November 13
2017
November 13
2017
News from Ms. Maguire’s Class
I went around to Ms. Maguire’s 1st class to ask them some questions. In art they have been doing Halloween cards with spooky houses on them. The children are very excited to start their Christmas art. I asked two students what their favourite subject was and they said Art and Maths. Ms Maguire’s favourite subject is music.
November 13
2017
Interviews in Senior Infants
Senior Infants were excited to answer my six questions. These were their answers:
I asked Ben and Olivia in Ms Hegarty’s class what their favourite subject is and they said phonics and science. They made scary skeletons. They have been learning about spiders and have had a wonderful year so far. They sung their poem about bony skeletons. They are rehearsing songs for their Christmas play. Ms Hegarty thinks her class is fabulous.
In Ms Olson’s class, I asked two children what their favourite subject was. They answered Religion and Art. In Art they made aliens and painted planets with puffy paint. Last month they learned about Space and this month they are learning about Emergency Services. They are learning songs from Bua na Cainte. The teacher and the class are enjoying their year so far!
Ms. Olson’s Puffy Paint Planets
November 13
2017
Art and Aistear in Junior Infants
All the Junior Infant Classes this month made scary witches and dingle dangle scarecrows. This week their story is ‘Pizza at Sally’s’. They are making pizza art and crafty art materials. Their play areas are restaurants now too. The sounds they are learning are g and o. Ms Walsh’s class also made Halloween cards. Ms Black’s class had a fancy-dress costume shop. Ms Woods’ class are learning ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’.
By Alex
November 6
2017
Space in Senior Infants!
For the month of October, we learnt about ‘Space’ in Ms. Olson’s Senior Infant Class!
During Aistear, we had so much fun pretending to be astronauts in our Space Centre Role Play Corner! We liked to sit in the Space Rocket, man the control panel and act out our rocket launch by counting down from 10 and shouting ‘BLAST OFF!!’ when the countdown reached zero! Once in Space, we pretended to walk around as if there was very little gravity around us!
In Art, we made puffy paint planets – we created a mixture of shaving foam, glue and paint and painted a thick layer of the mixture on to black card. When dry, the puffy paint had a sponge-like texture and our planets look great hanging outside our classroom!
October was a great month for S.E.S.E! In History, we learned that Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon (alongside Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin) and we watched a video clip of the Apollo 11 moon landing. We found this very interesting! Having learned many fun facts about Neil Armstrong, we were then able to construct a timeline of his life to develop our sequencing skills. In Geography, we learnt about our Solar System and all the planets within it. We pretended to be all the different planets orbiting around the sun! Finally, in Science, we really enjoyed doing rocket launch experiments! For our first experiment, we tried to get balloons to launch across a piece of string and we were very successful! In our second experiment, we used a vitamin C tablet to launch a film canister into the air. It was very exciting!
To take a look at videos of our experiments and Aistear time along with plenty of photographs of our artwork, please visit our twitter page – @MsOlsonsClass
November 6
2017
Debating in Third Class!
Hi my name is Teagan.
Mr Dunne’s class have been doing a lot of fun stuff that I will be telling you about. So let’s get started!
First they did some Art. Every day they watch the news. In fact, they have been doing some debates and did you know that the people on the news ask questions? Well they sent in their answers hoping that they would be read.
They have been doing their family projects and they went on a nature walk. They have been reading David Walkers book called Rat Burgan. They did a bit of pulse exercise and they found that cool!
November 6
2017
Sport and Art in Mr. Allen’s Fourth Class!
November 6
2017
Spooky Spider’s in Ms. Kelly’s Class!
This is what’s going on in Ms Kelly’s class!
First, they had to get to know each other. They did lots of art and they wore t-shirts so that they didn’t get their clothes dirty. They made spider webs with spiders in them. They also did a project about the school. Then they played sparkle in Irish and English. They did recorder and singing and Go Noodle, lots of running laps, lots of homework and lots of Maths.
Ms. Kelly’s 4th Class Spider Web Art
November 6
2017
Totem Poles and Science in Ms. Aivalikli’s Class
Last month, Ms Aivalikli’s class did a lot!
In History, the class learned about Native Americans. They talked about weapons like totem poles. In Gaeilge they did Mé Feín and had conversations as Gaeilge!
In science they did some experiments. They mixed milk, vinegar and sugar with water to see what happened. They also read up to Chapter 9 in ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’. In Maths they did stations. In their stations, they played games. Their favourite game was War.
What a busy month!
Science Experiment
By Fionn
November 6
2017
News from 5th Class!
Hi, my name is Pranav and I’m happy to be a new member of the media team.
The students of Ms. Ní Mhurchú / Ms. D’Arcy’s 5th class have been drawing comic strips and doing cool drama and Autumn poems. They have been talking about trees and much more. They have been doing a lot about Autumn and have also been learning about different counties along with learning about hurricanes. They have been on a school tour orienteering and have been doing beautiful self-portraits.
By Pranav