiving our golf certificates

We all participated in a 5 week golf module where we successfully learnt putting, chipping and pitching. 

Saturday, 19 October 2013

Star of the week


Final Day of Maths Week

 Our week long celebration of maths culminated on Friday with a Maths Table Quiz and more team maths games. We wish every week was Maths Week!




Thursday, 17 October 2013

Maths Trail

On Wednesday we went on a maths trail around the school grounds. The children were asked to find different lines in the school yard. They also had to find different angles, shapes and  objects of particular lengths. 




Sunday, 13 October 2013

Maths Week


It is Maths Week this week.
Check out the favourite sites section of this blog for lots of links to Maths websites.

On Monday we played some fun dice games. Our fingers came in very handy with all the counting we had to do.





On Tuesday it was all about our tables.
We played "shoot off" in the classroom and some games with cards in the Halla. We are looking forward to doing a maths trail around the school tomorrow.

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Star of the week


Cheerios For Childline Breakfast Morning


National Tree Day

Thursday was National Tree Day so in the afternoon we went outside to have a look at the sycamore tree growing beside our school. We took sketches and bark rubbing's. We observed the ivy growing up the trunk of the tree and the various plants and insects found at the base of the tree. We also gathered some leaves and helicopters. Back in the classroom we finished our drawings and made some leaf rubbing's. We looked up more information about the sycamore on the internet and displayed all our work in our scrapbooks.  



Crotchet by Mya

Mya has just finished crocheting a tea cosy and brought it in to show us during the week. We were all very impressed with it.

Book Fair prize winners

For the Book Fair competition our class designed an alternate book cover for their favourite book. They were displayed in the halla during the Book Fair. The judges were very impressed with them all and had a difficult job making a final decision. Congratulations to our winner and runners up.






Monday, 7 October 2013

Book Fair

The Book Fair is in the school all this week. Today we got a chance to look at the books.