Oct 16 2014
Children’s Work
Happy Halloween!
Some Halloween poems.
Halloween in 5th and 6th Class
We made pinch pots monsters from clay for Halloween.
We also made ‘Halloween Scenes’ using construction paper and paint!
Procedural Writing: How to Turn Your Teacher into a Toad
We had great fun creating recipes to turn our teacher into a toad!
We also learned how to make bookmarks using origami after following a procedure.
Science Fair in 5th and 6th Class
On 26th of October 5th and 6th Class held a Science Fair in their classroom. They invited Ms. Daly’s class and Ms. Carey’s class to come and see some of their excellent experiments. All the classes had great fun being scientists for the day!
Will A Toilet Roll Hold Your Weight?
Balloon Car vs. Battery Powered Car
Coke and Mentos Experiment
How to make a hover craft
What is the best surface for running?
Testing Paper Planes
The children really enjoyed the hover craft exhibit!
Making Paper Planes was a big hit with all the classes!
6th class showed the younger classes how to make hover crafts!
5th and 6th class hard at work!
Juniors Seniors and First Class symmetrical butterflies and flowers.
Junior/Senior Infants and First Class listened to the story of the Rainbow Fish and colored and decorated some sparkly ones of their own!
We found out lots about Co.Clare!
Celtic Knots
Oíche Shamhna
Our Swimming Salmon of Knowledge!
We made some super paper sculptures!
We found out about the Normans in Ireland and built our own Motte and Bailey settlement.
We love our jolly snowmen!
We made woven stars.
Recount Writing: Presentation to an audience
We had great fun constructing Halloween Castles!
We brought in interesting artefacts to learn more about our history.
Fun with clay!
Maths Trail
Weaving with paper and wool.
Using Geoboards to make 2D figures.
Visual Arts: Making Monoprints
1st, 2nd & 3rd had fun writing Limericks!
Acrostic Poems on Water Conservation
Solar Energy: (Making gadgets to capture the sun’s energy)
Sa Bhaile: (Mo Theach)
Report Writing: Guided Writing
Shape and Space: Making Polygons
Report Writing: Show and Tell
Science: Pupils in 4th class explored which material would work best to make a tea bag.
Green Schools: Data (Water Consumption)
Shape and Space: 1st,2nd & 3rd enjoy construction with 2D figures and 3D objects.
Mathematics: Shape and Space, constructing 3-D shapes!
Science: Designing and making catapults
3rd class constructing 3D shapes.
Independent Writing: Planning and writing our own narratives!
Oral language: Developing speaking and listening skills
1st ,2nd & 3rd learned lots about the Arctic!
Christmas pictures: Third class had to listen carefully and give precise instructions, in pairs, to create identical pictures.
Getting busy preparing for our Christmas Concert!
Guided Writing: We used this framework to compose a piece of narrative writing.
Writing: Narrative Writing (Familiarisation and Discovery)
Ms. Corcoran’s group working on Friendship Posters!
Visual Arts: Cartoons
Mind Mapping for Recount writing!
Oíche Shamhna: Scríbhneoireacht
Recount Writing: 4th – 6th Class
New Recounts (Coming shortly)
Social Skills: Fourth Class working together to solve lots of puzzles today with Ms. Corcoran.
Digital Storytelling using Photo Story 3 this morning!
Italy: Art and culture, features of the natural environment, foods and farming
Credit Union Art Competition
Visual Arts: A Closer Look at Fruit!
