In our maths this week, first class have been busy measuring the length and width of lots of things around school and at home. We used many different non standard units of measurement like straws, spoons, our span and our stride. We then went on to learn about metres and using using metre sticks, we measured the length and width of many items in school. We also measured and cut a metre string that we brought home to measure the length of lots of things there.
We had a fantastic day today when some grandparents’ came to visit. They came to our classrooms and answered our questions. We found out lots of information. The grandparents were invited to visit one classroom and we all had different topics to discuss. Junior and Senior Infants wanted to learn about the first day at school. First and Second Class wanted to learn about games that the grandparents played at school. Third and Fourth Class wanted to hear about equipment that grandparents used in school and Fifth and Sixth Class wanted to learn about school tours and extracurricular activities.
After the class visits the Sixth class pupils served tea and refreshments in the hall and the grandparents all had a little chat. Sixth class pupils made buns, cakes and apple tarts with some of the parents and grandparents yesterday! We would especially like to thank Ann Dunne for organising the ICA ladies to come in and work with the children. Our thanks also to Lorraine Boyle and Roisin Holmes for helping the children with the baking. Finally we would like to thank Barbara Keane and Catherine Woods for their help in serving the refreshments.
Some more grandparents will be in school on Thursday to help Third and Fourth class to make St. Brigid’s Crosses. We make one for every family in the school. Fr Daly will bless the crosses at our Friday Assembly.
Thank you to all the ICA ladies, parents and grandparents who made this a wonderful week.
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Having learned all about electricity and its uses at home and school last week, we moved on to investigate static electricity. We had great fun carrying out experiments with balloons, combs, paper and our hair!
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.
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!
First and Second Class are thoroughly enjoying the Strings Programme. Here is a slideshow of their first performance.
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