Weekly Recognition Badges: September 17th 2015
The following badges were awarded to recognise some of the achievements in the class this week: The Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine Badge was awarded to Maithiú for his Irish writing...
First Writers’ Workshop – Collecting Meaningful Ideas
We started our very first writers’ workshop this week. The aim of the writers’ workshop is to learn the process of writing: collecting ideas, producing drafts, re-reading, editing/perfecting and...
Ancestors Presentation
Today some pupils in the class made fantastic presentations about their ancestors and their achievements. Liam told us about one of his ancestors who has a street named after...
Roald Dahl Day 2015
Today is Roald Dahl day and this week we will be starting our writers workshops where we will be learning what good writers do. Roald Dahl will be one...
Léamh – Mo Bhreithlá
Léamh for homework this week is the story Mo Bhreithlá. Listen to the story and repeat the sentences when you hear them. You only have to do this for...
Introducing Sumdog
I’ve signed up the class to Sumdog.com. This is a maths games site which will provide the class with an opportunity to learn their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division...
Picasso Heads
Today we studied Picasso and cubism. In this style of art Picasso looked at exaggerating shapes and mixing up perspectives. This is why his portraits look so strange. We...
Internal Organs
Today the students worked in groups to create their own life size diagrams of the human body’s internal organs. They researched interesting facts on each organ which they shared...
Family Trees and Our Ancestors
This week we looked at making our own family trees and finding out interesting information about our ancestors. Mr.Dawson made a presentation about his grandfather, who was a fireman...
Mindfulness Mind Jars
Last week we created our Mindfulness Mind Jars. These jars are filled with water, glitter and other colour, furry things that we decided to put into them. These are...