October fun!

Last month were very busy..Here are just a few photos of us doing experiments, making some very scary Hallowe'en art, playing various drama games, cluichí as gaeilge, and learning tonnes!

I think we've located the sour and bitter taste buds!!!

The Witches Walk

We scared everyone living in the Renmore area!

Thank you to all who raised money for the school at this time.

Art, SESE and Other activties in first class 09

We've had a great few weeks being back to school and have settled in well to first class. Here are some experiments that fun subjects that we have been doing in school of late.

Here the girls are decorating their Autumnal Scarecrows - they can say a poem aboout him too if

you ask!

Here we are busy making our paper helicopters and tested them how well they fly - indoors and outdoors. We experimented with design and used paper clips on the bottom of them as weights to help them fly better.

We also did a number of experiments on balance...we learned a new word called 'gravity' today!

We also looked some dancing raisins - the air (carbon) bubbles helped the raisins to bounce up and down, ask us how it works - we can tell you all about it!

Beach and seaside exploration!

During some of the sunny days of early September all of us in first class went to the beach and explored the many wonderful things that exist at the seashore! we looked at different types of shells, we even found some mussels that were alive!

We were very good at building sandcastles and digging huge holes!! (photos to follow..)

Caterpillar and butterflies

We have been learning about the butterfly lifecycle recently and have made lots of interesting things based on this. One thing we made was a wheel which we created by cutting and pasting the stages of the lifecycle in order and then fixing on the cover so that we can talk about each stage individually. We decorated them then and brought them home to show our families!

Here below is a picture of the pupae that are left before they turned into.....

Butterflies!!!

Boat making - Volvo Ocean Race yachts!!

In anticipation of the Volvo Ocean race we created our very own boats! We'd great fun trying to see which ones floated best and how if we blew the sails it would move faster! We investigated many materials to see whether they would float or sink. First we predicted what would happen and then we tested them and recorded our results..which were sometimes surprising!

We also voted on our favourite type of boat/ships and recorded our results using a pictograph. The winner with 9 votes was the speed boat!

In art this week we painted our own pictures of what we think the boats will look like in the Volvo ocean race - looks like they'll be very colourful! :)

"Educate me" on space!

In January we had a man come in to us and explain the galaxy and all the planets that make it up. We got to look at lots of interesting stuff and we learnt all the names of the planets in the solar system : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Pancake / Shrove Tuesday

Yummy!!

Today we learned how pancakes are made, what ingredients you use and best of all we got to have some with our choice of topping...toffee (thanks Lisa!), maple syrup, sugar, lemon or honey!
We love pancake Tuesday!

Art and craft

We have been very artistic of late - we made boa constrictors to go along with our song.

For Valentines day we painted some cute hearts for our mums and dads AND we made them hearts from clay and painted them our choice of colours. Hope they liked them! :)

For winter time we created some polar bears and penguins and we discovered that they live at opposite ends of the earth! The polar bears live at the north pole (in the Artic) and the penguins live in the south pole (in the Antartic) ...It really is a pity that they'll never get to meet each other!

Christmas elf visit

Before Christmas the elves came from the North pole to say hello and see how all the boys and girls were! We sang songs and even did a dance for them!!