It was great to see everyone back after the break and hear all the wonderful stories from the Christmas holidays. Santa Claus was very busy visiting all the boys and girls and everyone had a lovely time. This week we got straight back into what we do best in first and second class, our usual fun and learning! We have been learning all about the sun and how important it is to us, as well as discovering all about electricity. On Tuesday we went to mass to celebrate Little Christmas and at choir, we’ve starting working on a new exciting song ‘Best Day of My Life’. This week we’ve also been learning about Pablo Picasso and looking at some of his work. As you can see, we were so inspired by his masterpieces that we created some of our own.
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This week in Science we worked at making fabric waterproof. We tested vaseline, wax candle and cooking oil. It was fun rubbing in the vaseline jelly but very messy. we used spoons and fingers. It was harder work rubbing in the wax candle. We compared the wax candle to wax crayon and choose it because it had a greater wax content. We thought this would make the fabric more waterproof. The cooking oil was a disaster! We used paint brushes to apply it to the fabric. It soaked the fabric immediately. We decided to dry the fabric on the radiator before we tested how water proof it was. We tested the fabric by carefully pouring on 2 tablespoonfuls of water and letting it settle for 2 minutes. Everyone had to help by holding up the sides of the fabric. Then we checked the paper underneath to see if it was wet or dry. Dry paper showed that the fabric was waterproofed. Vaseline worked best of all. Here we are at work …….
Just a reminder that the next Parents’ Association Committee meeting will take place this Wednesday, 7th January, at 8pm in St Finian’s NS.
All committee members are asked to attend if possible. We would also appreciate if non committee members who wish to help the committee in any way were able to attend.
The agenda for the night will cover (among other items) the previous meeting, a report from the treasurer and an outline of planning for events in the next 2 months. These include fundraisers, grandparents’ day and the 60th anniversary celebrations for the school. As always, we are grateful for any and all offers of help!
Well done to all the classes who took part in our Active School Challenge! The challenge was to see how many jumping jacks each class could do in the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas.
Each class was given a target number of Jumping Jacks to achieve and all the classes reached and surpassed their target.
The class with the most jumping Jacks was 3rd and 4th who managed 59,920 jumping Jacks. Great job everybody!