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Winter Weather Watch with the Juniors!
Date posted: 30th January 2020
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
We’ve made a great start to 2020 in the Junior Room. In play we explored the topics of weather and the restaurant. We recorded the weather each day for 2 weeks and used equipment to measure the weather outside.
We made weather related junk art, presented the weather in role play, made weather with coloured blocks and created weather with play doh.
In the Restaurant we made our own tables and chairs to eat off in construction, role played in the restaurant, built restaurants in small world and made lots of restaurant things in junk art.
In art we made rainy day scenes, winter snowmen and stormy scenes.
Daniel in the Lions’ Den as well as David and Goliath were the 2 stories we learned about from the Bible this month, we drew pictures of both.
Junior Infants learned all about length in Maths and we all created patterns based on the topic of the restaurant! Juniors also practiced recognising different numbers by building cube towers of different heights.
In SESE we discovered lots about toys and play. We matched toys to the places we play with them and found out about some toys used long ago.
Most children knew the story of Little Red Riding Hood in English but we really enjoyed listening to it as Gaeilge!
All in all another great months work by the girls and boys in the Junior Room- Well done!!
Date posted: 30th January 2020
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
Merry Christmas from the Middle Room!
Date posted: 20th December 2019
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, Music, Religious Education, Special Occasions, Visual Arts
November and December have been very busy months in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! The children have worked hard and have learned a lot. Have a look at what we have been up to!
In Religious Education, we learned all about the life and work of St. Francis.
In Geography, we learned all about aerial views of towns and our school. We then drew our own aerial views of our bedrooms and gardens…
In Art, we learned all about the life and paintings of the famous artist Henri Matisse. The children then recreated their own works of art in the Matisse style…
We also learned about Totem Poles in Art. Did you know that the 5 animals on the Totem pole stand for different powers such as wisdom, healing, strength, bravery and wealth? They are very colourful on the wall!
We discussed warm and cool colours of the colour spectrum and created “Leaping Lizards” using either warm or cool colours…
In English we read a poem called “The Farmyard” and illustrated some of the animals mentioned in the poem…
We wrote letters to Santa Claus and posted them in our local post Office!
We also wrote Christmas Acrostic poems…
We made holly wreaths with berries using hand templates….
We had our Christmas Nativity Play on Tuesday, 17th December. It was called “The Inn Crowd” and the children did a wonderful job on the night! Well done to all!
We made sock snowmen in art. Don’t they look very cosy with their woollen scarves?
We learned lots of new words in Gaeilge based on “An Nollag”
On Thursday, 19th December, Santa Claus came to visit the children with a treat for everyone! Such a lovely surprise, especially when he has so much to do at this time of the year!
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Date posted: 20th December 2019
Category Blog, Christmas, Class Work, Drama, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, Music, Religious Education, Special Occasions, Visual Arts
Happy Halloween from the Senior Room!!
Date posted: 28th October 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Irish, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Rugby, Science, Senior Classroom, Sports, Visual Arts
Another busy month has come and gone! The Senior Room have completed a great month’s work again in all subject areas!
At the start of the month, we printed Autumnal Trees in Art using cotton buds!! Didn’t they do a great job!
We have had a great few weeks of playing Tag Rugby with our coach, Noel!
In Gaeilge, we have been learning lots of phrases about ourselves in Obair Bhéal. The children also wrote a little factual piece about themselves too!
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Castlecomer Library to see a very interactive presentation from weather forecaster, Joanna Donnelly on her new book “The Great Irish Weather Book” which she published with her illustrator, Fuschia MacAree! Thank you to the library for organising this great event!
We did an art appreciation lesson on Surrealism and looked at the work of the Spanish Painter, Joan Miro, who produced many famous paintings using simple shapes, bright colours and unique symbols. Below are the children’s own pictures in response to his many creative and innovative paintings!
In SESE, the children explored the topic of Autumn as well as Living Things and created their own owls in response to all they had learned 🙂
Music Generation is well underway at Wandesforde. The children are engaging well in their weekly performance workshops with Clare Kilkenny and are participating in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental activities in Music.
In preparation for Halloween, the children engaged in a literacy workshop on Halloween Haiku Poetry. They explored the technique of writing this Japanese form of poetry using 3 lines of syllables and adjectives!
We also designed our own pumpkins for the Castlecomer Library Halloween Competition!
In Gaeilge, we learned the poem “OÃche Shamhna” and drew pictures to illustrate the poem!
Finally, the children dressed up in their Halloween costumes on Friday, 25th October. They all looked amazing and as always it was a great way to start off the Halloween Holidays!
Happy Halloween Everybody! Enjoy your well deserved Mid-Term Break 🙂
Date posted: 28th October 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Hallowe'en, Irish, Music, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Rugby, Science, Senior Classroom, Sports, Visual Arts
A Busy May in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 6th June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, School Outings, Visual Arts
The month of May has been filled with lots of fun and games in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class! After our Easter break, we wrote about all the fun things that we got up to…
In Irish, we learned all about “An TeilifÃs” and the children drew their favourite programmes…
In Geography, we looked at Ireland as a country and the many geographical features it has. We discussed the beautiful places to visit throughout the country and the children depicted their favourite places…
In Visual Arts, we looked at the life and works of Claude Monet and the children recreated their own Monet inspired paintings…
We also created “Lighthouse Scenes” in Art…
Can you see who’s looking through the window?!
On Thursday, 23rd May, 1st and 2nd Class went on their school tour to Rathwood and The Chocolate Garden. We had a great time learning about how chocolate is made and got to taste 4 different types of chocolate. We then made our own bears or dinosaurs and decorated them. It was great fun!
We wrote about all the fun things we did back at school…
While we were away, the 3rd Class were having fun and doing lots of Art with Mrs. Kenny….
After their school tour on the 30th May to Dunmore East Adventure Centre, they wrote up reports about all they got up to!
Well done on all your hard work this month boys and girls!
Date posted: 6th June 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, School Outings, Visual Arts
2019 is off to a Great Start in the Senior Classroom!
Date posted: 9th February 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts
2019 is well
The children participated in a local art competition whereby they drew a
In Art, the children used pastels and chalk to create their own nightscape depicting the New Years’ celebrations!
They also completed their own New Year’s Resolutions in Religion & SESE
In response to all the work the children did on the Aztecs in History before Christmas, the children completed their own “Did You Know Fact Sheet” to recall material they had met.
The Renaissance was covered in SESE during January and the children enjoyed writing their own messages in Mirror Writing, a technique which was used by the famous artist, Leonardo da Vinci!
Members of 4th,5th & 6th Class competed in the local Credit Union Quiz on Friday, 1st February and did very well representing the school. Well done to you all 🙂
In Gaeilge, the topic of “ÉadaÔ was explored with all classes. The children completed their own personal clothing style profile “as Gaeilge!”
Similes and metaphors were explored in literacy. The children created their own poems using similes and metaphors on topics of interest to them!
In Art, the children created their own artistic scene from a small magazine cut out. Didn’t they do a fantastic job!
“Decision Making” was a topic that we explored in SPHE in January. The children were given many scenarios in which they had to make decisions and in so doing, they developed a better understanding of various
Well done to all members of the Senior Room for your continued hard work in all aspects of their learning 🙂
Date posted: 9th February 2019
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, Religious Education, Senior Classroom, SPHE, Sports, Visual Arts