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May Merriment & off on Tour with Junior & Senior Infants!
Date posted: 28th May 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, History, Hockey, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, School Outings, SPHE, Visual Arts
May has been another month full of activity in the Junior Room. Our main theme was transport. We learned all about The Airport in Play. We role played going on holidays going through the airport, made items in Junk Art and Play Doh, created items and built airports in Construction, Sand and Small World.
We learned about transport in the past and Amelia Earhart in SESE and made planes in Art with handprints.
Also in Art we made beautiful blossom trees for Summer from tissue paper.
In SPHE we discussed healthy food and drew Healthy Lunchboxes, containing yoghurt, fruit and sandwiches.
In PE we were delighted to welcome a coach from Hockey Ireland to Wandesforde and learned lots of new skills.
Finally we were off on tour to The Chocolate Garden and Rathwood. We learned all about making chocolate and sampled 4 types of it, milk, dark, white and gold! We then made our own chocolate chicks and frogs. After lunch we went on a trip on a train and spotted lots of wildlife and before leaving for home had fun in the playground!
Date posted: 28th May 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Drama, History, Hockey, Junior Classroom, Our Work on Display, Physical Education, School Outings, SPHE, Visual Arts
Spring in the Senior Room!
Date posted: 15th April 2022
Category Blog, Book Week, Class Work, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, History, Irish, Local Visits, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
During Spring, the Senior Classroom were busy with many seasonal and school activities. They learned how to weave and made some lovely “Woven Hearts” for Valentine’s Day!
As well as this, they made some God’s Eyes using craft sticks and wool.
Ireland was a topic explored in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day in SESE, Religion & Art.
The children enjoyed learning about Coordinate Geometry in Maths. They created their own Spring pictures by following the coordinates given.
The school had a Dress Up in Green Day for the people of Ukraine and in preparation for this, the children learned about their country and their culture in SESE.
They also learned about the Water Cycle and how important water is in our lives.
Funky Kids has been a great experience for the whole school this term. The children have been making their costumes, singing & performing their songs and taking part in some fun drama activities with Denis & Olivia each week.
Well done to all the children on a great performance at the Funky Kids Show. You were all stars on the stage and you did a fantastic show!
Mothering Sunday was also celebrated during Spring. We made some beautiful flower bouquets to thank all the people who mother us in our lives.
In Gaeilge, the children made some very creative posters of adjectives (aidiachtaí)
They also enjoyed playing Biongó to help them learn their numbers in Irish.
Book Week was also another successful event in our school this term. The children designed their own book covers for our We Are Writers Book. Didn’t they do a great job!
In Art, the children engaged in a Still Life Drawing activity and drew some beautiful daffodils in a jug. They worked on the elements of tone and texture in creating their drawings.
The children participated in the Bishop’s Easter Poster Competition in Religion. This year’s theme is HOPE and the children brought their ideas to life in their work below 🙂
In the lead up to the Easter Holidays, the children did a Spring Eggbox Scavenger Hunt in the Discovery Park.
Walking across the new footbridge in Castlecomer!
Easter Eggsperiments were also carried out in Science. We did experiments to find out if an egg is fresh or stale. Did you know that a stale egg will float in water whereas a fresh egg will sink in water.
We also found out how to work out if an egg is raw or hard boiled by spinning it. A hard boiled egg will move in a smooth spinning motion whereas a raw egg will tend to wobble!!
We also explored how to make a fresh egg float. We did this by adding some salt to the water which increases the density of the water resulting in a floating egg!!
One eggsperiment we all really enjoyed was the egg in the bottle! Believe if or not the egg does go into the bottle once a small piece of lit paper is put into the bottle!! This happens because when the match goes out and cools down it causes lower pressure inside the bottle. The air pressure outside the bottle is higher resulting in the egg being pushed down into the bottle!!
Finally, we worked with clay in Art and made our own egg shaped bowls some of which we turned into chicks!
Well done to the Senior Classroom on all their achievements this term. Enjoy your well deserved break and have a very Happy Easter!
Date posted: 15th April 2022
Category Blog, Book Week, Class Work, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, History, Irish, Local Visits, Mathematics, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Senior Classroom, Visual Arts
Spring Fun in the Middle Room!
Date posted: 12th April 2022
Category Blog, Book Week, Class Work, Drama, Drama, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, Music, Religious Education, Science, Special Occasions, Visual Arts
What a busy term it has been in our school! The children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class have worked so hard over the past few weeks. Have a look at what we have been up to!
Signs of Spring have been popping up everywhere and we wrote about these signs in Science and Geography!
We were very lucky to have Willie, Eddie and Alan from the local Fire Brigade visit us to talk about fire safety in the home. The children had to complete a checklist at home ensuring they are following safety guidelines in the case of an emergency.
To mark Engineers’ Week, we were very lucky to attend the local library where Karyn read a story called “Rosie Revere, Engineer” to us all. We then had to make helicopters using paper and paperclips. The children tried out different ways of making their helicopters fly faster and slower and had so much fun!
We had fun making St.Patrick’s Day art and craft…..
We dressed up in in green to raise money for those affected by war in the Ukraine.
In Gaeilge, we were learning about “Sa Bhaile” and learned a poem called “Mo Chaitín”.
To celebrate all those lovely women in our lives and to mark Mothering Sunday, we made paper bouquets and bookmarks.
We worked hard on projects over the past number of weeks and the children did an amazing job researching and presenting a topic of their choice to their classmates! Topics included Dinosaurs, Visionary Women around the World, Horses, Imaginext, Farming, Cooking & Baking, Cats, Tigers, The Solar System and so much more!
To celebrate Easter, we read and learned about the Easter Story. The children completed pictures for the Bishop’s Art Competition based on the theme of “Hope”. Here are some of their wonderful entries…..
We read a story called “Lovejoy’s Song.” It is based on the Easter Story from the viewpoint of a bird and drew pictures….
We created some lovely Easter art….
The children received a treat box filled with eggs….
We wrote super Easter Acrostic Poems in English……
The children designed super book covers for the book fair held in our school………..
We had the Funky Kids Show on 31st March after ten weeks of singing and dancing with Denis and Olivia. Each child was a superstar on the day! Well done boys and girls!
On the last day of term, the 3rd class who have been working with Mrs. Joyce on Minecraft Maps and designing islands, presented their work to the children in 1st and 2nd class. It was great to see how their ideas were transformed from an idea on a piece of paper to a computerised drawing! Well done boys and girls and thank you Mrs. Joyce!
Happy Easter to you all! Well done on a great term’s work everybody!
Date posted: 12th April 2022
Category Blog, Book Week, Class Work, Drama, Drama, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, Irish, Middle Classroom, Music, Religious Education, Science, Special Occasions, Visual Arts
Spring has Sprung in the Junior Room!
Date posted: 11th April 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
Junior and Senior Infants have been as busy as ever in the last few weeks. In play we learned all about The Farm. We had fun making animals in Play Doh, planning and making farms in the Sand and Small World. We also made items in Junk Art and went outside to create farms as well as building barns in Construction.
We learned lots in SESE about the season of Spring and various things which happen during this time of year. We read books and watched videos learning about this season and wrote some things which happen in Spring.
We learned about the Life Cycle of Chicks and made life cycle pictures.
We read the stroy “What the Ladybird Heard” which takes place on a farm and mapped the route the thieves took on the farm.
We also went on a nature walk to Castlecomer Discovery Park and spotted some signs of Spring. After we had some fun exploring and playing in the playground.
For Mother’s Day we made finger paintings and poems for our mums.
Junior Infants continue to learn their numbers in Maths and made Number 5 pictures.
In English we learned a Spring rhyme about daffodils drew illustrations to go with it.
We went outdoors and used chalk to practice sounding out and writing different words associated with farming.
In Art and RE we learned the story of Easter and created paintings based on this story.
Also in Art we created colourful St Patrick’s Day rainbows and shamrocks.
Finally, after 10 weeks of fun playing games, learning songs and creating costumes it was time to perform our Funky Kids Show! The pupils had a great day performing and watching their friends in other classes performing too.
Date posted: 11th April 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, Easter, English, Funky Kids, Geography, Junior Classroom, Local Visits, Mathematics, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
A New Year begins in the Junior Room
Date posted: 26th February 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts
A new year has brought lots of new fun and learning to the Junior Room. We continue to learn our sounds and tricky words in English, doing lots of activities and games around this work.
We made New Years Resolutions and designed colourful 2022 signs.
Our play topic was The Weather, we made items in Play Doh and Junk Art as well as Construction.
and blocks!
Also in play we learned all about The Zoo. We discussed the animals there, people who work there and different areas around the zoo such as aquariums and the aviary. We made animals in Play Doh and Junk Art, made a zoo in the Sand and Small World as well as Construction.
February 1st was St Brigid’s Day and we made cloaks for St Brigid in Art after learning all about her life in RE.
In Art we made colourful umbrellas and to celebrate Valentine’s Day we created Valentine’s Love Birds for our loved ones.
We also had fun creating our own windmills to see how fast the wind was blowing in Castlecomer!
In SESE we learned all about toys from now and in the past. We also drew our favourite outdoor and indoor toys.
Also in SESE we learned all about forces and found out which items we move by pushing and pulling.
Finally we learned all about Ireland and different places in Ireland focusing on the city of Dublin and landmarks there. We also looked at local landmarks and drew a local landmark, Kilkenny Castle as well as noting buildings in our local town, Castlecomer.
We also listened to Winter by Vivaldi in Music and drew some pictures of what we imagined as we listened.
In Gaeilge we listened to the story of Cochaillín Dearg and learned all about the topic of Eadaí creating our own Líne Eadaí.
Well done to all the children on their hard work in January and February!
Date posted: 26th February 2022
Category Blog, Class Work, English, Geography, History, Irish, Junior Classroom, Music, Our Work on Display, Religious Education, Science, Visual Arts