Merry Christmas from the Middle Room!
Date posted: 24th December 2023
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, English, Middle Classroom, Religious Education, Visual Arts
It has once again been such a busy few weeks in the build up to Christmas! The boys and girls have been working so hard in all subject areas! We were delighted to have Úna Halpin in to talk about rocks and minerals. The children had lots of time to explore the samples that Úna brought.
The children have been doing dance with Lisa over the past few weeks and performed so well for all the Mums and Dads at the school after the Carol Service!
In Visual Arts, we learned about the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh and created our own “Sunflowers” inspired pictures.
We also did some printing and created pictures of the things we like and placed them inside our own head templates.
In English, we read Roald Dahl’s book “George’s Marvellous Medicine”. The children really enjoyed it and completed a book report on it.
We also read a poem called “Once There was a Snowman” and learned about the verbs, nouns and adjectives in the poem.
We also worked on our listening skills and drew characters…
The children were so lucky to have a Mum in our school, Gamze, decorate Christmas cookies with all the children. They had so much fun! Thank you Gamze!
Here is some of the lovely Christmas art that we enjoyed doing….
Merry Christmas everyone from 1st, 2nd and 3rd class!
Date posted: 24th December 2023
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, English, Middle Classroom, Religious Education, Visual Arts
Jingle all the way with the Juniors!
Date posted: 22nd December 2023
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, Geography, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
As always we were busy in the Junior Room in December. We learned about lots of new topics, in Aistear we explored the theme of Santa’s Workshop.
We built workshops and sleighs in Construction, the Sand area had snow! We built reindeer stables and igloos there, we made Christmas items from Play Doh, in Small World Santa’s Sleigh was packed up and flew around before landing on a roof to deliver toys, we had fun doing word searches and drawing at the writing table and in Role Play we were busy painting, wrapping, writing gift tags, packing and dispatching presents!!
In SESE we learned lots of information about the season of Winter, we wrote information and drew pictures of what we learned. We listened to a story about a snowman, we then followed instructions and drew our own snowmen & finally we learned all about penguins.
Our classroom has been decorated beautifully with all our colourful art work. We painted blue skies and made Christmas Robin pictures. We also used paper plates to make our own Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!
We were delighted that we had a chance to decorate Christmas Cookies and they were delicious!
In Maths Junior Infants were busy completing Christmas Colour by numbers work.
After our Carol Service we had a special visitor in school, then we had a fun party and movie day!
Finally we have learned all about the Nativity and birth of Jesus at Christmas. We also learned all about the season of Advent and how it is a time of preparation.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Date posted: 22nd December 2023
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, Geography, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
Fun and Friendship in the Junior Room
Date posted: 7th December 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Geography, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
We’ve been as busy as ever in the Junior Room over the last few weeks. Our Play topic was houses and homes. We had fun building houses, apartment blocks, terraced houses and bungalows in Construction, Small World, Junk Art, Play Doh, Sand and completing puzzles and games at the writing area.
We also learned about items that use electricity in our homes.
Continuing on the theme of houses we read the story of The Three Little Pigs and sequenced it. We also drew and painted pigs in art.
Also in art we made pots out of clay. We left them to dry and then painted them nice, bright colours.
We spent an interesting morning learning all about rocks with heritage expert Una Halpin.
In SPHE we learned about being a good friend to others and drew pictures of us playing with friends.
In Maths Junior Infants were learning all about items that are heavy and light.
Finally we continue to learn dancing each week and are looking forward to showing off all our moves at Christmas for you!
Date posted: 7th December 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Geography, History, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Science, SPHE, Visual Arts
Autumn and Halloween Fun in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 1st November 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Irish, Mathematics, Middle Classroom, Music, Science, Visual Arts
We have had a really busy start to the new school year and have been learning lots in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class! Have a look at what we have been up to!
In English, we wrote all out ourselves and the things we enjoy doing…
We wrote about our Summer holidays and all the fun things we did!
We painted pictures of our happy memories from the Summer holidays…
In Gaeilge, we learned and wrote about “Mé Féin” or Myself…
We drew our self-portraits in Art…
We designed very cool family crests depicting things that are important in our lives…
We designed Hot-Air Balloons with us inside them!
In Science and Geography, we looked at various buildings around the world, the materials they were made from and then designed our own “Dream Houses”!
In Music we listened and responded to “Carnival of the Animals” by Camille Saint-Saens…
We were delighted to welcome local Historian Michael Moylan to the school in October to teach the children about “The Vikings” and other parts of History. The children had so much fun dressing up in various costumes, trying on armour and holding weapons from years ago!
We then learned about the season of Autumn, the changes that occur and did lots of art and writing about it…
We went on a Nature walk to the Discovery Park…
We learned about the traditions of Halloween and created some spooky art!
We tasted some delicious báirín breac and one lucky pupil found the “fáinne”!!
We read a poem called “The Pumpkin” by Oliver Brennan and identified nouns, verbs and adjectives in the poem…
The children in 2nd class learned about symmetry in Maths and completed great work and pictures in this subject area…
On the last day of school, we dressed up as some spooky creatures! We hope you all enjoy the mid-term break!
Well done on all your hard work boys and girls!
Date posted: 1st November 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, History, Irish, Mathematics, Middle Classroom, Music, Science, Visual Arts
Happy Halloween from 4th, 5th & 6th Class!
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts
As always, the children engaged in lots of Halloween activities in the lead up to our Halloween Holidays!
We made some spooky spider web patterns in Art
In Gaeilge, the children learned some new vocabulary relating to Oíche Shamhna.
The children made their own Positivity Potions in SPHE by drawing and writing in activities and aspects of their lives that help make them feel good!
We all dressed up “spooktacularly” in costume on the day of the Halloween Holidays!
In English, the children played Spelling Battleship with a partner using some Halloween words. They had great fun taking turns and trying to find & sink each other’s spelling battleships!
We ate some Halloween Barmbrack and the ring was found too!
Finally, the children made their own Haunted House Silhouette using crayons and paint. Didn’t they do amazing work?!
Happy Halloween Everybody! Enjoy your well deserved Mid-Term Break 🙂
Date posted: 30th October 2023
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Hallowe'en, Our Work on Display, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Visual Arts