Yesterday, along without hundreds of other schools across the country, we raised our tricolour outside the school as part of the 1916 commemorations. We have been learning all about the Easter Rising and how important it is in our country’s history.
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In celebration of the 1916 Rising we decided to act out our own version of the Rising as if it had taken place today.
This whole play was written and acted by the children of 3rd and 4th class.
We hope you enjoy!
As Easter is coming up and spring is in the air we thought it would be fun to get some eggs and hatch them. We got 10 fertilized eggs and we secured an incubator and we set the eggs to incubate and hatch.
We marked each egg with an X and an O so we would know what side to turn them onto. The chicks took a lot of work to mind, they had to be kept warm all the time and they had to be kept in a nice humid environment as well as be turned 3 or 5 times a day.
If the chicks were not turned an odd number of times they would stick to the side of the eggs while they are forming.
To check inside the egg to see if the chicks were forming and developing correctly. To do this we got an ova-scope to allow us to see inside the egg. By looking at the shadows we could see the chicks progression.
Finally after 21 days the chicks were ready to hatch and break out of their shells, not all of them made it but we had 4 healthy chicks emerge out of their shells.
The chicks were kept in a cardboard box with a big heat lamp and access to food and water at the top of the class.
We gave them a heat lamp to keep them warm and some chick seed and water to keep the happy. The chicks were very noisy on their first day in school.
We had the chance to say hello to our new classmates and hold them.
The chicks loved their day in school as did we. We sent them off to a farm to live with come other chickens which is better then living in a box!
Every Monday morning the whole school stops for Buddy Reading. This is when children from younger classes are paired up with the children in older classes and they read to each other. This allows everyone to read aloud to their and also to enjoy being read to. It’s been very successful and very popular!
To celebrate today being world book day, children had the chance to dress up as their favourite character from a book. They were also invited to bring in their favourite book for a special DEAR time. Each child had the opportunity to talk about their book or character in front of the class. It is a great way to encourage children to discuss the stories and characters in a range of books.
To practice our procedural writing (step by step guides) we decided to make a dragon taming manual.
First we had to make our Dragon Profiles. Here we invented our own dragons and wrote about all their abilities and attributes. Here are some examples:
We then had to make a step by guide on how to catch and train our dragons.
Finally we made a book to hold all this information, we call it The Book of Dragons!
Here’s how we made it.
We took 2 pieces of card and used papier mâché to design the front and back. We then bound the 2 pieces together and painted them.
Here is the finished product with all the dragon pages put in it.
The children love the book and reading about all the different dragons.
