We have been learning about Weight in Maths. We brought in items of food. We looked at the labels and checked how much each item of food weighed. We compared items to see whether they were heavier or lighter than other food. We also used a balance to see how many blocks balanced different things…
We have been learning about Electricity, we talked about all the things that use electricity in our school and in our homes. We then made tried to work out how to light a bulb, we had a bulb, two wires and a battery. We worked out that if you clip the wires onto the battery and…
We have been learning about different playground games in P.E. We created our own games in teams. We had to decide what equipment we needed. Then we wrote step by step instructions of how to play the game. Then we taught another group how to play our game.
During Seachtain na Gaeilge we did some Céilí dancing, we learnt Ballaí Luimní (Walls of Limerick). These are some photos of our céilí dancing.
We listened to The Moldau by Bedrich Smetana. We learnt about the different parts of the music. It is about the journey a river takes. These are our pictures of some of the main parts. Then we accompanied the music with percussion instruments and clapped the rhythm. We really enjoyed it.
We have been learning about Antarctica and the explorers that raced to be the first to reach the south pole, including Roald Amundsen’s team and Captain Scott’s Team. An Irish man, Tom Crean was part of Captain Scott’s team. In Drama we acted out some scenes and freeze frames from Tom Crean’s life.
We had a science fair. It was so much fun. These are some pictures from the fair. Some of the things that we learnt were: If you put food colouring in milk it still tastes the same. Yoghurt has good germs in it. When you rub a balloon on your head it sticks to your…
We drew a silhouette of a tree and a bird. Then we mixed colours, to make a night sky, and painted around our supermoon. We then painted the silhouette of the tree and bird.
We dressed up for Hallowe’en…we really enjoyed getting our costumes together. This year we chose a different character from a Roald Dahl book. Can you recognise who is who?!
For Space Week, we had a visitor who taught us how to build a rocket out of a 2 litre bottle. Then afterwards we tested the rockets to see how high they went into the sky. It was so much fun!