1st 2nd and 3rd Class

Exploding Pumpkins!

Christmas 2021

Engineering in the water - Paddle Boat

Topic:
Intro to engineering: engineering in the water : paddle boat.
Goal:
To make the boat paddle.
Materials:
Soft boat hull, paddle wheel, building pieces, long elastic band, straw,
Captain figure, bath.
Utensils:
Scissors.
Method:
1. Place building pieces onto boat.
2. Place paddle wheel in the middle of the boat.
3. Cut two small pieces at each end of the straw.
4. Place inside middle holes.
5. Tie knot at one end of the elastic band.Tie it to the sides.
6. Place in captain at the front.
7. Fill your bath up to 10cm.Place boat inside.
Evaluation:
Wind back paddle wheel and it will paddle.How far did it go?

1st, 2nd and 3rd class Art

Lego Makers Workshop

Gymnastics with Eimear

Science

Today we planted some chives and lettuce. First we filled the containers with compost. Then we carefully planted the seeds. We watered the flowers and left them in the garden. We check them every week and water them any day that it does not rain. We can't wait to see them grow!!!!

GAA Coaching with Hughie

3rd and 4th class - Stethoscopes

This week 3rd and 4th classes were learning about string telephones. Each student made his own phone. Here are their finished products:

You will need: 2 paper cups, a long roll of string.

Method: -Use a pencil to carefully poke a hole in the bottom of each cup.
-Thread the end of the string through the hole and tie a know to stop it from slipping out.
-Do the same with the other cup and the other end of the string.
-Give one cup to a friend and stand as far away as the string will allow. Make sure the string is pulled tightly.
-Speak into you cup while your friend holds the other cup to his ear.

Welcome to 1st 2nd and 3rd Class

A String Telephone

Our Needle and Thread Masterpieces !!

Students from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd made these wonderful pictures using a needle and thread! They made beautiful pictures of flowers, houses, butterflies, boats, and birds with different coloured thread. The finished product, as you can see, is amazing.

Our Beach Art!

Here is a picture of 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes art work, creating great images of the beach using colours, tooth picks and fabric, and they turned out great!

Australia Projects

Here are 1st and 2nd classes Australia projects that they researched themselves using the school laptops, with the help of Mrs Guinan. The students wrote about dingoes, koalas, kangaroos, emus, platypus and Aborigines as well as Australian money. They worked very hard on these projects, and they turned out brilliantly.

Class Novel - The Sheep Pig

We began reading a class novel in April. It is called the Sheep Pig by Dick King Smith. So far we are really enjoying it.

The book is about a pig who lives on a farm in England and thinks he is a sheep dog. His owner begins to train him, to round up sheep and he is very good at it. He saves the day when rustlers come to the farm to try and steal the farmers sheep!

The book inspired the film Babe and when we finish reading the novel, we are going to watch the DVD of the film. The film is very funny.

Our Poems for Assembly

For Friday, the 8th of April assembly, the students from 1st and 2nd classes recited poems for the school. 1st class recited 'snap, crack' by Richard Kealey, and 2nd class performed 'things you don't need to know' by Ken Nesbit. They worked very hard to learn the poems and recited them very well.

Our Cherry Blossoms

The students of first, second, and third classes put together these wonderful cherry blossoms.

My Smartphone isn't very smart by Kenn Nesbitt

My smartphone isn't very smart.
In fact, it's rather dumb.
It's dumber than a doorknob
or a piece of chewing gum.

It used to be so awesome,
but now my phone is lame.
It cannot surf the Internet.
It cannot play a game.

It can't take any pictures.
It can't install an app.
It can't look up my email
or an address on a map.

It won't play any music.
It cannot calculate.
It won't bring up a calendar
to show the time or date.

It cannot send a message.
It cannot make a call.
It's safe to say my smartphone
won't do anything at all.

It wasn't always like this.
Perhaps you'll take a peek?
I don't know why it acts like this.
I charged it just last week!

Poetry Writing

The Bee

Happy bee says BUZZ ,
Flying high in the sky,
Happy bee says BUZZ ,
He stings me why oh why?

Buzz , buzz , buzz says the bee ,
In the sky flying so high,
Buzz , buzz , buzz says the bee ,
Why does he buzz , why oh why ?

The bee has a broken leg,
The bee cannot fly,
The bee has a broken leg
And his name is Guy !

The bee is in the garden,
It's flying up high ,
The bee is in the garden
It flies - oh why ?

The bee flies higher and higher
He always stings me but I don't know why ?
The bee flies higher and higher
He has the nectar, why oh why ?

Fly fly little bee,
Fly as high as the sky,
Fly fly little bee,
Why oh why ?

The bee is flying to his hive,
Flying very high,
The bee is flying to his hive,
The bee says BYE BYE !!!!!

Composed by 1st and 2nd Class

Do a deer performed using handbells and chime bars

This week the children in first and second class learned a beautiful song called Doh a deer on the handbells and on the chime bars. The song is from the musical The Sound of Music.

Our chime bars and handbells are colour coded which enabled everyone to follow the music easily as it was also colour coded.

We had lots of fun learning this song and we performed it for the whole school at assembly on Friday.