Day 2 of Robotics in Room 16

Wednesday 23rd Feb - Examining fruit and Junior achievements program

Robotics fun!!

   Junior First Lego League : Robotics              

Tuesday 22nd February 2011

Dec/ Jan update!

Collecting marine life, stones and such things for analysis in our classroom. 

 Our Winter/ Spring explorations - could we be happier to be out of the classroom?!!!!

And here we are taking part and doing out own science experiments. Testing for starch in many items, testing various things for acid/bases and learning about the various types of energy e.g. static.

January/ February activities!

 In the last couple of months we've done so much so here's a few snippets of such!  We had a boxer from London in to show us the many skilled ways of skipping and we've been skipping since! :)

We had a visit from Macnas and our class was the first class chosen to welcome the "boy explorer" to the school with our painted stones which guided him into the school. We created poems and ideas to help him with his lost imagination on how to make Ireland a better place to live. Lets hope he makes it to Dublin safely!

Art and Craft!

We enjoy making and constructing items in Art and here are some photos of our monsters that we created a few weeks ago. 

First Class 2010/2011

We have 10 boys and 10 girls in our class this year. Our classroom is room 16 and we have lots of fun in it! :)

Please look at this page to find out what we are getting up to in school, it will be updated on a regular basis from now on. Thank you!

January 2010

This month we have been performing SESE experiments, art work and lots of investigations based on weather, on water all around the Arctic and Antartica. We know lots about the climate, animals found in both places and where they are located..just ask us!

We've also been exploring procedural writing, we are writing instructions for everything..even for making a cup of tea, making snowmen and St. Brigid's crosses!

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! :)